I first heard of the idea of Jesus appearing personally to unbelievers (either in actual form or in dreams and visions) in the book, Epicenter, by Joel Rosenberg. Following is an excerpt:

In my third novel, The Ezekiel Option, I tell the story of two Christians driving through the mountains of Iran with a carful of Bibles. Suddenly their steering wheel jams and they have to slam on the brakes to keep from driving off the side of the road. When they look up, they see an old man knocking on their window asking if they have the books. “What books?” they ask. “The books Jesus sent me down here to get,” the old man replies.

He goes on to explain that Jesus recently came to him in a dream and told him to follow. When he awoke, he found out that everyone in his mountain village had had the same dream. They were all brand-new followers of Jesus, but they did not know what to do next. Then the old man had another dream in which Jesus told him to go down the mountain and wait by the road for someone to bring books that would explain how to be a Christian. He obeyed, and suddenly two men with a carful of Bibles have come to a stop right in from of him.

This is one of my favorite passages in The Ezekiel Option, but it’s not fiction. I didn’t make it up. It’s true. I got it directly from a dear friend of mine who is the head of a ministry in the Middle East. He personally knows the men involved. I simply asked if I could change their names for use in the novel, and my friend agreed.

Isn’t that incredible?!

Next, in his DVD Watchers 9: Days of Chaos, L A Marzulli interviewed an Iranian who told the story of a man in a remote village in Iran being visited every night by a visitor dressed in white who knocked on his door, came in, and dictated to him after instructing the man to write down all he said. The man complied. Every night until he fell asleep, the man wrote all he was told.

Turns out the man wrote the entire book of John! The visitor was Jesus!

(By the way, I would highly recommend anything by LA Marzulli. You can visit his blog here. His store here. And his YouTube channel here.)

These are not isolated stories, as we see in the following article over at Michael Snyder’s site, TheMostImportantNews.com:

The point of today’s blogpost:

It’s so critically important to not give up on anyone who doesn’t know Christ as their Lord and Savior.

No one is unreachable. Nothing is impossible with God.

Excerpts from a recent article by Michael Snyder over at The Most Important New:

Young adults in America are far less likely to identify themselves as “Christians” than previous generations of Americans, but that does not mean that they have given up on searching for spiritual meaning in their lives.  According to Wikipedia, one very popular form of witchcraft known as Wicca has been growing at a rate of more than 100 percent annually in recent years, and this has been happening at a time when Christianity has been in decline in the United States.  Of course other pagan and occult groups have been exploding in popularity as well, and as you will see below, one of the primary reasons for this is because many young adults are seeking ways to rebel against their conservative Christian upbringings.

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The shocking truth is that the values of most Millennials much more easily fit into pagan spirituality than they do into most evangelical Christian churches.

If you want to sleep around with as many people as possible, that is okay in witchcraft.  If you want to take drugs and get high every day, that is okay in witchcraft.  If you want to be a radical pro-abortion feminist, that is okay in witchcraft.  If you want to be a gay transsexual exhibitionist, that is okay in witchcraft.

Essentially, one of the great draws of witchcraft is that nobody holds you accountable for anything (emphasis mine) and you can do so many of the things that the Bible commands you not to do.

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This is why what we feed our minds with is so vitally important.

Our public schools have become liberal indoctrination centers that are teaching our young people to adopt an anti-Christian way of viewing the world, and all of that propaganda is being backed up by the thousands upon thousands of anti-Christian entertainment that our young people are constantly consuming.

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Allowing our children to immerse themselves in popular culture is doing far more harm than most of us originally realized.

Popular culture is trying to take the next generation away from Christianity, and it is imperative that we start to understand this.  And actually, many of the “stars” that our young people idolize are actually into the occult themselves, and once in a while they even admit this openly…

PLEASE read the full story here…

Dear Readers, as we move closer to the end times, things are going to get stranger. It’s so vitally important that we draw closer to Jesus, and grow and develop our ability to share our faith in the face of the spirit of confusion that has gained a stronghold in our society.

We need to know God’s TRUTH like never before.

Educate yourself. Pray. Fear not.

We were created for this time in history and the Holy Spirit will equip us for the days ahead.

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things,
and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 14:26 KJV

I found this disturbing article over at All News Pipeline…

My daughters read some or all of the three books in the Hunger Games series, and our family watched the first of the four movies. What concerns me is this trend in youth literature (often then made into movies) toward dystopian, post-apocalyptic, or post societal collapse themes. In The Hunger Games, Divergent/Allegiant/Insurgent, The Maze Runner, etc., primarily teen characters are placed in situations where they must often kill their peers just to survive, or even as mere sport. This process is often overseen by a malevolent group of “elites” or government-type officials, who convince the people of the necessity or benefit of what they are witnessing to their society as a whole.

Although this is not a completely new concept (1975’s “Rollerball” being a good example of the genre), the idea of reality “entertainment” that can literally result in the death of some participants at the hands of their competitors harkens back to the brutality of the Roman gladiators; blood spills and the crowds cheers, with no regard that the life of an individual has been taken. I cannot imagine that this desensitization of the masses to the pain and suffering of their fellow human beings can have anything but a deleterious and tragic effect on our society as a whole.

Read the article below and see if you agree: