The effects of the fall were never made so clear or so profound to me. SpencerвЂ™s ability to see and know a personвЂ™s history, loves, passions and fears engendered in me great compassion for all of GodвЂ™s children.Instead, the point is how the book made me feel. (I strongly suspect that they are true and accurate, that Spencer really had them, but I do not think they are necessarily prophetic.) The point has nothing to do with the amazing accounts of the workings of spirits around us in our everyday world or with the stirring accounts of his journey during the last days from an earthquake and flood-ravaged Salt Lake City to the New Jerusalem of multiple appearances of the Savior or even of an Earth in its final stages before becoming a Urim and Thummim. It is not whether or not the visions are true or accurate or prophetic. The point is not that the book, as written by John Pontius, is absolutely captivating. Spencer, through John, is careful to simply relate the visions as he remembers them, leaving the reader to take what he or she will from them.ДЄnd that is the real point of the review. Nowhere in the book is it suggested that the visions are prophecy, or that they will come true. Nowhere in the book is it suggested that the visions are intended for anyone but Spencer. I came to the conclusion that it doesnвЂ™t matter. I myself wondered concerning the veracity of what is written. One person posted on Facebook that the book is вЂњвЂ¦carefully crafted fictionвЂќ.

I have become aware of some controversy as to whether or not Spencer actually had these visions. Obviously, John did, and we are blessed with the results. According to the foreword, he was instructed to keep these visions to himself until a man named John would ask him about them. He is gifted, or вЂњsightedвЂќ in that he has had several profound visions in his life. Spencer has had multiple near-death experiences in his life, including being still born. But this was different.ДЇor any who arenвЂ™t familiar with this book, it is presented as the account of вЂњSpencerвЂ™sвЂќ visions. I read Denver SnufferвЂ™s вЂњThe Second ComforterвЂќ and John PontiusвЂ™ вЂњFollowing the Light of ChristвЂ¦вЂќ twice. I read Hugh NibleyвЂ™s вЂњApproaching ZionвЂќ twice вЂ“ all 650 pages of it. I read Andrew SkinnerвЂ™s вЂњGethsemaneвЂќ 3 times. Ok, so IвЂ™ve read Visions of Glory, by John Pontius, twice.

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