This account records an earlier vision I was shown on 1 September and several visions I was shown this morning.

Three days ago, in the morning, I was shown a vision of the 'toe of Italy', the south-western part of the land mass of mainland Italy that is today the province of Calabria. The 'toe' was completely black. Knowing that this was one of those visions which contains a hidden message that can only be unpacked by careful meditation and prayer, I resisted the temptation to suppose that this had something to do with the country of Italy itself and simply let the vision 'sit'.

The following day I decided it was time to look at a map of the area and my eye immediately fell on its chief city, Reggio, across from Messina on the island of Sicily, as it reminded me of something I had read in the Messianic Scriptures (New Testament). Indeed, Reggio - known as Rhegium 2,000 years ago, was a stop-over port in Paul's final journey to Rome (Acts 28:13) between Syracuse (in Sicily) and Puteoli. In his day, Calabria was known as Roman Bruttium (the name speaks for itself) and was inhabited by a very fiery tempered people whom the Romans had earlier conquered in their subjugation of the peninsular. I knew the ancient Bruttians were a key but I also knew that Rhegium held a key too, for the word comes from the Greek meaning 'to break'.

The map was black - in darkness - in the vision, the area was inhabited by an ill-tempered, brutish people and its capital meant 'to break'. In the context of the vision, what was it that Yahweh wanted to break? Answer: the pride of those in the flesh. I let this 'sit' another 24 hours and the following day I received the very clear davar (word) from Yahweh:

"I am breaking the flesh of My people".

So if you're wondering why believers are going through trial and tribulation along with everyone else at this time, then one reason - probably the main one - is that He wants to break the hold of the flesh that His people naming His name have yielded to so that we can be free to commune with Him. Considering the time we are entering into, no greater loving thing could be done to us. Our flesh may hate it, we may protest or get depressed, but without a clear line of communication to Yahweh, which comes only as the fleshy, Adamic nature is overcome, a lot of believers aren't going to make it through what's on the way because they won't be in the right place with the right people doing the right things having prepared in advance.

A day later - this morning - I was shown vision, after vision, after vision of what's coming. I lost count in the end. What I relate is but a handfull of them, since obviously conditions will vary depending where you are in the world, but you'll get the general idea from what I do share. These are not given in any particular order and are just some of the ones I was shown while fully awake.

I saw bodies of dead people floating in water, presumably the result of a coastal or river flood of some sort, not unlike the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey which devastated Houston, Texas the other day, or the Tsunami in the recent past that hit Japan. The sense was that there were going to be a lot more like this, a reason, no doubt, Yahweh warned me during the mishpatim Yahweh to tell people get away from coastal areas and onto higher ground. The wisdom of that instruction has been amply proven by what has happened in Texas. More is coming.

I saw open lorries/trucks with loads of people, all huddled together, packed like sardines in ranks, heads bowed, sitting on the floor, being shipped off somewhere. They were completely compliant, not unlike the Jews who were massacred in the holocaust. I can't be sure but it looked like America.

I saw a vision of families on the run, going nowhere in particular because they had nowhere to go. They had not prepared. It all seemed quite aimless. I can only suppose they had either lost everything or were being driven to flight by hostile forces.

The strangest of the visions was of wild creatures which looked like species on this planet yet they were somehow different. They had been deliberately released into the wild and were dangerous. One kind in particular looked like a very tall monkey - they were reddish-brown in colour and were very tall, 7-8 feet high, I would estimate, and fairly lankey. They looked predatory and seemed to be quite intelligent. There were no people there because they had been driven away from the area out of fear of these animals.

I saw a vision of a shabbily-dressed, dirty, dishevelled white women, maybe in her 30's, forraging in the wild for food, her head repeatedly turning over her shoulder as if looking out for danger from behind. She was obviously scared, living in the rough and having a hard time alleviating her hunger. She appeared to be alone.