The Joys of Heaven: Part 1 Faith for Change in America

By Gwendolyn Cotterell-Eidukonis

In July of 2016, Jesus spoke to Gwendolyn in a vision, saying, "I have placed some books inside of you. You will need to vomit them up." In another vision, Jesus gave crystal-clear cylinder glasses of water to Gwendolyn and her daughter and gave them the urgent command, "Quick! We need to get these to everyone in order for them to be caught up in the rapture!"

In The Joys of Heaven, a two-book series, Gwendolyn poured out these books proclaiming the power of the cross and of Jesus’ great love, which heals and transforms lives.

In Part 1: Faith For Change In America, the first of these very powerful and inspirational books, she appeals to the unsaved to make Jesus their Lord while empowering the believer to move forward by faith. She also discusses several revelations of staggering events to come that will affect the immediate future of mankind.

In Part II: A Closer Walk with God, Gwendolyn challenges believers to step up to a higher standard of holiness, to experience a deeper fellowship with Jesus, to take back the power that belongs to the church, and to march onward and upward to victory. She charges them to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit and to once again experience the power of God to do the miraculous among us.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jul 21, 2017
• ISBN: 9781512792799

Gwendolyn Cotterell-Eidukonis

Gwendolyn Cotterell-Eidukonis graduated with honors from DeVry University in 2012 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. Jesus has appeared to her in several visions which led to the publishing of her first book, Beholding His Glory: A Journey Side by Side with Jesus, in September 2015. Gwendolyn continued her inspired writing when in a recent vision Jesus told her that He had placed books within her and that she would need to bring them up.

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Contents

Prologue

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1     Great Visions of Hope

Chapter 2     Prepare for Sudden Rapture

Chapter 3     What if Heaven Could Begin Right Here, Right Now?

Chapter 4     Value of the Soul and the Depth of God’s Great Love

Chapter 5     Behold, I will Do a New Thing

Chapter 6     The Power of the Cross

Appendix

Prologue

Two more years to go! The Joys of Heaven: Part I: Faith for Change in America was first published in July 2017 with the subtitle, "Every Day with Jesus." Lately, I came to the conclusion that I was a bit hasty in choosing the subtitle because it doesn’t do much to prepare its readers for the urgency of the messages that lie within its pages. Faith for Change in America is a more fitting subtitle. It aims at preparing America and the world, and strengthening believers everywhere, for the change that is quickly hurtling towards us like a whirlwind.

Within the pages of this book, I shared several prophetic dreams concerning many events that are expected to come to pass in the immediate future of mankind. I also discussed a timeline that was revealed to me as I slept on the night of September 20, 2016. In this dream, I heard the following announcement: Three more years before the end of the world as we know it! The year 2019 immediately stood out in my mind.

Following this dream, I spent a lot of time in prayer and meditation as I sought God for revelations concerning the course of events that will take place over the next three years and which will bring about such a dramatic and revolutionary change to the world we live in. The one question I failed to ask was, When does the countdown begin? I had simply assumed that the countdown would begin on the night of the dream, especially because the year 2019 immediately stood out in my mind.

Two and a half months after the publication of this book, that is, just before dawn on the morning of October 8, 2017, Jesus appeared to me in a dream. As we walked together along a lonely road, He said to me, 1,020 days to go. I understood then that this was in relation to a book that I had already published. Since part one of The Joys of Heaven was the only book in which I discussed a timeline that I received in a dream, it became obvious to me that Jesus was referencing this book.

There are 1,095 days in a three-year period, except for when a leap year is involved. When I subtract 1020 days from this number, it leaves me with 75 days. Counting back 75 days starting with October 8th, the date of the dream, it takes me back to July 26th, five days after the first of this two-book series was published. Counting another 1,020 days starting with October 9th takes me to July 24, 2020. This is exactly three years from the date of this publication and three and a half years since Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States of America.

The countdown started just after this book was first published, a date predetermined by God for its publication. Jesus told me in a dream in July 2016 that He had placed books inside of me and that I would need to pour them out. When several months later I asked in prayer, when will the first of these books be published, I heard simply, July.

I understand that these changes will be gradual over the three-year period but will reach a climax on July 24, 2020. Will the world come to an end on July 24, 2020? Not at all! It will simply be the end of the world as we know it and the beginning of a new era! July 25, 2020 and beyond will be the start of a new era. Fasten your seatbelts and get ready for the change! These changes will come from natural acts of God and nature, from man-made destructions, contagious diseases, famines, changes in laws and regulations, and from another force outside of human control. The impact of all of these things combined will be devastating.

Eleven days after the publication of The Joys of Heaven: Part I, that is, on August 1, 2017, my daughter had a frightening dream in which she saw a huge body of water rising up around our house. She said she thought for sure that our house would become completely submerged. She also said that in her dream, there was a hole at the bottom of the back door, yet no water came inside our house.

This prophecy was fulfilled less than a month later when Hurricane Harvey dumped more than 40 inches of rainfall in Houston and surrounding neighborhoods in Texas. Countless homes and businesses quickly became completely submerged. The freeways and city streets were like flowing rivers, and street lights were barely visible above the rising flood.

Two weeks later, Hurricane Irma battered Florida and left a lot of storm-surge flooding in its wake. Then, on September 20, 2017, exactly one year after the dream of Three More Years, catastrophic Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico and left the entire island in rubble. The wind gust knocked out power to at least 95% of the island and toppled over many cellphone towers. The island was left in darkness and almost completely cut off from the rest of the world. Many streets were turned into flowing rivers as a result of the wide-spread flooding.

In my daughter’s dream, even though there was a hole in the bottom of the back door, no water came inside our house. I believe that was because the flooding that she saw was meant for other areas and not for us. We were safe and far away from the areas of the flooding.

My daughter’s dream and the apocalyptic type natural disasters that followed almost immediately, along with the devastating aftermaths, seem to confirm my earlier dream of three more years before the end of the world as we know it.

The 2017 California wildfire season seems to speak to this dream as well. It saw some of the largest fires in the history of California and left an historic level of deaths and destruction in its wake. According to Fox News, the Thomas Fire which lasted just about five weeks, scorched more than 280,000 acres across Southern California and destroyed more than 1,000 structures, was the largest fire recorded in the history of the state.

The catastrophes are not over. There is much more to come. Early in the morning of December 6, 2017, after getting ready for school, my daughter lay back down on her bed and fell asleep almost immediately. When I woke her up just a few minutes later, she said to me, All I could hear was the loud crash of the ocean waves, the sounds of airplanes flying overhead and the loud noise of gunshots.

Jesus said that at the time of the end, the seas and the waves will roar! There will be wars and rumors of wars! That time is now! Right now, according to many in the news media, this country is on the very brink of war, a war which I have seen in many dreams over the past few years and which my daughter heard the sounds of in her recent dream. I have no doubt that the planes she heard flying overhead were warplanes and that the gunshots she heard were blasts from live combat. It is no longer a matter of whether or not there will be a war in this country but how soon it will begin. My daughter, who is only ten years old, does not listen to the news and neither do we talk about wars in front of her. What she heard in her dream were pure revelations from God concerning what is yet to come.

Do you believe in God? Is Jesus Christ your Lord? If so, you have absolutely no reason to panic. Simply watch and pray. Jesus taught:

And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. (Matthew 24:6–14 NKJV)

This is the beginning of sorrows. The scriptures are clear. The beginning of sorrows will be followed by the tribulation period. Sometime during this very perilous time, the Antichrist – a deceitfully cunning and dominant world leader who is also the chief son of Satan – will set himself up as God in the Jewish temple and command all to worship him. This is the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet, Daniel. Jesus warned that when we see this come to pass:

Let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened. (Matthew 24:16–22 NKJV)

Right now, at this very moment, the Antichrist is here on earth in human form though not yet revealed publicly! Jesus clearly said to me in a dream in March 2016, The Antichrist is already here on earth. He was born of the heathen for this purpose. I do not need to tell him who he is. It will be a self-discovery on his part. Please read with great understanding. The time is short!

Every person living upon the earth at the time of this tribulation will suffer great peril but, as Jesus taught, The one who stands firm to the end will be saved (Matthew 24:13 NIV). Immediately following this very perilous time, the triumphant Jesus will descend to earth in clouds of glory. He will return as King of kings and Lord of lords, and will richly reward all those who put their trust in Him. He will set up his kingdom upon this earth, restore order, and will rule the whole world in righteousness and in truth forever and ever.

Many of the changes to come will be influenced by the United States president, Donald Trump, a world leader who is unlike any other president before him. He is in a position of power and will not be afraid to use this power to impact change, whether good or bad, around the globe. This entire revolutionary change that is coming will take place during his presidency. It began halfway through his first year in office and will reach completion halfway through his fourth year in office.

The night following my earlier conversation with Jesus, in another dream, I saw Donald Trump gliding effortlessly back and forth in the air as if with wings. When he landed in front of me, I noticed he was wearing some kind of black rubber contraption from his feet up to his waist. He stepped out of it before addressing the crowd. In an earlier part of the dream, he and two other individuals, a man and a woman, were debating for the office of president. Trump had a clear victory and spoke into a loud-speaker addressing the large crowd of people gathered around him.

It is no co-incidence that in one dream, Jesus told me 1,020 days to go and the very next night, in another dream, He showed me Donald Trump’s rise to power. This was already an established fact. Showing me Trump’s rise to power at this crucial point in time carries with it some great significance.

Much of the people of this country are upset, some even enraged, because Trump was elected president of the United States of America. I believe, however, that Trump was chosen by God for a specific purpose and cannot be removed from office until he has accomplished this purpose. I am in no way suggesting that Trump is a man of God and that everything is going to be wonderful going forward. Far from it! This is not an attempt to advocate for Trump. I am neither for Trump nor against him. I am just an impartial bystander sharing with you what God has revealed to me.

Instead of expending our energy raging over who is or is not in the office of president, our time would be better spent praying for and strengthening one another for what lies ahead of us. After all, none of us can stop what God has set in motion! These are perilous times that we are living in and the darkest hour is still ahead. Regardless of who is in the seat of the presidency, God is still in control. If we repent and turn to Him, he will have mercy on us and spare us from what is to come.

Just as a reminder, The Most High rules in the kingdom of men, gives it to whomever He will, and sets over it the lowest of men (Daniel 4:17 NKJV). Trump’s rise to power was no accident. It was predetermined by God and nothing could have stopped it. Hillary Clinton got the popular vote but Trump got the votes that really count and rose to power even with fewer people supporting him.

Much of the people who voted for Trump thought that they were voting for the lesser of two evils, but, did they? Time will reveal the truth of this matter. Trump is a man of great intrigue and, as so many have said, he has taken on the world by storm.

One morning in early June 2017, I had a rather shocking revelation in a dream concerning Trump’s true identity. In this dream, I made the announcement that President Donald Trump is the Antichrist! I have no idea what preceded that announcement. All I know is that I started making the announcement in my sleep and completed it as I woke up. I was in shock for the next several days!

Could Trump be the Antichrist? Did the Holy Spirit reveal this to me as I slept? The prophet Daniel said that the Antichrist will be a man of fierce countenance and will rise to power peacefully with just a few people. He will prosper and succeed at everything he does. Does this sound like Trump? As far as I know, Trump had never run for a political office before. Very few people expected him to win the presidential election yet, he did, even though the majority voted for Clinton.

Think about this: If the world as we know it will end on July 24, 2020, just months before the next presidential election in November, how will this change impact the election? Will there even be another presidential election? Could Trump’s rise to power, that I witnessed in my dream, be as much about the year 2020 as it was about the 2016 presidential election? What is the significance of Jesus revealing to me that there are just 1020 more days to go and then the next night showing me Trump’s rise to power garbed in a black rubber contraption from his feet up to his waist and floating through the air?

If Trump is indeed the Antichrist, the only person who will be able to remove him from office will be God himself. Before that time comes however, Trump will prosper at everything he does and will become great and arrogant. He will trample many great people under his feet. He will form an agreement with the holy people of Israel then act deceitfully and destroy them. Watch and pray because when you think that it is peace and safety, it will be sudden destruction upon you! Entire neighborhoods could suddenly be wiped out! A small child might escape miraculously but will be left mourning for the loss of his family and running for fear of his own life! Many could