2. “VISION OF THE ROD” TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2004 NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK Brother Don Parnell

3. A vision opened before me. I wrote the vision for reference. I was on a couch in a hotel room and walked to the bed, sitting on the edge looking out the window. I was on the 22 nd floor of the hotel. Instead of seeing the New York City skyline a vision broke. Below is the account of what I seen.

4. I was walking in a deep woods in the cold of the year. I was reciting a poem in my mind. It is one that I have always kept on my mind through my life. I learned it in grade school and the poem has grown to mean so much in my heart. A poem by Robert Frost.

5. Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping slow To watch his woods fill up with snow.

6. My little horse must think it's queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.

7. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there's some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake.

8. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

9. I was walking, reciting the poem in my mind. As I kept reciting the last stanza over and over in my mind, I came upon a wagon road passing through the woods. I wondered what I was doing in the woods and looked at my cloths realizing that I had on hunting cloths.

10. I was scouting the woods for hunting grounds. I looked to my left intently and wondered, where would the wagon road go if I followed it? When I looked to my right searching the horizon the road had a bend in it disappearing. Before the bend I saw a man sitting on a tree stump; using the stump for a resting place.

11. Quickly, I knew the man and recognized him as William Branham. He was watching me and when he knew that I saw him he raised his hand and motioned me to come and join him. My heart was beating intensely, from fear and excitement, and I starting walking the road toward him.

12. He stood up and started walking toward me very fast and motioned again for me to come; as if to say, “Hurry up and come”. I looked at him as he approached and he was wearing hunting type cloths too. He grabbed me and hugged me saying, “Brother Parnell it’s good to see you. You are hunting on the same grounds that I’ve hunted”.

13. I said, “Yes,” and I put my head down because I know that hunters don’t like other hunters crossing their hunting grounds. He said, “Son, don’t worry about it, it’s suppose to be this way. You hunt these grounds all you want. You’ll enjoy it. You’ll find fresh food for the people here.”

14. He reached inside his outdoor vest and retrieved a pencil (Rod) from his inside pocket. He said, “I’ve come to help you understand something.” He then told me to take the rod, handing it to me. I took the rod and he said, “Point it toward the sky and start to move it downward”.

15. As I started moving the rod downward, the sky was ripping like a veil or a curtain. As the sky ripped words were coming out of the pencil or rod and filling up the new sky as it unfolded and consumed the old sky. I continued slowly down with it. I was amazed at the scene and started to stop.

16. He said, “Don’t stop! Keep moving the pencil until it touches the earth”. I continued with it until it touched. When the rod touched the earth there was an enormous, tremendous explosion; almost deafening. There was a flash of bright light that was completely blinding.

17. I thought the entire area was torn to pieces and we were killed. When I looked nothing was torn apart and we were still standing there together. He said, “That pencil is a powerful thing you have in your hand! It can change things quicker than anything that I had when I was hunting on these grounds”.

18. Then he said, “Point the pencil at that tree standing over there and move it to this spot over here”. I pointed the pencil at the tree and picked the tree up out of the ground. I moved it to the spot where he pointed.

19. As I moved the tree all of the scenery between the place where I picked it up and where I sat it down was changing right in front of my eyes. As the rod moved across the area it all changed.

20. All of the scenery was shifting and changing with the pencil until I sat the tree down. I was amazed! I looked at the rod intensely. I was wondering exactly what kind of a rod I had in my hand that it would have such power to control the elements of the heavens and the earth.

21. William then pointed to another tree and told me to move it, showing me where to move it. I pointed the rod at the tree and did it much faster this time to see how it might work. The tree moved quickly across the earth with everything changing simultaneously just as before, only faster.

22. He then said, “You need to understand the importance, and power, of what you have in your hand. You have changed the depths of this message for the Bride’s understanding. You didn’t actually rip the sky open, or explode the earth, or move those trees and change the scenery. Not in the natural!

23. Nor did John the Baptist bring down mountains or lift up valleys or straighten crooked paths naturally. That pencil you have in your hand is powerful and has changed the entire thinking process of the Bride of Christ. As you told Jeremiah, “This revelation separated the true message believers from the rest of the message followers forevermore.”

24. We will stop here as I want to go into what it is that separated and what it is that enjoined. Remember John 17 in the paradox where Jesus prayed for separation and then immediately prayed for oneness.