Rapture? Or Sanctification in Tribulation?

In April of 1982 I was about eight months pregnant with my son, Shawn Mann, in Anchorage, Alaska. I had been praying and asking God to show me if the rapture was true or not. Shortly after that I had this dream:

I saw this huge city that was very busy with people. Out of the sky came the hand of God with a sword; He divided the city into two sections. The section on the left (goats) was much larger than the section on the right (sheep). (This is likened to God separating/sanctifying His people when they were in Egypt. The city is the world, a corporate city of nations, also called Babylon. Isa.25:3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.)
There was a dark cloud that formed over the people on the left. These people were doing horrid, unspeakable things to each other. When they saw the dark cloud above them they started reaching up to it and eating it like cotton candy. (The Holy Spirit later showed me that a lot of the dark cloud was from the TV and computers.) The people on the left became bored with doing horrid things to each other so they started going over to the section of people on the right and doing horrible, torturous things to them. (The people on the right are all who call themselves Christians. They will all be persecuted by the world in the tribulation. History always repeats, as with Rome and the early Christians.)
God then divided the section on the right into three more sections. The first group on the right had many more people in it than the other two groups. These people had a hard time letting go of their past lives. They wanted to get to Heaven but did not want to give up their sinful ways from their past. Because they kept looking back at their past, they all turned into pillars of salt. (They looked back to the worldly ways of Sodom, like Lot's wife, in loving the present world. Jesus likened them unto the seed that fell upon the rocky ground. The seed sprang up with life, but because it had no root, it withered.)
Because they had not learned to have a relationship with Jesus, they had no power to fight off the wicked people on the left. The group on the left could not get their fill of doing horrid, torturous things to the pillar of salt people. (The "pillar of salt people" are the vast majority of all who claim Christianity but have no personal faith or understanding of the Word of God which could protect, save, heal and deliver them. These will be the persecutors of the true saints. Mat.24:10 And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another. These are the "many" or majority who, as the Laodicean church, will be spewed out of the body of Christ.)
The second group had more people than the third or last group. These people appeared to have no backbone or spine. They swayed with the wind. Any doctrine that came along they were quick to accept because without knowing the Word well enough they accepted whatever was preached. They were lazy and did not want to put forth effort in reading the Word or praying. (This is the church world the righteous will leave behind. This comfy church routine of conflicting mingled doctrines, where people smile and clap for whomever and whatever is spoken across the pulpit. Jas.1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.)
They wanted other people (especially their pastors) to do all the work for them and loved to listen to doctrines that tickled their ears (like the all-fly-away, pre-trib rapture) and did not call them to die to their fleshly desires. (Mat.16:25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. {26} For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?)
These people had a little bit more power than the pillar of salt people but they still had not the power in their lives to combat the evil that was coming on them. (These are as the churches of Ephesus, Pergamum, Thyatira and Sardis which had a little power but were exhorted to overcome their evils in the tribulations.)
The third group of people were by far the fewest in number. (This is the remnant as the Philadelphia church who are to be spared "the hour of trial ... which is to come upon the whole world".) These people had determined in their hearts to be obedient to God no matter what the cost. They denied them selves and walked in love with others.
This group were the pillars of fire. They were untouchable by the group on the left. The group on the left would try to kill and destroy this group and God would translate the pillar of fire people or put His angels around them so that they could not be harmed, at least spiritually. (Rev.12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.)
The pillar of fire people would go back and forth trying to help the pillar of salt people and the people with no backbones who swayed in the wind. (These will be the anointed ones of the tribulation, like the Bride and her Man-child leadership. The early church went through their tribulation, as it is written: Act.14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.)
The pillar of fire people had trained themselves to listen to the voice of God and they were used as the hand of God in the last days. (Joh.10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. They know His voice, which is His Word, because they abide in His Word. 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.)

I saw in a dream of my son, Shawn, on 2/19/08 that he had this glow around him. Then it was like I went back in time and saw this river of fire. God was beckoning him to walk in the fire and he was hesitant. God told him to trust Him and He would be with him in the fire. (Like the three Hebrews, Shawn was chosen to go through the tribulation fire heated seven times hotter than normal but the Lord will be with him in the fire to burn off his bonds.)

When he was in the fire it was like he was being purified. He went through some things that were extremely hard and broke his heart. Every cell of his being ached and cried. Several times he begged God to stop but he kept encouraging him to trust Him. He was using the fire to purify Shawn's heart.

After he went through the fire walk, he had this glow around him and when he talked to people God would cause the scales to fall off their eyes and the plugs to come out of their ears. Their hearts were then tender to hear God and they literally turned around and started walking in the opposite direction. (Shawn will help to bring the revival of repentance and faith.)

Less than a month later, Shawn's baby died in the womb. His wife became pregnant again and as of now, 12/22/09, they have a healthy seven-month-old baby girl. (A sign of tribulation and bearing fruit through it to the end.)

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