Vision [Paperback]

David Wilkerson (Author)

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Publication Date: September 15, 1986

Tomorrow won't be better. David Wilkerson tells us about a vision he received. None of the predictions in this book will be unfamiliar to those of us from this century. What will happen? Read this book and learn the truth that you will read about tomorrow in the newspaper.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Tomorrow won’t be better. David Wilkerson tells us about a vision he received. None of the predictions in this book will be uncommon to those of us from this century. What will happen? Read this book and learn the truth that you will be able to read tomorrow in the newspaper. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

David Wilkerson es fundador del reconocido miniteriode rehabilitiacin Teen Challenge. Además, es autor del bestseller "La cruz y el Puñal" asi como de "No te des por vencido" y "El Llamado Final" entre otros. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Jove (September 15, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 051508994X
• ISBN-13: 978-0515089943
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,586,998 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Beginning of Sorrows and the End of the Age, December 22, 2008

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Peter Wittstock "author of Hear Him! The One ... (Michigan, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Vision (Mass Market Paperback)

Not since THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST given to the apostle John on the Isle of Patmos some 1900 years ago has there been a more awe-inspiring vision concerning the end of our presint age than the predictive material presented in THE VISION: A TERRIFYING PROPHECY OF DOOMSDAY THAT IS STARTING TO HAPPEN NOW! (New York: Pyramid Books, 1974) by David Wilkerson. This 143-page "mass-market paperback" edition has as its contents: an Introduction, eight chapters, and two appendices describing the details of a vision experienced by the now emeritus Pastor Wilkerson (Times Square Church, New York City) during a late-night time of prayer in April 1973.

In the first five chapters, readers will learn about the "five tragic calamities coming upon the earth." In order: (1) "Economic Confusion" with sevety-three related predictions; (2) "Drastic Weather Changes and Earthquakes" with fifty-four predictions; (3) "A Flood of Filth" (an allusion to moral collapse) containing ninety-two predictions; (4) "The Number One Youth Problem of the Future" with thirty-six predictions; and (5) "Persecution Madness" against 'born-again' Christians and 'Spirit-baptized' Roman Catholics with ninety-one predictions. These 'prediction counts' are my own, and are taken informally from the narrative text and may vary from reader-to-reader, but are helpful indicators of emphasis. Serving illustrative purpose are a number of related biblical predictions of God's judgments upon Israel and Judah in the eighth and sixth centuries B.C. These biblical references to God's judgments are NOT included in my informal chapter-by-chapter prediction counts.

I had heard about this little book off-and-on since the mid-seventies, but had never managed to read it for myself until March 2007. Many of the predicted developments and events do not now seem nearly as remote as they did to some when it was first published back in 1974. By my own cursory reckoning, it seems that nearly 50% of the predictions have been fulfilled at this date of writing (12/22/08) leaving approximately as many still to be fulfilled in the near future. Indications are increasingly strong--in all five categories--that the remaining predictions will be realized in this "present generation" as Wilkerson predicts. Saint Paul's analogy of a pregnant woman coming to full-term is an important simile to remember when evaluating the progress of end-time events--allowing as it does for a long, almost imperceptible growth (or degradation in the case of the end of this age) ultimately climaxing with numerous increasingly strong and painful contractions before the actual birth takes place (cf., 1 Thessalonians 5:3).

Because I believe this "vision" to be a genuine revelation from God for the sake of believers and unbelievers alike, I highly recommend it be read by everyone concerned about "the signs of the times" and how they relate to God's judgments upon the United States of America and the world-at-large; the physical return of Jesus Christ to establish his kingdom on earth; and the end of this present age.

Instructions have been provided by the seer/author to assist, both, "the prepared" and "the unprepared" on how to best conduct their lives in the face of the difficult times ahead. As the Hebrew prophet, Habakkuk, was assured by God concerning the certainty of the coming devastation at the hands of the invading Babylonians upon the nation of Judah, so Wilkerson invokes the ancient exhortation to patience as part of his epigraph: "For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry" (Habakkuk 2:2-3, KJV).

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Kooky or Not?, August 28, 1999

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This review is from: Visión, La (Paperback)

I am a big critic of modern day prophets and doomsayers. I found this book lying around my mom's house (world's biggest sucker for so-called prophets)began to read this 1970's book. Mr. Wilkerson apparently was based on a vision from God to him about the future of America. By reading the book you could tell Wilkerson believed his vision would come true no later than the seventies. Here it is 1999 and the US is still here as prosperous as ever, however, some of Wilkerson's predictions are eerily becoming true. Here are the ones that caught my attention.

1. Pornography will become available inside households through means of technology.

2. Children will become filled with anger and begin doing highly publicized acts of violence and all of the country would be trying to figure out why.

3. Natural diasters will greatly increase in the United States.

Those were the predictions that I thought were frightenly accurate. The vision is filled with many other predictions which have not happened (I suppose Wilkerson would say at least not yet.) He talks about our economic collapse, fires across the country, some 1984ish type of government emerging. So although I would not spend more than a few bucks on this 1970's book, I would recommend you check it out to see what you make of this guy's predictions which seem to becoming true.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This has been a comfort for most of my life, May 4, 2007

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This review is from: The Vision: A Terrifying Prophecy of Doomsday that is Starting to Happen Now! (Mass Market Paperback)

I first heard this book at the age of 14 way back in the 1970s. It was a tape of the Sermon Dave Wilkerson gave which later formed the basis of the book. What we heard astounded us...it didn't seem possible back then that pornography would be so wide spread, and that the church would become so corrupt (in places)...but we took it seriously because we respected him. The most particular and interesting prophesy I found was that the "Iron curtain" would come down (in order to get the gospel into the Eastern Block) in the mid 70s this was just unthinkable; but it happened. (He goes onto predict it will go back up with a vengeance).

Through all these years with all the tumultuous things that have happened I have tried to do what Wilkerson suggests and look up and say "God in in Control" there is a strange comfort to the predicted coming true, it seems to act as a buffer because I supposed forwarned is forarmed.