Very Unusual experience to  Rhonda and me

I am writing this on April 30, 2017, but this happened to my daughter Rhonda and me, several years ago;  do not remember just how long.

Rhonda and I were very much into researching the holidays, and the reformers of the early Protestant Churches.  We had gone to several different libraries and done research.  Rhonda suggested we go to  big library in Athens, at the university.  She knew where this was.

As we drove down a certain street in Athens, Rhonda said to me,  “that building there is a strip club”.  

As soon as she told me this, a strange feeling of numbness and sickness washed over me.  I felt faint.  It hit me so suddenly I did not know what to make of it.  

I did not mention this to Rhonda.  I was leaning my head against the window trying to get over whatever this was.  It only got worse.  My eyes were swirling and I felt sicker and weaker by the minute.  I was beginning to feel panicky.   

She drove down the main street and turned to the right which should have taken us right to the library.  But instead she went around the entire block and came back out on the main street.  This happened a few more times and I was feeling sicker and weaker.  Still had not said anything to her.

Then she said to me, “Mama I feel so weak and sick I cannot keep driving.  Can you drive for me”?  I said, “No, I am too weak and sick myself”.  (Now mind you, there was nothing wrong with either of us, up till she told me about that strip club. )

I felt sorry for her but I knew I could not drive.  She said, “I know that I know where that library is, but I cannot find it.  I do not even know where I am.  Nothing seems familiar to me.  I do not recognize any of this town nor any of the streets or buildings.  I seem to be in a total foreign world”.

Well I can tell you that shocked me, for I was feeling the very same thing.  Rhonda said, this is scary.  I do not know where I am or why I am here and I am too sick and weak to keep driving.  I do not know how to get anywhere, but must try to keep going and get out of this street.

Well, we finally got to the library and went in.  The people on the street, (and there was plenty of them), and those in the library, all seemed to non-human.   I felt this strange feeling that none of these people were from earth.  They seemed to be of another world completely.  None of them even seemed to see us.  Rhonda said to me, “these people do not seem to be real.  What is this?  They all seem to be from another planet or world”. 

So see, the same thing was happening to both of us.

It is the weirdest feeling in this world.  We got down a book or two but this feeling of being in a strange planet/world, was just too much.   She said, let’s forget this and get out of here.  I was all for that;  feeling too sick to stand.

So we went back out and she said I hope I can drive and find my way out of whatever this place is.

We both felt numb and sick and as if we had gone to another world, until we got out of Athens.  As soon as we got away from that town, we both returned to normal.

I have never felt such a thing before or since.  The thing that amazes me is that sometime after this happened, I was reading a book that Corrie Ten boon wrote about some of her travels and ministry.  She had a lady friend who traveled  with her.

She said they went into a town that they were both very familiar with and knew very well.  But as soon as they entered this town, they went through exactly what  Rhonda and I experienced.  She described it exactly the same way.  She said, it is so strange for we both knew that town very well, yet it seemed like we were on a different planet.

I have no idea why this happened.  But Rhonda said,  “you know this used to be a clean, simple shopping town.  and now it is a strip-club, night club nasty town.”

Perhaps that is why God did that to us.  I had a dream many years ago of seeing Athens laying is splinters. 

Who knows what God will do to this wicked world when He sends judgment.

By: Jo  Smith