Bridal Gate

April 2020

I had an encounter in February of ​The Bridal Gate​. I had the honor of visiting Anna Rountree on Prayer Mountain in Moravian Falls, North Carolina. I had such a powerful experience that it birthed the name for our Kingdom mission.

I was taken to Heaven. I saw a beautiful, golden, iron type gate. It looked like something you would see in a garden, but the details and structure were beyond anything I had ever seen. It was a beautiful, thick work of art covered in pure gold.

The gate was closed. As I stood in the lush green grass, trying to find a way to get the gate to open, I stopped. I looked around and asked if I could enter. The gate opened enough for me to squeeze through.

As I stepped through the gate, I noticed I was wearing a very childlike white flowing dress. It had ribbons, bows, and a type of eyelet lace. I felt like I was in the Little House on the Prairie​. My hair was in a braid down the back of my head and I had no shoes on.

I walked on a path of stones laid through a field of beautiful yellow flowers. The flowers lined the walkway on both sides as they swayed in the breeze. The landscape was an open field, but yet felt like I was in a garden forest out of a story book.

I reached down with my right hand to pick a yellow flower. The flower released and came free on it’s own, before I had to pull it out by the roots. As I looked at the flower, the petals began to fall off to the ground and turn into gold. I looked back at the flower to see more petals had grown back in the place of the ones that had just fallen. They too fell to the ground and turned to gold. More grew back.

Amazed, I reached with my left hand to grab a flower on the opposite side of the walkway to see if it did the same thing. I picked a bundle of them this time. They also fell off, hit the ground, turned to gold, covered the path, and more grew back.

As I walked, the petals covered the path. The stone path was now covered in gold flower petals that I kicked as I walked. I held the flowers as I continued to walk in complete awe of the beauty that surrounded me. Then, I felt someone watching me.

I looked up to see Jesus standing at the end of the pathway. He looked so happy and was smiling at me with joy in His eyes. I walked faster to get to Him as flowers dropped from my hands.

When I reached Him, I noticed I was much smaller in size. I was a child. He picked me up, so happy to see me. He scooped me in His arms and twirled me around. I dropped the flowers in my left hand, but in right hand they remained as He swung me round-and-round.

He then sat down like He was in a chair, although I didn’t see a chair anywhere. I sat in His lap like a child would for Santa Claus. I laid my head on His chest as He rubbed my braided hair. He said that I was His flower girl.

As He said those words, “You are My flower girl,” I instantly had all knowledge and understanding of what He was saying. In a wedding, the flower girl lays a path of petals for the Bride to walk on in order to meet Her Groom. He was showing me that flower petals were being laid for His Bride to walk on in order for Her to meet the Groom—Him.

We were now in outer space, looking down at the earth. He told me to watch. He brushed His hand over the flowers I still held in my right hand and the petals fell off, floating to the earth. As the petals hit the earth, they exploded like an atomic bomb. I saw what I can only describe as a mushroom cloud of smoke rising in the place where the petals hit.

Then, out of the smoke came a blue ring of electric shock waves that expanded a great distance around the world. The unique sound of the blast was like a trumpet—unlike anything I had ever heard before.

The petals dropped on different parts of the earth as the world slowly rotated. We stayed until the petals reached every part of the globe. Not one piece of the earth was untouched by either the blast, smoke, or the blue shock waves.

He said that it was His glory hitting the earth to make a path for His Bride. He explained that the gate I had entered was called, ​The Bridal Gate. In order to make way for the Bride to meet Her Groom, I had to enter through The Bridal Gate as a child and seek the face of Jesus in order to see the glory fall. As the glory fell on the earth, it purified the Bride–His children.

“And God will open wide the gates of heaven for you to enter into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”

(2 Peter 1:11 TLB)

“Come through the gates to His Temple giving thanks to Him. Enter His courtyards with songs of praise. Honor Him and bless His name.”

(Psalm 100:4 ESV)

“Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”

(John 11:40 ESV)