Sunday, March 03,
2013, 8:36 p.m. – I sat down to talk with the Lord about some things on my
mind, and to write out my thoughts on paper with pen. He put the song “Why So Downcast?” in my mind, so part
of what I wrote about was thinking through the words of this song, which is
based off Psalm 42.
The psalmist was downcast due to some trying and difficult
times in his life. He may have been in exile. He was suffering greatly. The
storms and tempests of his life were sweeping over him like a flood. He felt
forgotten by God. He questioned why he must endure such suffering. He was
bordering on serious depression. Satan was attacking him, putting doubts in his
mind: “Where is your God? Why has he not come to rescue you?”
The psalmist thus counseled himself. He countered each doubt
with the truth of who God is, and with the truth of the psalmist’s past
relationship with God; how God was his only hope; how God was his Savior
(fulfilled in Jesus Christ) and his Lord; how the Lord sent forth his love into
the psalmist’s life day-by-day; and how at night God’s song was always with
him. God had always been there for him before, and he would not leave him now.
And, he remembered that God was his Rock (a name for Jesus Christ), i.e. his
fortress and his deliverer. In other words, the psalmist chose to put on the
armor of God with which to fight off Satan’s attacks (lies) and to put on the
truth of who God is, and of all that he has done.
The psalmist intensely longed for his intimate relationship
with God to be restored, i.e. for him to sense God’s holy presence abiding with
him. He compared his intense thirst for God and for his righteousness to that
of a deer panting for water. He longed to meet with God in his temple. He cried
so many tears over his painful situation that it almost seemed as though his
tears had been his food day and night. Men mocked him in his situation, thus
reinforcing the thought in his mind that he had been deserted by God. Yet he
chose to pour out his soul to God in prayer, to counter those lies with the
truth, and, in spite of all his suffering, to put his hope and trust in God.
Storms and Tempests
As I considered the thought of these “storms and tempests
sweeping over the psalmist like a flood,” it brought to mind that I had just
read about this new storm sweeping across the country heading east, which the
weather channel has named “Winter Storm Saturn,” and the “East Beast.” The
weather channel has gone to naming winter storms since last year, and some of
the names are very interesting (and telling, too, I believe). All of these
names have specific meanings or history associated with them, such as Athena,
Caesar, Nemo, Saturn, Xerxes and Zeus, just to name a few.
I looked up the name “Saturn,” and it took me to an article
on the mythological god in ancient Roman religion, Saturn. “He was the first
god of the capitol,” read the Wikipedia article. He was also known as the “god
of time,” according to the article. And, the Temple of Saturn housed the state
treasury, the article said - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(mythology).
For those who still believe that the forefathers of this
nation founded its constitution and government upon Christian principles and
that we, as a nation, have been a Christian nation, all you have to do is to do
some research to see the pagan and mythological god (and Satanic) symbols all
throughout Washington, D.C. This article even suggests that the ratification of
the Constitution in 1788 announced the “return of the golden age of Saturn.” http://community-2.webtv.net/westernmind/WASHINGTONDC/
In researching another unrelated or possibly related topic,
I read that “The root of east is Latin aurora, meaning ‘dawn.’” - http://thesaurus.com/browse/east.
So, this “East Beast” could also be called “The beast of the dawn,”
symbolizing, perhaps, the dawning of a new era; something on the horizon about
to begin. I believe “the beast” is an obvious reference to the beast of
Revelation which will conquer and rule the kingdoms of the earth for a short
period of time, in which the saints of God will be severely persecuted and put
to death for their testimony for Jesus Christ and the world and its inhabitants
will face the wrath of God. Perhaps the message here is that the Beast of the
Dawn is ready to take the world and/or the U.S. by storm.
I wrote: “Jesus is our Savior and our God, so we should put
our hope in him, and we should think of him when we are going through these difficulties
(storms and tempests sweeping over us). By day the Lord sends forth his love,
and in the night his song is with me (see Ps. 42). So, I praise his name, and I
put my hope in God. My soul pants for God. I pour out my soul to God. I’ll
still praise his name.” Then, I read Matthew 20:17-19 (ESV):
And as Jesus was going
up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to
them, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son
of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will
condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and
flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day.”
I wrote: “This is what is coming for Christians here in
America and other parts of the world where they have not yet experienced this
kind of severe persecution for their testimony for Jesus Christ, i.e. where
this is not presently already happening throughout the world. Yet, we are to
put our hope in God and ever praise his name.”
The Beast of Burden
I inquired of the Lord if he had anything he wanted to say
to me or show me, or if he had a vision or a dream (don’t usually ask for that)
that would give me further understanding of the meaning behind this storm and
its name(s). Then, I had a vision.
THE VISION: I saw
a large elephant facing toward me (south). The elephant’s trunk was raised.
There was a large amount of stuff the elephant was carrying on its back, and
some of it seemed to be falling off on the east side of the elephant. I then
heard in my head, “Beast of Burden.”
There were some people standing on the ground to the east of
the elephant. Then, the elephant aimed his raised trunk to the east and spewed
out water on the people. I think the people were trying to get to this pack on
the elephant’s back, but the elephant kept spewing water on them through his
raised trunk.
Then, I heard in my mind the name “Sasha,” and I saw what
looked like a bronze statue of a goddess. END
Then, I read Matthew 20:20-28, and these words are what
stood out to me (v. 25): But
Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the
rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise
authority over them.”
I definitely
saw the elephant and its trunk as lording it over the people, and as “high
officials” (NIV84), or “great ones” exercising authority over the people. This
appears to be a picture of tyranny and oppression. This fits with the image of
an elephant with raised trunk, too, spewing forth water on the people. A raised
trunk is a display of dominance and can be a warning or a threat. The elephant
was the “beast”, i.e. I believe the Lord was giving me a picture here of this “beast
of the dawn,” which is comprised of these “high officials” or “great ones”
exercising dominance over the people, lording it over the people, via tyranny
and oppression, and that somehow this storm is a display of dominance and
serves as a threat or a warning to those in the east, perhaps to some of those
in lower positions.
In researching
“Sasha,” I learned that is another name for the Greek Goddess Persephone
(consort of Hades). She is the daughter of Zeus, in mythology, and queen of the
underworld. “She is also associated with spring and with the seeds of the
fruits of the fields.” “In classical Greek art, Persephone is invariably portrayed
robed; often carrying a sheaf of grain.” See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persephone.
Now, compare
this description of Persephone to the statue that sits atop the capitol
building and to the idea of “high officials” or “great ones” exercising power,
rule, and authority over our capitol, and the idea of “Saturn,” as being the “first
god of the capitol,” and the fact that Persephone is mythologicallly-speaking
the “queen of the underworld.” Satan is over our capitol building, i.e. in
authority, and his “beast of the dawn” is spewing forth “storms and tempests
sweeping over us,” yet we are not to be afraid of what is coming, but we are to
put our hope and trust in God.
Also, “Sasha”
is the name of an evil spirit that Beyonce, the star of the Super-bowl
half-time show, said possesses her and takes over her body, which was obvious from
the snippet that I caught of her performance in the news media. Her performance,
evidently, contained illuminati symbolism and Satanic rituals. A message was
being given through her performance, though I don’t know for certain what that
was. Yet, the Lord is making a connection here, I believe, between the message
given at the Super-bowl half-time show that was of the Illuminati (the great
ones; high officials lording it over the people); the elephant and trunk
spewing forth “storms and tempests” over the people; the statue over top the
capitol building; and the beast of the dawn and the beast of burden, etc. Yet,
we are not to fear what is coming, but we are to put our hope and trust in God.
Jesus said: “But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever
would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to
be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Matt. 20:26b-28)
Why So Downcast?
/ An Original Work / December 21, 2012
Based off Psalm 42
Why so downcast,
O my soul,
And why so disturbed
Now within me?
Put your hope
In Jesus Christ,
For I will praise His
name.
He’s my Savior
And my God,
So therefore I’ll
Remember Him through
Storms and tempests
Sweeping o’er me.
Still I’ll praise His
name.
Put your hope in God.
By day the Lord
Sends forth His love.
In the night
His song is with me.
I pray to the
God of my life.
I will praise His
name.
I say to God my Rock,
“Why must I be called
To suffer this way?”
Foes attack me;
Satan sneering.
Still I’ll praise my
God.
Put your hope in Him.
As a deer pants
For the waters,
So my soul pants
For You, O God.
My soul thirsts for
God who’s living.
When can I meet Him?
My tears have been
My food at night,
When men say,
“So, where is your
God?”
I pour out my
Soul to my God.
I’ll still praise His
name.
Shout with joy to Him.
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