Alex Opalstone and the Window of Heaven's View: Life 101 Part 2

by T. M. Meek

  The moonlight outside was bright as it shined through Alex’s bedroom window. But despite the brightness and beauty of it, Alex was fast asleep. The dream she had was totally unexpected since it was a continuation of the first dream she had. Once again, she was dreaming of the two books that radiated brightly in pure white light. Those same two books shined brighter than the sun as they rested side by side. They were so massive in size that they entirely covered the large body of land on the earth.

  Suddenly a large gust of wind blew open the larger book, turning each page quickly while showing what appeared as a movie projected on an invisible screen where the films images of various stories were projected upon the rustling, passing, windblown pages of the book. As this continued with the larger book, the smaller book next to it, also still radiating in equally bright, pure, white light, joined in being blown open and having its stories projected like a movie onto its turning pages. Then the two books showed the same movie simultaneously of a large white ball of human light birthing to the earth more white and brilliant and pure than any other ball of light which had previously been born.

  He landed on His appointed place bringing light and love that radiated and expanded with the intent of covering the whole earth.

  The movie then showed a cross being lifted up with this most brilliant ball of light attached to it in the form of a mortal, yet most holy, man and His light grew brighter and brighter and brighter until His great light departed, separating from his mortal body and returning back to the Parent Vine from whence He came.

  The same movie then showed from both books the calamities that followed. The books became temporarily transparent revealing the earth’s image more clearly. Great sounds of thunder and whirlwinds were shown as the earth began to quake with lightning striking several places. This continued until the largest single land mass suddenly broke into pieces and moved to various points around the earth leaving the only evidence of its once unified form as remaining pieces like a newly scattered jigsaw puzzle.

  A dark mist rolled over the earth and covered it in darkness. A different part of the earth experienced more severe destruction as balls of fire shot forth from the Vine destroying various lands. Then the thunderous whirlwinds, lightings, quaking and shooting balls of fire stopped. The dark mist rolled away into disintegration and the suns light shined forth light onto the once dark portions of land as the earth continued to rotate in a profound silence.

  Then a daily calendar out in space tore away pages to count the passing of three days before disappearing.

  The two books were no longer transparent as they grew in a brilliant white light and continued to project their movie which no longer showed a cross of crucifixion but an empty ancient tomb. This was quickly followed by the return of history's brightest and purest light to the earth. This brightest One now radiated light and love more powerfully than before. Then softly the projection of the two simultaneous movies came to a temporary end as the wind blown pages died down to a rest.

  The earth’s once severed life saving strand of life is now connected back again to its life-giving Creator Vine and radiated white light brightly just as sure as it had in the beginning.

  The most brilliant and pure ball of light is now resurrected, from death back to life, to have the same face and human body yet to live now with a perfected, immortal body of flesh and bone that is perfectly immune to disease and death. He returned to the earth, first to His land of mortal birth to visit family and friends. Then suddenly hundreds of balls of human light returned also to the earth as resurrected immortals that traveled back to their previous earthly homelands to visit kindred and friends to show that they all have the supreme blessing of a strand of divine light connecting them in blissful, immortal perfection to the Vine.

  The purest and greatest ball of light also visited various lands and one by one various humans here and there choose to have their own divine line of light reconnected through Him back to their Parent Vine thus bringing them again into a happier, more secure spiritual, emotional and temporal state of being until they eventually achieve through the Vine’s great atoning sacrifice, the highest state of immortality. Even though after a short period of time of visiting various peoples and lands across the globe, this most brilliant and purest of all white lights left the earth and returned to complete His purpose to become one with the Vine. Yet despite His departure by ascension, still more and more souls of light on earth chose to receive their own strand of divine light to secure their happiness now and forever having faith in the One they can no longer physically see.

  Once again, a wind blew the last pages of the two books one last time and further recorded stories of history were projected onto the pages of the books until again the winds died down and the projected movies came to an end. Then the two books closed.

  The smaller book began to be covered by wind blown earth until it was completely covered and then blackness covers the larger book and both remained hidden for a few moments that seem to feel like hundreds of years. The earth still rotated in silence.

  Gradually a soft light began to appear, slowly revealing the larger book again as it sat closed. The book again begins to shine in a radiance of brilliant white light until a dark shadowy figure is noticed off in the lower distance sending several men in black Dark Ages period clothing to alter the book. These darkly inspired men take the larger book apart and make changes to it. After removing some vital truths and altering others, they put the changed books back together and return the book to where it sat before. Now the radiance of the book is not nearly as white and brilliant as before although much light still continued to emanate from it. This larger but now less radiant book opened at the middle and shined forth all of the remaining light it had to give.

  Then the smaller book rose up through the earth and shined just as brilliantly as it had before. It also opened at the middle revealing writings that were in an ancient foreign language. Then the Vine birthed a uniquely virtuous spirit to earth, as the Vine had at other times in history, except that this spirit is of such a glorious human brightness of light that his brightness is second only to the One previously seen on the cross of crucifixion.

  This man, a prophet birthed about eighteen hundred years after the brightest and most glorious One was crucified and resurrected, had very little education but was sent by the Vine to make clear the ancient writings for all to read and understand. He was birthed at a place and time of unprecedented national freedom that was prophesied by previous prophets and divinely prepared for the continuation and culmination of the great heavenly work that had been active since the earth’s creation. Shortly after this extremely bright ball of light landed at his appointed place and time of birth, his light emanated as borrowed power from the Vine touching the smaller book’s pages until every page was clear to read in hundreds of current languages. Then the borrowed light reached through him and the smaller book to touch the larger book and this divine power restores it to nearly perfectly to its original brightness so the larger book no longer glows dim. Then darkly inspired men do with him as other previous darkly inspired men did with the greatest ball of light and he was falsely accused and killed.

  Gradually the two books, now glowing in intense white light, moved in slowly, closer and closer to each other as a large hand reached under the books and the books become one book held within the hand. Just as the two books become one, a large white tree of light began to grow forth from the book. As the tree of brilliant white light grew larger and larger to full maturity, its branches and leaves bore fruit and grew and shined in an incredible glimmer of pure white light. The beauty of this great tree became ever more breathtaking as a constant gentle breeze rustled through its brightly glowing leaves scattering shimmering white light in every direction inviting all who see it to eat of the sweet, pure white glowing fruit that hung off every branch. Many of the brightly shining fruits hanging were within reach.

  As the great tree’s roots wove deep into the book, t
he tree stood firm and tall while a narrow path formed that led straight and clear to the tree. Down along both sides of the straight path, other wider paths formed that curved off in different directions that ultimately led away from the tree. These wider counterfeit paths began as less illuminated and grow in darkness as they led further away from the great tree.

  At the entrance of the well lit, centered, narrow and straight path appeared on the ground a beautifully wrapped gift. Alex tried to enter and start on the straight path to open the gift and eventually reach the tree. But just before she entered, a small lake of waist deep clear water formed a few feet in front of her that separated her from the gift. She knew she must go through the water in order to receive and open the gift. But Alex became hesitant and unsure if the gift would be worth it. She didn't know what might happen if she went into the water or after she left the water to continue on the narrow path.

  While Alex waited to decide what to do, an ordinary, clean cut looking young man in his twenties appeared in the water wearing dress pants, shoes and a modest shirt of matching spotless white. He smiled at Alex with a smile that was soft and pure and brought a feeling of heavenly peace to her. She wondered if he was an angel but she figured he wasn’t since he didn’t radiate with a visibly brilliant white light as heaven often creates. But despite this, she realized she felt he radiated with unseen heavenly light. He's not an angel. He's a man. A good man with a pure heart.

  But she still doesn't know why he's there in the water. Then she was reminded in her thoughts of the biblical story of John the Baptist. Immediately after this thought, a woman dressed most modestly, also in all spotless white, tried to enter the water but something strange happened. Alex looks on in shock as she sees the woman being approached from behind by a darkly clothed spirit that spiritually blindfolds the woman with a thick, dark, blinding mist in an effort to keep the woman from seeing the straight path so it becomes difficult for her to start on the well lit path that leads to the gift and the tree. The woman, although visibly confused as to where she should go now that she's blinded by a deceptive and dark mist, suddenly stopped, took a deep breath to remain calm and said a silent prayer in her heart that only God could hear. Although Alex didn’t know the exact words the woman used in her prayers, God allowed Alex to feel the main points intended behind her prayer so that God could teach Alex by the woman’s good example.

  As the woman prayed silently, she felt the truth of a lesson she once learned in church about how God loves all of his children and that includes her. If she was ever in fear or in danger or had any need at all, she felt that God will help her anytime, anywhere. She quickly prayed for God to please remove the mist of blindness from her and restore her spiritual sight so that she might receive the gift she feels He intends for her to have and to also safely reach the tree of what feels like his light and thereby see the right path to take that will ensure her correct choice and safe arrival. She then felt a reassuring feeling of divine peace and love which slowly disintegrated the misty blindfold from her eyes and helped her to know God really exists, He lives and is answering her prayer.

  Then something appearing at the paths entrance before the water catches Alex's eye. Something appeared on the surface of the ground. It was a reference to a verse of scripture from the holy bible. John 3:16-17 showed as letters and numbers of light from above. Then another verse of scripture, Hebrews 5:4, appeared on the surface of the water. Then another appeared just before the gift, and then several other scriptural references quickly lit up along the straight and narrow path filling up the path all the way along it to the end of the path at the base of the tree.

  The woman who saw clearly the straight path of light before her started on the path. She entered the water smiling and the man baptized her immersing her completely but briefly under the water. After she rose, she gratefully shook his hand and left the water to go sit in a chair where a man dressed in white stood behind her. He gently placed his hands upon the woman’s head and for a few moments spoke something that Alex didn’t hear. Both the man and the woman then smiled at one another as she thanked him. She stood and walked over to receive the gift.

  The woman, now suddenly and completely dry, looked beautiful and wore regular but modest clothing. She opened the gift to reveal what appeared to be an old handheld radio. It looked like an old wartime radio of the 1940s. It was to be used in the continuing battle for the soul to receive the right directions that will lead her by divine power to spiritual safety. The radio was in perfect condition and looked like new. But somehow Alex knew that the principles upon which the radio operated were much, much older than that. She felt that, although it looked relatively modern, it was, in fact, actually several thousands of years old in its origin but could miraculously give a signal that's far beyond any high tech device man or woman could ever create.

  Alex continued watching in awe as she again saw the woman being approached from behind by that same darkly clothed spirit that tried to blindfold her. The woman struggled to use the newly acquired gift of the spiritual radio. But the woman prayed to God again for help to see, and He again answered her prayers so that the deceptive spirit leaves and the darkness is removed. She could then see the light needed to effectively use the heavenly gift.

  She then began turning the knob on the radio in faith that she would receive the promised gift of God in answer to her prayers. As she turned the knob closer to the correct signal from God, a brilliantly white and radiant wingless angel began to come into view but fades out again as she turned the knob’s signal too far in the wrong direction. The more finely tuned the divine signal was, the clearer and more powerfully the peaceful influence of the angelic guiding Holy Spirit became. Alex stared in wide-eyed shock at the angelic personage and the power the gift of the radio provides but she then realizes that the woman does not yet actually see the angel but rather feels it's peaceful, loving, and divine presence filling her whole being as the light of the Holy Spirit began to dwell within her. Her own spirit was being strengthened by the Holy Spirit to see things more as God sees, to feel things more as God feels, and have strength beyond her natural abilities to do good and safely reach the tree.

  As the angelic Holy Spirit guided her, he pointed to the tree and again spoke peace and joy as feelings in her heart and through her thoughts that this was still the right path to salvation in Christ Jesus. She was experiencing the ultimate gift of heavenly help. Then Alex recalled a verse of scripture that's often quoted at church: John 20:29 "...because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet believed." This brought an even more important thought to Alex: Although Alex may see what is occurring with the angel, the transmitting symbolic radio, and the woman – Alex could only feel but little of what the woman was feeling at that time. Alex could only feel a glimpse of the feeling of heavenly help.

  She somehow knew it's by taking the right actions to become closer to God's love as symbolized by the tree that sanctifies us so we are saved. It's by doing what's right and having faith in Christ’s omnipotent ability to save us that brings salvation. Seeing God's power is not enough. Although we are saved by God's grace, we still must also do what Christ has said is right in order to activate that redeeming power that we need since we are not perfect.

  As the woman felt peace and joy from the divine influence of what was becoming clearer as God's gift in the guiding Holy Spirit, the blindfold began to disintegrate more quickly and more powerfully and effectively than before she received the gift so she sees more clearly that the straight path is the correct path to take to reach the tree. She began to take steps closer to the tree with confidence but once again, a dark figure came up behind her and blindfolded her again but this time more trickery and deception was used as he then turned her in circles and stopped her so she would face a curving path that led away from the tree.

  As she started to approach the curved path she felt something was wrong. So she stopped, prayed again and began tunin
g the radio again in faith. Again the Holy Spirit appeared and filled her with divine light as she felt its comforting guidance. This new light drove out the dark spirit of deception and removed the dark blindfold so she could see she was about to get on the wrong path.

  She then returned to the narrow and straight path and moved forward towards the tree. But again, after making good progress on the correct path she was blindfolded with more deception. She again sensed something was wrong and again she prayed and received help to see clearly and stay on the right path of the straight and narrow. Even when she was blindfolded and told the lie that she could use her hands to touch the path and know by her outward senses and own physical abilities what is right and to ignore what she feels is in her heart, she prays and recognizes the deception for what it is by the right guidance of heaven through her special gift. She continued to trust the divine guidance of peace in her heart and mind. She never gave up trying to stay on the straight and narrow path. Each time she got spiritually blindfolded she prayed again, tuned the radio to receive divine guidance and strove to remain on the well-lit, straight path until the darkness dissipated and the blindfold dissolved. She saw, again, she was enabled to progress more surely to the safety of the tree.

  At last, she reached the glorious and brilliant white tree of light and love where she could no longer be blinded and deceived. As she eats of the fruit of the tree, her heart is filled to overflowing with a joy so great she's never felt such before. Having experienced the greatest joy ever, she hopes her family and friends will choose to join her and experience the same joy and triumph as she feels now.

  Alex then saw another person about to enter the water and get on the right path. It's a man, dressed in all white who the woman loves very much. He was also immersed in baptism, had hands laid upon his head and he also tried to successfully navigate the right way to the tree. He succeeds like the woman before him after many struggles and many answered prayers as he too used the same gift that filled him with light, peace and joy. The guiding Holy Spirit appeared to guide him just as it had for the woman. He then rejoiced in eating of the fruit of the tree and being able to join the woman at the tree.

  Several more people also get on the path and some chose to be baptized and others didn't. Usually those who got lost on other paths didn't feel a need for the gift of recognizing and following divine guidance so they declined baptism and the offer of the gift and chose instead to follow counterfeit paths that led sadly to misery and pain.

  Then a girl about Alex's age entered the water but Alex couldn’t see the girl's face very well. The girl was immersed in baptism, had hands laid on her head and used the divine gift to begin on the path to successfully reach the tree of light, love and eternal happiness in ultimate salvation. Alex then looked closer to see to her total astonishment that the young person using the gift was her. She saw she was using the sacred gift and tuning it until the guiding Holy Spirit appeared so bright in its divine guidance that it was like lightning striking within her soul a thousand times per second. Alex was so excited to see that she had tuned it so well to receive such a stunning result that she wanted to leap over the water to quickly put herself into that position of future blessings immediately. But after a few quick failed attempts to skip over the water and get right to the part of receiving the exciting gift of divine help, her last leaping attempt left her to stumble and fall back unprogressed at the entrance where a single scripture began to appear and glow. It read: Acts 2:37-39.

  Alex woke up and immediately went over to her shelf and found a copy of the King James Version of the Holy Bible. She read to herself some of the scriptures from her dream. Hebrews 5:4 read: “…no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.” She then read Acts 2:37-39: “…they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, …what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptized everyone of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and your children and to all…”

  As Alex pondered on the words she read, she thought more about her dream. She knew she would need to talk to Linda about the possible meanings of these dreams. But if Alex understood the meanings correctly, she could bust wide open the research Linda was pursuing.

  Chapter 23: Heaven’s View of the Future