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God Spoke to Me
My Vision and Experiences

"Jesus Christ, the same today, yesterday and forever," seems to be a favorite quote from scripture today. And I believe that this scripture is true, however there are many who say that they believe it, yet have a tendency to draw back when faced with the reality of God in Modern Times. We believe that the Holy Spirit leads us, yet if someone says that God has spoken to them by the Holy Spirit it could cause automatic rejection by others in the body. Why is this? As born again believers all of us should hear God speaking to us from time to time in our daily lives. We're not talking about thunder and lightning here, but we are talking about God speaking to us softly through our thoughts by the channel of the Holy Spirit. If someone says that God has spoken to him or her they are setting themselves up to be mocked and ridiculed by others. So I suppose that realizing that all of this is true, I am about to set myself up to ridicule and mockery.

For many years I have been secretive about the different times that God has spoken to me about certain things for fear of other peoples opinion. You see; I want people to love and respect me just as much as anyone else wants love and respect. So, when I place myself on the line knowing that I am setting myself up for persecution from brothers and sisters in Christ it is a very hard decision to make. The truth of the matter is that as I share these experiences with you that you realize that God did not cause these things to happen to me to convince you. They happened to convince me. This is being told so that you will realize what he did for me and why I am in this ministry.

I was born again by the Spirit in March of 1972 at the age of 29years. Two weeks later I was filled with Spirit of God and experienced a power surge in boldness and knowledge about the Word of God. But, I was a novice in Christ, young and in-experienced. I was headed for many blessings and hurtful things that God allows happening to us to help us mature in him. I devoted myself to God and studied and prayed as much as I could while working a job at a Mobile and Motor home manufacturing plant. One of the things that the Spirit of God led me into was praising and worshipping God from the heart. If one doesn't understand what I am saying, or if it makes a person uneasy to hear this, I would advise them to give it a try. You might find that it is very rewarding in your heart to pursue this course of action with God.

In 1974 while driving my car home from work one afternoon I had a remarkable experience. I lived in Locust Grove, Oklahoma and worked in Tulsa. For three days I continually sought after God with all of my heart. It was over thirty miles to work and over thirty miles back home again. While driving down the road I would constantly praise the Lord. While I was at work performing my job I silently praised God all day long. After praising God in my car coming home I would come in and go to my bedroom to pray. After praising God all evening I would go to bed and while lying on my bed for a short while I would praise the Lord until I fell asleep. This went on for around three days.

On the last day of this uncommon desire to seek after the Lord I was driving home at the end of the day and was passing through a small town called Chouteau on hwy.33. As I was leaving town I was still praising the Lord as I had been for the last 3 days. As I was driving past the old VFW club house as I was leaving town a supernatural experienced happened to me that I have longed desired to happen to me again.

It was as if a ball of fire about half the size of a basketball had ignited inside of the center of my chest. It was coming from inside of me. It was very powerful but was full of love. It was so powerful that I couldn't set down in the seat as I was driving. It was very frightening but felt wonderfully good at the same time. I felt what felt like huge volts of electricity coming out of my hands. All I could do was scream. I thought for a moment that God was going to take me home and it felt as though my spirit was being lifted up out of my body. I do not know how I was managing to drive my car but somehow we stayed right on course. Suddenly I thought of my wife and small children at home and I cried out to God in a loud voice. "Jesus you are killing me." It was instant; this great experience that was happening to me left as sudden as it at came. All I could do was continue to drive home with my mind spinning in amazement and wonder. To be honest it was very disappointing that all of that wonderful feeling of power and love was gone. I have often wanted to experience any thing close to this again, but it was a sovereign act of God. But now I know that you cannot make it happen. God simply did it because he wanted to.

I was a young Christian, a novice, I knew very little about scripture and certainly didn't have any special burden for the people of Israel, to even have the Jewish people on my mind would have been unusual, especially at that moment. Just about two minutes later as I was approaching the Grand River bridge going east on hwy.33 God spoke to me in my spirit so clear that there was no doubt that it was Him. He said this: "I am going to deliver the Jewish people out from behind the Iron Curtain in the Soviet Union by the power of the Holy Ghost. And it will be very soon." You cannot image the excitement that I felt. I wanted to tell everyone about the wonderful thing that God had spoken to me.

But, guess what? I was in for a very disappointing experience because no one believed me. For God to deliver the Jews from behind the Iron Curtain was absurd, God wasn't going to do that. I was warned by ministers, "don't believe every spirit that comes along, you could be a false prophet." You wouldn't believe the confusion that I went through. My friends, my Christian friends, thought that I might be a false prophet. I was very ashamed and didn't mention this to anyone again for a very long time. I did not want to be a false prophet.

I paid close attention to the news after that hoping to hear something about Israel but didn't. There was something happening, but most of us in America did not know that it was even going on. I was one of these Americans and didn't have a clue. When the Iron Curtain came down after Reagan's plea to Gorbachev, it was made public that many Jews were leaving the Soviet Union and heading mostly to Israel, but some came to the United States and other places. I had heard previously, maybe a year before, that some were leaving but had no idea that this was getting ready to take place. I thought to myself, "Wow, a short time to God must have been all the way from 1974 until the Iron Curtain fell." I thought that in God's time this might have been possible. But what I didn't know was that "soon" to God meant exactly that. Most do not know what went on back then and I was one of them.

In October 1974 something was going on behind the scenes that did not reach the main stream. We knew that at that time the Soviet Union was desperate for food and needed help. The United States took opportunity of this situation. Because of a number of Jewish groups in America continually coming to the Government for help things were about to change. The Jews in the Soviet Union were under a certain amount of persecution and the Jews in America feared another Holocaust. The United States promised a trade agreement with the Soviet Union if they would allow a larger number of Jews to leave Russia and was to allow a group to come in once in a while to see how the Jews were being treated. This was accepted and was called the Jackson-Vanik Amendment October 19, 1974. I didn't have any idea that this was going on. It was established that 60,000 Jews could leave in 1975 if they wanted to leave and had the means. God spoke to me in 1974 and these things began to happen in 1975. God did mean soon after all and I wouldn't realize this for 30 years.
This is a letter from the Prime Minister of Israel to President Ford on October 19,1974:
My dear Mr. President,
The announcement that agreement has been obtained facilitating immigration of Soviet Jews to Israel is causing great joy to the people of Israel and to Jewish communities everywhere. This achievement in the field of human rights would not have been possible but for your personal sympathy for the cause involved, for your direct concern and deep interest. I would wish you to know Mr. President how deeply this has been appreciated. I would like to express to you our heartfelt gratitude.
With warm personal regards,
Sincerely
Yitzhak Rabin
Prime Minister

He also wrote the same kind of letter to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Senator Jackson who negotiated this treaty with Russia.

Think on this, God used America to deliver the Jews from the holocaust and then he used America again to cause immigration to be increased to a very large amount from behind the Iron Curtain. He is still using America in the same way with Israel. So many people believed that I was listening to a bad spirit, but so much for what people think. When God speaks to us we really know if you don't really know then it wasn't him. After I had seen the Jews leaving the Soviet Union around the time the Iron Curtain was torn down. God spoke to me again and said: "I told you this would happen and it did." I felt so ashamed because I had worried about what others had said to me and had allowed it to cause me to hide what he had told me would happen. I am still ashamed of this fact.

But, God has given me a chance to reprieve myself with him in this matter. In 1991 God spoke to me about Israel again. My wife Judy and myself had lost our oldest daughter who was 27 at the time to leukemia. It was probably one of the lowest times in our lives. I was sitting in the recliner resting one evening. I was very discouraged. My heart was heavy. My daughter had gone to be with Jesus, but I was worrying about America and her relationship with God. The fear that God might destroy us for the horrible sins that we have committed as a nation was troubling my mind. I thought about prayer in school and the abortion of little infant children. In fact I had been watching the news on television and Christians were being arrested and hauled away by policemen for standing outside abortion clinics protesting and pleading with people not to abort their babies. As I thought about these things, and although no one was in the house with me, I spoke out loud and said, "God is going to destroy America." Then something happened to me again that I was totally unprepared for.

Instantly there was a reply and God spoke in a small still sweet voice into my heart and said, "No, I'm not. America is mine, and I'm going to save America." At this point I would like to say that God saying that America was his did not mean that they were saved, but that he had a plan for them to fulfill. We are his for a purpose and he is going to bring America to repentance in the process.

All at once I was filled with the presence of God. In a moment of time I experienced something that was very unexpected. I saw America, from her very beginnings to this present day. I heard every marvelous song that was ever sung about her. I saw her in a way that I had never seen her before. I heard many voices, and words from the pledge of allegiance where it is said "one nation under God," to our very beginnings where it was said that we were all given certain unalienable rights by our creator. The song, God Bless America, stood out in my mind. It was in this moment that a voice from within spoke and said, "I created America for myself, and I am going to bless America in a wonderful way." I began to weep, because I knew that I was hearing the voice of God.

Then, I saw a place in the wilderness where people could worship and follow God without persecution. I then saw America as a great protector over the nations of the world, standing as a guardian against the oppressors of this world. During World War II, when Hitler was trying to exterminate the Jews from the face of the earth, God forced the United States into a war that she did not want to enter, in order to stop him. When we did this, God, through a Jewish-German by the name of Einstein, gave America the Atomic bomb.

This caused us to be feared by every nation in the world. It was this fear that enabled the Jews to go back to Israel. Iraq and other Arab countries tried to stop them, but if any large nation had gone against Israel, the United States would have retaliated. We have been like a guardian angel over Israel ever since. It is the plan of God, and even though America is very oppressed by sin at this time, God is going to pull us through.

I know that there is a very large number Americans that live and die and go into eternity without God and are lost. So I am not trying to say that God is going to save America because they are Americans. But I am convinced that during the coming years we will experience some very hard-times, but do not give up hope. God is getting ready to bless America with the thing that we need the most, and that is salvation. It is these hard-times that God is going to use to cause Americans to get their eyes off of fun and materialism long enough to look up to God and seek his help. God has a purpose for America.

While experiencing these things about America, I was weeping because of the joy of what my heart could see. At that time, I saw another picture. I could see a great battlefield. It was dark over head, with flashes of light that reflected against the bottom of the clouds that loomed over us.

I found myself in a trench of mud with American soldiers all around me. While looking at the faces of these soldiers, I knew that there was a feeling of desperation. It seemed hopeless. Instinct told me that this was the battle of Armageddon, and we were in Israel. The moment was intense with anticipation. There was an American flag with its staff sticking out of a mound of dirt in front of me. You could hear it quietly popping as the wind furled it from time to time. All at once, there was a noise from behind, and, as we whirled around to see what it was, a white horse leaped over us. My heart leaped when I saw the rider on its back. It was JESUS!

As He cleared the trench, He turned in the saddle. Looking back at us with a smile, He motioned with His left hand in a single move for us to follow. There was great joy and great courage at that moment, because all at once we realized that victory was certainly at hand. Needless to say, this experience overwhelmed me with emotion. It also made me very interested in what the Bible had to say about this. Since then, God has revealed these prophecies to my heart. The vision I just shared with you about the soldiers in the trench and Jesus on the horse was symbolic in meaning. It was showing us that America was going to go through some hard times, in fact to many it will seem hopeless and there will be despair in the hearts of many people. But, it will be at that time that Christ is going to restore America to him and bring her out of the trenches to do his work and to help us fulfill his plan of salvation for our own nation as well as the salvation of many others.

God also told me, concerning the first vision, that America was cut out of the wilderness and that she is the place in wilderness that God has prepared for Israel at the time of her escape from the Antichrist, Revelation 12: 6,14. He also told me that he has raised up America to be a big sister over Israel to help her come into her fulfillment in God's plan for her salvation. These things will all happen some day no matter how ridiculous this may seem to those who are reading this. God is going to use you and me to prepare this country for these events, even if you don't believe what I am telling you, some way, some how God is going to use you and me to bring these events into play some day. He is still preparing America for this great work.

Well, now I have exposed myself and will probably become an object of ridicule to many, so be it. But, you know I feel a lot better telling you about these things that God has shared with me. In the past I was always afraid of what people thought about me, but those days are over. I would like to remind you of something that I said at the beginning of this article. God did not allow these things to happen to me so that you would be convinced. They happened to convince me and it did. But the teaching that you find on this site doesn't come out of fantastic experience but out of the Word of God. Scripture proving scripture with the Bible teaching Bible the way that God wants us to learn from it. To some of you the Holy Spirit is already talking to you about this. Others will have to pray about it but many will not believe it until it begins to unfold before their eyes. However it may be with each and every one of us, we are living in the last days and God has a work for us to do.

Yours in Christ,
Tommie Spurgeon

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