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My Dream

In light of the many false dreams recently proclaimed as truth, and no doubt will continue to the end of time, I have remained reluctant to share my own experience. At the time of this writing I have shared this story with only those that can be...

The year was 1970, and I was 13. Dad was a workaholic seeking fame and fortune in the van camper industry. Mom did her best trying to keep sanity in the house and consistently taught us our Sabbath School lesson and took us to church every Saturday and Pathfinders on Wednesday evening. My two brothers and I attended our local Seventh-day Adventist church school from the time I was in 4th grade. In addition, I had a dear grandmother who was a prayer warrior, and loved me very much.

While I had always loved school, and was a good student, seventh grade was different. There was one girl in the grade above me that was making my life miserable. It was a period of intense unhappiness, and felt that I was under a dark cloud.

One particular evening I was doing my homework in the living room, my Mom came in to ask or tell me something. I do not recall now why I became enraged, which was out of character for me. Most likely I was frustrated with a paper I was writing, but I stood to my feet and threw my books at her. Then I ran to the safety of the bathroom and locked the door. But while there alone in the bathroom I began crying out to God for help. I felt so angry, guilty, and remorseful, all in one. I did not know why I was empty, unhappy and utterly miserable. Why did I feel so ugly inside? Where was the joy and happiness? Life had no meaning or purpose. I then asked God for help? After what seemed like hours I finally came out and went straight to bed, for I wasn't yet ready to meet up with my Mom.

That night I had a dream which lasted all night. I had never had a dream like it previously nor since. This dream was in high definition and living color. The scene opened and there I was with Christ, standing in the expansive universe. I experienced His love in that he understood my deepest self. From this vantage point the earth was visible as well as the sun, the moon and the stars. Christ was dressed in white and had the Holy Bible in His left hand. With His right hand He was pointing to specific things in the heavens around us. He began teaching me things I had never heard regarding the sun, moon, and stars. Then He went through the entire Bible showing me from the Scriptures what He was sharing was also written there. I remember feeling overwhelmed that there was no way I could remember all that He showed me. He assured me that I had no need to worry as all would be brought to light in due time.

When I awoke the next morning, my life was profoundly changed, for I had been with (Jesus) Yahshua. While I could recall with vividness the scene, I could not recall even one Scripture verse He had given. Also, I could not recall the details of what He was teaching about the sun, moon and stars. At the time this was most disconcerting. For if I shared it with anyone it would appear that I had made it up, as I could not recall the content of the message. All I was left with was the scene as He pointed to the sun, moon and stars and then verified it in many, many places in Scripture.

I walked directly to my mom’s bedroom where I found her making her bed. I first told her how truly sorry I was for becoming so angry, and for throwing the books at her. I asked her to please forgive me. Then I told her of my experience, that overnight my life had been changed by the love of God. I told her of the dream and that it had something to do with the sun, moon and stars. I told her how He loved me, a mere child, enough to spend a whole night with me showing me lessons for the future, and revealed that I was to have a part in it.

I could not then, or even now fully wrap my mind around this profound encounter. In my anger, He had brought me peace; in my loneliness He had shown me friendship; for my sadness He gave me joy; and in my hopelessness He gave me a future.

As the years rolled by I often leaned on this encounter with a loving God when life would become difficult, and just as often I forgot the experience and how He would continue to lead me. Other than my mom, I never shared it with another soul and we never spoke of it again.

On several occasions over the years I have asked the Lord what these things meant. But no light was given.

Shortly after my 50th birthday, I was driving home through the canyon from town. The moon was up and would come into view as my car would maneuver around the many turns. I began asking the Father what the purpose is for the many differing phases of the moon. I said Lord, I am now 50, how long must I wait before you once again reveal to me the meaning of the dream you gave me 37 years ago. Then all of a sudden it dawned on me, that He was waiting for me, rather than the other way around. He would reveal these truths to me only when I would seek them with all my heart. I was overcome with the reality of my need of Him and His truths from Scripture.

Arriving home, I got on my knees and asked Him to change my life again, and to bring me into harmony with Him. I asked Him to teach me new light as it is in Scripture and to equip me with faithfulness to walk in that new light. Once again He gave me a renewed heart and joy. I knew something incredible was about to happen, and I lived the next few days with anticipation.

(The following portion is posted on my website, but here I have included a few minor additions as they relate to my dream.)

Through the course of events, and my newly established Photography Business, I had an invitation to photograph a wedding. On July 13 2007 , two days prior to the wedding I met with the bride to discuss her photo needs and to check out the wedding location.

Just before I left, the bride to be shared with me that she and her soon to be husband were enthusiastically studying their Bibles. When I shared that I had missed them both at church, she said; "We’ve discovered that Saturday is not the Biblical seventh-day Sabbath". She then went on to say, "This month the Holy seventh-day Sabbath falls on the pagan Gregorian Tuesday." I was in shock!

I had attended Seventh-day Adventist grade school, Academy and College. I considered myself to be quite well read in all the church publications and doctrines, along with the writings of Ellen White. As a hobby I even studied other religions for the purpose of witnessing. In addition I had been a Sabbath School teacher for 20 years. Yet I had never even heard of this concept, at least not from this frame of reference. While my mouth was still open in apparent amazement and for lack of words, she pointed out that I could easily do my own research online by Googling: luni-solar calendar, luni-solar Sabbath, creation calendar, and calendar history.

Completely forgetting my prayer about the moon, all the way home I actively prayed for her, her husband to be, and their families, for certainly this would be a weighty burden for all of them to bear. Upon reaching home I went directly to my computer and began the ordeal of researching the luni-solar Sabbath belief and comparing it with scripture, line upon line. My prayer to the Heavenly Father was that He would continue to lead me into all truth. I had momentarily forgotten that I had asked Yahuwah to reveal "new light" and to teach me about the lunar phases. I didn’t yet understand nor could I believe that the moon had any connection to the Sabbath. I had previously declared to Him that I only wanted truth that proceeded from the mouth of Yahuwah.

No longer was I satisfied to follow after the traditions of men that were not supported by a "thus saith the Lord". My heart’s desire was to get just as close to Yahshua and truth as possible. I was hearing a call to wake up and come out of Babylon and be restored fully to the truth as it is in Scripture. Babylon , as I have discovered is the false teachings and traditions of men that have been linked with the truths of Yahuwah, but can be easily identified by their lack of scriptural support or a "thus saith the Lord".

I fully believed at the onset of my research that this whole luni-solar calendar concept would be found to be in error and not be provable from scripture alone. After all Ellen White supported a Saturday Sabbath. Yet I made up my mind that if it was the truth, if it bore the heavenly seal of a "thus saith the Lord Yahuwah from Scripture", that I would with Yahshua’s help, walk in the new light. To my great surprise it soon became apparent that Scripture supported a luni-solar calendar and it’s corresponding seventh-day Sabbath without exception. I read through and studied every article and every website I could find on the subject and found while all of them were not in perfect agreement on every detail such as what constitutes the New Moon, it was evident that a very strong golden thread of truth ran consistently through the luni-solar Sabbath teaching.

He who commanded the light to shine out of darkness sheds light into the mind of every one who will properly behold Him, loving Him supremely, showing unswerving faith and trust in Him. His light shines into the chambers of the mind and into the soul temple. The heart is filled with the light of the knowledge of the glory that shines in the face of Jesus Christ . . . Yielding willingly to the evidence of truth, and walking in the light that shines in our pathway, we receive still greater light. This Day with God, E.G.W., p. 135.

Within a week I acquired a two part DVD of eLaine Vornholt speaking on the subject of the luni-solar Sabbath and its relationship to the Seventh-day Adventist Church . I was truly astounded that some of the leaders of the church had knowledge of this time system since 1938 and yet I had never known of it.

In 1938 Grace Amadon, along with the General Conference appointed research committee met to study the affects the "New World Calendar" would have on the S.D.A. church. In the process, the discrepancy of the crucifixion with the Saturday of the Gregorian calendar was discovered. When it was taken to the Church leaders, it was decided that it would only confuse the common people, and cause them to loose trust in their leaders as they discovered they had been lead to keep the wrong Sabbath. So the whole discovery was shelved. There are over 5000 letters and documents preserved in the Grace Amadon Collection, which is kept safe in a vault at Andrews University . There is however, one known source that has placed the most compelling evidence from the Grace Amadon Collection into a fascinating book entitled, "The Great Calendar Controversy".

I sat and watched this video in amazement, and only then did it finally dawn on me that this was the light of truth Yahuwah had revealed to me in a dream so long ago. He had revealed His divinely ordained time keeping system, it was the Creator’s luni-solar calendar. His divinely unique system instituted at Creation (Genesis 1:14 -18) was portrayed by the dual action of both the sun and moon, not simply the sun as had been promoted by Rome and followed by the whole world. In this last hour of earth’s history this same Creator was restoring His last message to a despairing and dying world. His final test would indeed be over time. And yes, ultimately it would be over the true Sabbath, however that true Sabbath was not to be either Saturday or Sunday, as these are both products of a counterfeit man-man time reckoning beaconed by only the sun.

When the magnitude of all of these new concepts began to settle into my mind, I could not go on with life as usual. I was gripped by the knowledge that this was truth and that at this late hour Yahshua was restoring it to His faithful people around the world. I was thrilled that I was given an invitation to follow as well as the ability to understand. With His power He has enabled me to walk in this new light of truth while the whole world continues to walk to the beat of a different drum, a calendar of human devising.

I will for all eternity be grateful to Yahshua and those he used to minister to me; first Elizabeth Overbeck, followed by eLaine Vornholt and Laura Lee Vornholt-Jones, who have gallantly testified to the truth for such a time as this.

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