VISION OF THE PAST: PART THREE

2005 (maybe or maybe less. Also, I am 6'4"....not a small guy.) VISION ONE

1/15/2015 - excommunicated
3/20/2015 - Solar eclipse
4/4/2015 - my 39th birthday and 3rd tetrad
7/7/2015 - car accident
8/4/2015 - church reveals seer stone
9/28/2015 - 4th tetrad
3/2(?)/2016 - Re-baptism - I'm not sure which date =\ I want to say 21. One year and one day after the solar eclipse perhaps.
7/30/2016 - seer stone found

CORE EXPERIENCES VISIONS 2 and 3

Right in there: "You are the Davidic Servant" within a couple weeks.... "You are a The Holy Ghost." No way. I didn't embrace this one for many months. 

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8/30 or 8/31 - Jahoel name discovered
10/2016 - picture of wooden beam / sign of the nail
Early 2017 - "Ezekiel visions"
7/2017 - Blessings restored (I'm really not sure the date. July or August.)
9/16/2017 - Sealed to my wife and six kids, including 3 step kids (whose father is named David lol) by the same man who excommunicated me who is now the Temple President of the Gilbert Temple
9/23/2017 - Revelation 12 sign & some personal revelations :)
May 2019 - Nine Moons vision
9 days between 40th and Pentecost 2019

11/13/2020 experienced the Stroke and Coma, and was a Friday

12/21/2020 I woke up. It was the shortest day of the year

06/21/2021 this was a 7 month, 7 week, and a 7 hour a day counting 11/13/2021

1/15/2022 seven years until Excommunicated 

7 years of pain

7 years of .... what?

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Alright here’s his third core experience:


Before reading, consider that I did not have a messenger, or angel, to walk me through what I was seeing with a Q&A session. For example, I can't be certain these visions are sequential. However, as you recall, after years now of pondering all three visions, I realized how little details in the first vision, which took place in my early twenties, aligned perfectly to the second. The varying heights is one detail. Another is the fact the Lord was walking to the front left and I was walking last to the rear right. As the second vision began, the seven taller men were all to my left shoulder to shoulder with the Lord behind the furthest to the left with me furthest to the right. So it's as though we were talking to our respective positions. So the second seems to pick up moments after the first closed.

The third seems to pick up just after the second. I don't know how much time passed between these visions. I also don't know how much of these visions were edited / changes. There's always the possibility the whole visionary experience is symbolic; however, feeling how I felt at the time suggests otherwise. This is especially true with the third vision as the feelings went from joy to horror.

So for both visions two and three I was holding my seer stone in my left hand, eyes closed. I was in bed, waking up during vision two whilst in that space coming out of sleep that lies between sleep and wakefulness. Two weeks after the second vision, I held my stone and was pondering the vision I had received recently. I was completely awake and had been so for some time. I was lying down in the bathtub, the water running. Suddenly the vision opened again:




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VISION THREE


Immediately, there was a swift, large, and violent attack coming through the line of men towards the Savior. I could feel the alarm I felt then, and I felt alarm as I witnessed this in vision! I wasn't expecting a VISION to come upon me suddenly either. So there were three layers of intense feeling all of a sudden. Imagine not expecting a vision, and it opens to this vicious attack!

There seemed to be at least one man between me and the attacker as though he broke through the men and and two spaces away from me. This attacker was absolutely HUGE. Not only was he yet another head taller than the Savior - at least - his proportions were enormous. I'm adding detail here I haven't shared before. One witness to me these experiences are true is that they are so written upon my soul that I can continue to glean detail from them and make new connections. Here is a new realization: If the Savior had announced me as the one who would usher in the armies of heaven whilst standing behind me, then He must have been walking back down behind the men towards the left. Since the vision opened with the attack, I can't say how He appeared. The implication is that he must have gotten there quickly if in fact this was a very short time after vision two, given the fact the Savior was only one-two men away from me now.

The Savior put His arms up in defense as He steps back, crossing His wrists in an attempt to block the downward arc of the attack that came from high above. His sword was a sword of light and energy. In horror, I saw the Lord fall backwards to His knees, head slumped down, and I could see His arms were nearly severed or perhaps completely severed. Without thinking, I charged this large man dropping my shoulder and ramming him with all my might - which was not much compared to his hulking, extremely large body. I want to say my shoulder landed right in the middle of his belly or his lower belly. It was enough to turn his attention on me. I knew I was trying to get him to square up against me so he would turn away from the Lord and could remember thinking such was my intent. There was absolutely no fear in me. None.

Suddenly I had a sword of my own in my hand - also made of light and energy. I will add some detail here to the swords. Both the attacker's sword and mine seemed to have an electricity / energy that moved sort of light lightning or a tesla coil but semi translucent rather than harsh blue tones. Then there seemed to be light at the center that was yellow as if there were two different energies. I can see why the ancients called these "flaming swords" as the "flame" moved. I don't remember drawing my sword or how it was brandished.

I must have circled a bit because the angle changed with the Lord now behind this foe. I wonder if there was more fighting and the vision cut to this new angle, or perhaps I don't remember (how would I know if I don't remember?) I charged him with my sword held high intending a feint. He took the bait and raised his sword high enough that I was able to slide under his sword to the right of his body without being in danger of a sudden downward thrust - being much smaller and sliding very low helped with this tactic.

I must have been very nimble because somehow I was able to change momentum 180 degrees from sliding forward to jumping up on his back. I held his hair with my left hand and cut through his neck with my sword. The severing was quick as the sword burned through his flesh quickly - that's right, flesh. The Lord obviously had a body that could be cut, and this monstrosity had a body as well. The severing was very vivid as I remember seeing light break through as his neck separated. I remember seeing the flesh melt away quickly in a tear as the light came through. I didn't see any blood at all - in fact I'd say there was a clear absence of blood. Immediately I was at the Savior's side and gathering him into my arms which must have been easier as He was on his knees hunching forward a bit. This next part is interesting as it's the only part of the vision I saw in third person. I aimed my sword straight up in the air and giant pillar of light appeared and collapsed into itself taking us upward. I could see myself at a distance which allowed me to see this giant pillar of light. This view was at a great enough distance that I couldn't make out details, though I could see I had short hair and no beard but couldn't make out any facial features.

I next remembered traveling inside this pillar of light - sort of like the rainbow bridge from Thor, except no rainbow colors - just light. I looked down at the Savior in my arms who was unresponsive. I took him up to the throne room of Elohim. This must have been a different dimension, as I could not perceive colors here at all. Everything looked black and white / greyscale; additionally, a silvery substance like a glowing molten silver laced this reality throughout. I had the distinct feeling I was not supposed to be there. I backed away from the Savior who was still on His knees hunched forward. Heavenly Father walked up to him and put his hand on the Savior's shoulder and looked to me and nodded. Without saying a word, I felt like he was saying, "You did the right thing," or "It's OK that you are here" (when you're not supposed to be otherwise.) The vision ended.




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Fast forward about a year and a half, iirc, and I was studying the servant song chapters of Isaiah. As I read Isaiah 51:9, well I would say that never had any passage of scripture entered into the heart of man more powerfully than this did at this time to mine. I hope one day I will be able to compare this feeling to Joseph Smith as he read James 1:5.


Isaiah 51:9 ¶ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?


I knew this is what I had seen first hand months prior. Awake. Are you not the one who cut Rahab and wounded the dragon?

Now, have a look at Avraham Gileadi's translation:


Isaiah 51:9 Awake, arise; clothe yourself with power, O arm of Jehovah! Bestir yourself, as in ancient times, as in generations of old. Was it not you who carved up Rahab, you who slew the dragon?


Now, I received this powerful witness that Isaiah 51:9 was what I had seen before studying it further. I certainly didn't wound this Rahab giant. I removed his head from his body. As I read Gileadi's version, I felt that this was a better translation, and understandably so! And what does "Rahab" mean but "large" and "proud." Large .... proud. Now, I've been able to piece so much together in the years that have followed this experience. Imagine how awkward it would be to see the Lord's arms severed in a premortal scene. Standard LDS doctrine is the Lord had no body premortally given what he says in Ether to the brother of Jared (plus the many conclusions people jump to based off the extremely limited information we have about premortality.)

Not until very recently - after writing the article on Horus, did I realize that the Osiris legend may have been derived from this. Horus fights a war against Set. Osiris is slain - cut into pieces, and then put together again. Now I don't know whether the Savior was "slain" or His body was destroyed. I just don't know. I do know His arms were either severed or nearly so. In some versions, Osiris' wife restores his body. In others, Horus does so by using the Eye of Horus (which represents the key words of resurrection in the facsimiles.)

Horus loses his eye to Set, his brother iirc. My brother nearly gouged out my eye when we were vacationing in Cancun while I was in 5th grade. The doctor told me I must not sleep on my side or I could lose vision in that eye. My mother stayed up with me all night to gently move my head back any time I started to turn over (I'm a major side sleeper.) I sometimes tell this story on Mother's day. Anyway - this is a total side note, but it's an interesting parallel to the story of Horus.

I have another story to tell you about the "Eye of Horus" that pertains to my wife. In some accounts, the Eye is restored to Horus by his mother - and in some by his wife. I'll just say that my wife finding her seer stones allowed me to find mine. One of her stones was called 'Wadjet Eye' - a term she heard that neither of us was familiar with. After a quick Internet search, we discovered it was a term for the "Eye of Horus" - of which we didn't know much at the time either.

Back to the third vision: I used to wonder if David and Goliath typified this premortal event where the smallest and youngest of Jesse's seven or eight sons was David. I didn't connect the numbers 7 and 8 to Jesse's offspring until sharing this. Reading Discourse on Abbaton confirmed so very much of this experience. The 8th angel takes the throne of the fallen king-to-be - the devil / Saul. 7 angels pass on their duty as they were afraid to deliver the materials to make Adam. I don't know what or where the other 7 patriarchs were doing during this short engagement, but I wonder now if this was a test. Will you defend the Lord unto death or will you be afraid?

Piecing these early visions and experiences together (along with some I haven't shared yet) is how I came to know the Davidic Servant was the eighth angel in authority on earth and that he came from a lower level than the archangels. I had no clue as to why Abraham was the only other individual I recognized in these experience - zero clue for years, or many long months at the least. Enoch is the presiding patriarch over level six beings. Why not Enoch? Or Michael? Or Joseph Smith? Abraham??? Yet, now I know that Jahoel's dominion began with Abraham. All the covenants to be fulfilled in the end times began with Abraham. Not with Noah. Not with Enoch. Abraham. He is the covenant counterpart of the Davidic Servant.

Now, I can tell you I've seen these things and hopefully the Spirit will witness to you that I have. As I had no angel guide to explain things to me, I cannot claim to know all the meanings behind what I saw. But these three visions were < 5 minutes, and I came out on the other side knowing the 8th angel was the Davidic Servant and that he was aspiring to join the 7. The fruit and fountain of knowledge have all been so very sweet as to prove that the source of these things is indeed the fountain of living waters Himself. If God one day tells me he led me to believe a certain way for his own purposes and that I'm actually to be the janitor of the southeast corner of New Jerusalem, I'll happily pick up a broom and start sweeping. Until then I can only move forward in faith, sharing what I am permitted with whom I am permitted. I can only hope that the Lord Himself will reveal what He has hidden in great power and glory and that I can live my life in peace until then. Time will tell.

I do testify these words are good and true in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.