Jack Coe was a popular evangelist in the first half of the twentieth century. Like many popular evangelists of the time, Coe held his services in a tent. Coe’s tent was a massive structure which would hold ten thousand people.

One day Coe had a dream in which he saw a flood. The dream troubled him so much that he told his wife about it. Later, when he was conducting a crusade in Kansas City, he dreamed once again about a flood. Together these two dreams seemed so real that he felt that perhaps God was sending him a message.

A short while later, while in the midst of a crusade, Coe felt God speaking clearly to his heart, telling him directly to move his tent. He started packing up. The last hours of the removal of the giant tent were sheer panic. Many people mocked Coe as he and his helpe…