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Review Summary: For all the naysayers |
Date: 2008-09-30 |
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Details: For all the naysayers who read this book in 2001 or 2005. What do you think now? I got David Wilkerson's book back in the 80's after my mother brought it home from church. I read it and simply forgot about it. But, recently, I took it out again and was amazed to find how much of it has either come true or is about to come true. Anyone who doubts the truth of his words should read Chapter 1. It describes exactly what has been happening this week in the stock market. He even describes the President going on TV to try to calm people down. Can anyone doubt the truth of what he described in that first chapter now? I would recommend people read it because this is just the beginning. |
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Review Summary: This has been a comfort for most of my life |
Date: 2007-05-04 |
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Details: I first heard this book at the age of 14 way back in the 1970s. It was a tape of the Sermon Dave Wilkerson gave which later formed the basis of the book. What we heard astounded us...it didn't seem possible back then that pornography would be so wide spread, and that the church would become so corrupt (in places)...but we took it seriously because we respected him. The most particular and interesting prophesy I found was that the "Iron curtain" would come down (in order to get the gospel into the Eastern Block) in the mid 70s this was just unthinkable; but it happened. (He goes onto predict it will go back up with a vengeance).
Through all these years with all the tumultuous things that have happened I have tried to do what Wilkerson suggests and look up and say "God in in Control" there is a strange comfort to the predicted coming true, it seems to act as a buffer because I supposed forwarned is forarmed. |
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Review Summary: The Beginning of Sorrows and the End of the Age (First edition, 1974) |
Date: 2007-03-21 |
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Details: Not since "The Revelation of Jesus Christ" given to the apostle John on the Isle of Patmos some 1900 years ago has there been revealed a more awe-inspiring vision concerning the end of our present age than the predictive material presented in THE VISION (New York: Pyramid Books, 1974). This 143-page "mass-market paperback" edition has as its contents: an Introduction, eight chapters, and two appendices describing the details of a vision experienced by Pastor David Wilkerson (Times Square Church, New York City) during a late-night time of prayer in April 1973.
In the first five chapters readers will learn about the "five tragic calamities coming upon the earth." Taken chapter-by-chapter they are: (1) "Economic Confusion" with seventy-three related predictions; (2) "Drastic Weather Changes and Earthquakes" with fifty-four predictions; (3) "A Flood of Filth" (an allusion to moral collapse) containing ninety-two predictions; (4) "The Number One Youth Problem of the Future" with thirty-six predictions; and (5) "Persecution Madness" (against 'born-again' Christians and 'Spirit-baptized' Roman Catholics) with ninety-one predictions. These "prediction counts" are my own and have been taken informally from the text and may vary from reader to reader, but are helpful as emphasis indicators. A number of related biblical predictions of God's judgments are also included. These biblical references are not included in my informal chapter-by-chapter prediction counts.
I have heard about this book off-and-on since the mid-seventies, but had never managed to read it for myself until now. Many of the predicted events do not now seem nearly as remote as they did to some when it was first published back in 1974. By my own cursory reckoning it seems that fewer than 25% of the predictions have been fulfilled at this time with 75% still remaining for the future. Indications are strong, however,--in all five calamity categories--that many if not all of the predictions will be realized in this generation as Wilkerson predicts. Saint Paul's analogy of a pregnant woman coming to full term is an important comparison to remember when evaluating the progress of end-time events--allowing, as it does, for a long, almost imperceptible growth (or degradation in the case of this age) ultimately climaxing with numerous, increasingly strong and painful contractions before the actual birth takes place (cf., 1 Thessalonians 5:3).
Because I believe this "vision" to be a genuine revelation from God for the sake of believers and unbelievers alike, I highly recommend it be read by everyone concerned about "the signs of our times" and how they relate to God's judgments upon the United States of America and the world-at-large; the physical return of Jesus Christ to establish his kingdom on earth; and the end of this present age. Instructions have been provided by the seer-author to assist both "the prepared" and "the unprepared" on how to best conduct their lives in light of the difficult times ahead.
As the Hebrew prophet, Habakkuk, was assured by God concerning the coming of destructive judgment upon the nation of Judah, so Wilkerson invokes the ancient exhortation to patience as part of his epigraph: "For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry" (Habakkuk 2:3).
(See my review for the second edition for further details and comparisons between the two editions.)
The Vision and Beyond (Prophecies Fulfilled and Still to Come)
See also:
Hear Him! The One Hundred Twenty-Five Commands of Jesus |
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Review Summary: The Vision impacted my life |
Date: 2005-10-08 |
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Details: I heard about David Wilkerson's vision in the early 70's and in fact had a copy of the album (yes album) he delivered it to a Lutheran conference in the early 70's in Minneapolis, MN. It had a profound affect on me and my husband and in fact I still recall the dire predictions and have seen many come true over the years.
You don't have to agree with Wilkerson's religion, but you should read the vision as an insight into what the Lord was revealing to him. He was obedient to deliver it to the church and if the church is so apostate that it can't receive it (which is exactly what was in the vision back in 1973) God help us!
I'm going to take a refresher course and re-read "The Vision" because so much has come true already. The great upheavals in the weather (Hello Katrina) the homosexual movement, the extreme change in the family (no one would have believed it true back in the 70's-remember The Wonder Years, that's how we looked at things). It is definately a "vision" that God has given the church to help her make sense of the things to come, and I have used it as such over the past 22 years. I recommend it, and you can decide for yourself if it hasn't been right on the money these past 20 some years. |
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Review Summary: Wake Up People, This is For Real! |
Date: 2005-09-08 |
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Details: I first read "The Vision" back in the early '70's, when most of the envisioned vision was unbelievable at best. There have been many naysayers over the years, but if one looks at just the past year, they will see how much of Mr. Wilkerson's vision has come to pass. It's chilling to see the realism of it all carried out on practically a daily basis. Those who don't see this or refuse to believe it are only kidding themselves. |
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out of 15 Reviews
