Anna Rountree - Heaven Awaits the Bride: A Breathtaking Glimpse of Eternity

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HEAVEN AWAITS THE BRIDE by Anna Rountree
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rountree, Anna.
Heaven awaits the bride / Anna Rountree.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-59979-174-6 (trade paper)
1. Heaven--Christianity. I. Title.
BT846.3.R68 2007
248.29--dc22

2007015319

E-book ISBN: 978-1-59979-619-2

This book was previously published by Charisma House as The Heavens Opened, copyright 1999, ISBN 0-88419-598-8; and The Priestly Bride, copyright 2001, ISBN 0-88419-766-2.

To God the Father,
God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit,
who gave the revelation, commissioned the book,
and to whom we offer it in love,
praise, and thanksgiving.

To Jesus, our great High Priest
and our eternal Husband.

Contents

Part I
Revealing a Fresh Vision of Gods Love for You

Part II
Revealing the Mystery of Our Betrothal to God

Appendix A
Glossary of Principal Words

Appendix B
Mountains of Spices

Revealing a Fresh Vision
of Gods Love for You

This section is an amazing and beautiful revelation of the place that He has gone to prepare for us and where we will spend eternity. Of the many recent books written about our future home, none reveal so clearly the glory of God that awaits us if we are faithful to Him during the days of testing that many have already begun to experience. You will read it more than once, and you will want to share it with all your friends. You will not be able to put it down!

GWEN SHAW
End-Time Handmaidens

In this exciting section, Anna Rountree will help to take you beyond the veil into a realm where holiness, obedience, and unconditional surrender are the qualifications that will take you into the very presence of the Lord. She shares the importance of living a life of worship that has caused the heavens to be opened in her own personal life, bringing fresh understanding of the angelic realm that has also taken her into the very throne room of God.

SUZANNE HINN

Part I

Contents

Revealing a Fresh Vision of Gods Love for You

Truly, truly I say to you, you shall see the heavens opened...

JOHN 1:57

The sound was ancient and terrifying.

Startled, I spun around to see a colossal battering ram relentlessly moving under its own power across a desert basin.

Although it moved slowly, people on the desert floor seemed helpless to avoid its path; they were crushed as it rolled over them. Screams filled the desert valley and ricocheted off distant rock formations, filling the desert basin with terror.

Gods judgment against sin has begun with His household, the church (1 Pet. 4:17; Rev. 14:7). His purpose is to separate the weeds from the wheat of the living and true church (Matt. 13:4043; 1 Cor. 11:1819; Rev. 18:2, 4).

Slowly the battering ram topped a sandy hill and began to pick up speed going down the other side. Breathless from shock, I clawed with my hands and dug with my feet into the deep sand of the hill in order to reach the top and watch its path.

It picked up tremendous speed as it plunged down the other side of the hill into a deep valley. In its path at the bottom of the hill was a walled city. Both city and wall were the color of the sand and seemed to be half sunk into it, almost reclaimed by the sand from which they had come. In faded lettering on the side of the wall I could read: THE CHURCH.

The adobe walls represent that which is constructed by the flesh of religious people whom God calls dust (Gen. 3:19; Jer. 17:5) and who are powerless against Satan and his hordes (2 Cor. 10:34; Isa. 31:1).

The battering ram was massive, and the adobe wall of the city did not look strong. With brutal impact, the goats head smashed into the wall and continued through it. It plowed through houses and buildings, losing little of its speed. When it broke through the wall on the opposite side of the city, it slowed to a stop, settling into the sand.

A strange silence fell.

Occasional screams broke this silence. They came from those who had been mutilated or from those who recognized that a loved one had been killed. But stranger than the silence was the fact that few sought to escape across the rubble of the wallfew.

Then slowly, all by itself, the battering ram turned and began to start up the hill again, moving in my direction. The goats head on the end of the ram was laughing, exhilarated, as if drunk with blood.

I thought it might see me, so I left the top of the hill and began to run in the opposite direction. As I ran, I frantically scanned the desert basin for a hiding place. I could hear the huge wheels laboring as they carried the battering ram toward the top of the hill again.

Suddenly an angel began to fly beside me.

Where can I hide from the battering ram? I shouted as I ran.

The battering ram rolls relentlessly over all the earth now. Up high, the angel said, up higher than it can see is the only safe place. Let me show you.