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    Dreams of the Last Days: Dragons and Clocks
    Dreams of the Last Days: Dragons and Clocks
    Dreams of the Last Days: Dragons and Clocks
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    Dreams of the Last Days: Dragons and Clocks

    By Ilyan Kei Lavanway and Babygirl Menchie Lavanway

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    As though ripped from tomorrow’s headlines, a husband and wife living in rural Kansas dream simultaneous, complementary dreams warning them to pull their Down's syndrome, autistic son out of school immediately, due to concerns over novel Coronavirus, COVID-19. They promptly heed their premonitions. Hours after retrieving their son from school, they learn that the worldwide church to which they belong has suspended all worship services and gatherings, everywhere, until further notice. Days later, all schools in the State of Kansas close for the remainder of the school year. This book describes this couple’s synergistic dreams and presents a personal analysis of the immediate and long term significance these dreams hold for this simple little Christian family.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIlyan Kei Lavanway
    Release dateMar 17, 2020
    ISBN9780463050774
    Dreams of the Last Days: Dragons and Clocks
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    Ilyan Kei Lavanway

    Ilyan Kei Lavanway is a proliferate yet undiscovered and unheralded Christian author. He served as a full-time missionary for two years in Argentina for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1986-1988. Since 2005, he has written and published over two dozen books of various lengths, ranging from a few pages to almost five-hundred pages. His education includes a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a Master of Science degree in Space Studies from the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.Mr. Lavanway is married and has an autistic son who has Down's syndrome. Mr. Lavanway grew up in Wenatchee and Waterville, Washington State. He is the oldest of nine siblings, seven of whom are living. He spent his high school summers driving wheat trucks and combines during harvest, earning cash to support his first love, the love of flight. He was an avid private pilot in his teens.Ironically, for all his love of aviation, Mr. Lavanway's fourteen years in the United States Air Force never landed him a flight crew assignment. Nope. He was kicking it subterranean school in a capsule beneath the North Dakota plains as an ICBM launch officer for his first four years of service, followed by a year of really uninteresting work in a vault, on base. His next two years took him up near the Canadian border, to the giant, phased array space surveillance and early warning radar site outside Cavalier, North Dakota.Then, he was off to California. Academic assignments filled the final seven years of his military service. By the time he was medically retired from active duty, he had discovered his passion for writing.Since life has thrown him a few curves that make it impractical for him to return to flying airplanes any time soon, he has poured his heart into the written word.Mr. Lavanway feels he has a God-given gift and responsibility to express eternal principles that will point sincere readers to the scriptures, to the living apostles, to the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, and ultimately to a personal relationship with God the Father, and with God's Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ, and with the Holy Ghost.

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      Dreams of the Last Days - Ilyan Kei Lavanway

      Dreams of the Last Days: Dragons and Clocks

      Smashwords Edition

      by Ilyan Kei Lavanway and Babygirl Menchie Lavanway

      Copyright © 2020 Ilyan Kei Lavanway and Babygirl Menchie Lavanway

      Published by Ilyan Kei Lavanway at Smashwords

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      This eBook is provided for the enjoyment and edification of everyone. This eBook may be freely copied, shared, printed, and distributed.

      The ideas expressed herein are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of any organization.

      Look for other books by Ilyan Kei Lavanway in print and all popular eBook formats.

      Dedicated to Immanuel Iron Lavanway

      Contents

      Prologue

      Nap Time

      Until Further Notice

      Dragons

      Clocks

      Prophetic Validation

      Epilogue

      End Notes

      Prologue

      Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, had been gaining increasing attention in the news since January 2020, beginning in Wuhan, China. The purpose of this writing is not to regurgitate every news article or speculation regarding this global pandemic, but rather to express a specific personal experience affecting our family, consisting of myself, my wife Babygirl Menchie Lavanway, and our fifteen-year-old son, Immanuel Iron Lavanway, who has Down’s syndrome and autism.

      For the past month or so, beginning around early February 2020, Babygirl had been feeling impressed that we should take Immanuel out of school to minimize his, and our, potential for exposure to COVID-19. We live in a very small town in the middle of Kansas. Thankfully, so far, there have been no known cases of COVID-19 within several hours driving distance from our location.

      I had been hesitant to pull Immanuel out of school so soon. I had suggested we should wait until Spring Break, mid-March 2020, and then re-evaluate the state of affairs regarding COVID-19, likely deciding to keep Immanuel out of school indefinitely, commencing with Spring Break.

      As the days went along, Babygirl felt an increasing sense of urgency about removing Immanuel from school. She even urged me to stop attending Church each Sunday. We are active members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The nearest Church is in a larger town about twenty-five miles away. I was reluctant to be absent from Church, but felt that soon it would be necessary to stop attending. I told Babygirl I understood her concerns, but that I did not yet feel it was time to stop going.

      Sunday morning, 1 March 2020, I felt I should continue attending Church, but that it might be my last attendance for the foreseeable future. Often,

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