A Psychic sees the Future
Unlocking the mysteries of Bible prophecy
Teaching Bible Prophecy
David firmly believed that we are living in the 'Time of the End' -- an era long described by the prophets of the Bible as the final period of world history before Jesus' Second Coming.
David felt that it was very important for his followers to have a thorough working knowledge of what the Bible says about these events to motivate, guide and encourage them. He wrote:
The understanding of Bible prophecy is preparation for the future, so that you are not caught unawares and you are not surprised or shocked! ... You will have prepared your heart and mind and recognize these events as they come and as they occur, and know what to expect both with them and thereafter, and be prepared accordingly the best you can.
That's the whole point of prophecy: to let you know what's going to happen so you won't worry about it. You'll know what's going to happen! To be forewarned is to be forearmed!
I am convinced that the real time of the End that God's Word speaks of from cover to cover is these last few years in which we are now living! According to His Word, we are already living in the time of the End
Warnings to the World
Not only did David teach his followers about these events, but he felt constrained to warn the public about them.
He saw the moral decadence of the Western world, as well as the trend towards globalization and a new One World Order as preparation for the Satan-inspired dictator known as the Antichrist, who he believed is already alive and working behind the scenes.
David considered the dissemination of this "Endtime message" to be an important part of The Family's witness. Since the mid-1980s they have distributed many millions of colorful posters depicting various aspects of the Endtime, along with explanatory texts.
Glimpses of Heaven
It was not only the immediate future that interested David, but also eternity, and more specifically Heaven.
He once remarked, "My interest is in the future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there."
In the early 1980s he extensively researched everything the Bible had to say about Heaven, and supervised the creation of a number of colorful, detailed posters depicting and explaining what it will be like. Family members subsequently distributed these by the tens of millions.
To David, this was not an academic exercise. He recognized that the hope of Heaven was an integral part of faith, and therefore should be presented as part of God’s message to the world. Perhaps if more people were persuaded of its reality, he reasoned, they would live their lives much differently. He explained:
I like to talk about Heaven, think about Heaven and read about Heaven! After all, that's where we're going to spend eternity, so it's a pretty important place and we ought to be pretty interested, don't you think? It's our eternal Home, the place Jesus has gone to prepare for us forever, so we certainly ought to be interested in it and want to know what it's like and what we're going to be like when we get There!
So Heaven is a great place to be and a great place to look forward to, and I'm thrilled and excited about it, and I want to get you thrilled and excited about it!
Heaven is a real place that you're really going to, and you're really going to see and live There with all the beauties and glories and pleasures that only Heaven could hold!
It will help you bear some of these burdens and trials that you're going through now when you realize these are only for a moment. "The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us!" (Romans 8:18).
