Foreign Husbands

Monday, September 22, 2008, 7:49 a.m. – I woke to this song again:

Only Grace / Matthew West

There's only grace
There's only love
There's only mercy and believe me it's enough
Your sins are gone
Without a trace
And there's nothing left now
There's only grace

I also woke from A DREAM: There were two or three of us, I believe, who were in a foreign land or at least on foreign property. We were hiding, to prevent capture, behind a series of curtains (maybe they were made of plastic). Yet, we were found and we were captured.

They took away my glasses because their ruler did not like them on their women. I told them I was blind without them; that I could not see without them, but they didn’t seem to care. Eventually they gave them back or they gave me another pair because they assigned me to some kind of fine (intricate) work and I had convinced them that I could not do the work if I did not have my glasses.

Our captors chose us as brides for their men. I was a virgin bride who had never had sexual relations with any man. They paired me up with a man close to my age and paired a younger female with a man relatively close to her age. I believe one of the females was still a child.

Then, the three of us women and our new husbands were on some kind of dome or huge dish that sat on top of a building, but someone was plotting something bad and then it began to quake and it fell off of the building. Not everyone survived, but I believe that my foreign husband and I did. END

Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Jeremiah 29:1-23:

A Letter to the Exiles
1 This is the text of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets and all the other people Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. 2 (This was after King Jehoiachin and the queen mother, the court officials and the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen and the artisans had gone into exile from Jerusalem.) 3 He entrusted the letter to Elasah son of Shaphan and to Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. It said:
4 This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5 "Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. 6 Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease. 7 Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper." 8 Yes, this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have. 9 They are prophesying lies to you in my name. I have not sent them," declares the LORD.

10 This is what the LORD says: "When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my gracious promise to bring you back to this place. 11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile."

15 You may say, "The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon," 16 but this is what the LORD says about the king who sits on David's throne and all the people who remain in this city, your countrymen who did not go with you into exile- 17 yes, this is what the LORD Almighty says: "I will send the sword, famine and plague against them and I will make them like poor figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten. 18 I will pursue them with the sword, famine and plague and will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth and an object of cursing and horror, of scorn and reproach, among all the nations where I drive them. 19 For they have not listened to my words," declares the LORD, "words that I sent to them again and again by my servants the prophets. And you exiles have not listened either," declares the LORD.

20 Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon. 21 This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying lies to you in my name: "I will hand them over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will put them to death before your very eyes. 22 Because of them, all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: 'The LORD treat you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned in the fire.' 23 For they have done outrageous things in Israel; they have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives and in my name have spoken lies, which I did not tell them to do. I know it and am a witness to it," declares the LORD.

Tensions Mount over Bail-out
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9c89aa3e-8807-11dd-b114-0000779fd18c.html

Last Major Investment Banks Change Status
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20080922/D93BN2QG0.html

Administration and FED move to deal with crisis
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20080922/D93BN39O2.html

Goldman, Morgan Stanley Bring Down Curtain on an Era
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aoHW3zyqTeAA&refer=home

The Capital of the United States (my dome in the dream)
http://sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/capitol.html

My Understanding: As I have mentioned before, finances is definitely not my forte, yet the Lord has seen fit to have me talk about it in light of scripture. What I believe the Lord is showing here is that one day soon we are going to come under the rule of another, i.e. a One World Order and that all these financial moves within our government in the US and in other countries is one move closer to that global government. This financial move that is taking place this week on Capital Hill is moving our country more toward socialism and government control of private enterprise. Government control is Babylon. Then we become captives of government and we are no longer a free society.

I have a sense that I and my fellow captives represent these companies that are coming under government control and that are being “married off,” perhaps to foreign governments or foreign entities. Some will not survive this “take-over” by the federal government while others will survive.

In the dream, we were hiding behind “plastic” curtains. Then, this is a definition of eyeglasses: a pair of glass or plastic lenses worn in a frame in front of the eyes to help correct imperfect vision (Encarta Dictionary). And, in the dream my captors gave me another pair of eyeglasses, so I was hiding behind plastic curtains and my eyes were behind plastic lenses but my captors gave me another pair of plastic lenses, so they traded one set of plastic for another? Plastic: “debit or credit cards as a form of payment as distinct from cash or a check.” This could be Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs changing their status from investment banks to bank holding companies that will now move from under the SEC to now being under the direct regulation of the Federal Reserve.

Investment bank – Definition: An individual or institution which acts as an underwriter or agent for corporations and municipalities issuing securities. Most also maintain broker/dealer operations, maintain markets for previously issued securities, and offer advisory services to investors. Investment banks also have a large role in facilitating mergers and acquisitions, private equity placements and corporate restructuring. Unlike traditional banks, investment banks do not accept deposits from and provide loans to individuals - also called investment banker.
http://www.investorwords.com/2602/investment_bank.html

Bank Holding Company – Definition: A company that owns and/or controls one or more U.S. banks or one that owns, or has controlling interest in, one or more banks. A bank holding company may also own another bank holding company, which in turn owns or controls a bank; the company at the top of the ownership chain is called the top holder. The Board of Governors is responsible for regulating and supervising bank holding companies, even if the bank owned by the holding company is under the primary supervision of a different federal agency (OCC or FDIC).
http://www.ffiec.gov/nicpubweb/Content/HELP/Institution%20Type%20Description.htm

The message from the Lord, I believe, is that we are not to resist this take-over, because it fits in with God’s plan for the end of time and it is God’s will that this happen, so we would only be fighting against God’s will to resist this government take-over. One day the Lord will return and he will rescue us from all of this, but in the meanwhile, this is his divine will for us at this period of time.