ANNO DOMINI 1948

The vision

In 1948, after I had returned from my holiday and was about to resume my pastoral duties in the Reformed Church in Enschede, the Lord intervened in my life in a spectacular manner. Suddenly a miraculous intervention took place, so moving for the person concerned that any description is bound to fall short.  Suddenly my office was all ablaze. In the spirit, I heard a tremendous storm and I experienced an angel appearing to me.  I went to the window, looked outside and noticed that everything was dead calm.  Then I walked over to the bedroom, looked in the mirror and saw that I looked like a dead man.  I returned to my office, and, as if led by an invisible hand, took a notebook and sat down at my desk.

Then the Lord spoke literally, word for word: “My children have prayed and I answer…”

The Lord spoke about Israel’s future, about the coming World Revival, and gave messages for the churches.  During a number of days, He showed me in burning visions that the purport of the last verse of Malachi and Revelation 10 are intrinsically the same.  Every word struck me as lightning.  The cold sweat dripped down from me, and without having any control over my hand or my thoughts, I wrote down every sentence in an orderly fashion.
God revealed the mystery of Revelation 10: the secret of the thunders, the sealed penultimate mystery.

I want to make a statement, which before God has the power of an oath: “Lord God, You know that I am not aware anything other than that You literally spoke to me in 1948, and I pass this experience and the resulting exegetical insight on, to the best of my ability.”
However, all who believe in the Name of Jesus Christ have an obligation to test a prophecy addressed to them, according to 1 Thessalonians 5:20-21: “Do not treat prophecies with contempt. Test everything. Hold on to the good.”