Below is an excerpt from my journaling. I had this experience nearly 3 years ago. It happened in Nashville precisely 32 months before the upcoming 07-07-07 “The Call” gathering. I had not posted this or even shared it much publicly, but I have been recently prompted to release it. I believe this visionary experience speaks in part to what is going to be released this summer.

11/7/2004
Sunday night, my wife Allison and I went to the Ryman Auditorium. Ray Hughes and Selah Project were hosting a time of intense praise and worship. About two thirds into the evening I sensed the prompting of the Holy Spirit. He asked me what colors I saw on the team.

I saw red and gold on one singer, yellow and green on another, red and blue swirled together on yet another. I looked to the other side of the stage and saw purple, red, and gold on a foundation of green on the drum riser. Where the bassist stood I saw a thick, cylinder shaped black cloud—it was a good cloud, representing the mystery and depth of God, the unknown. As I watched the lead guitarist, I saw a great amount of white and pearl blue shoot out from the instrument. Every direction he would point the neck of the guitar I saw shafts of these colors dart out into the atmosphere.

As the lead guitarist and drummer went into a driving cadence, I felt shoved back into my seat. I had a powerful sense of God’s presence and it was as if I was being carried somewhere else. I remained conscious but felt as if I were being allowed to see into another realm—the spirit realm. I responded to the summons and felt like I was being lifted up into the higher rooms of the old auditorium.

There I saw a door being unlocked and many beings walking all around the old building. These beings were pale, transparent blue and dressed in clothes of a much earlier period. Their appearance was very much like that of ghosts. My first thoughts were that they were angels, but upon further meditation, I realized that they were the saints of old—the cloud of witnesses. As I observed these beings moving about, there seemed to be a tremendous flurry of activity. Heaven and earth seemed to be lining up together in powerful unity.

In the midst of seeing this I also felt a great amount of warfare taking place. Worship and warfare were bringing freedom to the captives. The heavens were opening up, but not without a cost. I could feel the weight and tension as the army of light clashed with territorial dark rulers. Freedom was coming as the enemy’s flanks were infiltrated and spoiled.

I continued to go higher and was lifted upwards to the Nashville skyline. There I saw large angelic beings flying with boldness around the city. They soared through the sky in flowing garments of brilliant white light. I saw them descend into the Cumberland River and dip out water. They then flew into the downtown section near Broadway dousing the streets with water.

Subsequently I saw the angels flying up higher circling a domed building. They would circle the domed building and shoot out into the city. It was quite an amazing spectacle to behold. The domed building seemed to be a commissioning station. The next day my wife and I drove around the city and I saw that domed building; it is the Nashville Electric Service Building. I believe the Lord showed me this because of the power—His power—that is going to be released.

As I came back down into the Ryman I heard the prayers of years gone by. I sensed a great heritage of intercession. I saw Minnie Pearl crying and praying for the Opry in one of those upper rooms. I felt as if we were somehow standing in agreement with the intercession that had taken place years prior. The path had already been laid, and we were joining in with those prayers and destiny.

Ps 91:11-15
For He shall give His angels charge over you,
To keep you in all your ways.
In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.
You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.
"Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him on high, because he has known My name.
He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will deliver him and honor him.
NKJV

As I stated above, this experience happened exactly 32 months prior to the approaching “The Call” prayer and fasting rally. I searched this out to find why 32 is significant. Many believe the number 32 speaks of the Covenant—God’s promise to bless, protect, and provide for His people. Consider the following scripture from Exodus chapter 32.

Ex 32:11-14
Then Moses pleaded with the LORD his God, and said: "LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, 'He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this harm to Your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them,'I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'" So the LORD relented from the harm which He said He would do to His people.
NKJV

This chapter deals with the gross moral failure of the people of Israel when Moses was on Mt. Sinai with God receiving the Law. While he was up there, the people reverted back to idol worship building a golden calf and dancing before it in drunken revelry. Moses interceded to the Lord to spare the people, and during this exchange he asked the Lord to remember His Covenant—specifically the Abrahamic covenant.

I believe the Call 07-07-07 is going to be a great gathering of believers pleading with the Lord to spare His people. We will be interceding for mercy and forgiveness for the serious immoralities laying ruin to this nation. Like Moses we will be standing in the gap and pleading with the Lord to remember His promises towards us, relent, and not bring disaster upon His people.

Shawn Lombard