I began my recollection of the vision with the explanation that I believed the year 2000 would be the beginning of what Jesus calls “the beginning of birth pangs” (Matthew 24:8). The Bible describes this period as a time of great distress, but God assured me that during this period to come, it would also be a time of supernatural healing and supply for His people.

The Visions of the Thirty-One Things

One of the first things I remember God speaking to me was that two major earthquakes would be coming to the world. One of them was an earthquake coming to Japan that would signal the beginning of a total financial collapse of the world economy.

Nearly twelve years later, on a live broadcast of my television show in 2011, I blurted out that a 9-point-plus earthquake was about to hit somewhere in the world. Little did I know at that time that a monstrous earth-quake would trigger a powerful tsunami that would strike Japan on March 10, 2011, damaging a nuclear power plant and exposing millions to radiation.

This occurred eleven days after that live broadcast. Early headlines claimed the magnitude to be 8.9, but I refused to accept that and told my production team that it was wrong. A few hours later, the authorities recalculated and adjusted the magnitude to 9.0, and some even calculated it to have been 9.1.

In the aftermath of the disaster, more than twenty thousand people were killed or declared missing. Estimates of the cost to restore the country were upwards of $300 billion, and over half a million people were left homeless.

I believe another earthquake is coming to Tokyo, and it may result in the total collapse of that country.

One of the prophetic things that God made clear to me was that a world¬wide economic disaster was coming. I saw bank failures and stock markets col¬lapse. The next item God showed me was that not only would the stock market collapse, but the most-trusted stocks would deteriorate.

We have already seen this happen in our day with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Kodak, Delta Airlines, Borders, American Airlines, Refco, Hostess, Circuit City, and many other banks, companies, and stocks.

In 2008, on the cusp of the market collapse, at least ten financial institutions—including Merrill Lynch, AIG, Freddie Mac, and Royal Bank of Scotland—all came within a breath of collapse and had to be rescued. Trillions of dollars had to be sunk into the system to prevent a total collapse.

On September 29, 2008, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 777 points, the largest single-day drop in history. A leading economist said that commercial real estate (including church properties) would be the next shoe to drop in the collapse of the economy.

Another of the thirty-one things God showed me was a great void in the world’s leadership—which is happening now! There would be great confusion in Europe, which we are seeing today with the fragility of the euro zone. Several member nations, including Greece and Spain, are on the verge of bankruptcy.