VIVIAN JACQUIN’S DREAM/VISION 15Oct12
PART I
I am transported to a place on a mountain. There is a small muddy pool of water with clear drops of water rising into it from the earth. A voice says “drink this”. I say how can I drink, it’s all muddy. Again the voice says “drink this”. So I take a leaf, I clear away the muddy water and I drink some of the clear water.
The voice is neither male nor female.
Then someone, I can’t see but it might be Jesus, takes my right hand and turns me and says “look”. I turn and the spring water has now turned into a stream. I sit down beside the stream, I am very happy to watch the stream, just like when I was a child in Mauritius I liked to sit by the stream in my parent’s garden, with little fish. I could sit by this stream for hours, until my sister came and said you must come for lunch.
The voice says you must come and look. Now the stream has turned into the stream has turned into a river, again like Mauritius. Then it flows into the sea. The voice says you are the stream, the source.
I ask where is Gabrielle, she must come with me and she does.
Then I am shown the oceans and the continents, rising above the earth as if I was watching google earth. I hear the voice say “Vivian you have been everywhere around the world, in many continents and crossed many oceans. This was to prepare you for your purpose, for which you are only now ready. This preparation has taken a very long time, you know this”. I say yes I had dreams, but I thought they were only dreams, not real. The voice says “”they were not dreams, they were real.”
I protest, I say I am only 65 and I don’t know anything.
When I was a child I used to sit and watch the ships come and go to Mauritius, appearing and disappearing over the horizon. I wanted to know where the ships went and I wanted to go there.
Now, in the dream, I want to go to the toilet, but I can’t wake up and it all comes again!
PART II
I am on the mountain of the transfiguration. Jesus is talking to Moses and Elijah. A cloud comes over them and I hear the voice of god say “this is my beloved son, with whom I have entrusted everything.”
Now I learn the true meaning of the transfiguration, a meaning that has eluded me and all the theologians and bible exegesis to now. Something no one has yet understood.
Moses, a mythical figure, not a real person, represents all the spiritual and religious teachings of the world, all traditions. The Jewish religion had the beginning but not the end.
A voice says “there should not be a fortress”, meaning the church should be open. As Pope John III said at the Vatican II council, “open all the windows and doors”. I have always seen my mission is to serve humanity and bring happiness to all human beings. “Don’t be a fortress” means don’t be afraid, go out and serve, and be of service to every human being. The church is a service.
Then I see the prophet Elijah at the end of his life, after he has killed 20,000 Baal priests as he thought he should do. Jezebel’s soldiers are chasing him and he takes refuge in a cave near the top of the mountain. He prays to god, “you are almighty, you are all-powerful, if you want you can save me from these soldiers. But if I am to die, please show yourself to me before I die.” Then a mighty tempest comes and Elijah thinks god is in the tempest. But god is not there. Then a very slight gentle breeze comes, and Elijah realises that is god, god is very fragile. And is in every human heart.
Again I ask where is Gabrielle, I check she is still with me every step of the way.
Once again, I need to go to the toilet, but I can’t, the vision of the future comes.
PART III
I am in Rome and I am going with Germain and Gabrielle to the Vatican, to the place where they elect the pope. This time Germain says I must go in by myself, Gabrielle will stay with me. I go inside, and gathered together are all my friends from my seminary and the years in Rome, some of them priests and cardinals and bishops. Each one of us is required to give a speech but I have not prepared a speech. When it comes to my turn I am given a sheet of paper with a speech written on it, but I can’t read it because I haven’t got my new glasses! Which I am to get this week. So I explain to them I cannot read the speech so instead I will tell them about my dream of the source. And I tell them the church is not a fortress. We must open the doors and the windows as Pope John III said at the Vatican II council 50 years ago. I sat down, it was a very short speech, there was silence and everyone was staring at me. Then there is a vote, as each one is voted out a wooden shutter closes above their head as they were reading the result. At the end only my shutter is open, they have voted me as pope! I say this is wrong, I cannot be pope, I am married to Gabrielle. They say don’t worry, it is alright. I wake up.
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RELEVANT BIBLE PASSAGE
Elijah Flees to Horeb
19 Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.”
3 Elijah was afraid[a] and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.” Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep.
All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.” He looked around, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again.
7 The angel of the Lord came back a second time and touched him and said, “Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.” So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. There he went into a cave and spent the night.
The Lord Appears to Elijah
And the word of the Lord came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
10 He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”
11 The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.”
Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave.
Then a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
14 He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”
15 The Lord said to him, “Go back the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you get there, anoint Hazael king over Aram. Also, anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet. Jehu will put to death any who escape the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death any who escape the sword of Jehu. Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”
The Call of Elisha
19 So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him. Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. “Let me kiss my father and mother goodbye,” he said, “and then I will come with you.”
“Go back,” Elijah replied. “What have I done to you?”
21 So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the ploughing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his servant.
1 Kings 19
New International Version (NIV)
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Kings+19&version=NIV