“As I stepped inside the
elevator at the Empire State Building, I never dreamed of the experience which
awaited me just 86 stories up.
“My ears began to close, due
to the sudden increase of altitude, as the elevator shot upward to the first
observatory 86 floors above the ground. This was the first time I had gone atop
the Empire State Building, and it was a trip I had been eager to take, since no
visit to New York City can be considered complete without a trip to the
observatories at that 1472 foot tall building…
“As I stepped off the
elevator and went onto the outside terrace, I was expecting to see all of New
York City, New Jersey, Manhattan, the Bronx, and on across the Hudson River to
Winchester and a great panoramic view. But little did I realize that God had an
even greater view awaiting me there; as, through a supernatural vision, He would
let me see that which is soon to take place on the whole North American
continent.
The View
“As I stood there…, just to
the south of me, on Bedloe’s Island, I could see the Statue of Liberty
illuminating the gateway to the New World. To people everywhere, this 300 foot
statue has become the symbol of liberty. It was presented to the people of the
United States by the freedom-loving people of France in 1883…
“I looked to the east. There
I could see the United Nations building, which has been called the last sacred
temple for the rediscovery of human brotherhood. The great statesman of the
world have declared we must remain at peace with one another or die….
“The Empire State Building,
located at the intersection of 34th St and Fifth Avenue, covers only about two
acres of ground, yet it is so high that people in the observatories can see the
sun rise a half hour sooner and set a half hour later than people on the
street… from the 86th floor observatory, if you look at up, you will see the
huge television tower rising 222 feet above the previous height of the
building. This tower sends the signals of all of Manhattan's important TV
broadcasters, who have their transmitters in the building.
“The 102nd floor
observatory, 1250 feet above the street, is glass enclosed so that one may see
in all directions the surrounding areas of the city.
“The 86th floor observatory
has both indoor and outdoor terraces. When you step out on the 86th floor
terrace, you are standing where famous people from every country of the world
have been before you… as I stood there, I was aware that I was only one of 10
million people representing every nation on earth who had visited the Empire
State Observatories. But I still do not realize that I was to be the only one
of that 10 million to whom God had chosen to give such a revelation as I was to
receive a top that great building.
A Giant
Telescope-And The Spirit of the Lord
“There, on the east side of
the terrace, I noticed a giant telescope, of the kind into which you can drop a
dime in see for approximately 15 miles. I knew that a dime slipped into that
telescope would enable me to see much further than the natural eye could
reach. I got a dime from my pocket and held in my hand, ready to drop
into the telescope when the man in front of me was through viewing the scene…
As I stood with my dime between my fingers, waiting my turn, suddenly the
Spirit of the Lord came upon me. I noticed the two giant eyes of the telescope
as the man who was manipulating it turned in my direction. I was amazed that
the Spirit of the Lord should so move upon me, there, atop the Empire State
Building. Why should I feel such a surge of His Spirit and power there?
Thou Shalt
Have Wars
“Then suddenly I heard the
voice of the Lord. It was as clear and as distinct as a voice could be. It
seemed to come from the very midst of the giant telescope. But when I looked at
the telescope, I knew it hadn't come from there, but directly from heaven. The
voice said,
‘The eyes of the Lord run to
and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of
them these heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly:
therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.’[This was a direct quote from
the 2 Chronicles 16.9.]
“Immediately, when I heard
the voice of God, I knew this was a quotation of Scripture. But never before
had I had a thing come to me so forcefully by the power of the Spirit. The
ticking of the telescope stopped. The man before me had used up his dime's
worth. As he stepped away I knew that I was next. As I stepped to the telescope
and dropped in my dime, immediately the ticking started again. This
ticking was an automatic clock which would allow me to use the telescope for a
definitely limited time only.
“As I swung the telescope to
the north, suddenly the Spirit of God came upon me in a way that I had never
thought of before. Seemingly in the spirit I was entirely caught away. I knew
that the telescope itself had nothing to do with the distance which I was
suddenly enabled to see, for I seemed to see things far beyond the range of the
telescope, even on a bright, clear day. It was simply that God had chosen this
time to reveal these things to me, for as I look through the telescope, it was
not Manhattan Island that I saw, but a far greater scene…
An Amazing
Vision
It was not the East River and the
Hudson River that I saw on either side, but the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans. And instead of the Statue of Liberty standing there in the bay on
her tiny island, I saw her standing far out in the Gulf of Mexico. She was
between me and the United States.
The
U.S.A., as Viewed from the South
“There, clear and distinct
lay all the North American continent, with all its great cities. To the north
lay the Great Lakes. Far to the Northeast was New York City. I could see
Seattle and Portland far to the northwest. Down the West Coast, there with San
Francisco and Los Angeles. Closer in the foreground there lay New Orleans, at
the center of the Gulf Coast area. I could see the great towering ranges of the
Rocky Mountains, and trace with my eye the Continental Divide. All this and
more, I could see spread out before me as a great map upon a table.
God's
Portrayal of Judgment to Come
“As I looked, suddenly from
the sky I saw a giant hand reach down. That gigantic hand was reaching out
toward the Statue of Liberty. In a moment her gleaming torch was torn from her
hand, and in it instead was placed a cup. And I saw protruding from that cup a
giant sword, shining, as if a great light had been turned upon its glistening
edge. Never before had I seen such a sharp, glistening, dangerous sword. It
seemed to threaten all the world. As the great cup was placed in the hand of
the Statue of Liberty, I heard these words:
‘Thus saith the lord of
hosts… Drink ye and be drunken, spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of
the sword which I will send….’
“As I heard these words, I recognize them as a quotation from Jeremiah
25:27.
“I was amazed to hear the Statue
of Liberty speak out in reply, ‘I will not drink.’
“Then, as the voice of
thunder, I heard again the voice of the Lord saying:
…‘Thus saith the Lord of
hosts, you shall certainly drink’ (Jeremiah 25:28).
“Then suddenly the giant hand
forced the cup to the lips of the Statue of Liberty, and she became powerless
to defend herself. The mighty hand of God forced her to drink every drop of the
cup. As she drank the bitter dregs, these were the words I heard:
‘… should ye be utterly
unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all
the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts(Jeremiah 25:29).
“When the cup was withdrawn
from the lips of the Statue of Liberty, I noticed the sword was missing from
the cup, which could mean but one thing. The contents of the cup had been
completely consumed! I knew that the sword merely typified war, death, and
destruction, which is no doubt on the way.
[Note: a cross-reference to
the above statement is found in Ezekiel 21:28: “And thou, son of man, prophesy
and say, Thus saith the Lord God… The sword, the sword is drawn, for the
slaughter it is furbished to consume because of the glittering.”]
Liberty
Staggers
“Then, as one drunken on too
much wine, I saw the Statue of Liberty become unsteady on her feet and began to
stagger and to lose her balance. I saw her splashing in the Gulf, trying to
regain her balance. I saw her stagger again and again, and fall to her knees.
As I saw her desperate attempts to regain her balance, and rise to her feet
again, my heart was filled with compassion for her struggles. But as she
struggled there in the Gulf, once again I heard these words:
‘Ye shall drink and be
drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more because of the sword that I shall
send among you.’
“As I watched, I wondered if
the Statue of Liberty would ever be able to regain her feet-if she would ever
stand again. And as I watched, it seemed that with all her power she struggled
to rise, and finally stagger to her feet again, and stood there swaying
drunkenly. I felt sure that any moment she would fall again-possibly never to
rise again. I seemed overwhelmed with a desire to reach out my hand to keep her
head above water, for I knew that if she ever fell again she would drown there in
the Gulf.
The
Skeleton-Shaped Cloud
“Then as I watched, another
amazing thing was taking place. Far to the northwest just over Alaska, a huge,
black cloud was arising. As it rose, it was as black as night. It seemed to be
in the shape of a man's head. As they continue to rise, I observed two
light spots in the black cloud. It rose further, and a gaping hole
appeared. I could see that the black cloud was taking the shape of a skull, for
now the huge, gaping mouth was plainly visible. Finally the head was
complete. Then the shoulders began to appear, and on either side, long,
black arms.
“It seemed that what I saw
was the entire North American continent, spread out like a map upon a table
with this terrible skeleton-formed cloud arising from behind the table. It rose
steadily until the form was visible down to the waist. At the waist, the
skeleton seemed to bend toward the United States, stretching forth a hand
toward the east in one toward the west-one toward New York and went toward
Seattle. As the awful form stretched forward, I could see that its entire
attention seemed focused upon the United States, overlooking Canada-at least
for the time being. As I saw the horrible black cloud in the form of the skeleton
bending toward America, bending from the waist over, reaching down toward
Chicago and out toward both coasts, I knew it's one interest was to destroy the
multitudes.
Three
Puffs of Searing Vapors
[Note. This part of the
vision refers to a MIRV-type distribution unknown in 1954]
“As I watched in horror, the
great black cloud stopped just above the Great Lake region, and turned its face
toward New York City. Then out of the horrible, great gaping mouth began
to appear wisps of white vapor which look like smoke, as a cigarette smoker
would blow puffs of smoke from his mouth. These whitish vapors were being
blown toward New York City. The smoke began to spread until it covered all the
eastern part of the United States.
“Then the skeleton turn to the
west, and out of the horrible mouth and nostrils came another great puff of
white smoke. This time it was blown in the direction of the West Coast. In a
few minutes, the entire West Coast and Los Angeles area was covered with its
vapors.
“Then toward the center Came
a third great puff. As I watched, St. Louis and Kansas City were enveloped in
its white vapors. Then it came toward New Orleans. On they swept until they
reach the Statue of Liberty where she stood staggering drunkenly in the blue
waters of the Gulf. As the white vapors began to spread around the head of the
Statue, she took in one gasping breath and then began to cough as though to rid
her lungs of the horrible vapors she had inhaled. One could tell readily by the
painful coughing that those white vapors had seared her lungs.
“What were these white
vapors? …Could they be the horrible nerve gas recently made known to the
American public.
[Note: nerve gas works on humans in
the same way insecticides work on bugs. The parallel is more than a coincidence.
In the middle thirties Dr. Gerhard Scharder of Germany discovered nerve gas
during a search for new insecticides. The Nazis immediately realize the
potential of Dr. Schrader's discovery and in 1939 built a plant to produce
various nerve gases at Dyhernfurth, near the Polish border. Production got
underway in 1942, but the Germans did not use nerve gas during World War II,
presumably because the Allies’ air superiority gave them the power to
retaliate. After the war, the Russians took over the Dyhernfurth factory and
its trained personnel. It has been producing nerve gas for the Soviets ever
sense.
Possession of the plant gave
the Russians a head start over the United States in nerve gas research. After
years of research, we’re now abreast and may have passed them.
After three years of research
and experiments, Army and Civil Defense scientists, chemists, and technicians
have produced the type of gas masks that apparently give adequate protection
against nerve gas, but more tests are needed before the masks can be turned
over to industry for mass production.
Authorities want to be sure
that the mask will give protection against not only nerve gas, but all forms of
gases, biological warfare agents, and radioactive materials from atomic
explosions. “We cannot recommend the masks to the American people until they
are foolproof,” a spokesman said. What is holding up the tests? Lack of funds
for research.]
The
Vision: God Speaks Again
“As I looked with wonder upon
the vision God had given me, I wondered: ‘Could it be that it was the horrible
nerve gas which was causing the Statue of Liberty to react so violently as it
floated about her head, looking like an innocent cloud?”
“Then I heard the voice of
God as He spoke again:
‘Behold, the Lord maketh the
earth empty, and make it a waste, and turn it upside down, and scatters abroad
the inhabitants thereof.
‘And it shall be, as with the
people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master;… as with
the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as
with the taker of usury, so with a giver of usury to him.
‘The land shall be utterly
emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.
‘The earth mourneth and
fadeth away, the world languishes and fadeth away, the haughty people of the
earth do languish.
‘The earth also is defiled
under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed
the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
‘Therefore hath the curse
devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate; therefore the
inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left’ (Isaiah 24:1-6).
The End of
Liberty
“As I watched, the coughing
grew worse… the Statue of Liberty was moaning and groaning. She was in mortal
agony. The pain must have been terrific, as again and again she tried to clear
her lungs of those horrible vapors. I watched her there in the Gulf and she
staggered, clutching her lungs in her breast with her hands. Then she fell to
her knees. In a moment she gave one final cough, made a last desperate effort
to rise to your knees, and then fell face forward into the waters of the Gulf
and lay still-still as death. Only the lapping of the waves, splashing over her
body, which was partly under the water and partly out of the water, broke the
stillness.
Run For
Your Lives
“Suddenly the silence was
shattered by the screaming of sirens, siring does it seem to scream, run for
your lives!”
“Never before have I heard
such shrill, screaming sirens. They seem to be everywhere-to the north, the
south, the east and the west. There seemed to be multitudes of sirens. And as I
looked, I saw people everywhere running; but it seemed none of them ran more
than a few paces, and then they fell. And even as I had seen the Statue of
Liberty struggling to regain her poise and balance, and finally falling for the
last time, to die on her face, now I saw millions of people falling in the
streets, on the sidewalks, struggling. I heard their screams for mercy and
help. I heard their horrible coughing, as though the lungs had been seared with
fire. I heard the moaning and groaning of the doomed and dying. As I
watched, a few finally reach shelters; but only a few ever got to the shelters,
and above the groaning and the moaning of the dying multitudes, I heard these
words:
‘A noise shall come even to
the ends of the earth; for the Lord hath a controversy with the nations, he
will plead with all flesh, he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith
the Lord. …Behold, evil should go forth from nation to nation, and a great
whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth, and the slain of the
Lord shall be at that day from one end the earth even unto the other end of the
earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be
dung upon the ground’ (Jeremiah 25:31-33).
Destructive
Rockets Rise From the Sea
“And then suddenly I saw from
the Atlantic and from the Pacific, and out of the Gulf, rocket-like objects
that seemed to come up like fish leaping out of the water. High into the air
they leaped, each heading into different direction, but every one toward the
United States. On the ground, the sirens screamed louder. Up from the ground I
saw similar rockets beginning to ascend. To me, these appeared to be
interceptor rockets although they arose from different points all over the
United States. However, none of them seemed to be successful in intercepting
the rockets that had risen from the ocean on every side. These rockets finally
reach their maximum height, slowly turned over, and fell back to the earth in
defeat. Then suddenly, the rockets which had leaped out of the oceans like fish
all exploded at once. The explosion was ear-splitting. The next thing which I saw
was a huge ball of fire. The only thing I have ever seen which resemble that
which I saw in my vision was a picture of the explosion of the H-bomb somewhere
in the Pacific some months ago. In my vision, it was so real I seemed to feel a
searing heat from it.
Devastation
by Terrific Explosions
“As a vision spread before my
eyes, and I viewed the widespread desolation brought about by the terrific
explosions, I could not help thinking, ‘While
the defenders of our nation have quibbled over what measures of defense to use,
and neglected the only true defense, faith and dependence upon the true and
living God, that which she has greatly feared has come upon her! How
true it has been proven that “except the Lord keep the city, the watchmen wake
up but in vain.
A Very
Significant, Final, Bible Quotation
“Then, as the noise of the
battle subsided, to my ears came this quotation from Joel, the second chapter:
‘Blow ye the trumpet in Zion,
and sound the alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land
tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
‘A day of darkness and of
gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon
the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like,
neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
‘A fire devours before them;
and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the Garden of Eden before them,
and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
‘The appearance of them is as
the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
‘Like the noise of chariots
on the tops of the mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire
that devours stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. Before their face
the people shall be pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
‘They shall run like the
mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march
every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: Neither shall one
thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon
the sword, they shall not be wounded.
[Note: Observe a change of
pace here, for the next verse indicates a very definite change from organized
assault to looting, rioting, and acts of anarchy.]
‘They shall run to and fro in
the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb upon the houses; they
shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
‘The earth shall quake before
them; to heaven shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the
stars shall withdraw the shining’(Joel 2:1-10).
Then the voice was still. The
earth, too, was silent, with the silence of death.
Concluding
View God's Protection
“And then to my ears came
another sound-a sound of distant singing. It was the sweetest music I had ever
heard. There was joyful shouting, and sounds of happy laughter. Immediately I
knew it was the rejoicing of the saints of God. I looked, and there high in the
heaven, above the smoke and poisonous gases, above the noise of battle, I saw a
huge mountain. It seemed to be a solid rock, and I knew at once that it was the
mountain of the Lord. The sounds of music and rejoicing were coming from a
cleft, high up in the side of the rock mountain.
“It was the saints of God for
doing the rejoicing. It was God's own people who were singing and dancing and
shouting with joy, safe from all the harm which had come upon the earth, for
they were hidden away in a cleft of the rock. There in the cleft, they were
shut in, protected by a great, giant hand which reached out of the heavens, and
which was none other than hand of God, shutting them in, until the storm was
over-passed.