Friday, August 29, 2008, 6:11 a.m. – I woke with this song in my head:
My Jesus, My Savior / Michael W. Smith
My Jesus, My Savior,
Lord there is no one like you,
All of my days, I want to praise
The wonders of Your mighty love.
My comfort, my shelter,
Tower of refuge and strength
Let every breath, all that I am
Never cease to worship You.
Shout to the Lord, all the earth let us sing,
Power and majesty, praise to the King!
Mountains bow down and the seas will roar,
At the sound of your name!
I sing for joy at the work of your hands,
Forever I'll love you, forever I'll stand
Nothing compares to the promise I have in You.
I also woke from A DREAM: I had watched Barack Obama’s acceptance speech last night, saw the streamers, fireworks, applause, tears in people’s eyes, etc. but then (after a time of prayer for our nation) I went to bed. Then, when I awakened in the morning and turned on the news, I learned that there had apparently been an explosion of some kind. There seemed to be many people who had suffered some level of injuries, particularly smoke inhalation. Yet, the news media seemed cheerful, as though no one was seriously hurt. Everyone seemed to be taking it in great stride.
Then, there was a small airplane with a handful of people in it. There was someone in the airplane who wanted to drive up to the building where people were being treated for smoke inhalation. There was a sense that this person had an over-developed sense of self-importance and would not lower him or herself to get out and walk. Then the plane began to catch fire but this person still kept driving the airplane, even though people were bailing out of it.
Then there was something in here about someone named David who was wiping boogers (mucus in or from somebody's nose) on a long curtain next to a bed. END
Also, last night after I turned the TV off from watching Barack Obama’s acceptance speech, saw the streamers, the fireworks, the applause, the tears in people’s eyes, etc., and was praying for America, inquiring of the Lord about the “Help me! Help me!” dream I had recently, I had A VISION: I saw a hulk-looking figure with arms extended and bent at the elbows and muscles flexed with that stance like he was getting ready to attack. Then I went back to prayer and had ANOTHER VISION, this time of a black man blown up like a balloon, like he was filled with hot air. END
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. This morning I read Isaiah 56:9-57:13:
Come, all you beasts of the field,
come and devour, all you beasts of the forest!
10 Israel's watchmen are blind,
they all lack knowledge;
they are all mute dogs,
they cannot bark;
they lie around and dream,
they love to sleep.
11 They are dogs with mighty appetites;
they never have enough.
They are shepherds who lack understanding;
they all turn to their own way,
each seeks his own gain.
12 "Come," each one cries, "let me get wine!
Let us drink our fill of beer!
And tomorrow will be like today,
or even far better."
The righteous perish,
and no one ponders it in his heart;
devout men are taken away,
and no one understands
that the righteous are taken away
to be spared from evil.
2 Those who walk uprightly
enter into peace;
they find rest as they lie in death.
3 "But you—come here, you sons of a sorceress,
you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
4 Whom are you mocking?
At whom do you sneer
and stick out your tongue?
Are you not a brood of rebels,
the offspring of liars?
5 You burn with lust among the oaks
and under every spreading tree;
you sacrifice your children in the ravines
and under the overhanging crags.
6 The idols among the smooth stones of the ravines are your portion;
they, they are your lot.
Yes, to them you have poured out drink offerings
and offered grain offerings.
In the light of these things, should I relent?
7 You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill;
there you went up to offer your sacrifices.
8 Behind your doors and your doorposts
you have put your pagan symbols.
Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed,
you climbed into it and opened it wide;
you made a pact with those whose beds you love,
and you looked on their nakedness.
9 You went to Molech with olive oil
and increased your perfumes.
You sent your ambassadors far away;
you descended to the grave itself!
10 You were wearied by all your ways,
but you would not say, 'It is hopeless.'
You found renewal of your strength,
and so you did not faint.
11 "Whom have you so dreaded and feared
that you have been false to me,
and have neither remembered me
nor pondered this in your hearts?
Is it not because I have long been silent
that you do not fear me?
12 I will expose your righteousness and your works,
and they will not benefit you.
13 When you cry out for help,
let your collection of idols save you!
The wind will carry all of them off,
a mere breath will blow them away.
But the man who makes me his refuge
will inherit the land
and possess my holy mountain."
My Understanding: The hulk-like figure in this vision is symbolic of these foreign invaders mentioned in v. 9 (above). They are coming against us because our leaders are blind watchmen; dogs with mighty appetites; shepherds who lack understanding who seek their own gain. I believe this is a specific reference to Barack Obama.
As far as the black man full of hot air, since I was in prayer about the DNC Convention, the nomination of Barack Obama and I was praying for our nation because I could see that Obama is setting himself up as a god to be worshipped, since his stage last night was supposed to be a Greek temple, I assume the Lord is speaking here of Barack Obama as being filled with hot air.
I believe the smoke at this event that causes people to be “injured” is symbolic of the smoke coming from the Greek temple of this false god – Barack Obama – at his acceptance speech at the stadium. The news media are cheerful because they really don’t understand what is happening – how people are inhaling the smoke of this false god, Obama, and how that is injuring them spiritually.
I believe the airplane is Barack Obama’s, which is small in God’s eyes. I believe this is in relation to v.10 where it states that he was wearied by his ways, but he would not say “It is hopeless!” So, he kept on going in his evil ways. The name David was used here as a reference to a king or kingdom who/which has made his bed on a high and lofty hill and whose sacrifices are compared to putting snot on a long curtain next to the bed.
Because of Obama and the people who worship him in the USA and because he and his followers have not feared God and have been false to HIM, the Lord is going to expose the works of this false god. When our nation and its leaders cry out for help, their collection of idols will not save them. The wind will carry all of them off, but the man who makes God his refuge will inherit the land and will possess God’s holy mountain.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Cinderella
Thursday, August 28, 2008, 9:11 a.m. – I woke with this song in my head:
Cinderella / Steven Curtis Chapman
She spins and she sways
To whatever song plays
Without a care in the world
And I'm sitting here wearing
The weight of the world on my shoulders
It's been a long day
And there's still work to do
She's pulling at me
Saying "Dad, I need you
There's a ball at the castle
And I've been invited
And I need to practice my dancing
Oh, please, Daddy, please?"
She says he's a nice guy and I'd be impressed
She wants to know if I approve of the dress
She says, "Dad, the prom is just one week away
And I need to practice my dancing
Oh, please, Daddy, please?"
Well, she came home today with a ring on her hand
Just glowing and telling us all they had planned
She says, "Dad, the wedding's still six months away
But I need to practice my dancing
Oh, please, Daddy, please?"
So I will dance with Cinderella
While she is here in my arms
'Cause I know something the prince never knew
Oh, I will dance with Cinderella
I don't want to miss even one song
'Cause all too soon the clock will strike midnight
And she'll be gone
The Future Glory of Zion
1 "Sing, O barren woman,
you who never bore a child;
burst into song, shout for joy,
you who were never in labor;
because more are the children of the desolate woman
than of her who has a husband,"
says the LORD.
2 "Enlarge the place of your tent,
stretch your tent curtains wide,
do not hold back;
lengthen your cords,
strengthen your stakes.
3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left;
your descendants will dispossess nations
and settle in their desolate cities.
4 "Do not be afraid; you will not suffer shame.
Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated.
You will forget the shame of your youth
and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
5 For your Maker is your husband—
the LORD Almighty is his name—
the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;
he is called the God of all the earth.
6 The LORD will call you back
as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit—
a wife who married young,
only to be rejected," says your God.
7 "For a brief moment I abandoned you,
but with deep compassion I will bring you back.
8 In a surge of anger
I hid my face from you for a moment,
but with everlasting kindness
I will have compassion on you,"
says the LORD your Redeemer.
9 "To me this is like the days of Noah,
when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth.
So now I have sworn not to be angry with you,
never to rebuke you again.
10 Though the mountains be shaken
and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken
nor my covenant of peace be removed,"
says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
11 "O afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted,
I will build you with stones of turquoise,
your foundations with sapphires.
12 I will make your battlements of rubies,
your gates of sparkling jewels,
and all your walls of precious stones.
13 All your sons will be taught by the LORD,
and great will be your children's peace.
14 In righteousness you will be established:
Tyranny will be far from you;
you will have nothing to fear.
Terror will be far removed;
it will not come near you.
15 If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing;
whoever attacks you will surrender to you.
16 "See, it is I who created the blacksmith
who fans the coals into flame
and forges a weapon fit for its work.
And it is I who have created the destroyer to work havoc;
17 no weapon forged against you will prevail,
and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
and this is their vindication from me,"
declares the LORD.
My Understanding: The Lord is going to temporarily abandon his children and will allow the destroyer to work havoc, and for us to be lashed with storms and not comforted. Once God accomplishes his purposes in our lives, he will bring us back, he will restore us, and he will lavish upon his church a remarkable fortune of life eternally with him, because He is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords and He owns it all!!
The Lord is going to allow his people to be treated like the Cinderella of this fairy tale; as one who unexpectedly achieves recognition or success after a period (tribulation) of obscurity, unfortunate circumstances, neglect and unjust oppression. Then one day this period of tribulation will turn into triumphant reward for the church when Jesus, our Messiah, returns for His Bride.
Yet we are not to fear during this time of abandonment because God Almighty, Our Maker, is our husband and our Redeemer. With deep compassion He will bring us back. With everlasting kindness, He will have compassion on his children. And then he will never be angry and never rebuke us again. This will happen when Jesus returns and He sets up his Kingdom here on earth and we will reign with Him.
If we endure, we will also reign with him (II Tim. 2:12a).
Cinderella / Steven Curtis Chapman
She spins and she sways
To whatever song plays
Without a care in the world
And I'm sitting here wearing
The weight of the world on my shoulders
It's been a long day
And there's still work to do
She's pulling at me
Saying "Dad, I need you
There's a ball at the castle
And I've been invited
And I need to practice my dancing
Oh, please, Daddy, please?"
She says he's a nice guy and I'd be impressed
She wants to know if I approve of the dress
She says, "Dad, the prom is just one week away
And I need to practice my dancing
Oh, please, Daddy, please?"
Well, she came home today with a ring on her hand
Just glowing and telling us all they had planned
She says, "Dad, the wedding's still six months away
But I need to practice my dancing
Oh, please, Daddy, please?"
So I will dance with Cinderella
While she is here in my arms
'Cause I know something the prince never knew
Oh, I will dance with Cinderella
I don't want to miss even one song
'Cause all too soon the clock will strike midnight
And she'll be gone
Cinderella – Wikipedia: (French: Cendrillon,Slovak: Popoluška,German: Aschenputtel,Spanish: Cenicienta,Italian: Cenerentola) is a popular fairy tale embodying a classic folk tale myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world.[1] The title character[2] is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances which suddenly change to remarkable fortune. The word "cinderella" has, by analogy, come to mean one who unexpectedly achieves recognition or success after a period of obscurity and neglect. The still-popular story of Cinderella continues to influence popular culture internationally, lending plot elements, allusions, and tropes to a wide variety of media… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CinderellaSpeak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 54:
The Future Glory of Zion
1 "Sing, O barren woman,
you who never bore a child;
burst into song, shout for joy,
you who were never in labor;
because more are the children of the desolate woman
than of her who has a husband,"
says the LORD.
2 "Enlarge the place of your tent,
stretch your tent curtains wide,
do not hold back;
lengthen your cords,
strengthen your stakes.
3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left;
your descendants will dispossess nations
and settle in their desolate cities.
4 "Do not be afraid; you will not suffer shame.
Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated.
You will forget the shame of your youth
and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
5 For your Maker is your husband—
the LORD Almighty is his name—
the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;
he is called the God of all the earth.
6 The LORD will call you back
as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit—
a wife who married young,
only to be rejected," says your God.
7 "For a brief moment I abandoned you,
but with deep compassion I will bring you back.
8 In a surge of anger
I hid my face from you for a moment,
but with everlasting kindness
I will have compassion on you,"
says the LORD your Redeemer.
9 "To me this is like the days of Noah,
when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth.
So now I have sworn not to be angry with you,
never to rebuke you again.
10 Though the mountains be shaken
and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken
nor my covenant of peace be removed,"
says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
11 "O afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted,
I will build you with stones of turquoise,
your foundations with sapphires.
12 I will make your battlements of rubies,
your gates of sparkling jewels,
and all your walls of precious stones.
13 All your sons will be taught by the LORD,
and great will be your children's peace.
14 In righteousness you will be established:
Tyranny will be far from you;
you will have nothing to fear.
Terror will be far removed;
it will not come near you.
15 If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing;
whoever attacks you will surrender to you.
16 "See, it is I who created the blacksmith
who fans the coals into flame
and forges a weapon fit for its work.
And it is I who have created the destroyer to work havoc;
17 no weapon forged against you will prevail,
and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
and this is their vindication from me,"
declares the LORD.
My Understanding: The Lord is going to temporarily abandon his children and will allow the destroyer to work havoc, and for us to be lashed with storms and not comforted. Once God accomplishes his purposes in our lives, he will bring us back, he will restore us, and he will lavish upon his church a remarkable fortune of life eternally with him, because He is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords and He owns it all!!
The Lord is going to allow his people to be treated like the Cinderella of this fairy tale; as one who unexpectedly achieves recognition or success after a period (tribulation) of obscurity, unfortunate circumstances, neglect and unjust oppression. Then one day this period of tribulation will turn into triumphant reward for the church when Jesus, our Messiah, returns for His Bride.
Yet we are not to fear during this time of abandonment because God Almighty, Our Maker, is our husband and our Redeemer. With deep compassion He will bring us back. With everlasting kindness, He will have compassion on his children. And then he will never be angry and never rebuke us again. This will happen when Jesus returns and He sets up his Kingdom here on earth and we will reign with Him.
If we endure, we will also reign with him (II Tim. 2:12a).
Yoda
Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 11:15 p.m. – I was in bed praying about the Democratic National Convention plus the dreams I’ve had during that convention, particularly the one about the mob, i.e. organized crime and its role in the Democratic National Convention’s decisions (See: The Lord’s Chosen Ally).
Then I had A VISION: I saw one of the characters from the Movie series, Star Wars. I inquired of the Lord if there was more, but that was it. END So I got up to look it up, since I am not that familiar with the movie:
My Thoughts: What struck me about this description of Yoda and the Star Wars series is how much it parallels what just went on this week in the Democratic National Convention. In this case, Bill Clinton would be a type of Yoda (a former US President) in that he did not think that Barack Obama was qualified or had what it took to be president of the United States but the “Jedi Council” decided on Obama despite Bill’s (and Hillary’s) misgivings.
Another application I see here is that this is about some type of political order (the Jedi order), perhaps like the Democratic or the Republican parties or perhaps Washington and Congress and that the Grand Master would represent the US President and that the Jedi Council would symbolize the US congress. Or, this could be representing an order that is even higher than either of the political parties or Washington or Congress and that our government, in some way, answers to that order. In many ways, it reminds me of the Freemasons. Many articles on the Internet suggest that the Freemasons have links to organized crime, i.e. the mob.
Also, the boy, Anakin, is considered the “chosen one” who will bring balance to the Force, maybe like Barack Obama. Anakin, nonetheless, eventually becomes Darth Vader:
This whole election process is about putting into office the “chosen one” of the people. We also know that God places all governing authorities, whether good or bad, in place in order to accomplish his ultimate purposes for his people.
Isaiah 48:14-15:
"Come together, all of you, and listen:
Which of the idols has foretold these things?
The LORD's chosen ally
will carry out his purpose against Babylon;
his arm will be against the Babylonians.
15 I, even I, have spoken;
yes, I have called him.
I will bring him,
and he will succeed in his mission.
So, we need to be in much prayer for our country here in the USA, for the American people, for our leaders and for the church in America:
Let Us Pray / Steven Curtis Chapman
Let us pray, let us pray everywhere in every way
Every moment of the day, it is the right time
Let us pray without end and when we finish start again
Like breathing out and breathing in, let us pray
Then I had A VISION: I saw one of the characters from the Movie series, Star Wars. I inquired of the Lord if there was more, but that was it. END So I got up to look it up, since I am not that familiar with the movie:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoda
Star
Wars character: Yoda
Position: Jedi Master, Jedi Council Member, Jedi High
General, Grand Master of the Jedi Order
Home world: Unknown
Species:
Unknown
Gender: Male
Affiliation: Jedi Order, Galactic Republic
Yoda is a fictional character from the Star Wars universe, who
appears in all of the franchise's films except for Star Wars Episode IV: A New
Hope… Yoda first appears in the saga in The Empire Strikes Back as a Jedi
Master, and trains Luke Skywalker in the ways of the Jedi. In the prequel
trilogy, he serves as Grand Master of the Jedi Order… Yoda is portrayed as a
wise and powerful Jedi Master in the Star Wars universe... Yoda's race has never
been stated in any media, canonical or otherwise, and he is merely stated to be
of a "mysterious species" by the Star Wars Databank. His race has been called a
"tridactyl species" but this simply means that they have three fingers. It is
believed [who?] that the character was inspired by Tom Yoda, chairman of the
Tokyo International Film Festival...
The Phantom Menace
In the
films' timeline, Yoda first appears in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace,
wherin Qui-Gon (Liam Neeson) brings the young Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd) to
the Jedi Council. Qui-Gon claims that the boy is the "Chosen One" who will bring
balance to the Force, and requests to train him once Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) has
completed the trials necessary to become a Jedi Knight. Yoda senses great fear
in the boy, and tells him "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to
anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." Yoda plays a key role in
that body's initial decision to deny the request; he believes that Anakin is
clearly affected by his years as a slave, and that he still clings too tightly
to the memory of his mother to be trained safely. Yoda believes Anakin's future
is clouded.
After Qui-Gon's death at the hands of Darth Maul (Ray
Park), however, the Jedi Council rescinds their previous decision, despite
Yoda's misgivings… End
My Thoughts: What struck me about this description of Yoda and the Star Wars series is how much it parallels what just went on this week in the Democratic National Convention. In this case, Bill Clinton would be a type of Yoda (a former US President) in that he did not think that Barack Obama was qualified or had what it took to be president of the United States but the “Jedi Council” decided on Obama despite Bill’s (and Hillary’s) misgivings.
Another application I see here is that this is about some type of political order (the Jedi order), perhaps like the Democratic or the Republican parties or perhaps Washington and Congress and that the Grand Master would represent the US President and that the Jedi Council would symbolize the US congress. Or, this could be representing an order that is even higher than either of the political parties or Washington or Congress and that our government, in some way, answers to that order. In many ways, it reminds me of the Freemasons. Many articles on the Internet suggest that the Freemasons have links to organized crime, i.e. the mob.
Also, the boy, Anakin, is considered the “chosen one” who will bring balance to the Force, maybe like Barack Obama. Anakin, nonetheless, eventually becomes Darth Vader:
Darth Vader is a fictional character in George Lucas' science fiction saga Star
Wars and is the primary antagonist in the original movie trilogy. The character
is depicted as a formidable Dark Lord of the Sith and the brutal head enforcer
of the Galactic Empire's rule across the galaxy. He serves as the Sith
apprentice of Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), using the dark side of the
Force to mercilessly pursue the Jedi and the Rebel Alliance to the ends of the
galaxy. The prequel trilogy recounts the heroic rise and tragic fall of Darth
Vader's former self, Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd, Hayden Christensen). Darth
Vader is one of the most iconic villains in film history and was ranked third on
American Film Institute's 100 Heroes and Villains list… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darth_Vader
This whole election process is about putting into office the “chosen one” of the people. We also know that God places all governing authorities, whether good or bad, in place in order to accomplish his ultimate purposes for his people.
Isaiah 48:14-15:
"Come together, all of you, and listen:
Which of the idols has foretold these things?
The LORD's chosen ally
will carry out his purpose against Babylon;
his arm will be against the Babylonians.
15 I, even I, have spoken;
yes, I have called him.
I will bring him,
and he will succeed in his mission.
So, we need to be in much prayer for our country here in the USA, for the American people, for our leaders and for the church in America:
Let Us Pray / Steven Curtis Chapman
Let us pray, let us pray everywhere in every way
Every moment of the day, it is the right time
Let us pray without end and when we finish start again
Like breathing out and breathing in, let us pray
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Human Butterfly
Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 9:00 a.m. – I woke with this song in my head:
Everlasting God / Chris Tomlin
My first attempt at calling ended up with me sending a cable gram and then I tried again and this time I got through, only it was right at the time that the lesson should start. I had just woken up and I hadn’t even eaten breakfast yet, so I grabbed a bite of a pre-packaged cake.
My daughter-in-law’s father (and maybe his wife, too) showed up somewhere in here while I was trying to reach the music teacher and/or to find the books, but that part is really fuzzy.
When the music teacher came over and saw me eating that cake, she frowned on my choice of food. I said I knew I needed to eat better. Then, I had trouble finding the music books. I eventually found them in a stack of books on a table just outside a bedroom door, I believe. They were with some other books between book ends.
Then, the music teacher asked me about some papers, maybe that had my lessons written on them, so I went looking for those and found them in another stack somewhere that was kind of messy. I told her I used to be really good at filing but that I had gotten slack about that. Then, she made some suggestions about that.
Somewhere in all of this there was a group of people sitting in a balcony in a stadium who formed a human butterfly. I believe this was happening while I was still trying to phone my music teacher. END I closed my eyes to pray about this, and immediately I saw the face of Bill Clinton. Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.
I read Isaiah 51:17-52:15: The Cup of the LORD's Wrath
17 Awake, awake!
Rise up, O Jerusalem,
you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD
the cup of his wrath,
you who have drained to its dregs
the goblet that makes men stagger.
18 Of all the sons she bore
there was none to guide her;
of all the sons she reared
there was none to take her by the hand.
19 These double calamities have come upon you—
who can comfort you?—
ruin and destruction, famine and sword—
who can console you?
20 Your sons have fainted;
they lie at the head of every street,
like antelope caught in a net.
They are filled with the wrath of the LORD
and the rebuke of your God.
21 Therefore hear this, you afflicted one,
made drunk, but not with wine.
22 This is what your Sovereign LORD says,
your God, who defends his people:
"See, I have taken out of your hand
the cup that made you stagger;
from that cup, the goblet of my wrath,
you will never drink again.
23 I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,
who said to you,
'Fall prostrate that we may walk over you.'
And you made your back like the ground,
like a street to be walked over."
Isaiah 52
1 Awake, awake, O Zion,
clothe yourself with strength.
Put on your garments of splendor,
O Jerusalem, the holy city.
The uncircumcised and defiled
will not enter you again.
2 Shake off your dust;
rise up, sit enthroned, O Jerusalem.
Free yourself from the chains on your neck,
O captive Daughter of Zion.
3 For this is what the LORD says:
"You were sold for nothing,
and without money you will be redeemed."
4 For this is what the Sovereign LORD says:
"At first my people went down to Egypt to live;
lately, Assyria has oppressed them.
5 "And now what do I have here?" declares the LORD.
"For my people have been taken away for nothing,
and those who rule them mock, "
declares the LORD.
"And all day long
my name is constantly blasphemed.
6 Therefore my people will know my name;
therefore in that day they will know
that it is I who foretold it.
Yes, it is I."
7 How beautiful on the mountains
are the feet of those who bring good news,
who proclaim peace,
who bring good tidings,
who proclaim salvation,
who say to Zion,
"Your God reigns!"
8 Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices;
together they shout for joy.
When the LORD returns to Zion,
they will see it with their own eyes.
9 Burst into songs of joy together,
you ruins of Jerusalem,
for the LORD has comforted his people,
he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The LORD will lay bare his holy arm
in the sight of all the nations,
and all the ends of the earth will see
the salvation of our God.
11 Depart, depart, go out from there!
Touch no unclean thing!
Come out from it and be pure,
you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
12 But you will not leave in haste
or go in flight;
for the LORD will go before you,
the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
My Understanding: I am personifying America in this dream and the Music Teacher is the Holy Spirit. America has lost touch with the Lord – it sounds like a time of mourning because of “double calamities.” And, the Lord is calling upon America to wake up and to call the music teacher for lessons (hard lessons, perhaps) so that she can learn how to “sing”, i.e. rejoice in the Lord again.
Her sons, i.e. our leaders, such as Bill Clinton (speaking at the DNC tonight), have not given her guidance. I think the picture here is that Bill Clinton is “falling prostrate” so that the Obama camp can walk over him, so in essence, Bill is not taking America by the hand to help her. God’s wrath is going to come upon America, but then he will have mercy and he will turn on her tormentors.
Then, I see the people forming the human butterfly as a symbol of the church in America putting on garments of splendor and freeing herself from the chains around her neck, for she trusts in Jesus Christ as her redeemer, not man. The “human butterfly” is thus a symbol of the church in America coming out of that cocoon she’s in and being free, bursting into songs of joy together, and bringing forth the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ alone.
Everlasting God / Chris Tomlin
Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord,I also woke from A DREAM: I had not had my music lessons in several weeks, so I tried to call the music teacher at the last minute to schedule a lesson. Nonetheless, I was calling from what looked like a pay phone that had lots of instructions and the numbers were really small so I had to remove my glasses to read them up close.
We will wait upon the Lord…
Our God You reign forever
Our hope, Our strong deliverer
You are the everlasting God
The everlasting God
You do not faint, You won't grow weary
You're the defender of the weak
You comfort those in need
You lift us up on wings like eaglesGod,
You are everlasting
My first attempt at calling ended up with me sending a cable gram and then I tried again and this time I got through, only it was right at the time that the lesson should start. I had just woken up and I hadn’t even eaten breakfast yet, so I grabbed a bite of a pre-packaged cake.
My daughter-in-law’s father (and maybe his wife, too) showed up somewhere in here while I was trying to reach the music teacher and/or to find the books, but that part is really fuzzy.
When the music teacher came over and saw me eating that cake, she frowned on my choice of food. I said I knew I needed to eat better. Then, I had trouble finding the music books. I eventually found them in a stack of books on a table just outside a bedroom door, I believe. They were with some other books between book ends.
Then, the music teacher asked me about some papers, maybe that had my lessons written on them, so I went looking for those and found them in another stack somewhere that was kind of messy. I told her I used to be really good at filing but that I had gotten slack about that. Then, she made some suggestions about that.
Somewhere in all of this there was a group of people sitting in a balcony in a stadium who formed a human butterfly. I believe this was happening while I was still trying to phone my music teacher. END I closed my eyes to pray about this, and immediately I saw the face of Bill Clinton. Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.
I read Isaiah 51:17-52:15: The Cup of the LORD's Wrath
17 Awake, awake!
Rise up, O Jerusalem,
you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD
the cup of his wrath,
you who have drained to its dregs
the goblet that makes men stagger.
18 Of all the sons she bore
there was none to guide her;
of all the sons she reared
there was none to take her by the hand.
19 These double calamities have come upon you—
who can comfort you?—
ruin and destruction, famine and sword—
who can console you?
20 Your sons have fainted;
they lie at the head of every street,
like antelope caught in a net.
They are filled with the wrath of the LORD
and the rebuke of your God.
21 Therefore hear this, you afflicted one,
made drunk, but not with wine.
22 This is what your Sovereign LORD says,
your God, who defends his people:
"See, I have taken out of your hand
the cup that made you stagger;
from that cup, the goblet of my wrath,
you will never drink again.
23 I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,
who said to you,
'Fall prostrate that we may walk over you.'
And you made your back like the ground,
like a street to be walked over."
Isaiah 52
1 Awake, awake, O Zion,
clothe yourself with strength.
Put on your garments of splendor,
O Jerusalem, the holy city.
The uncircumcised and defiled
will not enter you again.
2 Shake off your dust;
rise up, sit enthroned, O Jerusalem.
Free yourself from the chains on your neck,
O captive Daughter of Zion.
3 For this is what the LORD says:
"You were sold for nothing,
and without money you will be redeemed."
4 For this is what the Sovereign LORD says:
"At first my people went down to Egypt to live;
lately, Assyria has oppressed them.
5 "And now what do I have here?" declares the LORD.
"For my people have been taken away for nothing,
and those who rule them mock, "
declares the LORD.
"And all day long
my name is constantly blasphemed.
6 Therefore my people will know my name;
therefore in that day they will know
that it is I who foretold it.
Yes, it is I."
7 How beautiful on the mountains
are the feet of those who bring good news,
who proclaim peace,
who bring good tidings,
who proclaim salvation,
who say to Zion,
"Your God reigns!"
8 Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices;
together they shout for joy.
When the LORD returns to Zion,
they will see it with their own eyes.
9 Burst into songs of joy together,
you ruins of Jerusalem,
for the LORD has comforted his people,
he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The LORD will lay bare his holy arm
in the sight of all the nations,
and all the ends of the earth will see
the salvation of our God.
11 Depart, depart, go out from there!
Touch no unclean thing!
Come out from it and be pure,
you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
12 But you will not leave in haste
or go in flight;
for the LORD will go before you,
the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
My Understanding: I am personifying America in this dream and the Music Teacher is the Holy Spirit. America has lost touch with the Lord – it sounds like a time of mourning because of “double calamities.” And, the Lord is calling upon America to wake up and to call the music teacher for lessons (hard lessons, perhaps) so that she can learn how to “sing”, i.e. rejoice in the Lord again.
Her sons, i.e. our leaders, such as Bill Clinton (speaking at the DNC tonight), have not given her guidance. I think the picture here is that Bill Clinton is “falling prostrate” so that the Obama camp can walk over him, so in essence, Bill is not taking America by the hand to help her. God’s wrath is going to come upon America, but then he will have mercy and he will turn on her tormentors.
Then, I see the people forming the human butterfly as a symbol of the church in America putting on garments of splendor and freeing herself from the chains around her neck, for she trusts in Jesus Christ as her redeemer, not man. The “human butterfly” is thus a symbol of the church in America coming out of that cocoon she’s in and being free, bursting into songs of joy together, and bringing forth the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ alone.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Batman and Alfred
Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 11:40 a.m. – I was praying when I had THIS VISION: I saw an older man; a politician, but not one I recognized. I just knew he was a politician. Then I saw Batman and then his man-servant, Alfred. Following that I saw the faces of former US presidents like Washington and Lincoln as they were carved out on Mount Rushmore. Then I saw Uncle Sam and then it appeared Uncle Sam was very angry. Well, I know I saw an angry face associated with Uncle Sam and then someone took Uncle Sam by the head and twisted his head like as to break it off. Following that I saw a tropical storm or a hurricane coming. END
Then, the Lord put this song into my head: Lord I Believe in You / Crystal Lewis
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 51:1-16:
Everlasting Salvation for Zion
1 "Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness
and who seek the LORD :
Look to the rock from which you were cut
and to the quarry from which you were hewn;
2 look to Abraham, your father,
and to Sarah, who gave you birth.
When I called him he was but one,
and I blessed him and made him many.
3 The LORD will surely comfort Zion
and will look with compassion on all her ruins;
he will make her deserts like Eden,
her wastelands like the garden of the LORD.
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
thanksgiving and the sound of singing.
4 "Listen to me, my people;
hear me, my nation:
The law will go out from me;
my justice will become a light to the nations.
5 My righteousness draws near speedily,
my salvation is on the way,
and my arm will bring justice to the nations.
The islands will look to me
and wait in hope for my arm.
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
look at the earth beneath;
the heavens will vanish like smoke,
the earth will wear out like a garment
and its inhabitants die like flies.
But my salvation will last forever,
my righteousness will never fail.
7 "Hear me, you who know what is right,
you people who have my law in your hearts:
Do not fear the reproach of men
or be terrified by their insults.
8 For the moth will eat them up like a garment;
the worm will devour them like wool.
But my righteousness will last forever,
my salvation through all generations."
9 Awake, awake! Clothe yourself with strength,
O arm of the LORD;
awake, as in days gone by,
as in generations of old.
Was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces,
who pierced that monster through?
10 Was it not you who dried up the sea,
the waters of the great deep,
who made a road in the depths of the sea
so that the redeemed might cross over?
11 The ransomed of the LORD will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;
everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
12 "I, even I, am he who comforts you.
Who are you that you fear mortal men,
the sons of men, who are but grass,
13 that you forget the LORD your Maker,
who stretched out the heavens
and laid the foundations of the earth,
that you live in constant terror every day
because of the wrath of the oppressor,
who is bent on destruction?
For where is the wrath of the oppressor?
14 The cowering prisoners will soon be set free;
they will not die in their dungeon,
nor will they lack bread.
15 For I am the LORD your God,
who churns up the sea so that its waves roar—
the LORD Almighty is his name.
16 I have put my words in your mouth
and covered you with the shadow of my hand—
I who set the heavens in place,
who laid the foundations of the earth,
and who say to Zion, 'You are my people.' "
My Understanding: I see two possibilities for Batman and Alfred: 1) Bush and Cheney – Bush is often accused of making decisions on his own and doing his own thing his own way. I see his way of fighting crime in the world in many ways similar to Batman’s Cloak and Dagger methods - methods marked by melodramatic intrigue and often by espionage; of or involving mystery and secrecy. And, 2) Obama and Biden – the Lord has often shown me that Obama has someone else behind him as his puppeteer with him being the marionette and that he is merely lip syncing another’s words, so in this case Obama is the Batman costume over another man. Both, I believe, have another power group behind them, i.e. the Illuminati.
This message is to America because of the obvious reference to Mount Rushmore and the “rock from which you were cut,” i.e. the images of former presidents such as Washington and Lincoln cut out of a rock, and “to Abraham, your father.” And, God’s blessings have been on America for many, many years. Then, there is a promise of God to comfort his church, in this instance, the one here in America because of her “ruins.” Truly the church in America is in ruins. And, it sounds as though this is a reference to the millennium when God’s kingdom will be established here on the earth. Then, joy will abound among the remnant of God’s people.
In order for this to happen, God will reveal his righteousness and his justice by his arm, i.e. his power, which I believe is symbolized by the twisting off of the head of Uncle Sam and by the coming of the hurricane, whether literal or symbolic. The earth will pass away, but the Lord’s righteousness will continue forever. So, we should take courage and not be disheartened by our enemies (from within and/or from without).
Then, the Lord put this song into my head: Lord I Believe in You / Crystal Lewis
Though I can’t see Your Holy Face
And Your throne in Heaven above
It seems
so far away
Though I can’t touch
Can’t touch your nail scarred hands
I
have a deep unspeakable joy
That makes my faith to stand
Born
from above, You are God’s only chosen one
You’re the one and only true
way
Way to the Father’s heart
You died for all sin, then You rose and now
live again
Conquering death and the grave
So that I might
live
Lord, I believe in You
I'll always believe in You
Though
I can’t see You with my eyes
Deep in my heart, Your presence I find
Lord,
I believe in you
And I’ll keep my trust in You
Let this whole world say
what they may
No one can take this joy away
Lord, I believe
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 51:1-16:
Everlasting Salvation for Zion
1 "Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness
and who seek the LORD :
Look to the rock from which you were cut
and to the quarry from which you were hewn;
2 look to Abraham, your father,
and to Sarah, who gave you birth.
When I called him he was but one,
and I blessed him and made him many.
3 The LORD will surely comfort Zion
and will look with compassion on all her ruins;
he will make her deserts like Eden,
her wastelands like the garden of the LORD.
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
thanksgiving and the sound of singing.
4 "Listen to me, my people;
hear me, my nation:
The law will go out from me;
my justice will become a light to the nations.
5 My righteousness draws near speedily,
my salvation is on the way,
and my arm will bring justice to the nations.
The islands will look to me
and wait in hope for my arm.
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
look at the earth beneath;
the heavens will vanish like smoke,
the earth will wear out like a garment
and its inhabitants die like flies.
But my salvation will last forever,
my righteousness will never fail.
7 "Hear me, you who know what is right,
you people who have my law in your hearts:
Do not fear the reproach of men
or be terrified by their insults.
8 For the moth will eat them up like a garment;
the worm will devour them like wool.
But my righteousness will last forever,
my salvation through all generations."
9 Awake, awake! Clothe yourself with strength,
O arm of the LORD;
awake, as in days gone by,
as in generations of old.
Was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces,
who pierced that monster through?
10 Was it not you who dried up the sea,
the waters of the great deep,
who made a road in the depths of the sea
so that the redeemed might cross over?
11 The ransomed of the LORD will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;
everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
12 "I, even I, am he who comforts you.
Who are you that you fear mortal men,
the sons of men, who are but grass,
13 that you forget the LORD your Maker,
who stretched out the heavens
and laid the foundations of the earth,
that you live in constant terror every day
because of the wrath of the oppressor,
who is bent on destruction?
For where is the wrath of the oppressor?
14 The cowering prisoners will soon be set free;
they will not die in their dungeon,
nor will they lack bread.
15 For I am the LORD your God,
who churns up the sea so that its waves roar—
the LORD Almighty is his name.
16 I have put my words in your mouth
and covered you with the shadow of my hand—
I who set the heavens in place,
who laid the foundations of the earth,
and who say to Zion, 'You are my people.' "
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Batman is a fictional comic book
superhero co-created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger (although only
Kane receives official credit) and published by DC Comics. The character first
appeared in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939). Batman's secret identity is Bruce
Wayne, a wealthy industrialist, playboy, and philanthropist. Witnessing the
murder of his parents as a child, Wayne trains himself to physical and
intellectual perfection and dons a bat-themed costume in order to fight crime.
Batman operates in the fictional Gotham City, assisted by various supporting
characters including his sidekick Robin and his butler Alfred Pennyworth, and
fights an assortment of villains influenced by the characters' roots in film and
pulp magazines. Unlike most superheroes, he does not possess any superpowers; he
makes use of intellect, detective skills, science and technology, wealth,
physical prowess, and intimidation in his war on crime… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman
My Understanding: I see two possibilities for Batman and Alfred: 1) Bush and Cheney – Bush is often accused of making decisions on his own and doing his own thing his own way. I see his way of fighting crime in the world in many ways similar to Batman’s Cloak and Dagger methods - methods marked by melodramatic intrigue and often by espionage; of or involving mystery and secrecy. And, 2) Obama and Biden – the Lord has often shown me that Obama has someone else behind him as his puppeteer with him being the marionette and that he is merely lip syncing another’s words, so in this case Obama is the Batman costume over another man. Both, I believe, have another power group behind them, i.e. the Illuminati.
This message is to America because of the obvious reference to Mount Rushmore and the “rock from which you were cut,” i.e. the images of former presidents such as Washington and Lincoln cut out of a rock, and “to Abraham, your father.” And, God’s blessings have been on America for many, many years. Then, there is a promise of God to comfort his church, in this instance, the one here in America because of her “ruins.” Truly the church in America is in ruins. And, it sounds as though this is a reference to the millennium when God’s kingdom will be established here on the earth. Then, joy will abound among the remnant of God’s people.
In order for this to happen, God will reveal his righteousness and his justice by his arm, i.e. his power, which I believe is symbolized by the twisting off of the head of Uncle Sam and by the coming of the hurricane, whether literal or symbolic. The earth will pass away, but the Lord’s righteousness will continue forever. So, we should take courage and not be disheartened by our enemies (from within and/or from without).
Faces to the Ground
Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 12:00 a.m. – I woke up after only an hour of sleep with the song, “Let us Pray,” in my head. So, I began to pray and I prayed for even what I should pray about and then I had A VISION:
I saw my daughter (age 31) and then immediately I saw the face of Michelle Obama. Then I saw what looked like the close up of someone’s left ear that had something reddish-brown surrounding it and something coming against it or pressed up against it. Then I saw a very faded Joe Biden and then a donkey and Howard Dean. END
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 49: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2049;&version=31;
Restoration of Israel
8 This is what the LORD says:
"In the time of my favor I will answer you,
and in the day of salvation I will help you;
I will keep you and will make you
to be a covenant for the people,
to restore the land
and to reassign its desolate inheritances,
9 to say to the captives, 'Come out,'
and to those in darkness, 'Be free!'
"They will feed beside the roads
and find pasture on every barren hill.
10 They will neither hunger nor thirst,
nor will the desert heat or the sun beat upon them.
He who has compassion on them will guide them
and lead them beside springs of water.
11 I will turn all my mountains into roads,
and my highways will be raised up.
12 See, they will come from afar—
some from the north, some from the west,
some from the region of Aswan. "
13 Shout for joy, O heavens;
rejoice, O earth;
burst into song, O mountains!
For the LORD comforts his people
and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.
14 But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me,
the Lord has forgotten me."
15 "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
Though she may forget,
I will not forget you!
16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are ever before me.
17 Your sons hasten back,
and those who laid you waste depart from you.
18 Lift up your eyes and look around;
all your sons gather and come to you.
As surely as I live," declares the LORD,
"you will wear them all as ornaments;
you will put them on, like a bride.
19 "Though you were ruined and made desolate
and your land laid waste,
now you will be too small for your people,
and those who devoured you will be far away.
20 The children born during your bereavement
will yet say in your hearing,
'This place is too small for us;
give us more space to live in.'
21 Then you will say in your heart,
'Who bore me these?
I was bereaved and barren;
I was exiled and rejected.
Who brought these up?
I was left all alone,
but these—where have they come from?' "
22 This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
"See, I will beckon to the Gentiles,
I will lift up my banner to the peoples;
they will bring your sons in their arms
and carry your daughters on their shoulders.
23 Kings will be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.
They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground;
they will lick the dust at your feet.
Then you will know that I am the LORD;
those who hope in me will not be disappointed."
24 Can plunder be taken from warriors,
or captives rescued from the fierce ?
25 But this is what the LORD says:
"Yes, captives will be taken from warriors,
and plunder retrieved from the fierce;
I will contend with those who contend with you,
and your children I will save.
26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh;
they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine.
Then all mankind will know
that I, the LORD, am your Savior,
your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."
My Understanding: First of all, my daughter usually symbolizes the church (or Israel) and this passage of scripture is addressed to God’s people who are the church now, i.e. true Israel. The remainder of this is focused around vv 22-23, I believe. The reddish-brown color symbolizes clay dirt which is what we have in SC. The fact that this human ear is surrounded by this reddish-brown color and that something is coming against the ear sounds to me like this ear has come in contact with the ground (see v. 23).
It is also of note that it was the left ear and the Democratic Party is considered as the “left” politically speaking. Also, this picture of an ear meeting with dirt followed immediately after an image of Michelle Obama. A donkey is also a symbol of the Democratic Party and Howard Dean is the chair/head. A very faded Joe Biden… well, I’ll let the Lord reveal that one in His timing. I just know He’s saying that we need to pray, that we need to pray for the Democratic Party’s convention and in the context of this passage of scripture.
Let Us Pray / Steven Curtis Chapman
I hear you say your heart is aching You've got trouble in the making And you ask if I'll be praying for you please And in keeping with conviction I'll say yes with good intentions To pray later making mention of your needs But since we have this moment here at heaven's door We should start knocking now, what are we waiting for?
So when we feel the Spirit moving Prompting, prodding and behooving There is no time to be losing, let us pray Let the Father hear us saying What we need to be conveying Even while this song is playing, let us pray And just because we say the word, "Amen" It doesn't mean this conversation needs to end
Let us approach the throne of grace with confidence As our prayers draw us near To the One who knows our needs Before we even call His name
Let us pray, let us pray, everywhere in every way Every moment of the day, it is the right time Let us pray without end and when we finish start again Like breathing out and breathing in, let us pray
I saw my daughter (age 31) and then immediately I saw the face of Michelle Obama. Then I saw what looked like the close up of someone’s left ear that had something reddish-brown surrounding it and something coming against it or pressed up against it. Then I saw a very faded Joe Biden and then a donkey and Howard Dean. END
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 49: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2049;&version=31;
Restoration of Israel
8 This is what the LORD says:
"In the time of my favor I will answer you,
and in the day of salvation I will help you;
I will keep you and will make you
to be a covenant for the people,
to restore the land
and to reassign its desolate inheritances,
9 to say to the captives, 'Come out,'
and to those in darkness, 'Be free!'
"They will feed beside the roads
and find pasture on every barren hill.
10 They will neither hunger nor thirst,
nor will the desert heat or the sun beat upon them.
He who has compassion on them will guide them
and lead them beside springs of water.
11 I will turn all my mountains into roads,
and my highways will be raised up.
12 See, they will come from afar—
some from the north, some from the west,
some from the region of Aswan. "
13 Shout for joy, O heavens;
rejoice, O earth;
burst into song, O mountains!
For the LORD comforts his people
and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.
14 But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me,
the Lord has forgotten me."
15 "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
Though she may forget,
I will not forget you!
16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are ever before me.
17 Your sons hasten back,
and those who laid you waste depart from you.
18 Lift up your eyes and look around;
all your sons gather and come to you.
As surely as I live," declares the LORD,
"you will wear them all as ornaments;
you will put them on, like a bride.
19 "Though you were ruined and made desolate
and your land laid waste,
now you will be too small for your people,
and those who devoured you will be far away.
20 The children born during your bereavement
will yet say in your hearing,
'This place is too small for us;
give us more space to live in.'
21 Then you will say in your heart,
'Who bore me these?
I was bereaved and barren;
I was exiled and rejected.
Who brought these up?
I was left all alone,
but these—where have they come from?' "
22 This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
"See, I will beckon to the Gentiles,
I will lift up my banner to the peoples;
they will bring your sons in their arms
and carry your daughters on their shoulders.
23 Kings will be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.
They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground;
they will lick the dust at your feet.
Then you will know that I am the LORD;
those who hope in me will not be disappointed."
24 Can plunder be taken from warriors,
or captives rescued from the fierce ?
25 But this is what the LORD says:
"Yes, captives will be taken from warriors,
and plunder retrieved from the fierce;
I will contend with those who contend with you,
and your children I will save.
26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh;
they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine.
Then all mankind will know
that I, the LORD, am your Savior,
your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."
My Understanding: First of all, my daughter usually symbolizes the church (or Israel) and this passage of scripture is addressed to God’s people who are the church now, i.e. true Israel. The remainder of this is focused around vv 22-23, I believe. The reddish-brown color symbolizes clay dirt which is what we have in SC. The fact that this human ear is surrounded by this reddish-brown color and that something is coming against the ear sounds to me like this ear has come in contact with the ground (see v. 23).
It is also of note that it was the left ear and the Democratic Party is considered as the “left” politically speaking. Also, this picture of an ear meeting with dirt followed immediately after an image of Michelle Obama. A donkey is also a symbol of the Democratic Party and Howard Dean is the chair/head. A very faded Joe Biden… well, I’ll let the Lord reveal that one in His timing. I just know He’s saying that we need to pray, that we need to pray for the Democratic Party’s convention and in the context of this passage of scripture.
Let Us Pray / Steven Curtis Chapman
I hear you say your heart is aching You've got trouble in the making And you ask if I'll be praying for you please And in keeping with conviction I'll say yes with good intentions To pray later making mention of your needs But since we have this moment here at heaven's door We should start knocking now, what are we waiting for?
So when we feel the Spirit moving Prompting, prodding and behooving There is no time to be losing, let us pray Let the Father hear us saying What we need to be conveying Even while this song is playing, let us pray And just because we say the word, "Amen" It doesn't mean this conversation needs to end
Let us approach the throne of grace with confidence As our prayers draw us near To the One who knows our needs Before we even call His name
Let us pray, let us pray, everywhere in every way Every moment of the day, it is the right time Let us pray without end and when we finish start again Like breathing out and breathing in, let us pray
Monday, August 25, 2008
Who Am I?
Saturday, August 23, 2008, 7:30 a.m. – I woke from A DREAM:
The house was a mess. It was the filthiest I had ever seen it. There were jigsaw puzzles dumped out on the floors in several rooms. There was stuff strewn everywhere. So, I decided to get everyone – husband, me and the kids – to clean it up. I thought about making a list of the chores and allowing them to choose, but I remembered, in years past, how that used to end up in arguments. So, I began a list, and I assigned the chores.
I assigned myself the living room and one other room that had jigsaw puzzles dumped out on the floors. Then, I assigned David two rooms, one of which was Steven’s (or Steven’s & John’s). I asked him if he wanted Steven to help him, but then I decided, based upon history, that it would be best if he worked alone.
Somewhere in here we were visited by two of my former music teachers, one of whom was my kindergarten music teacher (1954/55) who was also a good friend of my mom’s (in real life). Then my mom had a cameo appearance where she and this music teacher hugged and were happy to see each other. (My mom is deceased in real life.) I was embarrassed by the mess in the house.
Also we gained another girl in our family somehow, as though we had adopted her or she had become our foster child. So, I told her I would assign her some chores, too, and I explained how it worked. Then, we got something in the mail which I gave to my daughter. John or Steven complained that I gave that to her and not to them.
Anyway, I got to thinking about this new girl and I wondered if she was a Christian. We were playing Christian music. I think we were in a car and that my daughter was in the back seat. I was concerned that she had not talked with this new girl about Jesus because she was so wrapped up in what she was doing, i.e. her own life.
I asked the new girl if she was sharing a room with my daughter. She indicated she was not. I said, “We have another room?”
Ok, back to the list of chores. I lost the list. I had been writing it on a newspaper, on the top of a page in a column, but I couldn’t find it. How could it have just disappeared like that? I went through the newspaper page by page and still I could not find my list. I even turned it upside down and I even went to another section, but it was still not there. END
As I finished recording this dream, then this song came into my head:
"Who Am I" / Casting Crowns
Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth
Would care to know my name
Would care to feel my hurt
Who am I, that the Bright and Morning Star
Would choose to light the wayFor my ever wandering heart
Who Am I, that the eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love and watch me rise again
Who Am I, that the voice that calmed the sea
Would call out through the rain
And calm the storm in me
Not because of who I am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You are
I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
A vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling
And You've told me who I am
I am Yours, I am Yours
Whom shall I fear
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 45: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2045;&version=31
1 "This is what the LORD says to his anointed,
to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of
to subdue nations before him
and to strip kings of their armor,
to open doors before him
so that gates will not be shut:
2 I will go before you
and will level the mountains ;
I will break down gates of bronze
and cut through bars of iron.
3 I will give you the treasures of darkness,
riches stored in secret places,
so that you may know that I am the LORD,
the God of Israel, who summons you by name.
4 For the sake of Jacob my servant,
of Israel my chosen,
I summon you by name
and bestow on you a title of honor,
though you do not acknowledge me.
5 I am the LORD, and there is no other;
apart from me there is no God.
I will strengthen you,
though you have not acknowledged me,
6 so that from the rising of the sun
to the place of its setting
men may know there is none besides me.
I am the LORD, and there is no other…
9 "Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker,
to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground.
Does the clay say to the potter,
'What are you making?'
Does your work say,
'He has no hands'?
… "This is what the LORD says—
the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker:
Concerning things to come,
do you question me about my children,
or give me orders about the work of my hands?
… I will raise up Cyrus in my righteousness:
I will make all his ways straight.
He will rebuild my city
and set my exiles free,
but not for a price or reward,
says the LORD Almighty."
… I have not spoken in secret,
from somewhere in a land of darkness;
I have not said to Jacob's descendants,
'Seek me in vain.'
I, the LORD, speak the truth;
I declare what is right.
… "Turn to me and be saved,
all you ends of the earth;
for I am God, and there is no other…
My Understanding: What I do know is that this dream, song and scripture are connected and that the Lord is speaking still about our political situation here in America, especially with regards to the Democratic Party and the convention this week. I’m not sure who I, my daughter and the “adopted girl” represent here, but I suspect that Steven is still Barack, John is Joe Biden and David is Al Gore.
In these scriptures in Isaiah that I’ve been reading leading up to the Democratic National Convention, there has been a continuous mention of Cyrus as God’s chosen leader for the people. The house that is a mess is both the USA and the church in America, so God is giving us “Cyrus” so that we will acknowledge the LORD as our one and only true God.
We are not to question God’s choice because God knows what he is doing. God is going to raise up this “Cyrus” to rebuild the city and to set his exiles free. The ultimate purpose of this choice of leader is that people will turn to the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved, for God Almighty is the only God and there is no other!
The house was a mess. It was the filthiest I had ever seen it. There were jigsaw puzzles dumped out on the floors in several rooms. There was stuff strewn everywhere. So, I decided to get everyone – husband, me and the kids – to clean it up. I thought about making a list of the chores and allowing them to choose, but I remembered, in years past, how that used to end up in arguments. So, I began a list, and I assigned the chores.
I assigned myself the living room and one other room that had jigsaw puzzles dumped out on the floors. Then, I assigned David two rooms, one of which was Steven’s (or Steven’s & John’s). I asked him if he wanted Steven to help him, but then I decided, based upon history, that it would be best if he worked alone.
Somewhere in here we were visited by two of my former music teachers, one of whom was my kindergarten music teacher (1954/55) who was also a good friend of my mom’s (in real life). Then my mom had a cameo appearance where she and this music teacher hugged and were happy to see each other. (My mom is deceased in real life.) I was embarrassed by the mess in the house.
Also we gained another girl in our family somehow, as though we had adopted her or she had become our foster child. So, I told her I would assign her some chores, too, and I explained how it worked. Then, we got something in the mail which I gave to my daughter. John or Steven complained that I gave that to her and not to them.
Anyway, I got to thinking about this new girl and I wondered if she was a Christian. We were playing Christian music. I think we were in a car and that my daughter was in the back seat. I was concerned that she had not talked with this new girl about Jesus because she was so wrapped up in what she was doing, i.e. her own life.
I asked the new girl if she was sharing a room with my daughter. She indicated she was not. I said, “We have another room?”
Ok, back to the list of chores. I lost the list. I had been writing it on a newspaper, on the top of a page in a column, but I couldn’t find it. How could it have just disappeared like that? I went through the newspaper page by page and still I could not find my list. I even turned it upside down and I even went to another section, but it was still not there. END
As I finished recording this dream, then this song came into my head:
"Who Am I" / Casting Crowns
Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth
Would care to know my name
Would care to feel my hurt
Who am I, that the Bright and Morning Star
Would choose to light the wayFor my ever wandering heart
Who Am I, that the eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love and watch me rise again
Who Am I, that the voice that calmed the sea
Would call out through the rain
And calm the storm in me
Not because of who I am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You are
I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
A vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling
And You've told me who I am
I am Yours, I am Yours
Whom shall I fear
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 45: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2045;&version=31
1 "This is what the LORD says to his anointed,
to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of
to subdue nations before him
and to strip kings of their armor,
to open doors before him
so that gates will not be shut:
2 I will go before you
and will level the mountains ;
I will break down gates of bronze
and cut through bars of iron.
3 I will give you the treasures of darkness,
riches stored in secret places,
so that you may know that I am the LORD,
the God of Israel, who summons you by name.
4 For the sake of Jacob my servant,
of Israel my chosen,
I summon you by name
and bestow on you a title of honor,
though you do not acknowledge me.
5 I am the LORD, and there is no other;
apart from me there is no God.
I will strengthen you,
though you have not acknowledged me,
6 so that from the rising of the sun
to the place of its setting
men may know there is none besides me.
I am the LORD, and there is no other…
9 "Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker,
to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground.
Does the clay say to the potter,
'What are you making?'
Does your work say,
'He has no hands'?
… "This is what the LORD says—
the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker:
Concerning things to come,
do you question me about my children,
or give me orders about the work of my hands?
… I will raise up Cyrus in my righteousness:
I will make all his ways straight.
He will rebuild my city
and set my exiles free,
but not for a price or reward,
says the LORD Almighty."
… I have not spoken in secret,
from somewhere in a land of darkness;
I have not said to Jacob's descendants,
'Seek me in vain.'
I, the LORD, speak the truth;
I declare what is right.
… "Turn to me and be saved,
all you ends of the earth;
for I am God, and there is no other…
My Understanding: What I do know is that this dream, song and scripture are connected and that the Lord is speaking still about our political situation here in America, especially with regards to the Democratic Party and the convention this week. I’m not sure who I, my daughter and the “adopted girl” represent here, but I suspect that Steven is still Barack, John is Joe Biden and David is Al Gore.
In these scriptures in Isaiah that I’ve been reading leading up to the Democratic National Convention, there has been a continuous mention of Cyrus as God’s chosen leader for the people. The house that is a mess is both the USA and the church in America, so God is giving us “Cyrus” so that we will acknowledge the LORD as our one and only true God.
We are not to question God’s choice because God knows what he is doing. God is going to raise up this “Cyrus” to rebuild the city and to set his exiles free. The ultimate purpose of this choice of leader is that people will turn to the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved, for God Almighty is the only God and there is no other!
The LORD's Chosen Ally
Monday, August 25, 2008, 9:40 a.m. – I woke out of A DREAM: I was concerned about getting my newspaper which I hadn’t gotten yet. Then, I was walking with another woman and two young children to go to lunch. The girl was the oldest and the boy was the younger.
I was told that this was a short walk to the restaurant, but it ended up being longer than I thought. The person with me walked out into the street and the two children followed her. I cautioned her not to step out into the street because the children would follow her, particularly the youngest one. There was a danger that he could get hit by a car. I said that is why we have sidewalks.
So, she and the children got back onto the sidewalk with me and we continued walking. Then the woman had to go to the bathroom. She saw a black car on the side of the road next to where we were walking on the sidewalk. There were five men inside – two in the front and three in the back. She had heard that these types of vehicles had toilets in them, so she knocked on the window of the back seat and asked if she could use their toilet.
The man sitting in the middle in the back had to get up so that they could pull down the middle section for her to sit on the toilet. Then, the young boy needed to go, too, so he went inside the car to use their toilet. Then we continued our walk to the restaurant. We turned left around a corner with a building on it and we eventually got to the restaurant.
There was a large group of us at the table eating together. The waiter walked away after seating us. He was not returning fast enough and I only had an hour for lunch and we had already taken a lot of time walking there, so I got up to go look for him. While I was gone, he returned. So, I went back and sat down at the table, but I was still concerned over the time. I had been left in charge of the business and I needed to get back to open the shop for the customers.
Anyway, I told our lunch companions about the stop to use the toilet. Since there were children present, I had to be discreet, so I said something about them using a toilet in a car and it was very “organized” (organized crime, i.e. the mob).
There was a man who sat across the table from me who said he dislikes Oreos. He said something to the effect of getting too much of them and that he was getting sick of them. END [I do know that the term “Oreo” is often used in reference to a racial mixture of white and black.]
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 48: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2048;&version=31;
Stubborn Israel
1 "Listen to this, O house of Jacob,
you who are called by the name of Israel
and come from the line of Judah,
you who take oaths in the name of the LORD
and invoke the God of Israel—
but not in truth or righteousness-
2 you who call yourselves citizens of the holy city
and rely on the God of Israel—
the LORD Almighty is his name…
"Listen to me, O Jacob,
Israel, whom I have called:
I am he;
I am the first and I am the last.
13 My own hand laid the foundations of the earth,
and my right hand spread out the heavens;
when I summon them,
they all stand up together.
14 "Come together, all of you, and listen:
Which of the idols has foretold these things?
The LORD's chosen ally
will carry out his purpose against Babylon;
his arm will be against the Babylonians.
15 I, even I, have spoken;
yes, I have called him.
I will bring him,
and he will succeed in his mission.
16 "Come near me and listen to this:
"From the first announcement I have not spoken in secret;
at the time it happens, I am there."
And now the Sovereign LORD has sent me,
with his Spirit.
17 This is what the LORD says—
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
"I am the LORD your God,
who teaches you what is best for you,
who directs you in the way you should go.
18 If only you had paid attention to my commands,
your peace would have been like a river,
your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
19 Your descendants would have been like the sand,
your children like its numberless grains;
their name would never be cut off
nor destroyed from before me."
20 Leave Babylon,
flee from the Babylonians!
Announce this with shouts of joy
and proclaim it.
Send it out to the ends of the earth;
say, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob."
21 They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts;
he made water flow for them from the rock;
he split the rock
and water gushed out.
22 "There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."
Then, the Lord put this song in my head, Let Us Pray / Steven Curtis Chapman
I was told that this was a short walk to the restaurant, but it ended up being longer than I thought. The person with me walked out into the street and the two children followed her. I cautioned her not to step out into the street because the children would follow her, particularly the youngest one. There was a danger that he could get hit by a car. I said that is why we have sidewalks.
So, she and the children got back onto the sidewalk with me and we continued walking. Then the woman had to go to the bathroom. She saw a black car on the side of the road next to where we were walking on the sidewalk. There were five men inside – two in the front and three in the back. She had heard that these types of vehicles had toilets in them, so she knocked on the window of the back seat and asked if she could use their toilet.
The man sitting in the middle in the back had to get up so that they could pull down the middle section for her to sit on the toilet. Then, the young boy needed to go, too, so he went inside the car to use their toilet. Then we continued our walk to the restaurant. We turned left around a corner with a building on it and we eventually got to the restaurant.
There was a large group of us at the table eating together. The waiter walked away after seating us. He was not returning fast enough and I only had an hour for lunch and we had already taken a lot of time walking there, so I got up to go look for him. While I was gone, he returned. So, I went back and sat down at the table, but I was still concerned over the time. I had been left in charge of the business and I needed to get back to open the shop for the customers.
Anyway, I told our lunch companions about the stop to use the toilet. Since there were children present, I had to be discreet, so I said something about them using a toilet in a car and it was very “organized” (organized crime, i.e. the mob).
There was a man who sat across the table from me who said he dislikes Oreos. He said something to the effect of getting too much of them and that he was getting sick of them. END [I do know that the term “Oreo” is often used in reference to a racial mixture of white and black.]
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 48: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2048;&version=31;
Stubborn Israel
1 "Listen to this, O house of Jacob,
you who are called by the name of Israel
and come from the line of Judah,
you who take oaths in the name of the LORD
and invoke the God of Israel—
but not in truth or righteousness-
2 you who call yourselves citizens of the holy city
and rely on the God of Israel—
the LORD Almighty is his name…
"Listen to me, O Jacob,
Israel, whom I have called:
I am he;
I am the first and I am the last.
13 My own hand laid the foundations of the earth,
and my right hand spread out the heavens;
when I summon them,
they all stand up together.
14 "Come together, all of you, and listen:
Which of the idols has foretold these things?
The LORD's chosen ally
will carry out his purpose against Babylon;
his arm will be against the Babylonians.
15 I, even I, have spoken;
yes, I have called him.
I will bring him,
and he will succeed in his mission.
16 "Come near me and listen to this:
"From the first announcement I have not spoken in secret;
at the time it happens, I am there."
And now the Sovereign LORD has sent me,
with his Spirit.
17 This is what the LORD says—
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
"I am the LORD your God,
who teaches you what is best for you,
who directs you in the way you should go.
18 If only you had paid attention to my commands,
your peace would have been like a river,
your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
19 Your descendants would have been like the sand,
your children like its numberless grains;
their name would never be cut off
nor destroyed from before me."
20 Leave Babylon,
flee from the Babylonians!
Announce this with shouts of joy
and proclaim it.
Send it out to the ends of the earth;
say, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob."
21 They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts;
he made water flow for them from the rock;
he split the rock
and water gushed out.
22 "There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."
Then, the Lord put this song in my head, Let Us Pray / Steven Curtis Chapman
I hear you say your heart is aching You've got trouble in the making And you ask
if I'll be praying for you please And in keeping with conviction I'll say yes
with good intentions To pray later making mention of your needs But since we
have this moment here at heaven's door We should start knocking now, what are we
waiting for?
CHORUS: Let us pray, let us pray, everywhere in every
way Every moment of the day, it is the right time For the Father above, He is
listening with love And He wants to answer us, so let us pray
So
when we feel the Spirit moving Prompting, prodding and behooving There is no
time to be losing, let us pray Let the Father hear us saying What we need to be
conveying Even while this song is playing, let us pray And just because we say
the word, "Amen" It doesn't mean this conversation needs to end
Let us pray, let us pray, everywhere in every way Every moment of
the day, it is the right time Let us pray without end and when we finish start
again Like breathing out and breathing in, let us pray
Let us
approach the throne of grace with confidence As our prayers draw us near To the
One who knows our needs Before we even call His name
Let us pray
everywhere in every way Every moment of the day, it is the right time Let us
pray without end and when we finish start again Like breathing out and breathing
in, let us pray
Sunday, August 24, 2008
"Help me! Help me!"
Sunday, August 24, 2008, 9:47 p.m. – I lay down to go to sleep for the night. Rick and I had just watched some of the news on the Democratic National Convention, plus we had watched a documentary on the life of President Andrew Jackson. Watching the story of his life reminded me of the dream “Blue Jell-O” where my son promised to give one of my granddaughters one Andrew Jackson plus three George Washingtons.
I was praying about this, among other things, when I saw the face of Barbara Bush (GW’s mom) and then Laura Bush, followed by Michelle Obama - interesting.
Earlier this evening, as I watched the news about the DNC, I realized that Joe Biden is Catholic and then all of a sudden that brought to mind a previous vision I had about Michelle Obama and the Pope.
Ok, so I was praying about all of this and then I had A VISION: I saw Joe Biden on my right and then what appeared to be an alligator or lizard to my left whose face then transformed into the face of Hillary Clinton. They were facing each other, and then I saw a very miniature Barack Obama in between them saying, “Help me! Help me!” END (Reference the 1958 movie classic, The Fly.)
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 47:
The Fall of Babylon
1 "Go down, sit in the dust,
Virgin Daughter of Babylon;
sit on the ground without a throne,
Daughter of the Babylonians.
No more will you be called
tender or delicate.
2 Take millstones and grind flour;
take off your veil.
Lift up your skirts, bare your legs,
and wade through the streams.
3 Your nakedness will be exposed
and your shame uncovered.
I will take vengeance;
I will spare no one."
4 Our Redeemer—the LORD Almighty is his name—
is the Holy One of Israel.
5 "Sit in silence, go into darkness,
Daughter of the Babylonians;
no more will you be called
queen of kingdoms.
6 I was angry with my people
and desecrated my inheritance;
I gave them into your hand,
and you showed them no mercy.
Even on the aged
you laid a very heavy yoke.
7 You said, 'I will continue forever—
the eternal queen!'
But you did not consider these things
or reflect on what might happen.
8 "Now then, listen, you wanton creature,
lounging in your security
and saying to yourself,
'I am, and there is none besides me.
I will never be a widow
or suffer the loss of children.'
9 Both of these will overtake you
in a moment, on a single day:
loss of children and widowhood.
They will come upon you in full measure,
in spite of your many sorceries
and all your potent spells.
10 You have trusted in your wickedness
and have said, 'No one sees me.'
Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you
when you say to yourself,
'I am, and there is none besides me.'
11 Disaster will come upon you,
and you will not know how to conjure it away.
A calamity will fall upon you
that you cannot ward off with a ransom;
a catastrophe you cannot foresee
will suddenly come upon you.
12 "Keep on, then, with your magic spells
and with your many sorceries,
which you have labored at since childhood.
Perhaps you will succeed,
perhaps you will cause terror.
13 All the counsel you have received has only worn you out!
Let your astrologers come forward,
those stargazers who make predictions month by month,
let them save you from what is coming upon you.
14 Surely they are like stubble;
the fire will burn them up.
They cannot even save themselves
from the power of the flame.
Here are no coals to warm anyone;
here is no fire to sit by.
15 That is all they can do for you—
these you have labored with
and trafficked with since childhood.
Each of them goes on in his error;
there is not one that can save you.
My Understanding: I believe the Lord will make this one obvious when the timing is right. I will not venture to make any conjectures or to presume upon what the Lord might have in mind here. May the Lord speak to each one of our hearts as he is pleased to do so according to his perfect sovereign will for all mankind.
I was praying about this, among other things, when I saw the face of Barbara Bush (GW’s mom) and then Laura Bush, followed by Michelle Obama - interesting.
Earlier this evening, as I watched the news about the DNC, I realized that Joe Biden is Catholic and then all of a sudden that brought to mind a previous vision I had about Michelle Obama and the Pope.
Ok, so I was praying about all of this and then I had A VISION: I saw Joe Biden on my right and then what appeared to be an alligator or lizard to my left whose face then transformed into the face of Hillary Clinton. They were facing each other, and then I saw a very miniature Barack Obama in between them saying, “Help me! Help me!” END (Reference the 1958 movie classic, The Fly.)
Plot Summary: Scientist Andre Delambre becomes obsessed with his latestWow! This sounds like Hillary’s head is transferred onto the body of Barack Obama (the lizard or alligator) and that Barack Obama’s head is then transferred on to the body of a “fly,” i.e. Hillary? – Interesting!
creation, a matter transporter. He has varying degrees of success with it. He
eventually decides to use a human subject, himself, with tragic consequences.
During the transference, his atoms become merged with a fly, which was
accidentally let into the machine. He winds up with the fly's head and one of
it's arms and the fly winds up with Andre's head and arm. Eventually, Andre's wife, Helene discovers his secret and must make a decision whether to let him continue to live like that or to do the unthinkable and euthanize him to end his
suffering. Written by Brian Washington {Sargebri@earthlink.net} http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051622/plotsummary
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 47:
The Fall of Babylon
1 "Go down, sit in the dust,
Virgin Daughter of Babylon;
sit on the ground without a throne,
Daughter of the Babylonians.
No more will you be called
tender or delicate.
2 Take millstones and grind flour;
take off your veil.
Lift up your skirts, bare your legs,
and wade through the streams.
3 Your nakedness will be exposed
and your shame uncovered.
I will take vengeance;
I will spare no one."
4 Our Redeemer—the LORD Almighty is his name—
is the Holy One of Israel.
5 "Sit in silence, go into darkness,
Daughter of the Babylonians;
no more will you be called
queen of kingdoms.
6 I was angry with my people
and desecrated my inheritance;
I gave them into your hand,
and you showed them no mercy.
Even on the aged
you laid a very heavy yoke.
7 You said, 'I will continue forever—
the eternal queen!'
But you did not consider these things
or reflect on what might happen.
8 "Now then, listen, you wanton creature,
lounging in your security
and saying to yourself,
'I am, and there is none besides me.
I will never be a widow
or suffer the loss of children.'
9 Both of these will overtake you
in a moment, on a single day:
loss of children and widowhood.
They will come upon you in full measure,
in spite of your many sorceries
and all your potent spells.
10 You have trusted in your wickedness
and have said, 'No one sees me.'
Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you
when you say to yourself,
'I am, and there is none besides me.'
11 Disaster will come upon you,
and you will not know how to conjure it away.
A calamity will fall upon you
that you cannot ward off with a ransom;
a catastrophe you cannot foresee
will suddenly come upon you.
12 "Keep on, then, with your magic spells
and with your many sorceries,
which you have labored at since childhood.
Perhaps you will succeed,
perhaps you will cause terror.
13 All the counsel you have received has only worn you out!
Let your astrologers come forward,
those stargazers who make predictions month by month,
let them save you from what is coming upon you.
14 Surely they are like stubble;
the fire will burn them up.
They cannot even save themselves
from the power of the flame.
Here are no coals to warm anyone;
here is no fire to sit by.
15 That is all they can do for you—
these you have labored with
and trafficked with since childhood.
Each of them goes on in his error;
there is not one that can save you.
My Understanding: I believe the Lord will make this one obvious when the timing is right. I will not venture to make any conjectures or to presume upon what the Lord might have in mind here. May the Lord speak to each one of our hearts as he is pleased to do so according to his perfect sovereign will for all mankind.
The Other Doctor
Sunday, August 24, 2008, 7:51 a.m. – I woke this morning to this song:
The Twenty-First Time / Monk & Neagle
She may be a stranger tryin’ to get through the daybut what if it’s Jesus and I walk away?I say I’m the body and drink of the winebut I pretend not to see her for the twenty-first time
This is a call for a change in my heartI realize that I’ve not been doin’ my partwhen I needed a Savior, I found it in HimHe gave to me, now I’ll give back to them
Drifter or stranger, father or sonI’ll look for Jesus in every one’cause I am the body and drink of the wineand I’m thankful there’s more than the twenty-first time
I also woke from A DREAM: Someone asked me to go to a doctor’s office in order to help someone; to solve a problem and/or to be a witness against and/or to help another doctor with a problem he had. I was given a stack of stuff to take in with me like books. When I got there, the people in the doctor’s office told me to go into a room and to remove my clothing, like they thought I was a patient there, but I told them I wasn’t a patient but that I was there to help someone; to be a witness.
Then they sent me into this room with a group of people but no one wanted to work on the problem – the problem that involved this other doctor from another office. I finally decided to leave because no one was willing to work on this. When I left, someone gave me some containers of leftover food to take home with me, only I threw them both out as I left. There was something in here about using secular means for problem solving and that didn’t feel right to me.
Then there was a scene with our middle son, his wife and our grandchildren. They were spending the night with us. John and Faith were sleeping on a pull-out full-size bed (like a sleeper sofa) out in an open area right near sliding-glass doors that led to a porch outside. I thought we were going to get this doctor to spend the night so that we could help him, but he never showed up. We would have had to rearrange the sleeping arrangements in order to make room for him.
The next morning, John and Faith’s full-size bed was split in half like twin beds and one was moved so that where the two beds met together, it was at a 90 degree angle. Then someone took one of the beds out the sliding-glass doors and out on to the porch and then he/they invited me to use it out there. END
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 46: Gods of Babylon
1 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops low;
their idols are borne by beasts of burden.
The images that are carried about are burdensome,
a burden for the weary.
2 They stoop and bow down together;
unable to rescue the burden,
they themselves go off into captivity.
3 "Listen to me, O house of Jacob,
all you who remain of the house of Israel,
you whom I have upheld since you were conceived,
and have carried since your birth.
4 Even to your old age and gray hairs
I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
5 "To whom will you compare me or count me equal?
To whom will you liken me that we may be compared?
6 Some pour out gold from their bags
and weigh out silver on the scales;
they hire a goldsmith to make it into a god,
and they bow down and worship it.
7 They lift it to their shoulders and carry it;
they set it up in its place, and there it stands.
From that spot it cannot move.
Though one cries out to it, it does not answer;
it cannot save him from his troubles.
8 "Remember this, fix it in mind,
take it to heart, you rebels.
9 Remember the former things, those of long ago;
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me.
10 I make known the end from the beginning,
from ancient times, what is still to come.
I say: My purpose will stand,
and I will do all that I please.
11 From the east I summon a bird of prey;
from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose.
What I have said, that will I bring about;
what I have planned, that will I do.
12 Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted,
you who are far from righteousness.
13 I am bringing my righteousness near,
it is not far away;
and my salvation will not be delayed.
I will grant salvation to Zion,
my splendor to Israel.
My Understanding: Even though I believe this may have a political application and that I may be representing Hillary again, to some extent, I believe the Lord has given me a more personal application which is also for the church, I believe.
The Lord has called me (and others) to be His witness(es) to the church because of the idolatry and false teaching that is going on within the church. The Lord supplied me with all I would need for this task. Although this ministry has certainly been one that necessitated my transparency (disrobing, so to speak) concerning my own life, I believe in this context that the Lord has another meaning in mind concerning the request for removing my clothing so that I could be treated like a patient.
As a believer in Jesus Christ, I am clothed with Christ and I have on the armor of God. The “disrobing” here, I believe, was a request to remove any semblance of the ministry to which God has called me so that they could treat me with their “medicine.” In a previous dream, Suitcase Full of Money, the Lord gave me a personal application to that one about the treasures he has given to me and how he had unzipped the suitcase to reveal what was inside but that I had zipped it back up. In that dream, the man-star pastor asked me to “dance,” i.e. to “lip sync,” but I told him “I don’t dance.” Well, that happened a few days following that in real life.
In this present church we’ve been visiting, one of the pastors asked me not to bring up anything about the ministry God has called me to but I told him I can’t do that. I told him it was not my objective to go in there to promote my ministry but that I also had to be obedient to the Lord in saying whatever he told me to say, and if he said to speak, I had to speak. Evidently, all that was relayed to the man-star pastor is that I had agreed not to promote my ministry, i.e. not to bring it up in any way.
After the Lord gave me the dream about the suitcase, I inquired of him as to how I had zipped up the suitcase that he had unzipped. He reminded me of something he had put in my mind to say at our last small group meeting. I didn’t say it - how God had been preparing me all my life through all my life experiences for this ministry to which he has called me – for such a time as this.
So, I redid my signature for my e-mails and I included a link to my blog (I unzipped the treasure suitcase), i.e. I invited them to my house only they didn’t show up. Then I received both an e-mail and a phone call from the star pastor asking me to remove that link from my signature and to not bring up the ministry God has given me. I said I couldn’t do that, so he invited us to leave. So, he asked me to “dance” and I said “I don’t dance,” so he removed me and my husband from the small group.
The full-size bed in our house represents a covenant relationship between the Lord and his bride, I believe, but in this case it was a “pull-out” bed right inside “sliding-glass doors.” A bed that is a pull-out is something you just bring out when you have guests so it represents a convenience-based relationship with the Lord. The sliding-glass doors (Jesus is The Door) represent easy-believism, i.e. a door to heaven which skates, slips, skims, and slithers. It is a flexible gospel which appeals to the flesh of man. It is not a firm, solid door, i.e. it is not The One and Only Door, which is Jesus Christ. So, that causes a division between the church and the Lord. By placing one half of the bed outside for my use, it has to do not only with the church booting the Lord out the doors of the church, but with this specific church asking me to leave and thus separating me from the rest of that body of Christ.
The Twenty-First Time / Monk & Neagle
She may be a stranger tryin’ to get through the daybut what if it’s Jesus and I walk away?I say I’m the body and drink of the winebut I pretend not to see her for the twenty-first time
This is a call for a change in my heartI realize that I’ve not been doin’ my partwhen I needed a Savior, I found it in HimHe gave to me, now I’ll give back to them
Drifter or stranger, father or sonI’ll look for Jesus in every one’cause I am the body and drink of the wineand I’m thankful there’s more than the twenty-first time
I also woke from A DREAM: Someone asked me to go to a doctor’s office in order to help someone; to solve a problem and/or to be a witness against and/or to help another doctor with a problem he had. I was given a stack of stuff to take in with me like books. When I got there, the people in the doctor’s office told me to go into a room and to remove my clothing, like they thought I was a patient there, but I told them I wasn’t a patient but that I was there to help someone; to be a witness.
Then they sent me into this room with a group of people but no one wanted to work on the problem – the problem that involved this other doctor from another office. I finally decided to leave because no one was willing to work on this. When I left, someone gave me some containers of leftover food to take home with me, only I threw them both out as I left. There was something in here about using secular means for problem solving and that didn’t feel right to me.
Then there was a scene with our middle son, his wife and our grandchildren. They were spending the night with us. John and Faith were sleeping on a pull-out full-size bed (like a sleeper sofa) out in an open area right near sliding-glass doors that led to a porch outside. I thought we were going to get this doctor to spend the night so that we could help him, but he never showed up. We would have had to rearrange the sleeping arrangements in order to make room for him.
The next morning, John and Faith’s full-size bed was split in half like twin beds and one was moved so that where the two beds met together, it was at a 90 degree angle. Then someone took one of the beds out the sliding-glass doors and out on to the porch and then he/they invited me to use it out there. END
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 46: Gods of Babylon
1 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops low;
their idols are borne by beasts of burden.
The images that are carried about are burdensome,
a burden for the weary.
2 They stoop and bow down together;
unable to rescue the burden,
they themselves go off into captivity.
3 "Listen to me, O house of Jacob,
all you who remain of the house of Israel,
you whom I have upheld since you were conceived,
and have carried since your birth.
4 Even to your old age and gray hairs
I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
5 "To whom will you compare me or count me equal?
To whom will you liken me that we may be compared?
6 Some pour out gold from their bags
and weigh out silver on the scales;
they hire a goldsmith to make it into a god,
and they bow down and worship it.
7 They lift it to their shoulders and carry it;
they set it up in its place, and there it stands.
From that spot it cannot move.
Though one cries out to it, it does not answer;
it cannot save him from his troubles.
8 "Remember this, fix it in mind,
take it to heart, you rebels.
9 Remember the former things, those of long ago;
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me.
10 I make known the end from the beginning,
from ancient times, what is still to come.
I say: My purpose will stand,
and I will do all that I please.
11 From the east I summon a bird of prey;
from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose.
What I have said, that will I bring about;
what I have planned, that will I do.
12 Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted,
you who are far from righteousness.
13 I am bringing my righteousness near,
it is not far away;
and my salvation will not be delayed.
I will grant salvation to Zion,
my splendor to Israel.
My Understanding: Even though I believe this may have a political application and that I may be representing Hillary again, to some extent, I believe the Lord has given me a more personal application which is also for the church, I believe.
The Lord has called me (and others) to be His witness(es) to the church because of the idolatry and false teaching that is going on within the church. The Lord supplied me with all I would need for this task. Although this ministry has certainly been one that necessitated my transparency (disrobing, so to speak) concerning my own life, I believe in this context that the Lord has another meaning in mind concerning the request for removing my clothing so that I could be treated like a patient.
As a believer in Jesus Christ, I am clothed with Christ and I have on the armor of God. The “disrobing” here, I believe, was a request to remove any semblance of the ministry to which God has called me so that they could treat me with their “medicine.” In a previous dream, Suitcase Full of Money, the Lord gave me a personal application to that one about the treasures he has given to me and how he had unzipped the suitcase to reveal what was inside but that I had zipped it back up. In that dream, the man-star pastor asked me to “dance,” i.e. to “lip sync,” but I told him “I don’t dance.” Well, that happened a few days following that in real life.
In this present church we’ve been visiting, one of the pastors asked me not to bring up anything about the ministry God has called me to but I told him I can’t do that. I told him it was not my objective to go in there to promote my ministry but that I also had to be obedient to the Lord in saying whatever he told me to say, and if he said to speak, I had to speak. Evidently, all that was relayed to the man-star pastor is that I had agreed not to promote my ministry, i.e. not to bring it up in any way.
After the Lord gave me the dream about the suitcase, I inquired of him as to how I had zipped up the suitcase that he had unzipped. He reminded me of something he had put in my mind to say at our last small group meeting. I didn’t say it - how God had been preparing me all my life through all my life experiences for this ministry to which he has called me – for such a time as this.
So, I redid my signature for my e-mails and I included a link to my blog (I unzipped the treasure suitcase), i.e. I invited them to my house only they didn’t show up. Then I received both an e-mail and a phone call from the star pastor asking me to remove that link from my signature and to not bring up the ministry God has given me. I said I couldn’t do that, so he invited us to leave. So, he asked me to “dance” and I said “I don’t dance,” so he removed me and my husband from the small group.
The full-size bed in our house represents a covenant relationship between the Lord and his bride, I believe, but in this case it was a “pull-out” bed right inside “sliding-glass doors.” A bed that is a pull-out is something you just bring out when you have guests so it represents a convenience-based relationship with the Lord. The sliding-glass doors (Jesus is The Door) represent easy-believism, i.e. a door to heaven which skates, slips, skims, and slithers. It is a flexible gospel which appeals to the flesh of man. It is not a firm, solid door, i.e. it is not The One and Only Door, which is Jesus Christ. So, that causes a division between the church and the Lord. By placing one half of the bed outside for my use, it has to do not only with the church booting the Lord out the doors of the church, but with this specific church asking me to leave and thus separating me from the rest of that body of Christ.
Exchanging Sofas
Friday, August 22, 2008, 9:30 a.m. – I woke to this song in my head:
Remember Me / Mark Schultz
Remember Me
In a Bible cracked and faded by the years.
Remember Me
In a sanctuary filled with silent prayer
Remember Me
When the color of the sunset fills the sky
Remember Me
When you pray and tears fall from your eyes.
Remember Me
When the children leave their Sunday school with smiles
Remember Me
When they're old enough to teach,
Old enough to preach
Old enough to leave.
And age to age
And heart to heart
Bound by grace and peace
Child of wonder,
Child of God,
I've remembered you,
Remember Me.
I also woke from A DREAM: We were moving furniture – exchanging sofas. We took one of our sofas and exchanged it with a love seat sofa at my youngest (military) son’s apartment. His wife seemed to be interchangeable in this dream with a mixed-race (India, England, black America & Portugal) woman friend I used to know. My other two sons were helping to move the furniture. Our middle son, John, carried in a Lazy Boy sofa - with its feet extended - all by himself into our youngest son’s apartment. We then ended up with three sofas at our house – all different.
My oldest son, David, had eaten some marijuana (not in real life for sure) and it caused him to be out of it. I believe he was lying down on the stairs. I found the marijuana in what looked like a white medicine cup, so I confiscated it and put it in my left pants pocket. He saw something in my pocket as I was walking by him on my way up the stairs (outside stairs to a backdoor). He inquired as to what it was in my pocket (he knew) and basically I told him “Never mind.” END
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 44:24-28:
Jerusalem to Be Inhabited
24 "This is what the LORD says—
your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb:
I am the LORD,
who has made all things,
who alone stretched out the heavens,
who spread out the earth by myself,
25 who foils the signs of false prophets
and makes fools of diviners,
who overthrows the learning of the wise
and turns it into nonsense,
26 who carries out the words of his servants
and fulfills the predictions of his messengers,
who says of Jerusalem, 'It shall be inhabited,'
of the towns of Judah, 'They shall be built,'
and of their ruins, 'I will restore them,'
27 who says to the watery deep, 'Be dry,
and I will dry up your streams,'
28 who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd
and will accomplish all that I please;
he will say of Jerusalem, "Let it be rebuilt,"
and of the temple, "Let its foundations be laid." '
My Understanding: Sofa: a long upholstered seat that has a back and arms and is made to seat more than one person. Arm: military - a weapon, especially one used in warfare (Encarta).
I began to go one direction with this and then the Lord stopped me, so I went back to him in prayer, seeking his face, concerning this. So, this is the understanding I have now. Again, the Lord is having me symbolize Hillary Clinton. The apartment with the multi-racial couple is what was the undecided partnership between Barack Obama and the VP of his choosing. It was symbolized by a “love seat,” because it was still in the “courting” stages on Friday, when the Lord gave me this dream.
Ok, then “we,” meaning the democratic party, decided to exchange the “love seat” with a full-size fully extended (fully armed) candidate to be Obama’s VP choice, i.e. Joe Biden. My son, John, is representing him. He carried in this sofa all by himself, signifying that he is a very powerful and strong man and he is fully armed for battle politically speaking. I also believe he is God’s choice for this period of time.
Ok, so I asked the Lord who my son David represented and I believe he said “Al Gore.” Ok, what is interesting about this is the vision I had about the donkey with the muzzle, i.e. sand pail over his mouth and the other dream I had about Obama “lip syncing” someone else’s words and then the Lord showed me the mouth of a bull. In some previous dreams awhile back, the Lord had shown me Al Gore as a bull. So, it could be that he was the one putting the words in Barack’s mouth.
Ok, so in this dream, my son David was helping with this rearrangement of furniture, so it sounds as though Al Gore had some influence in the choice of Joe Biden. Or, Joe Biden made his way in all by himself without any help just like John carried in that sofa all by himself. I Googled Gore and Biden and found that there was a lot of sympathy towards Al Gore becoming the VP pick over Biden which would make sense why Gore was thus lying on the back stairs of the convention or White House.
Also, David, symbolizing Al Gore, was depicted as having eaten marijuana.
Then, the dream goes on to show me (Hillary) climbing the back stairs (history or back as in not through the front door) to either the White House or the DNC convention. Hillary has confiscated this “marijuana” and it seems to be that she has something on Al Gore that will be to her benefit, perhaps.
Anyway, the Bible passage talks about the false prophets’ signs (like global warming) that God is foiling and then it goes on to talk about making fools of diviners and turning the learning of the wise into nonsense, so in this sense, it sounds as though the “marijuana” is merely symbolic to represent foolishness and nonsense, which I believe the idea of “Global Warming” fits in with that category.
As far as the “three” sofas in “our house” now that we have rearranged could be a reference to Obama, Biden and Clinton, because she is not gone. This week will be very telling, I believe.
Remember Me / Mark Schultz
Remember Me
In a Bible cracked and faded by the years.
Remember Me
In a sanctuary filled with silent prayer
Remember Me
When the color of the sunset fills the sky
Remember Me
When you pray and tears fall from your eyes.
Remember Me
When the children leave their Sunday school with smiles
Remember Me
When they're old enough to teach,
Old enough to preach
Old enough to leave.
And age to age
And heart to heart
Bound by grace and peace
Child of wonder,
Child of God,
I've remembered you,
Remember Me.
I also woke from A DREAM: We were moving furniture – exchanging sofas. We took one of our sofas and exchanged it with a love seat sofa at my youngest (military) son’s apartment. His wife seemed to be interchangeable in this dream with a mixed-race (India, England, black America & Portugal) woman friend I used to know. My other two sons were helping to move the furniture. Our middle son, John, carried in a Lazy Boy sofa - with its feet extended - all by himself into our youngest son’s apartment. We then ended up with three sofas at our house – all different.
My oldest son, David, had eaten some marijuana (not in real life for sure) and it caused him to be out of it. I believe he was lying down on the stairs. I found the marijuana in what looked like a white medicine cup, so I confiscated it and put it in my left pants pocket. He saw something in my pocket as I was walking by him on my way up the stairs (outside stairs to a backdoor). He inquired as to what it was in my pocket (he knew) and basically I told him “Never mind.” END
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 44:24-28:
Jerusalem to Be Inhabited
24 "This is what the LORD says—
your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb:
I am the LORD,
who has made all things,
who alone stretched out the heavens,
who spread out the earth by myself,
25 who foils the signs of false prophets
and makes fools of diviners,
who overthrows the learning of the wise
and turns it into nonsense,
26 who carries out the words of his servants
and fulfills the predictions of his messengers,
who says of Jerusalem, 'It shall be inhabited,'
of the towns of Judah, 'They shall be built,'
and of their ruins, 'I will restore them,'
27 who says to the watery deep, 'Be dry,
and I will dry up your streams,'
28 who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd
and will accomplish all that I please;
he will say of Jerusalem, "Let it be rebuilt,"
and of the temple, "Let its foundations be laid." '
My Understanding: Sofa: a long upholstered seat that has a back and arms and is made to seat more than one person. Arm: military - a weapon, especially one used in warfare (Encarta).
I began to go one direction with this and then the Lord stopped me, so I went back to him in prayer, seeking his face, concerning this. So, this is the understanding I have now. Again, the Lord is having me symbolize Hillary Clinton. The apartment with the multi-racial couple is what was the undecided partnership between Barack Obama and the VP of his choosing. It was symbolized by a “love seat,” because it was still in the “courting” stages on Friday, when the Lord gave me this dream.
Ok, then “we,” meaning the democratic party, decided to exchange the “love seat” with a full-size fully extended (fully armed) candidate to be Obama’s VP choice, i.e. Joe Biden. My son, John, is representing him. He carried in this sofa all by himself, signifying that he is a very powerful and strong man and he is fully armed for battle politically speaking. I also believe he is God’s choice for this period of time.
Ok, so I asked the Lord who my son David represented and I believe he said “Al Gore.” Ok, what is interesting about this is the vision I had about the donkey with the muzzle, i.e. sand pail over his mouth and the other dream I had about Obama “lip syncing” someone else’s words and then the Lord showed me the mouth of a bull. In some previous dreams awhile back, the Lord had shown me Al Gore as a bull. So, it could be that he was the one putting the words in Barack’s mouth.
Ok, so in this dream, my son David was helping with this rearrangement of furniture, so it sounds as though Al Gore had some influence in the choice of Joe Biden. Or, Joe Biden made his way in all by himself without any help just like John carried in that sofa all by himself. I Googled Gore and Biden and found that there was a lot of sympathy towards Al Gore becoming the VP pick over Biden which would make sense why Gore was thus lying on the back stairs of the convention or White House.
Also, David, symbolizing Al Gore, was depicted as having eaten marijuana.
Encarta Encyclopedia: Many users describe two phases of marijuana intoxication: initial stimulation, which includes giddiness and euphoria, followed by sedation and pleasant tranquility. Mood changes are often accompanied by alteredThe article also suggests that some medical uses of marijuana are to treat the symptoms of AIDS and MS. The scripture talks about the Lord foiling the signs of false prophets and the description of the Lord spreading out the earth by himself fits, to some extent, the dream’s picture of my son carrying the fully-extended sofa in all by himself, which leads me to believe that this man, Joe Biden, is God’s choice.
perceptions of time and space. Thinking processes become disrupted by
fragmentary ideas and memories. Many users report increased appetite, heightened
sensory awareness, and general feelings of pleasure.
Negative effects of marijuana use can include confusion, acute panic reactions, anxiety attacks, fear, a sense of helplessness, and loss of self-control. Chronic
marijuana users may develop amotivational syndrome characterized by passivity,
decreased motivation, and preoccupation with taking drugs. Like alcohol
intoxication, marijuana intoxication impairs judgment, comprehension, memory,
speech, problem-solving ability, reaction time, and driving skills…. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761567358_1____2/Marijuana.html#s2
Then, the dream goes on to show me (Hillary) climbing the back stairs (history or back as in not through the front door) to either the White House or the DNC convention. Hillary has confiscated this “marijuana” and it seems to be that she has something on Al Gore that will be to her benefit, perhaps.
Anyway, the Bible passage talks about the false prophets’ signs (like global warming) that God is foiling and then it goes on to talk about making fools of diviners and turning the learning of the wise into nonsense, so in this sense, it sounds as though the “marijuana” is merely symbolic to represent foolishness and nonsense, which I believe the idea of “Global Warming” fits in with that category.
As far as the “three” sofas in “our house” now that we have rearranged could be a reference to Obama, Biden and Clinton, because she is not gone. This week will be very telling, I believe.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Magic Trick
Thursday, August 21, 2008, 11:58 p.m. – I went to bed for the night, I was praying, then when I closed my eyes I had A VISION: I saw a donkey. Then a bucket, like a small metal beach pail, was placed over the donkey’s mouth, like it was a muzzle. Then I saw a bull’s mouth and then the smiling face of Barack Obama. Following that I saw an image of a pig which quickly turned into a fox and then I think I saw a snarling wolf ever so briefly. Then I saw a magician swinging his cape as though performing a magic trick. END When I got up to record the vision, this song was in my head again:
Defining Moment / Newsong
there comes a time in every heart a time of real decision when we reach the point of choosing how we will live our lives all our hopes, all our dreams will rise up from that moment the moment we surrender and choose to follow Christ he's been waiting all our lives to hear us say i am yours, lord, take my hand and lead the way
when you believe he's all you need that will be your defining moment as you live your life walking in hislight trusting him completely that will be, that will be your defining moment
all i have, all i am is resting in his promise the promise that he'll make me everything that i should be i will live, i will die, for the cause he's set before me to take this love inside my heart for all the world to see
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 44:6-20:
The LORD, Not Idols
6 "This is what the LORD says—
Israel's King and Redeemer, the LORD Almighty:
I am the first and I am the last;
apart from me there is no God.
7 Who then is like me? Let him proclaim it.
Let him declare and lay out before me
what has happened since I established my ancient people,
and what is yet to come—
yes, let him foretell what will come.
8 Do not tremble, do not be afraid.
Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago?
You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me?
No, there is no other Rock; I know not one."
9 All who make idols are nothing,
and the things they treasure are worthless.
Those who would speak up for them are blind;
they are ignorant, to their own shame.
10 Who shapes a god and casts an idol,
which can profit him nothing?
11 He and his kind will be put to shame;
craftsmen are nothing but men.
Let them all come together and take their stand;
they will be brought down to terror and infamy.
12 The blacksmith takes a tool
and works with it in the coals;
he shapes an idol with hammers,
he forges it with the might of his arm.
He gets hungry and loses his strength;
he drinks no water and grows faint.
13 The carpenter measures with a line
and makes an outline with a marker;
he roughs it out with chisels
and marks it with compasses.
He shapes it in the form of man,
of man in all his glory,
that it may dwell in a shrine.
14 He cut down cedars,
or perhaps took a cypress or oak.
He let it grow among the trees of the forest,
or planted a pine, and the rain made it grow.
15 It is man's fuel for burning;
some of it he takes and warms himself,
he kindles a fire and bakes bread.
But he also fashions a god and worships it;
he makes an idol and bows down to it.
16 Half of the wood he burns in the fire;
over it he prepares his meal,
he roasts his meat and eats his fill.
He also warms himself and says,
"Ah! I am warm; I see the fire."
17 From the rest he makes a god, his idol;
he bows down to it and worships.
He prays to it and says,
"Save me; you are my god."
18 They know nothing, they understand nothing;
their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see,
and their minds closed so they cannot understand.
19 No one stops to think,
no one has the knowledge or understanding to say,
"Half of it I used for fuel;
I even baked bread over its coals,
I roasted meat and I ate.
Shall I make a detestable thing from what is left?
Shall I bow down to a block of wood?"
20 He feeds on ashes, a deluded heart misleads him;
he cannot save himself, or say,
"Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?"
My Understanding: I believe the donkey is a symbol of the democratic political party. It is also a symbol for somebody thought of as lacking intelligence. A bucket is a container for catching or holding liquids or solids. I believe this was a sand bucket. This fits with 44:20 about the worship of idols being like feeding on ashes, meaning to trust in something worthless; something that deceives (TBKC).
Encarta Dictionary states that to kick sand in somebody’s face is to show contempt for or dominance over somebody less strong or powerful. Ok, then a bull would fit perfectly here because a bull represents someone who pushes forcefully, like a big bully, i.e. an aggressive person who intimidates or mistreats weaker people.
Ok, Barack Obama was next and he is a “donkey” – a democrat. The bucket acted like a muzzle and was placed over the mouth of the donkey. Then I saw the bull’s mouth and then the smiling face of Barack Obama. In yesterday’s dream, the Lord showed me Barack Obama “dancing” with the 9 yr old girl who “lip synced” the singing of another girl. This was orchestrated by her government who chose her because she was prettier but it was really the other girl who was singing.
So, if Barack is “dancing” with her, then in essence this is saying that he is not only “lip syncing” the words of another, but he was chosen by our government or by the democratic party because of his looks, his charisma, etc., but it is really someone else behind the scenes, the bull, saying the words. It is Barack’s voice but someone else is putting the words in his mouth. So maybe that is what is meant by the bucket of sand over his mouth, too. In essence, the 9 yr old who “lip synced” at the Olympics was muzzled, too, as she moved her mouth but nothing came out.
Ok, back to the vision… next was the pig who immediately transformed into a fox and then I saw the snarling wolf and then the magician performing a trick. A pig in Bible times was considered an unclean animal. A fox is considered a sly and cunning person (a trickster like the magician) or a good-looking young person. A wolf is a person who is regarded as greedy and cruel which would account for the snarling. A wolf is also considered a predatory man.
Ok, what is clear to me from this passage of scripture is that this is talking about not only man-made idols but idols that are formed in the image of a man. The Lord has shown me in several dreams and visions that Barack Obama is nothing more than an idol; a fake person; a marionette; a “lip sync” person and now one who is muzzled and who has a bull putting words in his mouth, basically.
Obama is often characterized by the media as a self-proclaimed messiah, so in essence he is making himself out (or someone else is doing this behind the scenes) to be the “savior” of the world. This “lip syncing” is a “magic trick” but I’m not sure who the real “trickster” is. I think the point is that they took a pig and made him into a fox, so maybe the wolf is his opponent, John McCain. The Lord knows. And he wants us to be aware that Barack Obama is not who he says he is. He’s just a magic trick. And, he is not your savior. Jesus Christ is our ONLY God and ONLY Savior!
Defining Moment / Newsong
there comes a time in every heart a time of real decision when we reach the point of choosing how we will live our lives all our hopes, all our dreams will rise up from that moment the moment we surrender and choose to follow Christ he's been waiting all our lives to hear us say i am yours, lord, take my hand and lead the way
when you believe he's all you need that will be your defining moment as you live your life walking in hislight trusting him completely that will be, that will be your defining moment
all i have, all i am is resting in his promise the promise that he'll make me everything that i should be i will live, i will die, for the cause he's set before me to take this love inside my heart for all the world to see
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 44:6-20:
The LORD, Not Idols
6 "This is what the LORD says—
Israel's King and Redeemer, the LORD Almighty:
I am the first and I am the last;
apart from me there is no God.
7 Who then is like me? Let him proclaim it.
Let him declare and lay out before me
what has happened since I established my ancient people,
and what is yet to come—
yes, let him foretell what will come.
8 Do not tremble, do not be afraid.
Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago?
You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me?
No, there is no other Rock; I know not one."
9 All who make idols are nothing,
and the things they treasure are worthless.
Those who would speak up for them are blind;
they are ignorant, to their own shame.
10 Who shapes a god and casts an idol,
which can profit him nothing?
11 He and his kind will be put to shame;
craftsmen are nothing but men.
Let them all come together and take their stand;
they will be brought down to terror and infamy.
12 The blacksmith takes a tool
and works with it in the coals;
he shapes an idol with hammers,
he forges it with the might of his arm.
He gets hungry and loses his strength;
he drinks no water and grows faint.
13 The carpenter measures with a line
and makes an outline with a marker;
he roughs it out with chisels
and marks it with compasses.
He shapes it in the form of man,
of man in all his glory,
that it may dwell in a shrine.
14 He cut down cedars,
or perhaps took a cypress or oak.
He let it grow among the trees of the forest,
or planted a pine, and the rain made it grow.
15 It is man's fuel for burning;
some of it he takes and warms himself,
he kindles a fire and bakes bread.
But he also fashions a god and worships it;
he makes an idol and bows down to it.
16 Half of the wood he burns in the fire;
over it he prepares his meal,
he roasts his meat and eats his fill.
He also warms himself and says,
"Ah! I am warm; I see the fire."
17 From the rest he makes a god, his idol;
he bows down to it and worships.
He prays to it and says,
"Save me; you are my god."
18 They know nothing, they understand nothing;
their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see,
and their minds closed so they cannot understand.
19 No one stops to think,
no one has the knowledge or understanding to say,
"Half of it I used for fuel;
I even baked bread over its coals,
I roasted meat and I ate.
Shall I make a detestable thing from what is left?
Shall I bow down to a block of wood?"
20 He feeds on ashes, a deluded heart misleads him;
he cannot save himself, or say,
"Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?"
My Understanding: I believe the donkey is a symbol of the democratic political party. It is also a symbol for somebody thought of as lacking intelligence. A bucket is a container for catching or holding liquids or solids. I believe this was a sand bucket. This fits with 44:20 about the worship of idols being like feeding on ashes, meaning to trust in something worthless; something that deceives (TBKC).
Encarta Dictionary states that to kick sand in somebody’s face is to show contempt for or dominance over somebody less strong or powerful. Ok, then a bull would fit perfectly here because a bull represents someone who pushes forcefully, like a big bully, i.e. an aggressive person who intimidates or mistreats weaker people.
Ok, Barack Obama was next and he is a “donkey” – a democrat. The bucket acted like a muzzle and was placed over the mouth of the donkey. Then I saw the bull’s mouth and then the smiling face of Barack Obama. In yesterday’s dream, the Lord showed me Barack Obama “dancing” with the 9 yr old girl who “lip synced” the singing of another girl. This was orchestrated by her government who chose her because she was prettier but it was really the other girl who was singing.
So, if Barack is “dancing” with her, then in essence this is saying that he is not only “lip syncing” the words of another, but he was chosen by our government or by the democratic party because of his looks, his charisma, etc., but it is really someone else behind the scenes, the bull, saying the words. It is Barack’s voice but someone else is putting the words in his mouth. So maybe that is what is meant by the bucket of sand over his mouth, too. In essence, the 9 yr old who “lip synced” at the Olympics was muzzled, too, as she moved her mouth but nothing came out.
Ok, back to the vision… next was the pig who immediately transformed into a fox and then I saw the snarling wolf and then the magician performing a trick. A pig in Bible times was considered an unclean animal. A fox is considered a sly and cunning person (a trickster like the magician) or a good-looking young person. A wolf is a person who is regarded as greedy and cruel which would account for the snarling. A wolf is also considered a predatory man.
Ok, what is clear to me from this passage of scripture is that this is talking about not only man-made idols but idols that are formed in the image of a man. The Lord has shown me in several dreams and visions that Barack Obama is nothing more than an idol; a fake person; a marionette; a “lip sync” person and now one who is muzzled and who has a bull putting words in his mouth, basically.
Obama is often characterized by the media as a self-proclaimed messiah, so in essence he is making himself out (or someone else is doing this behind the scenes) to be the “savior” of the world. This “lip syncing” is a “magic trick” but I’m not sure who the real “trickster” is. I think the point is that they took a pig and made him into a fox, so maybe the wolf is his opponent, John McCain. The Lord knows. And he wants us to be aware that Barack Obama is not who he says he is. He’s just a magic trick. And, he is not your savior. Jesus Christ is our ONLY God and ONLY Savior!
Thursday, August 21, 2008
A Fake Person
Thursday, August 14, 2008, 7:26 a.m. – I woke with this song in my head:
Empty Me / Chris Sligh
I've had just enough of the spotlight when it burns bright
To see how it gets in the blood.
And I've tasted my share of the sweet life and the wild ride
And found a little is not quite enough.
I know how I can stray
And how fast my heart could change.
I've seen just enough of the quick buys of the best lies
To know how prodigals can be drawn away.
I know how I can stray
And how fast my heart could change.
Empty me of the selfishness inside
Every vain ambition and the poison of my pride
And any foolish thing my heart holds to
Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you.
Cause everything is a lesser thing
Compared to you, compared to you.
Cause everything is a lesser thing
Compared to you. So, I surrender all!
I also woke out of A DREAM: We lived in a white house. The house had a big open window high up, front and center, that we kept covered. Then we uncovered it but it was empty inside so evidently we hired someone to put a fake person in there next to a chair so that when someone left for the day that it still looked like someone was there. The fake person and chair were back in the room a ways but evidently could still be seen from the street at night well enough to look like someone was home.
There was a woman there somewhere who had a child and the child got injured on his hand/fingers with splinters or cinders. I recommended to the child’s mother that she take the child somewhere to have those splinters/cinders removed. I did put some kind of antibiotic ointment on it.
The woman wanted to go back to Maryland for something yet there was a meeting, I think, that she had to be at in an hour. I told her that she would just get there and would have to turn right back around, but she seemed determined to go to Maryland for something.
Back to the white house, I checked the back door to find that it was left unlocked so I locked it but then later on discovered it had been left unlocked again, so I recommended to someone that he check the door before he left or before he went to bed for the night to make sure that the door was locked. END
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 36: Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem
1 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah's reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. 2 Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman's Field, 3 Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to him.
4 The field commander said to them, "Tell Hezekiah,
" 'This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? 5 You say you have strategy and military strength—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? 6 Look now, you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces a man's hand and wounds him if he leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. 7 And if you say to me, "We are depending on the LORD our God"-isn't he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, "You must worship before this altar"?
8 " 'Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them! 9 How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master's officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 10 Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the LORD ? The LORD himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.' "
11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall."
12 But the commander replied, "Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the men sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own filth and drink their own urine?"
13 Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 14 This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you! 15 Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, 'The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'
16 "Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern, 17 until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
18 "Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, 'The LORD will deliver us.' Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? 20 Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?"
21 But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, "Do not answer him."
22 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said.
My Understanding: I printed off a commentary on this passage of scripture and began reading it to help me to understand what was going on here in this passage of scripture historically speaking. Then I saw an updated article on the situation between Russia and Georgia, so I printed it off, also, and began reading it. What happened next was really interesting. They were almost parallels of each other like the writers of the article today about the situation between Russia and Georgia (with the USA in the role of Egypt, perhaps) could have been writing about this historical event recorded in Isaiah 36.
Replace the Assyrian commander with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and replace Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, with the capital city of Georgia, T'bilisi, and you have a nearly parallel story. Lavrov’s comments about Georgia today were so similar to the Assyrian commander’s mockery of the Jerusalemites in asking them who they were depending on for victory. Also, the Assyrian king mocked the people of Jerusalem for their dependency upon Egypt and the US-Georgia military cooperation angers Russia. Just as Isaiah and the Assyrian king noted that it would not be healthy for Jerusalem to depend on Egypt for their victory and in fact, it would be harmful, the Lord is saying the same thing about Georgia’s reliance on the USA.
Three men were chosen by Hezekiah to negotiate with the Assyrians just like the USA is sending a delegation over to Tbilisi (after going to France first) to reinforce U.S. efforts to “rally the world in defense of a free Georgia.”
Ok, back to the Assyrian king stating the harm that would come from Jerusalem depending on Egypt, he stated that “to depend on Egypt would be like leaning on a splintered reed-it would do no good and would even be harmful. In my dream, a child injured his hand/fingers and they had splinters/cinders in them. This all revolved around the “white house” and the “fake person” in the house “high up” and the mother desiring to go to Maryland and back for something but me being concerned about the time – an hour possibly referring to the hour of judgment to come upon the earth.
So, I believe the Lord is showing a parallel here between Jerusalem’s dependence on Egypt and Georgia’s dependence on the USA and that the “high place” with the “fake person” is paralleled to the high places that Hezekiah had removed. The covering of the “high place” indicates that we once had put idolatry aside but that now we were uncovering the “high place” and that we were placing a “fake person” in there to look like someone is at home. Also I sense that the Georgian president, at least, idolizes America (heard as much on an interview with Glenn Beck on CNN).
In this article which I have referred to, it states that a mother and child were among the refugees heading on the road to Tbilisi on the road from Gori. This is the opposite direction the woman and child wished to go in my dream as they were leaving the capital city to go to Maryland. The article also stated that a small blue van crowded with people inside had an “open back door” and in my dream the white house had an unlocked back door. I sense there is some symbolism there. Link to article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7725187
I wonder who the “fake person” will be that we are putting in the White House.
Empty Me / Chris Sligh
I've had just enough of the spotlight when it burns bright
To see how it gets in the blood.
And I've tasted my share of the sweet life and the wild ride
And found a little is not quite enough.
I know how I can stray
And how fast my heart could change.
I've seen just enough of the quick buys of the best lies
To know how prodigals can be drawn away.
I know how I can stray
And how fast my heart could change.
Empty me of the selfishness inside
Every vain ambition and the poison of my pride
And any foolish thing my heart holds to
Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you.
Cause everything is a lesser thing
Compared to you, compared to you.
Cause everything is a lesser thing
Compared to you. So, I surrender all!
I also woke out of A DREAM: We lived in a white house. The house had a big open window high up, front and center, that we kept covered. Then we uncovered it but it was empty inside so evidently we hired someone to put a fake person in there next to a chair so that when someone left for the day that it still looked like someone was there. The fake person and chair were back in the room a ways but evidently could still be seen from the street at night well enough to look like someone was home.
There was a woman there somewhere who had a child and the child got injured on his hand/fingers with splinters or cinders. I recommended to the child’s mother that she take the child somewhere to have those splinters/cinders removed. I did put some kind of antibiotic ointment on it.
The woman wanted to go back to Maryland for something yet there was a meeting, I think, that she had to be at in an hour. I told her that she would just get there and would have to turn right back around, but she seemed determined to go to Maryland for something.
Back to the white house, I checked the back door to find that it was left unlocked so I locked it but then later on discovered it had been left unlocked again, so I recommended to someone that he check the door before he left or before he went to bed for the night to make sure that the door was locked. END
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 36: Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem
1 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah's reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. 2 Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman's Field, 3 Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to him.
4 The field commander said to them, "Tell Hezekiah,
" 'This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? 5 You say you have strategy and military strength—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? 6 Look now, you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces a man's hand and wounds him if he leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. 7 And if you say to me, "We are depending on the LORD our God"-isn't he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, "You must worship before this altar"?
8 " 'Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them! 9 How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master's officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 10 Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the LORD ? The LORD himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.' "
11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall."
12 But the commander replied, "Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the men sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own filth and drink their own urine?"
13 Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 14 This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you! 15 Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, 'The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'
16 "Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern, 17 until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
18 "Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, 'The LORD will deliver us.' Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? 20 Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?"
21 But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, "Do not answer him."
22 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said.
My Understanding: I printed off a commentary on this passage of scripture and began reading it to help me to understand what was going on here in this passage of scripture historically speaking. Then I saw an updated article on the situation between Russia and Georgia, so I printed it off, also, and began reading it. What happened next was really interesting. They were almost parallels of each other like the writers of the article today about the situation between Russia and Georgia (with the USA in the role of Egypt, perhaps) could have been writing about this historical event recorded in Isaiah 36.
Replace the Assyrian commander with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and replace Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, with the capital city of Georgia, T'bilisi, and you have a nearly parallel story. Lavrov’s comments about Georgia today were so similar to the Assyrian commander’s mockery of the Jerusalemites in asking them who they were depending on for victory. Also, the Assyrian king mocked the people of Jerusalem for their dependency upon Egypt and the US-Georgia military cooperation angers Russia. Just as Isaiah and the Assyrian king noted that it would not be healthy for Jerusalem to depend on Egypt for their victory and in fact, it would be harmful, the Lord is saying the same thing about Georgia’s reliance on the USA.
Three men were chosen by Hezekiah to negotiate with the Assyrians just like the USA is sending a delegation over to Tbilisi (after going to France first) to reinforce U.S. efforts to “rally the world in defense of a free Georgia.”
Ok, back to the Assyrian king stating the harm that would come from Jerusalem depending on Egypt, he stated that “to depend on Egypt would be like leaning on a splintered reed-it would do no good and would even be harmful. In my dream, a child injured his hand/fingers and they had splinters/cinders in them. This all revolved around the “white house” and the “fake person” in the house “high up” and the mother desiring to go to Maryland and back for something but me being concerned about the time – an hour possibly referring to the hour of judgment to come upon the earth.
So, I believe the Lord is showing a parallel here between Jerusalem’s dependence on Egypt and Georgia’s dependence on the USA and that the “high place” with the “fake person” is paralleled to the high places that Hezekiah had removed. The covering of the “high place” indicates that we once had put idolatry aside but that now we were uncovering the “high place” and that we were placing a “fake person” in there to look like someone is at home. Also I sense that the Georgian president, at least, idolizes America (heard as much on an interview with Glenn Beck on CNN).
In this article which I have referred to, it states that a mother and child were among the refugees heading on the road to Tbilisi on the road from Gori. This is the opposite direction the woman and child wished to go in my dream as they were leaving the capital city to go to Maryland. The article also stated that a small blue van crowded with people inside had an “open back door” and in my dream the white house had an unlocked back door. I sense there is some symbolism there. Link to article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7725187
I wonder who the “fake person” will be that we are putting in the White House.
Steady The Knees
Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 11:32 p.m. – I was in bed praying when I heard this song in my head:
Wedding Bell Blues / The 5th Dimension / 1969
Bill, I love you so, I always will
I look at you and see the passion eyes of May
Oh, but am I ever gonna see my wedding day
I was on your side Bill when you were loosin'
I never scheme or lie Bill, there's been no foolin'
But kisses and love won't carry me till you marry me Bill…
So, I began to pray more and to inquire of the Lord as to why that song would be in my head and then I got this really awful knee cramp so I got up and came in my study and got on my knees and just listened to God. Then this song came:
Borrow Mine / Bebo Norman
Take my hand and walk with me awhile
Because it seems your smile has left you
And don't give in when you fall apart
And your broken heart has failed you
I'll set a light up on a hilltop
To show you my love for this world to see
And take my love when all that you can see
Is the raging sea all around us
And don't give up cause I'm not letting go
And the God we know will not fail us
We'll lay it all down as we call out
Sweet Savior help our unbelief
When you are weak; unable to speak
You are not alone; God of us, save us
And never forsake us
He's coming to take us; take us to our home
You can borrow mine when your hope is gone
Borrow mine when you can't go on
Cause the world will not defeat you
When we're side by side
When your faith is hard to find
You can borrow mine
Take my hand
Take my love
Don't give in, no
And don't give up
Then I had A VISION: I saw the mom on the Leave It To Beaver show and maybe the dad, too, and then I saw a young good-looking woman with a 1960’s hair and dress style. She was followed by an overweight woman. Following that I saw a cookie cutter silver horse with a cookie cutter star underneath it with some kind of stick in between the horse and the star. Then I saw horses mixed with deer and then a deer with large antlers kicking his hind legs up in the air. After that I saw the bottoms of bare feet and something scraped across the arches of the feet and it made me cringe. Then I saw the face of John McCain. And, that was it. END
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 35:
The desert and the parched land will be glad;
the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.
Like the crocus, 2 it will burst into bloom;
it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
the splendor of Carmel and Sharon;
they will see the glory of the LORD,
the splendor of our God.
3 Strengthen the feeble hands,
steady the knees that give way;
4 say to those with fearful hearts,
"Be strong, do not fear;
your God will come,
he will come with vengeance;
with divine retribution
he will come to save you."
5 Then will the eyes of the blind be opened
and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
6 Then will the lame leap like a deer,
and the mute tongue shout for joy.
Water will gush forth in the wilderness
and streams in the desert.
7 The burning sand will become a pool,
the thirsty ground bubbling springs.
In the haunts where jackals once lay,
grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.
8 And a highway will be there;
it will be called the Way of Holiness.
The unclean will not journey on it;
it will be for those who walk in that Way;
wicked fools will not go about on it.
9 No lion will be there,
nor will any ferocious beast get up on it;
they will not be found there.
But only the redeemed will walk there,
10 and the ransomed of the LORD will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;
everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
August 16, 2008: I was watching the news tonight on TV when they were talking about Barack Obama's acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium in Denver, CO, home of the Denver Broncos. The speech will take place, Lord willing, on August 28th.
Ok, so I was watching the video of the stadium when I saw what looked like a metal horse on top of the stadium and immediately I thought "cookie cutter silver horse" from this vision. Here is a picture of the horse:
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMCA
I believe it is about these democratic and republican national conventions.
Wedding Bell Blues / The 5th Dimension / 1969
Bill, I love you so, I always will
I look at you and see the passion eyes of May
Oh, but am I ever gonna see my wedding day
I was on your side Bill when you were loosin'
I never scheme or lie Bill, there's been no foolin'
But kisses and love won't carry me till you marry me Bill…
So, I began to pray more and to inquire of the Lord as to why that song would be in my head and then I got this really awful knee cramp so I got up and came in my study and got on my knees and just listened to God. Then this song came:
Borrow Mine / Bebo Norman
Take my hand and walk with me awhile
Because it seems your smile has left you
And don't give in when you fall apart
And your broken heart has failed you
I'll set a light up on a hilltop
To show you my love for this world to see
And take my love when all that you can see
Is the raging sea all around us
And don't give up cause I'm not letting go
And the God we know will not fail us
We'll lay it all down as we call out
Sweet Savior help our unbelief
When you are weak; unable to speak
You are not alone; God of us, save us
And never forsake us
He's coming to take us; take us to our home
You can borrow mine when your hope is gone
Borrow mine when you can't go on
Cause the world will not defeat you
When we're side by side
When your faith is hard to find
You can borrow mine
Take my hand
Take my love
Don't give in, no
And don't give up
Then I had A VISION: I saw the mom on the Leave It To Beaver show and maybe the dad, too, and then I saw a young good-looking woman with a 1960’s hair and dress style. She was followed by an overweight woman. Following that I saw a cookie cutter silver horse with a cookie cutter star underneath it with some kind of stick in between the horse and the star. Then I saw horses mixed with deer and then a deer with large antlers kicking his hind legs up in the air. After that I saw the bottoms of bare feet and something scraped across the arches of the feet and it made me cringe. Then I saw the face of John McCain. And, that was it. END
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_to_Beaver
Leave It to Beaver is a 1950s and 1960s family-oriented American television situation comedy about
an inquisitive but often naïve boy named Theodore
"Beaver" Cleaver and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban
neighborhood. The show has attained an iconic status in the United States,
with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family of the
mid-twentieth century… In 1997, a movie version
based on the original series was released to moderate acclaim, and, in October
2007, TV Land
celebrated the show's 50th anniversary with a marathon. Although the show never
broke into the Nielsen Ratings top-30
nor won any awards, it placed on TIME magazine's unranked
2007 list of "The 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME."[3]
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 35:
The desert and the parched land will be glad;
the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.
Like the crocus, 2 it will burst into bloom;
it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
the splendor of Carmel and Sharon;
they will see the glory of the LORD,
the splendor of our God.
3 Strengthen the feeble hands,
steady the knees that give way;
4 say to those with fearful hearts,
"Be strong, do not fear;
your God will come,
he will come with vengeance;
with divine retribution
he will come to save you."
5 Then will the eyes of the blind be opened
and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
6 Then will the lame leap like a deer,
and the mute tongue shout for joy.
Water will gush forth in the wilderness
and streams in the desert.
7 The burning sand will become a pool,
the thirsty ground bubbling springs.
In the haunts where jackals once lay,
grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.
8 And a highway will be there;
it will be called the Way of Holiness.
The unclean will not journey on it;
it will be for those who walk in that Way;
wicked fools will not go about on it.
9 No lion will be there,
nor will any ferocious beast get up on it;
they will not be found there.
But only the redeemed will walk there,
10 and the ransomed of the LORD will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;
everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Deer Antlers: Unlike the hollow, permanent horns of other ruminants, the antlersMy Understanding: I’m praying that the Lord will give me understanding of this. Your thoughts are welcome.
of deer are solid and bony. Except in the caribou, antlers form only on males
and their growth is controlled by the male sex hormone. Arising from the frontal
bones and nourished by a highly vascularized, fine-haired skin, called velvet,
antlers complete their growth, which requires great amounts of calcium, within a
few months. Circulation is then cut off, and the resulting dead skin is sloughed
off as the animal rubs its antlers against trees. Antlers are used to slash
territorial markings on trees or bushes, to make threatening displays, and to
combat other males. Usually the fighting is stylized and harmless, but
occasionally males of large species lock antlers and die of exhaustion or
starvation…. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761564152_1____4/Deer.html#s4
Aggressive Body Behavior: Bucks and Does http://www.deerhunting.ws/vocalization.htm
Rear Up - A deer rears up on its hind legs. This is usually preceded by a head high threat.
Head High Threat - The deer stands erect, holds its head
high, tilts its nose upward, and lays its ears back. The tail of the deer may be
held half way out. This is a rarely used threat.
August 16, 2008: I was watching the news tonight on TV when they were talking about Barack Obama's acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium in Denver, CO, home of the Denver Broncos. The speech will take place, Lord willing, on August 28th.
Ok, so I was watching the video of the stadium when I saw what looked like a metal horse on top of the stadium and immediately I thought "cookie cutter silver horse" from this vision. Here is a picture of the horse:
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMCA
I believe it is about these democratic and republican national conventions.
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