“God Gave Me A Vision”
“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.”
Linda writes:
In the palace of the King I found myself once again seeking God in a dream through the book of Revelations 22:2-3.I was in the spirit being carried away to a beautiful palace made of pure polished marble,there Jesus awaited me,summoned once again by the work of the Holy Spirit teaching.I was greeted by Jesus word from the book of Revelation 22:1-2.The Lord said come with me.I followed him through a palace where gold stairs led up to undescovered rooms,he led me to a hudge arch window where a clear river and green pastures awaited discoveries and he said “I quote ,I have something to show you”.I wont you to take your time focus and study the sacrifices given for you.I turned to the right and looked out the window and Jesus showed me a pure river clear as crystal,from the banks of the river grew a hudge tree roots being fed from the river of water of life clear as crystal.The roots were covered with thorns,as my eyes followed the roots upward toward the trunk of the tree I saw hudge thorns cover the entire tree upward.As my eyes reached the limbs outward streaching out over the heavens and river I seen the leaves green which was for the healing of the nations.Jesus said Focus on the leaves,so I did.Lord!What I saw.As I focused I saw where the saints had died for the gospel of Christ,some crucified upside down,some lives cut short not living long after their excepting the Lord,one cross right after another in perfect union with oneanother,this was the veins of the leaves I speak of I saw.Those who gave their lives and now live within the living water of life.I saw all believers who live in the living water of life.The veins were covered with tiny cross`touching oneanother.I stood there at the window studing the tree,the river of life,the leaves,the veins of the leaves.I was so amazed at what God was showing me as my thoughts turned to the book of Revelations chapter 22:verse 1-2.And he shewed me a pure river of water of life,clear as crystal,and on either side of the river was there a tree of life.I know now after I awoke what the dream ment and why God showed me the tree of life and its leaves.There was many extraordinary lives given and taken away long ago for the word of God to be here today to lead us to everlasting life through Jesus Christ the Son of God.Many lives were sacrificed for us just as our Lord so we could hear how he loved us through the Word.This dream and verse has made such an impact on my life once again by simply obeying God and focus and study,looking a little deeper on the sacrifices made for us by others .Thankyou for letting me share my story.
Please note that the views expressed in this story are not necessarily the views of the American Bible Society. Story posted on October 24th, 2008 and filed under Hope, Bible, Your Stories, Verses, God's Sovereignty.
October 24th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Dear Linda:
Thank you for reawakening in me that “Many lives were sacrificed for us just as our Lord so we could hear how He loved us through the Word.”
So often, in the hustle and bustle of life, we overlook: ” He who has ears to hear, let him hear….” (Matthew 11:15);
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches” (Revelation 2:11).
Truly, “but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” (John 4:14). For
“The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise” (Proverbs 11:30).
While Ezekiel 47:12 describes the similarly beautiful vision of your quoted passage of Revelation 22:1-2, “the river on its bank, on one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of trees for food Their leaves will not wither and their fruit will not fail They will bear every month because their water flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing,”
the conclusion of your quoted passage: “And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations” is so prophetically wanting in our unsettling world today.
May GOD ALL MIGHTY Bless you inestimably and infinitely;
GODSPEED, always and forevermore!
Mary Sun.