JACQUES GAUVIN, RELIGION

VISION OF A NEW WORLD

People have visions. Some have visions of a home and family. Some have visions of a business or industry. Some have visions of a country and government. Some have visions of a work of art such as a sculpture or a painting. Some have visions of a story for a book, a play, a movie or a documentary. Some have visions of surrealistic places and circumstances such as in a dream or a hallucination. Joseph interpreted dreams and Daniel and John had visions. I had a vision of a new world.

I was sitting quietly contemplating my situation when suddenly the vision appeared. I saw a man and a globe of more or less equal height beside each other, the globe being within His reach and just out of mine. Behind him and to his left was a partial wall behind which was nothing, only darkness and the wall seemed to be made of dim light. Two other globes were visible one a little distant behind the main earth and smaller and the other looking more like a moon to the right. The wall had a corner behind the smaller earth. There appeared to be a floor there but no ceiling. My focus was on the large earth.

The man I saw I took to be Jesus. He was dressed in his work clothe that looked like a painters outfit because of the stains. His pants were very dark and spotted with what I thought at first was semen spots. When I looked more intensely and tried to focus the spots turned to elaborate and complex galaxies. He was creating and planning. We were looking at the darker side of the earth. I asked him how people from here would be able to travel such a great distance to attend the Feast in new Jerusalem? And that they would need some special fuel to energize some sort of vehicles. He immediately created a large, long broad bolt of white matter that was buried across much of the earth from north to south near the most extreme distance from the brighter side of the globe, presumably new Jerusalem.

Several things struck me about this earth. There were no oceans but there did appear to be a body of water in the lower hemisphere and to the left. There was a ridge that went from south to north on the right side. The whole globe seemed to be partitioned like you would see land partitioned from an aircraft near a large populated area and each patch border seemed to be as a rock wall. My perspective may have been equivalent to being several thousand miles away so they may have been mountain ranges or rolling hills. There were about twenty to forty rows of partitions, well aligned and quite deliberately divided. There did not seem to be any vegetation or life present yet. There was no snow or ice at the poles. The globe was not spinning. The lighting did not seem to have a source though the light was brighter on the opposite side. There were no clouds. I had trouble determining the relative size of the globe compared to the earth. If the smaller globe, which seemed to be made of water and clouds represented the earth, then I would estimate the new globe to be about three to five times the diameter of the earth.

It occurred to me that what was missing was people to populate and to bring this globe to life. People could be brought to the globe or made from the rocks. Their needs could be created as they were prayed for, requested or needed. It also occurred to me that this globe was seen in its unfinished present state and not as it will appear once it is finished and put into use. It occurred to me that God could create an infinite number of these globes and place them into an appropriate universe. It also occurred to me that God is doing things in His own way, according to His plan and at His own speed. I thought that the greater challenge is to create free moral agents who develop characters that are compatible and comparable to God s, that God would be pleased with and who would populate, manage His creation and keep Him company. It would be easy for God to create innumerable beings with robotic like responses who would serve, worship and bow to Him indefinitely but what a bore that would become.

2009 Jacques Gauvin

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