My story...

My collision with Jesus Christ actually began six years ago, when I had a dream late one night (what many would call a vision) of a horrifying world event that took place a few hours later. As I slammed into a downtown skyscraper at incredible speed, I woke up from my dream screaming in terror. Of course, the event that took place a few hours later was 9/11.

What a crazy morning that was, waking up to two planes taking out the Twin Towers. On top of that, I thought my head was going to pop, as I tried to figure out how I could possibly dream it before it happened.

I had a dream of 9/11 before it happened.

This was strange and did not make any sense.

Why me? Was I psychic?...

There was no way it could have been from God (I thought at the time) as I was not living a Christian life. I was 24 years old, and living the life of a wreckless twenty-something who was trying to make it as a writer, but had numerous legal problems caused by alcohol and partying and basically running with the wrong crowd.

But that was that. I didn't have any further dreams and chalked it up to some kind of 'cosmic accident'. I mentioned it to a couple close friends, and eventually didn't think much of it.

Until five years later. I had three more dreams (visions) in the early months of 2006 that really made me question what was going on in the world – It made me question reality and the nature of God; I finally started to ask God WHAT he wanted from us. There were so many religions with so many people claiming so many different things, I didn't know what I was supposed to believe.

I wasn't religious, but suddenly these dreams had me online doing a wide search for answers, and brought me across quite a few New Age websites – suddenly, I thought I had it figured out – I thought that someone from the 'other side' was trying to make contact with me; something similiar to the movie Ghost or the television show Medium.

But who?

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For the last few months of 2006 I started investigating New Age teachings. I wanted an answer. Now realize that I don't seem like the type of person who would have any interest in anything New Age. I had been training in MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) for over two years and was about to compete, I partied with friends on the weekends when I wasn't training, I had a daughter and a chaotic relationship with my long time girlfriend – I was the furthest thing from a Christian. I did believe in God, but I didn't have much belief in the Bible.

New Age beliefs are big on promoting that there is no such thing as Satan, Hell, or demons, and there is no such thing as sin – cool I thought. Good news for me and most of my friends.

My girlfriend (now my wife) bought me a book called Psychic Awareness for Dummies. I decided I was going to try to win the lotto. Surely, if someone from the other side was trying to contact me, they might give me the winning lotto numbers.

Pathetic - that kind of thinking just shows you where my head was (by the way, I never won the lotto).

Finally, at the end of December, 2006, I was in the New Age section of the bookstore with my girlfriend, and grabbed four books - one was titled Spirit Guide Contact through Hypnosis. I thought surely this book would have an answer for me. Maybe I could finally make contact with whoever was trying to contact me.

The next two weeks would be the most TERRIFYING two weeks of my life.

If you don't believe in demons, you will after you read this.

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Late that evening, I sat down with the book, Spirit Guide Contact through Hypnosis. I learned that we all have spirit guides (according to the book), and this traces back to tribal civilizations like the Native Americans. A few chapters into the book I finally get to the part that talks about how to put yourself in a trance following a simple exercise that involves meditation, breathing, and some kind of mental imagery. Ok, that's easy enough, I thought.

However 45 seconds into what was supposed to take fifteen minutes, I backed out. I didn't have the guts to do it.

What the heck was I about to get myself into. Shaking my head at the thought I might be playing with fire, I put the book down and went to bed.

I woke up a few hours later.

Daylight.

I looked at the clock. I believe it was sometime after 5 a.m.

I realized suddenly that something wasn't right. My entire body felt like there was a 'presence' inside it. Like a static-charge, but it was throughout my entire body.

What the hell is going on?, I thought. I remembered the book from last night. What did I just get myself into?

I laid there for about an hour. I was scared. I could still feel that 'presence' inside me – I do not know how to describe it other than an awareness of this 'presence', along with a fear that somehow the night before in my 45 seconds of meditation that I had opened up a doorway to another dimension and now something was inside me.

My mind was racing.

I kept saying to myself – what did I get myself into. Finally, after about an hour, I started to drift back off to sleep.

Immediately I started dreaming. I was asleep for possibly ten seconds when suddenly a voice in my dream shouted very powerfully:

"GET OUT!".

I woke up with a loud moan as SOMETHING CAME OUT OF ME. I had been sleeping on my stomach, and something came out of me, and went into the springs of the mattress, and the springs actually shook .

I leapt out of bed and my feet hit the floor. I started praying. "Dear Lord, I'm sorry. Please send the Holy Spirit into my heart. Please forgive me for whatever I just did."

The next thing that happened set the stage for a very terrifying day.

As soon as I said that prayer I felt something come into me from above. I didn't imagine it. I repeat, I did not imagine it - I literally felt something come into my body.

I was terrified. What was it? Was it the Holy Spirit? Or did that thing simply come back in to me?

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My sister and her husband, a local cop, were both long time Christians and the first people I called. I drove to their house a couple hours later, told them everything (including the dreams, etc, that eventually had me in the New Age section of the bookstore looking for answers), and urged them to call their church pastor.

I was adamant that something was inside me and I needed a preacher to do an exorcism and get it out.

There is something inside me. Get it out.

Looking back, this would have been a great comedy, if I would have been watching it on a movie screen, instead of actually experiencing it.

At this point, I was ready to call every preacher that was listed in the phone book.

Finally, early in the evening, I sat down with my sister in her living room, and we both started praying. I was in tears. SATAN GET OUT! we kept shouting, hands clasped in prayer. GET OUT!

Neither one of us knew what else to say. Her husband came home and realized what we were doing, and sat down next to us.

In tears, I looked up. "I can still feel this thing. Everytime we pray I feel something, this force moves throughout my body but it won't get out."

We kept praying.

Finally her husband said, "It's the Holy Spirit. If feels foreign to you because you've never had it."

I let his words sink in.

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I didn't go back to my house that night.

In fact, I decided I would sell it and put it on the market immediately. (I had a buyer five days after putting it on the market -- which was very odd, considering the price, the location, etc.).

My girlfriend put me up, and that night everything was fine. The next morning I awoke early to help with our daughter, but was still tired. I fell back asleep.

I was sleeping for a period of time when suddenly I had a vision of a sinister gray and black wolf with it's ears pulled back, coming straight at me.

And I heard a high pitched rush of wind, like a windstorm.

The wolf was pure evil. However, there was a glass window in the way, and the wolf was trying to come through it, but kept hitting it. I heard a thud on the glass, each time it hit.

The wind blew. The wolf was coming for me.

I woke up with a start.

I laid there for a moment.

What is going on...

This doesn't happen to your average guy living in suburban America in 2007, I thought.

I realized next that the wolf couldn't touch me.

There was a glass window stopping it.

So, what was protecting me?

Then I realized – it was the Holy Spirit.

A feeling of relief came over me.

I was protected. So what did this mean?

Over the next few nights I received a handful of dreams and visions and I knew immediately that my life was never going to be the same. Somehow and for some reason that I cannot yet understand, God had called me to commit my life to him.

My long time girlfriend (who I married four months later) voiced her concerns. Consequently, she received two dreams that confirmed what I was telling her and removed most doubts; she's now much more supportive.

On top of that, our 3 year old daughter started reporting nightmares. Scared, she would say:

When I close my eyes, I see clouds.

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Hybrid-Bible

One of the visions I received over the coming days was a Bible with a serpent-woman built into a cross on the cover. It was a 'hybrid-Bible' and I was made to fear it.

So, for those of you who have read Rick Warren's book, The Purpose Driven Life and think that I am being very critical in my article when I slam it for apostasy, now you know why.

God filled me with a fear of hybrid-Bibles... now, I take that to mean 'false gospel'. I'm very skeptical of all religous text that isn't an actual Bible.

Fear these books. Church pastors, do not teach them from the pulpit. Only teach the Bible.

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At some point I was on the ground, on my knees in tears. I felt a conviction of massive guilt come over me. I was a sinner. I was the furthest thing from a Christian. I drank alcohol, ran around with singles whose only interest was what bar or club was going on that weekend; my girlfriend and I weren't married – I was living in sin, and at that point I realized that I was going to Hell.

Eternal Hell.

But Jesus Christ had died on the cross for my sins. I knew this. I had known this all my life. He took the penalty for my crimes against God. It was so obvious. It was there all along.

There's a church on every street corner.

There's a Bible in every hotel room.

That stuff I'd learned as a kid in Sunday School – every word was true.

Thank you Lord for finally opening my eyes.

I just had to ask.

I did not want to go to Hell. I did not want to see my friends go to Hell.

I had asked for the Holy Spirit, but now I had a heartfelt talk with God where I laid it all out for him, and thanked him continually for giving me salvation, which is a free gift for all who ask and are willing to REPENT of their sins (STRIVE TO STOP SINNING) and commit to God's commandments for our lives, and embrace God's Greatest Commandment (Matthew 22:37).

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So why would he call me, I thought? Why me? Looking back at my life, it didn't make sense.

My next thought: I'm a writer and publisher. Ok, that's got to be it.

So God wants me to write. I started writing a screenplay with a friend, who I'd told what I'd experienced. We'd both decided that we should use this in a movie.

At the same time, a few weeks later I posted my first article to SecretsofSurvival.com, an existing website I had in my network (I own an online publishing company).

I had just saw on CNN.com that the President of Gambia claimed he received a 'herbal' cure for Aids from 'dead ancestors' in a dream.

CNN: President of Gambia gets cure for Aids from dead ancestors

Hold on, I thought, recalling from years back a teaching in the Bible:

In the last days, demons will perform miracles...

Well, I realized, a cure for Aids definitely qualifies as a miracle. And those aren't 'dead ancestors', I realized next.

They're demons.

I was soon shocked to find out that the President of Iran (probably the most dangerous man in the world and suspected to be behind 80% of the world's terrorist attacks) had beaten the President of Gambia to a 'herbal' cure for Aids by atleast one month.

WORLD NEWS: Iran's medical and technological breakthroughs

The President of Iran was making other claims also – the biggest claim is that the 'Mahdi', the hidden 12th Imam holy to Islam, is the Muslim 'messiah' and will soon come to destroy Zion (U.S., Israel, U.K., etc) and impose Islamic rule over the entire world.

The West will fall to Islam.

Just as it says in the Bible.

However, the Bible calls it the AntiChrist.

WORLD NEWS: Iran leader: Islam to 'rule the world'

WORLD NEWS: Iran prepares people for 'messiah miracles'

BOOKS: AntiChrist - Islam's Awaited Messiah

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At this point, to understand what's going on in the world, all you have to do is pick up the Bible.

The Bible is clear on what happens in the world in the last days, and it's also clear that New York City (and most likely a handful of other U.S. cities) appears to suffer a major nuclear attack and that the entire country falls to the AntiChrist and ten other foreign nations.

If you're new to Middle East politics, the President of Iran has been reported to be more dangerous than Hitler.

WORLD NEWS: Iran 'More Dangerous' than Hitler

He says that Islam is destined to conquer the world. He has called for the destruction of Israel, which he calls the 'Little Satan'.

America, he calls the 'Great Satan' (along with many of his allies).

That's one of the reasons so many people are in a panic about our nation's open borders and the problem of having over 20 million illegal aliens from foreign nations inside the United States.

Now, if you don't think this could happen, you are living in denial and not paying attention to the frequent news reports, as well as the back page reports that Islamic radicals have smuggled in nuclear suitcase bombs across the Mexican border, along with thousands of sleeper agents (who are also crossing over the Canadian border), which are some of the terrorist cells the FBI is busy tracking.

It just so happens that numerous countries are reportedly in an "Axis of Unity"; some of these listed have publically called for the destruction of the United States.

Iran. Venezuela. North Korea. (If you read my articles, you'll see why I also suspect Russia and China behind the scenes on this.)

Al-Qaida. Hamas. Hezbollah. And dozens of other terrorist groups that have declared JIHAD on the West.

Islamic mosques across America. The same Islamic mosques that (though they say otherwise publically) most likely share the same beliefs as their Middle Eastern peers, who are shouting to their people that Islam MUST conquer the world. Watch this 12 minute clip on Radical Islam

Expert: Saudis have radicalized 80% of US mosques

It's time you open your eyes to current events.

I don't think there's much time left for America (as we know it).

Click on: The Bible Scenario - Is the United States in the Bible?


- Mark Lawrence