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Summary: The Vision -- a Timeless Call to America and to the World
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A book like The Vision is a refreshing, eye-opening, and -- in many ways -- alarming look at the modern world. The author, David Wilkerson, is known for his book The Cross and the Switchblade -- the story of his experiences as a country preacher from Pennsylvania, who became a New York City evangelist to some of the worst street gangs of the time. He founded World Challenge Ministries in Lindale Texas, and now pastors Times Square Church in New York City. Although written in the early 1970's, The Vision's the call to America and to the world is timeless. The book relates the burden of one preacher over a diseased and blinded world. In the reading of this book, one can sense the tears and agonized prayers that seared its message onto the pages. By far, one of the most remarkable things about The Vision is the number of specific predictions it contains concerning the years and decades which were to follow. Amazingly, most of these seem already to have been completely fulfilled. To this day Wilkerson does not claim to be a prophet, but merely "one of God's watchmen". But if the mark of true prophecy -- according to the Scriptures -- is 100% predictive accuracy, then The Vision contains convincing evidence that the message of David Wilkerson in the pages of this book was and is, quite possibly, a message from God Himself.
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Summary: Knowing the prophesies came true
Review: For anyone remotely interested in premonition and visions of the future, this book is a must read. For those of us who grew up in the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's, too many of David's visions came true during the 80's. Some have yet to come to pass, but as the rest did, you can be sure these will. This isn't a Bible, but it does make the Bible come to life more, seeing that one man's god inspired visions of the NEAR future came true and continue to do so, help to bring back any lost or faltering faith. This book may not be a big read but it makes Nostradamus look pathetic. Armaggedon is on the way. God's wrath is pouring, David saw it. Are you man or woman enough to read about it?
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Summary: Kooky or Not?
Review: I am a big critic of modern day prophets and doomsayers. I found this book lying around my mom's house (world's biggest sucker for so-called prophets)began to read this 1970's book. Mr. Wilkerson apparently was based on a vision from God to him about the future of America. By reading the book you could tell Wilkerson believed his vision would come true no later than the seventies. Here it is 1999 and the US is still here as prosperous as ever, however, some of Wilkerson's predictions are eerily becoming true. Here are the ones that caught my attention. 1. Pornography will become available inside households through means of technology. 2. Children will become filled with anger and begin doing highly publicized acts of violence and all of the country would be trying to figure out why. 3. Natural diasters will greatly increase in the United States. Those were the predictions that I thought were frightenly accurate. The vision is filled with many other predictions which have not happened (I suppose Wilkerson would say at least not yet.) He talks about our economic collapse, fires across the country, some 1984ish type of government emerging. So although I would not spend more than a few bucks on this 1970's book, I would recommend you check it out to see what you make of this guy's predictions which seem to becoming true.
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Summary: Right on The Money
Review: I read David Wilkersons book in 1977 after I first became a Christian! I saw some of it coming to pass when I was reading it and through the years, I've seen more and more of it come to pass as time goes by. All of it may not be coming to pass as immidiate as he felt it would, but that does not necessarily mean that it won't still come to pass. I believe that everything that The Reverend Wilkerson wrote about will happen! Remember that the apostle Paul thought that Christ would return in his life time! It's been 2,000 years or more and we are still waiting! Patience my fiends the book is accurate, the true believer knows this based on faith!
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Summary: He is a prophet
Review: I read the English version back in the 70s and so respected & trusted Rev. Wilkerson that I was afraid to invest for years because I thought an economic collapse was surely coming at any time. My challenge to David Wilkerson is to come clean with this stuff and either update it or admit that he missed it. All Christians make mistakes (it's OK to be wrong - just another thing that is covered by the blood of Jesus). This review is not a personal attack on this brother. I have tremendous respect for him and the work he did with Nicky Cruz, gangs and Teen Challenge. Until this book is updated or clarified, I can't recommend it. (P.S. Readers might also be interested in my review of Wilkerson's book, America's Last Call).
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Summary: A Prophet of The Most High.
Review: I read this book circa 1975 and since then have seen many of the prediction in this book come true. Many things that David talked about are yet to come and I for one believe with my whole heart that God Showed Mr. Wilkerson what was to happen before the return of His Son Jesus Christ. Mr. Wilkerson has written many books since this one and they only confirm what he saw in his vision. I believe that Mr. Wilkerson is a modern day Prophet of The Most High God and will continue to be so. I recommend this book to anyone that wants to know what is coming and for those that wish to confirm their Faith in God. This book by Mr. Wilkerson only confirms that which the Bible tells us,that we are living in the days just prior to Jesus Christs Return.
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Summary: A Prophet of The Most High.
Review: I read this book circa 1975 and since then have seen many of the prediction in this book come true. Many things that David talked about are yet to come and I for one believe with my whole heart that God Showed Mr. Wilkerson what was to happen before the return of His Son Jesus Christ. Mr. Wilkerson has written many books since this one and they only confirm what he saw in his vision. I believe that Mr. Wilkerson is a modern day Prophet of The Most High God and will continue to be so. I recommend this book to anyone that wants to know what is coming and for those that wish to confirm their Faith in God. This book by Mr. Wilkerson only confirms that which the Bible tells us,that we are living in the days just prior to Jesus Christs Return.
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Summary: Bang on
Review: The idea now that Wilkerson is a "false prophet" is now so ridiculous, so patently and totaly absurd, that I can look back at some of these one star reviews with nothing but awe. We are most definitely experiencing WEIRD weather. Compared with the 70's, we might as well be on a different planet. Sunspots recently bigger than anything recorded, ever at all. Porn? Everywhere. Worse than this, violence amongst teenagers, young people fueled up with stuff that would have gotten them into psychiatric prison, let alone jail, way back when....the 70's. The arts are in a terrible state and even looking at something as superficial as C.D. sales, any jackass can see that something has got to give. An important point Wilkerson raises is that the name of Christ is held up ridicule. I hold myself up to ridicule, and often enjoy it, but other people are not so robust and have taken that great Name and put it to whatever shame they could. That has most certainly happened. Ther has been appalling trouble in the church, with the faith movements, run by wolves, ruining and misleading people of God, but still God is faithful and gets to people who look for him, just as his said he would. There is to be NO great end time revival, but a few will repent of their sins, get real small so that God can be big in them. Someone reviewing this seems to think that we have not been through an economic cataclysm. Maybe that's because real estate has gone mad - both are in the book and they have forgotten the hi tech bust. Well, after all, its been, how long... Two years? Tell you what though. Most scary of all is that Christ will come back in great anger. That is for certain, unless, of course, you tend to the belief that Christians are going to forceably bring to world to Christ in some military showdown. Which brings us back to the 1984 type scenario. Wilkersons advice to seek the face of God, a theme in many of his books is good enough for me. Worth a great deal.
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Summary: Bang on
Review: The idea now that Wilkerson is a "false prophet" is now so ridiculous, so patently and totaly absurd, that I can look back at some of these one star reviews with nothing but awe. We are most definitely experiencing WEIRD weather. Compared with the 70's, we might as well be on a different planet. Sunspots recently bigger than anything recorded, ever at all. Porn? Everywhere. Worse than this, violence amongst teenagers, young people fueled up with stuff that would have gotten them into psychiatric prison, let alone jail, way back when....the 70's. The arts are in a terrible state and even looking at something as superficial as C.D. sales, any jackass can see that something has got to give. An important point Wilkerson raises is that the name of Christ is held up ridicule. I hold myself up to ridicule, and often enjoy it, but other people are not so robust and have taken that great Name and put it to whatever shame they could. That has most certainly happened. Ther has been appalling trouble in the church, with the faith movements, run by wolves, ruining and misleading people of God, but still God is faithful and gets to people who look for him, just as his said he would. There is to be NO great end time revival, but a few will repent of their sins, get real small so that God can be big in them. Someone reviewing this seems to think that we have not been through an economic cataclysm. Maybe that's because real estate has gone mad - both are in the book and they have forgotten the hi tech bust. Well, after all, its been, how long... Two years? Tell you what though. Most scary of all is that Christ will come back in great anger. That is for certain, unless, of course, you tend to the belief that Christians are going to forceably bring to world to Christ in some military showdown. Which brings us back to the 1984 type scenario. Wilkersons advice to seek the face of God, a theme in many of his books is good enough for me. Worth a great deal.
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Summary: Trust me, it's kooky
Review: This book is so full of mis-predictions and obvious extrapolations that it should forever have ruined Wilkerson's status as a man to be listened to. That it did not says a lot about modern Christianity. Contrary to what is said below, Wilkerson didn't say that porn would become available through technology, implying that he for-saw the internet, but through TV. The other claim of his prediction that are "eerily becoming true" are similarly distorted. What he did say was that the US would suffer an enormous earthquake outside of the usual quake areas that would be so severe that earthquakes would become the leading cause of fear in the general population, that the economy would become so unstable that no one would ever feel confident in it again, and that rural property would so sky-rocket in price that only the syndicates would be able to afford it. I don't remember, did ANY of that happen?
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