GOD'S MYSTERIOUS RAINBOWS AND COVENANT
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NOAH'S RAINBOW
GENESIS 6:4-14, "THERE WERE GIANTS IN THE EARTH IN THOSE DAYS; AND ALSO AFTER THAT, WHEN THE SONS OF GOD CAME IN UNTO THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN AND THEY BARE CHILDREN TO THEM, THE SAME BECAME MIGHTY MEN WHICH WERE OF OLD, MEN OF RENOWN. AND GOD SAW THAT THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT IN THE EARTH, AND THAT EVERY IMAGINATION OF THE THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART WAS ONLY EVIL CONTINUALLY. AND IT REPENTED THE LORD THAT HE HAD MADE MAN ON THE EARTH, AND IT GRIEVED HIM AT HIS HEART. AND THE LORD SAID, I WILL DESTROY MAN WHOM I HAVE CREATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH; BOTH MAN AND BEAST, AND THE CREEPING THING, AND THE FOWLS OF THE AIR; FOR IT REPENTETH ME THAT I HAVE MADE THEM. BUT NOAH FOUND GRACE IN THE EYES OF THE LORD. THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH: NOAH WAS A JUST MAN AND PERFECT IN HIS GENERATIONS, AND NOAH WALKED WITH GOD. AND NOAH BEGAT THREE SONS, SHEM, HAM, AND JAPHETH. THE EARTH ALSO WAS CORRUPT BEFORE GOD, AND THE EARTH WAS FILLED WITH VIOLENCE.. AND GOD LOOKED UPON THE EARTH, AND, BEHOLD, IT WAS CORRUPT; FOR ALL FLESH HAD CORRUPTED HIS WAY UPON THE EARTH. AND GOD SAID UNTO NOAH, THE END OF ALL FLESH IS COME BEFORE ME; FOR THE EARTH IS FILLED WITH VIOLENCETHROUGH THEM; AND, BEHOLD, I WILL DESTROY THEM WITH THE EARTH. MAKE THEE AN ARK OF GOPHER WOOD; ROOMS SHALT THOU MAKE IN THE ARK, AND SHALT PITCH IT WITHIN AND WITHOUT WITH PITCH."
GENESIS 6:17-18, "AND, BEHOLD, I, EVEN I, DO BRING A FLOOD OF WATERS UPON THE EARTH, TO DESTROY ALL FLESH, WHEREIN IS THE BREATH OF LIFE, FROM UNDER HEAVEN; AND EVERY THING THAT IS IN THE EARTH SHALL DIE. BUT WITH THEE WILL I ESTABLISH MY COVENANT; AND THOU SHALT COME INTO THE ARK, THOU, AND THY SONS, AND THY WIFE, AND THY SON'S WIVES WITH THEE. "
GENESIS 7:23-24, "AND EVERY LIVING SUBSTANCE WAS DESTROYED WHICH WAS UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH: AND NOAH ONLY REMAINED ALIVE, AND THEY THAT WERE WITH HIM IN THE ARK. AND THE WATERS PREVAILED UPON THE EARTH AN HUNDRED AND FIFTY DAYS.
GENESIS 8:21B-22, "I WILL NOT AGAIN CURSE THE GROUND ANY MORE FOR MAN'S SAKE; FOR THE IMAGINATION OF MAN'S HEART IS EVIL FROM HIS YOUTH; NEITHER WILL I AGAIN SMITE ANY MORE EVERY THING LIVING, AS I HAVE DONE. WHILE THE EARTH REMAINETH, SEEDTIME AND HARVEST, AND COLD AND HEAT, AND SUMMER AND WINTER, AND DAY AND NIGHT SHALL NOT CEASE."
GENESIS 9:6-7. "WHOSO SHEDDETH MAN'S BLOOD, BY MAN SHALL HIS BLOOD BE SHED: FOR IN THE IMAGE OF GOD MADE HE MAN. AND YOU, BE YE FRUITFUL, AND MULTIPLY; BRING FORTH ABUNDANTLY IN THE EARTH, AND MULTIPLY THEREIN."
GENESIS 9:9, "AND I, BEHOLD, I ESTABLISH MY COVENANT WITH YOU, AND WITH YOUR SEED AFTER YOU;
GENESIS 9:12-16, "AND GOD SAID, THIS IS THE TOKEN OF THE COVENANT WHICH I MAKE BETWEEN YOU AND EVERY LIVING CREATURE THAT IS WITH YOU, FOR PERPETUAL GENERATIONS: I DO SET MY BOW IN THE CLOUD, AND IT SHALL BE FOR A TOKEN OF A COVENANT BETWEEN ME AND THE EARTH. AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN I BRING A CLOUD OVER THE EARTH, THAT THE BOW SHALL BE SEEN IN THE CLOUD: AND I WILL REMEMBER MY COVENANT, WHICH IS BETWEEN ME AND YOU AND EVERY LIVING CREATURE OF ALL FLESH; AND THE WATERS SHALL NO MORE BECOME A FLOOD TO DESTROY ALL FLESH. AND THE BOW SHALL BE IN THE CLOUD; AND I WILL LOOK UPON IT, THAT I MAY REMEMBER THE EVERLASTING COVENANT BETWEEN GOD AND EVERY LIVING CREATURE OF ALL FLESH THAT IS UPON THE EARTH. "
HEBREWS 11:7, "BY FAITH NOAH, BEING WARNED OF GOD OF THINGS NOT SEEN AS YET, MOVED WITH FEAR, PREPARED AN ARK TO THE SAVING OF HIS HOUSE; BY THE WHICH HE CONDEMNED THE WORLD, AND BECAME HEIR OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS BY FAITH."
1 PETER 3:17-22 ,"FOR IT IS BETTER, IF THE WILL OF GOD BE SO, THAT YE SUFFER FOR WELL DOING, THAN FOR EVIL DOING. FOR CHRIST ALSO HATH ONCE SUFFERED FOR SINS, THE JUST FOR THE UNJUST, THAT HE MIGHT BRING US TO GOD, BEING PUT TO DEATH IN THE FLESH, BUT QUICKENED IN THE SPIRIT. BY WHICH ALSO HE WENT AND PREACHED UNTO THE SPIRITS IN PRISON; WHICH SOMETIME WERE DISOBEDIENT, WHEN ONCE THE LONGSUFFERING OF GOD WAITED IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, WHILE THE ARK WAS A PREPARING, WHEREIN FEW, THAT IS, EIGHT SOULS WERE SAVED BY WATER. THE LIKE FIGURE WHEREUNTO EVEN BAPTISM DOTH ALSO NOW SAVE US (NOT THE PUTTING AWAY OF THE FILTH OF THE FLESH, BUT THE ANSWER OF A GOOD CONSCIENCE TOWARD GOD,) BY THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST: WHO IS GONE INTO HEAVEN, AND IS ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD; ANGELS AND AUTHORITIES AND POWERS BEING MADE SUBJECT UNTO HIM."
LUKE 17:26, "AND AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOE(noah) , SO SHALL IT BE ALSO IN THE DAYS OF THE SON OF MAN. THEY DID EAT, THEY DRANK, THEY MARRIED WIVES, THEY WERE GIVEN IN MARRIAGE, UNTIL THE DAY THAT NOE ENTERED INTO THE ARK, AND THE FLOOD CAME, AND DESTROYED THEM ALL."
LUKE 17:30, "EVEN THUS SHALL IT BE IN THE DAY WHEN THE SON OF MAN IS REVEALED."
2 Peter 3:3-13, "KNOWING THIS FIRST, THAT THERE SHALL COME IN THE LAST DAYS SCOFFERS, WALKING AFTER THEIR OWN LUSTS, AND SAYING, WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING ? FOR SINCE THE FATHERS FELL ASLEEP, ALL THINGS CONTINUE AS THEY WERE FROM THE BEGINNING OF CREATION. FOR THIS THEY WILLINGLY ARE IGNORANT OF, THAT BY THE WORD OF GOD THE HEAVENS WERE OF OLD, AND THE EARTH STANDING OUT OF THE WATER AND IN THE WATER: WHEREBY THE WORLD THAT THEN WAS, BEING OVERFLOWED WITH WATER, PERISHED: BUT THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, WHICH ARE NOW, BY THE SAME WORD ARE KEPT IN STORE, RESERVED UNTO FIRE AGAINST THE DAY OF JUDGMENT AND PERDITION OF UNGODLY MEN. BUT BELOVED, BE NOT IGNORANT OF THIS ONE THING, THAT ONE DAY IS WITH THE LORD AS A THOUSAND YEARS, AND A THOUSAND YEARS AS ONE DAY. THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE, AS SOME MEN COUNT SLACKNESS; BUT IS LONG SUFFERING TO US-WARD, NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH, BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE. BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT; IN THE WHICH THE HEAVENS WILL PASS AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE, AND THE ELEMENTS SHALL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT, THE EARTH ALSO AND THE WORKS THAT ARE THEREIN SHALL BE BURNED UP. SEEING THEN THAT ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE DISSOLVED, WHAT MANNER OF PERSONS OUGHT YE TO BE IN ALL HOLY CONVERSATION AND GODLINESS, LOOKING FOR AND HASTING UNTO THE COMING OF THE DAY OF GOD, WHEREIN THE HEAVENS BEING ON FIRE SHALL BE DISSOLVED, AND THE ELEMENTS SHALL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT? NEVERTHELESS WE, ACCORDING TO HIS PROMISE, LOOK FOR NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH, WHEREIN DWELLETH RIGHTEOUSNESS."
GENESIS 6:17-18, "AND, BEHOLD, I, EVEN I, DO BRING A FLOOD OF WATERS UPON THE EARTH, TO DESTROY ALL FLESH, WHEREIN IS THE BREATH OF LIFE, FROM UNDER HEAVEN; AND EVERY THING THAT IS IN THE EARTH SHALL DIE. BUT WITH THEE WILL I ESTABLISH MY COVENANT; AND THOU SHALT COME INTO THE ARK, THOU, AND THY SONS, AND THY WIFE, AND THY SON'S WIVES WITH THEE. "
GENESIS 7:23-24, "AND EVERY LIVING SUBSTANCE WAS DESTROYED WHICH WAS UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH: AND NOAH ONLY REMAINED ALIVE, AND THEY THAT WERE WITH HIM IN THE ARK. AND THE WATERS PREVAILED UPON THE EARTH AN HUNDRED AND FIFTY DAYS.
GENESIS 8:21B-22, "I WILL NOT AGAIN CURSE THE GROUND ANY MORE FOR MAN'S SAKE; FOR THE IMAGINATION OF MAN'S HEART IS EVIL FROM HIS YOUTH; NEITHER WILL I AGAIN SMITE ANY MORE EVERY THING LIVING, AS I HAVE DONE. WHILE THE EARTH REMAINETH, SEEDTIME AND HARVEST, AND COLD AND HEAT, AND SUMMER AND WINTER, AND DAY AND NIGHT SHALL NOT CEASE."
GENESIS 9:6-7. "WHOSO SHEDDETH MAN'S BLOOD, BY MAN SHALL HIS BLOOD BE SHED: FOR IN THE IMAGE OF GOD MADE HE MAN. AND YOU, BE YE FRUITFUL, AND MULTIPLY; BRING FORTH ABUNDANTLY IN THE EARTH, AND MULTIPLY THEREIN."
GENESIS 9:9, "AND I, BEHOLD, I ESTABLISH MY COVENANT WITH YOU, AND WITH YOUR SEED AFTER YOU;
GENESIS 9:12-16, "AND GOD SAID, THIS IS THE TOKEN OF THE COVENANT WHICH I MAKE BETWEEN YOU AND EVERY LIVING CREATURE THAT IS WITH YOU, FOR PERPETUAL GENERATIONS: I DO SET MY BOW IN THE CLOUD, AND IT SHALL BE FOR A TOKEN OF A COVENANT BETWEEN ME AND THE EARTH. AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN I BRING A CLOUD OVER THE EARTH, THAT THE BOW SHALL BE SEEN IN THE CLOUD: AND I WILL REMEMBER MY COVENANT, WHICH IS BETWEEN ME AND YOU AND EVERY LIVING CREATURE OF ALL FLESH; AND THE WATERS SHALL NO MORE BECOME A FLOOD TO DESTROY ALL FLESH. AND THE BOW SHALL BE IN THE CLOUD; AND I WILL LOOK UPON IT, THAT I MAY REMEMBER THE EVERLASTING COVENANT BETWEEN GOD AND EVERY LIVING CREATURE OF ALL FLESH THAT IS UPON THE EARTH. "
HEBREWS 11:7, "BY FAITH NOAH, BEING WARNED OF GOD OF THINGS NOT SEEN AS YET, MOVED WITH FEAR, PREPARED AN ARK TO THE SAVING OF HIS HOUSE; BY THE WHICH HE CONDEMNED THE WORLD, AND BECAME HEIR OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS BY FAITH."
1 PETER 3:17-22 ,"FOR IT IS BETTER, IF THE WILL OF GOD BE SO, THAT YE SUFFER FOR WELL DOING, THAN FOR EVIL DOING. FOR CHRIST ALSO HATH ONCE SUFFERED FOR SINS, THE JUST FOR THE UNJUST, THAT HE MIGHT BRING US TO GOD, BEING PUT TO DEATH IN THE FLESH, BUT QUICKENED IN THE SPIRIT. BY WHICH ALSO HE WENT AND PREACHED UNTO THE SPIRITS IN PRISON; WHICH SOMETIME WERE DISOBEDIENT, WHEN ONCE THE LONGSUFFERING OF GOD WAITED IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, WHILE THE ARK WAS A PREPARING, WHEREIN FEW, THAT IS, EIGHT SOULS WERE SAVED BY WATER. THE LIKE FIGURE WHEREUNTO EVEN BAPTISM DOTH ALSO NOW SAVE US (NOT THE PUTTING AWAY OF THE FILTH OF THE FLESH, BUT THE ANSWER OF A GOOD CONSCIENCE TOWARD GOD,) BY THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST: WHO IS GONE INTO HEAVEN, AND IS ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD; ANGELS AND AUTHORITIES AND POWERS BEING MADE SUBJECT UNTO HIM."
LUKE 17:26, "AND AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOE(noah) , SO SHALL IT BE ALSO IN THE DAYS OF THE SON OF MAN. THEY DID EAT, THEY DRANK, THEY MARRIED WIVES, THEY WERE GIVEN IN MARRIAGE, UNTIL THE DAY THAT NOE ENTERED INTO THE ARK, AND THE FLOOD CAME, AND DESTROYED THEM ALL."
LUKE 17:30, "EVEN THUS SHALL IT BE IN THE DAY WHEN THE SON OF MAN IS REVEALED."
2 Peter 3:3-13, "KNOWING THIS FIRST, THAT THERE SHALL COME IN THE LAST DAYS SCOFFERS, WALKING AFTER THEIR OWN LUSTS, AND SAYING, WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING ? FOR SINCE THE FATHERS FELL ASLEEP, ALL THINGS CONTINUE AS THEY WERE FROM THE BEGINNING OF CREATION. FOR THIS THEY WILLINGLY ARE IGNORANT OF, THAT BY THE WORD OF GOD THE HEAVENS WERE OF OLD, AND THE EARTH STANDING OUT OF THE WATER AND IN THE WATER: WHEREBY THE WORLD THAT THEN WAS, BEING OVERFLOWED WITH WATER, PERISHED: BUT THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, WHICH ARE NOW, BY THE SAME WORD ARE KEPT IN STORE, RESERVED UNTO FIRE AGAINST THE DAY OF JUDGMENT AND PERDITION OF UNGODLY MEN. BUT BELOVED, BE NOT IGNORANT OF THIS ONE THING, THAT ONE DAY IS WITH THE LORD AS A THOUSAND YEARS, AND A THOUSAND YEARS AS ONE DAY. THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE, AS SOME MEN COUNT SLACKNESS; BUT IS LONG SUFFERING TO US-WARD, NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH, BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE. BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT; IN THE WHICH THE HEAVENS WILL PASS AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE, AND THE ELEMENTS SHALL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT, THE EARTH ALSO AND THE WORKS THAT ARE THEREIN SHALL BE BURNED UP. SEEING THEN THAT ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE DISSOLVED, WHAT MANNER OF PERSONS OUGHT YE TO BE IN ALL HOLY CONVERSATION AND GODLINESS, LOOKING FOR AND HASTING UNTO THE COMING OF THE DAY OF GOD, WHEREIN THE HEAVENS BEING ON FIRE SHALL BE DISSOLVED, AND THE ELEMENTS SHALL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT? NEVERTHELESS WE, ACCORDING TO HIS PROMISE, LOOK FOR NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH, WHEREIN DWELLETH RIGHTEOUSNESS."
ZION’S DREAM WAS BUILT IN FORT WORTH, TEXAS AT THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM, BORN TO BE BORNE ON THE BEAUTIFUL, IF SOMEWHAT TUMULTUOUS, “RIVER OF THE ARMS OF GOD”, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE “BRAZOS” RIVER IN TEXAS. THE WEDDING ON LAKE GRANBURY HAD BEEN MY INAUGURAL EXCURSION, BUT TO SAY THAT I HAD STRUGGLED TO GET TO THAT POINT WOULD BE A GRIEVOUS UNDERSTATEMENT... BUT NOW I TOOK A LONG DEEP BREATH. “THIS IS ABSOLUTE HEAVEN,” I MUSED AS I PERUSED THE EYE SALVE SCENE FROM ZION’S DREAM AND LAZILY GAZED UP AT THE GLORIOUS SKY ABOVE, DREAMILY RECOLLECTING ANOTHER TRIP ON ANOTHER BOAT THAT USED TO RUN ON LAKE GRANBURY IN THE MID 1980S,
IT WAS AN EXPERIENCE THAT I HAD SHARED WITH MY TWO AUNTS WHEN THEY VISITED ME FROM ENGLAND. ON THAT DAY, GRANBURY HAD JUST EXPERIENCED A GRAND YET TREACHEROUSLY VIOLENT THUNDERSTORM. IT HAD LEFT A PRISTINE CLEAN ATMOSPHERE CORUSCATING OVER OUR DIVINE CRUISE THAT DAY. WHAT? CORUSCATING, MEANING FLASHING, SPARKLING, SHINING, BRIGHT, BRILLIANT, GLEAMING, GLITTERING, TWINKLING, SCINTILLATING, FLASHING, SHIMMERING, SCINTILLANT AS IN A CORUSCATING KALEIDOSCOPE OF COLORS...ACCORDING TO GOOGLE DICTIONARY FROM OXFORD, HA, AND TRULY I COULD NOT HAVE SAID IT BETTER MYSELF! THE DRAMATIC WEATHER SCENE OUTDID ANY TRIP, CRUISE, SIGHT, RAINBOW, OR EXPERIENCE THAT I HAD EVER SEEN OR PROBABLY EVER WILL! NOW AT 70, THIS VISION STILL OUTSHINES THEM ALL. OMINOUS STEELY DARK THUNDER CLOUDS HAD TOWERED HIGH INTO THE SKY AROUND US, CREATING A DRAMATIC BACKDROP FOR THE BIGGEST BRIGHTEST TEXAS SIZED RAINBOWS THAT EYE HAD EVER SEEN; LARGER THAN LIFE, BRIGHTER THAN BRIGHT. IT WAS ...INCREDIBLE. NO HOLLYWOOD SPECIAL EFFECTS COULD EVER COME CLOSE TO THE GLORY OF THOSE BOWS. AS THEY APPEARED, THEY BOWED TO THE NORTH OF THE SHIPS BOW, SHIMMERING IN RADIANT MULTI-COLORED GLORY. YES RAINBOWS, NOT ONE, BUT TWO GLORIOUSLY FORMED ARCS STRETCHED IN DAZZLING UNISON BESIDE THE RIVER. THEY WERE HUGE!
IT TOOK OUR BREATH AWAY! USUALLY WHEN A DOUBLE RAINBOW APPEARS ONE IS VERY BRIGHT AND THE OTHER CAN BARELY BE SEEN, LIKE A FAINT SHADOW... BUT NOT SO THAT DAY! BOTH RAINBOWS WERE BRILLIANT AND APPEARED SO CLOSE THAT IT SEEMED AS IF YOU COULD REACH OUT AND TOUCH THEM. EACH BAND OF COLOR WAS AS EASILY IDENTIFIED AS EXOTIC RIBBONS STRETCHED OUT ACROSS THE SKY; EACH RAINBOW WAS A REFLECTION OF THE OTHER MIRRORING THE FIRMAMENT, BUT WITH THE COLORS RE-VERSED; LIKE FACT OR FABLE. FABLE WEAKLY REFLECTING GOD'S TRUTH AND YET SOMEHOW RE-VERSING VERSES TO MAKE HOLY SCRIPTURES UNHOLY? IN A WAY, LIKE SCIENTISTS NOW REVERSE ENGINEER THINGS LIKE GOD'S OWN PATENTED DNA AND FINGERPRINTS THAT REFLECT HIS INTIMATE DESIRE TO MAKE EACH OF US UNIQUE, AND THEN DENYING HIS EXISTENCE. DID YOU KNOW THAT EVEN IDENTICAL TWINS HAVE UNIQUE FINGERPRINTS... TO MAKE THEM DOUBLY SPECIAL. THE ANIMALS WENT INTO THE ARK TWO BY TWO. THE RAINBOW IS DOUBLED, THE JUDGMENTS ARE DOUBLED, THE COVENANTS OF GOD ARE DOUBLED. HIS OUTSTRETCHED ARMS ARE DOUBLED. BY A WITNESS OF TWO HIS WORDS ARE DOUBLED.
IT TOOK OUR BREATH AWAY! USUALLY WHEN A DOUBLE RAINBOW APPEARS ONE IS VERY BRIGHT AND THE OTHER CAN BARELY BE SEEN, LIKE A FAINT SHADOW... BUT NOT SO THAT DAY! BOTH RAINBOWS WERE BRILLIANT AND APPEARED SO CLOSE THAT IT SEEMED AS IF YOU COULD REACH OUT AND TOUCH THEM. EACH BAND OF COLOR WAS AS EASILY IDENTIFIED AS EXOTIC RIBBONS STRETCHED OUT ACROSS THE SKY; EACH RAINBOW WAS A REFLECTION OF THE OTHER MIRRORING THE FIRMAMENT, BUT WITH THE COLORS RE-VERSED; LIKE FACT OR FABLE. FABLE WEAKLY REFLECTING GOD'S TRUTH AND YET SOMEHOW RE-VERSING VERSES TO MAKE HOLY SCRIPTURES UNHOLY? IN A WAY, LIKE SCIENTISTS NOW REVERSE ENGINEER THINGS LIKE GOD'S OWN PATENTED DNA AND FINGERPRINTS THAT REFLECT HIS INTIMATE DESIRE TO MAKE EACH OF US UNIQUE, AND THEN DENYING HIS EXISTENCE. DID YOU KNOW THAT EVEN IDENTICAL TWINS HAVE UNIQUE FINGERPRINTS... TO MAKE THEM DOUBLY SPECIAL. THE ANIMALS WENT INTO THE ARK TWO BY TWO. THE RAINBOW IS DOUBLED, THE JUDGMENTS ARE DOUBLED, THE COVENANTS OF GOD ARE DOUBLED. HIS OUTSTRETCHED ARMS ARE DOUBLED. BY A WITNESS OF TWO HIS WORDS ARE DOUBLED.
HURRICANE HAZEL I AND II
ZECHARIAH 9:9-14, "REJOICE GREATLY O DAUGHTER OF ZION; SHOUT, O DAUGHTER OF JERUSALEM: BEHOLD THY KING COMETH UNTO THEE: HE IS JUST, AND HAVING SALVATION; LOWLY AND RIDING UPON AN ASS, AND UPON A COLT THE FOAL OF AN ASS. AND I WILL CUT OFF THE CHARIOT FROM EPHRAIM, AND THE HORSE FROM JERUSALEM, AND THE BATTLE BOW SHALL BE CUT OFF: AND HE SHALL SPEAK PEACE UNTO THE HEATHEN: AND HIS DOMINION SHALL BE FROM SEA EVEN TO SEA, AND FROM THE RIVER EVEN TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. AS FOR THEE ALSO, BY THE BLOOD OF THY COVENANT I HAVE SENT PRISONERS OUT OF THE PIT WHEREIN IS NO WATER. TURN YOU TO THE STRONG HOLD, YE PRISONERS OF HOPE: EVEN TODAY DO I DECLARE THAT I WILL RENDER DOUBLE UNTO THEE; WHEN I HAVE BENT THE BOW OF JUDAH FOR ME, FILLED THE BOW WITH EPHRAIM, AND RAISED UP THY SONS, O ZION, AGAINST THY SONS, O GREECE, AND MADE THEE AS THE SWORD OF A MIGHTY MAN. AND THE LORD SHALL BE SEEN OVER THEM, AND HIS ARROW SHALL GO FORTH AS THE LIGHTNING: AND THE LORD GOD SHALL BLOW THE TRUMPET, AND SHALL GO WITH WHIRLWINDS OF THE SOUTH. MATTHEW 24:6-8, “AND YOU SHALL HEAR OF WARS AND RUMOURS OF WARS: SEE THAT YOU BE NOT TROUBLED: FOR ALL THESE MUST COME TO PASS, BUT THE END IS NOT YET. FOR NATION SHALL RISE AGAINST NATION, AND KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM: AND THERE SHALL BE FAMINES, AND PESTILENCES, AND EARTHQUAKES, IN DIVERSE PLACES. ALL THESE ARE THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS.” THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS?
YOU NOAH, HURRICANE HAZEL BLEW INTO NORTH CAROLINA IN 1954, LEAVING 2,000 MILES OF DEVASTATION IN ITS WAKE, ABOUT THE SAME TIME THAT GOD BLASTED INTO MY MOTHER HAZEL’S LIFE...ALSO LIKE A WHIRLWIND; IT TURNED HER LIFE AROUND TOO. IT WAS SHOCKING. REALLY. SHE WAS ELECTROCUTED FOR SPEAKING TRUTH.ACCORDING TO NOAA, HURRICANE HAZEL KILLED 1,200 BETWEEN GRENADA, HAITI, THE US AND CANADA BUT AT THE TIME, MY MOTHER HAZEL STILL LIVED IN ENGLAND AND WAS POSSIBLY UNAWARE OF HER F4 NAMESAKE RUNNING AMOCK ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC, EVEN IN NORTH CAROLINA. SHE WOULD LATER VISIT THE NC BEACHES WITH HER BEST FRIEND, NANCY. THIS FRIEND REPORTED THAT HER OWN HOUSE WAS THE ONLY ONE LEFT ON THAT STRETCH OF THE BEACH AFTER HAZEL PASSED OVER. NORTH CAROLINA WAS SLAMMED WITH GUSTS ESTIMATED AT 120 MPH AND OVER 11 INCHES OF RAIN. AS I PROOF READ THIS IN 2018, THOSE SAME BEACHES ARE BRACING FOR HURRICANE FLORENCE. HURRICANE FLORENCE HAD BLOWN INTO NORTH CAROLINA ON THE HEELS OF HURRICANE HAZEL BEFORE, YES 2 IN 1954, AND NOW HERE COMES ANOTHER FLORENCE FLOWING IN. THIS TIME WITH $24 BILLION LOSES AND MANY DEATHS IN THE US ALONE, THIS HURRICANE FLORENCE WAS SWEEPING ACROSS THE US WITH WINDS AT 150MPH, BUT SURPRISINGLY THE BIG NEWS THAT POPPED UP ON MY PHONE... WAS THAT A RED HEIFER HAD BEEN BORN IN JERUSALEM. WAT?
IT WAS ANOTHER SIGN OF THE TIMES, THE END TIMES, WHEN THE JEWS WOULD BE ABLE TO OFFER AN ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE IN THEIR TEMPLE...THAT STILL IS NOT BUILT. BASICALLY BECAUSE THE ONE AND ONLY SACRIFICE FOR MANKIND IN THIS ERA IS THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB, JESUS...SO ON WITH THE SHOW TO SHOW MANKIND THAT THEY NEED TO LISTEN TO WHAT GOD IS SAYING, AND TIMING IS EVERYTHING.
MARCH 28, 2000 I HAD MOTORED OVER TO WAL-MART WHERE I HEARD THAT A VIOLENT TORNADO HAD JUST TWIRLED OVER FORT WORTH. TWISTERS WITH WINDS OVER 150 MPH HAD KILLED FIVE PEOPLE. IT CAME THROUGH AT 6:00 PM CAUSING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF DAMAGE. EVERYONE WAS TALKING ABOUT IT, IN FACT IN NOVEMBER 2008 OUR LOCAL NEWS STATION WAS STILL TALKING AS IT RANKED WITH THE WORST WEATHER EVENTS EVER IN CENTRAL TEXAS HISTORY, THUS FAR! MY MOTHER HAZEL HAD DIED FOUR YEARS BEFORE ON THIS SAME DAY, MARCH 28, 1996, SO THIS WAS ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT DAY FOR ME.
AT THAT TIME, MY IMMEDIATE CONCERN WAS MY BOAT THAT WAS BEING BUILT IN FORT WORTH. APPARENTLY THE TORNADO WAS SO CLOSE TO IT THAT THE WORK CREW HAD LITERALLY WATCHED IT RUMBLE PAST FROM THE DECK OF ZION’S DREAM, JUST OFF AIRPORT FRWY. THE STORM WAS CREATING MAYHEM AS IT WHIRLED ALONG, CRANKING OUT MOST OF THE WINDOWS IN THE HIGH RISE BUILDINGS AND THROWING FURNITURE ALL OVER THE CITY LIKE A MAD MAN THROWING A TEMPER TANTRUM.
2004 HAILED A NEW ERA OF GEOLOGICAL UPHEAVALS THAT WOULD TERRORIZE EARTH AS WE NOW KNOW IT. ALL THAT YEAR, TRAUMA FOLLOWED TRAUMA, TSUNAMIS, EARTHQUAKES, TORNADOS, HURRICANES, TRAIN WRECKS, FIRES AND FLOODS, ALL OF EPIC PROPORTIONS. HURRICANE FLORENCE WAS BEING COMPARED TO HURRICANE HAZEL, NOW THE BENCHMARK IN NC AGAINST WHICH TO MEASURE PRESENT DAY HURRICANES. BOXING DAY THE DAY BAFTER CHRISTMAS 2004, OVER 1/4 MILLION PEOPLE DROWNED IN THE INDIAN OCEAN. STARVATION AND EPIDEMICS FOLLOWED. I DO WONDER HOW MUCH OF THE $14 BILLION RAISED IN AID WAS ACTUALLY RECEIVED BY THE VICTIM'S FAMILIES.
TO ME, IT MARKED 50 YEARS SINCE 1954 WHEN GOD APPEARED ON OUR FAMILY SCENE.
A HURRICANE FLORENCE ALSO SLAMMED INTO NORTH CAROLINA IN 1954. IT TOO WAS A HUGE CATEGORY 4 DELUGE BUT IN 1954 MY MOTHER WAS DELUGED WITH GOD’S RAIN, HIS REIGN TOO. YOU SEE, HE WAS DIVINELY ENLIGHTENING HER CONCERNING JUDGMENT ON THE WORLD IN THE LAST DAYS, SPECIFICALLY JUDGMENT ASSOCIATED WITH WHIRLWINDS AND TORNADOES, AND THINGS THAT GO ROUND AND ROUND. AFTER HURRICANE HAZEL TORE THROUGH NORTH CAROLINA, IT FLEW OVER VIRGINIA, WINDS GUSTING OVER 100 MPH AND THEN IT BATTERED ITS WAY UP TO BATTERY PARK IN NEW YORK WITH WINDS CLOCKING 113 MPH. IT TOOK A DEEP BREATH AND AS IT GASPED FOR MORE AIR, IT FLEW INTO A VIOLENT FRENZY TO WAKE UP IN CANADA FOR ROUND TWO OR SHOULD I SAY, HAZEL II.
HERE RECORD BREAKING FLOODING ENSUED, AND TO DATE, A RECORD NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM A “NATURAL DISASTER”. TODAY I WORRY ABOUT CANADA AS ITS OWN NATURAL DISASTER. ONCE SEEN AS A FOND FAMILY MEMBER AND CHILD OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WITH ENGLISH LANGUAGE, CHRISTIAN BELIEFS AND A MODEL COUNTRY TO STAND STRONG BESIDE ITS BROTHER, THE USA; INSTEAD THE COUNTRY SEEMS TO HAVE MODELLED ITSELF ON SOME REBELLIOUS ELVES, LIBER-AL, LIBERTY AND, ALMOST LEADING THE WAY WORLDWIDE FOR A DISDAIN OF GOD. I FEAR FOR THEM, AS I DO FOR THE UK AND THE USA. UC, GOD IS NOT MOCKED ANYWHERE.
ISAIAH 21:1 SAYS, “THE BURDEN OF THE DESERT OF THE SEA. AS WHIRLWINDS IN THE SOUTH PASS THROUGH; SO IT COMES FROM THE DESERT ((H4057) MIDBAR – WILDERNESS, DESERT, SOUTH, SPEECH, PASTURE, UNINHABITED LAND, LARGE TRACTS OF WILDERNESS (AROUND CITIES) MOUTH, IN THE SENSE OF DRIVING: A PASTURE, (I.E. OPEN FIELD, WHITHER CATTLE ARE DRIVEN); BY IMPLICATION, A DESERT, ALSO SPEECH (INCLUDING ITS ORGANS, MOUTH) FROM A TERRIBLE ((H3372) YARE – FEAR, AFRAID, TERRIBLE THING, DREADFUL, REVERENCE, TO STAND IN AWE OF, BE AWED, TO FEAR, REVERENCE, HONOUR, RESPECT, TO CAUSE ASTONISHMENT AND AWE, TO INSPIRE REVERENCE OF GODLY FEAR OR AWE, TO SHOOT, POUR) LAND .”
TERRIBLE HERE IS THE SAME AS IN PSALM 106:22, “WONDROUS WORKS IN THE LAND OF HAM (EGYPT), AND TERRIBLE THINGS BY THE RED SEA.” INTERESTINGLY, MANY OF AMERICA’S TRAUMATIC WEATHER SYSTEMS ARE INITIATED FROM THE DESERTS ON THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT? THESE TERRIBLE THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO BE SEEN WILL PUT A NEW REVERENCE IN THE HEART OF MAN TOWARDS GOD. AS MOSES BROUGHT THE PLAGUES AS JUDGMENT ON THE EGYPTIAN GODS IN THE FIRST DAYS, THE END DAYS WILL SEE PLAGUES OF JUDGMENT OF EPIC PROPORTIONS TOO. PSALM 65:1-5, “PRAISE WAITETH FOR THEE, O GOD, IN SION; AND UNTO THEE SHALL THE VOW BE PERFORMED. O THOU THAT HEAREST PRAYER, UNTO THEE SHALL ALL FLESH COME. INIQUITIES PREVAIL AGAINST ME: AS FOR OUR TRANSGRESSION, THOU SHALT PURGE THEM AWAY. BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOM THOU CHOOSEST, AND CAUSEST TO APPROACH UNTO THEE, THAT HE MAY DWELL IN THY COURTS: WE SHALL BE SATISFIED WITH THE GOODNESS OF THY HOUSE, EVEN OF THY HOLY TEMPLE. BY TERRIBLE THINGS IN RIGHTEOUSNESS WILT THOU ANSWER US, O GOD OF OUR SALVATION; WHO ART THE CONFIDENCE OF ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, AND OF THEM THAT ARE AFAR OFF UPON THE SEA.”
GODS HORSES WILL BE UNLEASHED TOO, YESH. DID YOU KNOW THAT 500 TRILLION HORSEPOWER POWER THE WINDS THAT WHIRL IN A WHIRLWIND ALONE! MAN CANNOT FATHOM THE POWER OF GOD OR HOW MUCH HORSEPOWER HE HAS UP HIS SLEEVE.
IN 2018, MAN WATCHES IN AWE SUCH AS KILAUEA...EVEN AS IT INCHES TO MAN’S GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANT. VOLCANOS, EARTHQUAKES, STORMS AND WHIRLWINDS WERE NOT REALLY A PART OF MY GROWING UP EXPERIENCE IN TEMPERATE ENGLAND, BUT WEATHER PATTERNS ARE CHANGING. NOW MANY OF OUR LIVES IN OUR MODERN TECHNOLOGICAL-SEE AGE HAVE BECOME AS FRUITFUL AS A DESERT IN A WHIRLWIND. JUST LOOK AT THE DUST THAT IS ALL THAT IS LEFT AS SHOWN ON THE NEWS REELS THAT ALSO GO ROUND AND ROUND. REPEATING OVER AND OVER THE DEVASTATION AND DESTRUCTION FOR ALL TO SEE, EVEN AT SEA. ALL OUR MODERN CON-VENIENCES HAVE BOUGHT US…NOTHING! NOT SO THEY SAY...WE HAVE A MARVELOUS NEW PHONE! IT CAN DO EVERYTHING! YES...BUT WHAT CAN WE DO? THIS IS THE VOICE THAT WE LONG TO ANSWER...WE ARE LOST WITHOUT IT... AND STILL, WE WILL NOT ANSWER GOD’S CALL. DID YOU KNOW HE CALLS US ON HIS PHONE?
REVELATION 21:3-5, “AND I HEARD A GREAT VOICE ((G5456) PHONE – THROUGH THE IDEA OF DISCLOSURE; A TONE (ARTICULATE, BESTIAL OR ARTIFICIAL); BY IMPLICATION, AN ADDRESS (FOR ANY PURPOSE), SAYING OR LANGUAGE:- NOISE, SOUND, VOICE, NOISED ABROAD) OUT OF HEAVEN SAYING, BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN, AND HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM, AND THEY SHALL BE HIS PEOPLE, AND GOD HIMSELF SHALL BE WITH THEM, AND BE THEIR GOD. AND GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS FROM THEIR EYES; AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH, NEITHER SORROW, NOR CRYING, NEITHER SHALL THERE BE ANY MORE PAIN: FOR THE FORMER THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY. AND HE THAT SAT UPON THE THRONE SAID, BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW. AND HE SAID UNTO ME, WRITE: FOR THESE WORDS ARE TRUE AND FAITHFUL.”
THERE WERE TWO HURRYCANE HAZELS; HAZEL I AND HAZEL II. THE HURRICANE WAS SO STRONG IT MARCHED ALL THE WAY UP THE EAST COAST TO CANADA WHERE IT MERGED WITH A COLD FRONT AND THEN IT WAS REBORN IN ONTARIO AS HAZEL II, OCTOBER 16, 1954. ALONG ITS WAY IT HAD PACKED WINDS OF 240 KM/H AND HAD KILLED OVER A 1,000 PEOPLE. IN RETROSPECT, SEVERLY INCLEMENT WEATHER HAD CHASED ME FROM HEATHROW AIRPORT THAT WAS EVEN SEVERELY FLOODED WHEN I LEFT ENGLAND IN 1968 AT THE AGE OF 17. THE TUMULTUOUS FLIGHT WOULD HAVE SCARED ANY SEASONED TRAVELLER HALF TO DEATH, BUT STILL GOD HAS BEEN SOOO GOOD TO ME. THE WORDS MY MOTHER CONSTANTLY REITERATED WERE, “PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE TIMELY ARRIVAL OF CHRIST TO THE WESTERN ISLES,” AND WHIRLWINDS, TORNADOS, HURRICANES, FIRES, FLOODS AND MOST ESPECIALLY NOAH, WERE A PART OF HER WITNESS AND TESTIMONY. NOT ONLY WILL PEOPLE QUAKE AT HIS COMING, BUT THE WHOLE EARTH WILL TOO, EVEN AS A MOTHER IN LABOR BEFORE HER WATERS BREAK AND SHE FLOODS AS THE BABY TUMBLES OUT. CHRIST’S CHURCH IS TO BE SHAKEN EVEN AS ON 2/22/11 CHRISTCHURCH NEW ZEAL-LAND WAS SHAKEN WITH EARTHQUAKES. PEOPLE WILL BE SHAKEN UNTIL THEY TOO HAVE A NEW ZEAL FOR CHRIST’S CHURCH BECAUSE IN IT IS OUR ONLY SAFETY. IT IS OUR ARK IN THE COMING FLOOD OF EARTH SHAKING TRAUMA. EARTHQUAKES ARE THE BIRTH PANGS FOR A NEW WORLD TO BE BORN AND WHIRLWINDS ARE PART OF GOD’S JUDGMENT. IT IS NOT FOR US TO JUDGE THE VICTIMS, THEIR SINS, THEIR BLESSINGS, THEIR BLOOD OR THEIR BLOODLINES. ELIJAH WAS TAKEN UP BY GOD IN A WHIRLWIND! 2 KINGS 2 :11, "AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS THEY STILL WENT ON, AND TALKED, THAT, BEHOLD, THERE APPEARED A CHARIOT OF FIRE, AND PARTED THEM BOTH ASUNDER; AND ELIJAH WENT UP BY A WHIRLWIND INTO HEAVEN." WOW! WAY TO GO! LATELY I HAVE READ TESTIMONIES OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN SUCKED UP INTO TORNADOS AND AFTER CRYING OUT TO GOD, CAME DOWN TO EARTH TO TELL ABOUT IT! HOW DOES ANYONE PREPARE FOR THAT? I THINK THE BEST WAY TO PREPARE...IS TO PREPARE OUR HEARTS. THERE IS NO OTHER DEFENSE AGAINST THE WRATH OF GOD EXCEPT TO BE RIGHT WITH HIM. IT IS NO JOKE. BURYING LOVED ONES IS NO JOKE. LIFE AND DEATH IS DEADLY SERIOUS. WE ARE A GENERATION BROUGHT UP IN DE-NILE. DRUGS, ALCOHOL AND STUPIDITY DOES NOT MAKE REALITY GO AWAY, IT SIMPLY SEPARATES THE BRAIN FROM IT. ALL OF US WILL HAVE TO FACE THE JUDGE. WE WILL BE SOBER AND FULLY AWARE OF ALL OF OUR SIN. WE ALL NEED THE BLOOD OF JESUS. MANY PEOPLE ARE OFFENDED THAT GOD SHOULD HAVE WRATH. SORRY. OUR OPINION DOES NOT COUNT; I TOO WISH IT DID. AMERICA MIGHT BE A DEMOCRACY, BUT THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS NOT. IT IS A THEOCRACY AND WE DO NOT GET A VOTE. WE ARE SIMPLY COMMANDED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER. IT SOUNDS SIMPLE...BUT IT IS NOT. GOD DOES ANYTHING HE WANTS TO! ULTIMATELY, EVERYTHING HE DOES IS GOOD, AREN’T YOU GLAD?
ZECHARIAH 7:14, “I SCATTERED THEM WITH A WHIRLWIND AMONG THE NATIONS.” GOD WAS REMINDING US HOW HE DISPERSED THE JEWS ACROSS THE FACE OF THE EARTH BECAUSE THEY HAD REFUSED TO LISTEN TO HIS WORD BUT EVEN IN THE STORM, IT IS HIS EYE ALWAYS THERE IN THE MIDDLE, WATCHING OVER US. FEAR THIS! FEAR THE LORD. FEAR HIS EYE AND THE EYE OF HIS STORM OF JUDGEMENT. WE HAVE LOST THE FEAR OF THE LORD BUT WE ARE ABOUT TO FIND IT...QUICKLY. APRIL 12, 2011 I WAS IN THE WALMART IN HILLSBORO, TX. LIGHTNING STRUCK, THE LIGHTS WENT OUT...AND PEOPLE WERE SCREAMING FOR NO REAL REASON EXCEPT THAT EVERYONE THEN WAS A LITTLE ON EDGE! THEY ARE WATCHING THE NEWS AND NOW IT IS REALITY THAT “SOMETHING” IS DIFFERENT AND ...SHAKY. PSALM 77:18, “YOUR THUNDER WAS HEARD IN THE WHIRLWIND, YOUR LIGHTNING LIT UP THE WORLD; THE EARTH TREMBLED AND QUAKED”. YES, JUNE 2019 IT WAS STILL RELENTLESS AS ANCIENT TREES CRASHED ALL AROUND OUR PROPERTY, BRINGING DOWN POWER POLES AND ELECTRICAL LINES RIGHT BESIDE OUR CAR. IT WAS RAINING TIMBER, BESIDE, INFRONT AND BEHIND US. WOE! THUNDER AND LIGHTNING SHATTERING US AS WE HAD NEVER BEEN BEFORE. WE GOT OUT OF THAT STORM SAFELY, BUT IT TESTED OUR FAITH. PROVERBS 1:24-33, “BECAUSE I HAVE CALLED, AND YOU REFUSED; I HAVE STRETCHED OUT MY HAND, AND NO MAN REGARDED; BUT YOU HAVE SET AT NOUGHT ALL MY COUNSEL, AND WOULD NONE OF MY REPROOF; I ALSO WILL LAUGH AT YOUR CALAMITY; I WILL MOCK WHEN YOUR FEAR COMES; WHEN YOUR FEAR COMES AS DESOLATION, AND YOUR DESTRUCTION COMES AS A WHIRLWIND; WHEN DISTRESS AND ANGUISH COME UPON YOU. THEN SHALL THEY CALL UPON ME, BUT I WILL NOT ANSWER; THEY SHALL SEEK ME EARLY, BUT THEY SHALL NOT FIND ME: FOR THAT THEY HATED KNOWLEDGE, AND DID NOT CHOOSE THE FEAR OF THE LORD: THEY WOULD NONE OF MY COUNSEL: THEY DESPISED ALL MY REPROOF. THEREFORE SHALL THEY EAT OF THE FRUIT OF THEIR OWN WAY, AND BE FILLED WITH THEIR OWN DEVICES. FOR THE TURNING AWAY OF THE SIMPLE SHALL SLAY THEM, AND THE PROSPERITY OF FOOLS SHALL SLAY THEM. BUT WHOEVER HEARKENS TO ME SHALL DWELL SAFELY, AND SHALL BE QUIET FROM FEAR OF EVIL.” JEREMIAH 23:19-20, “BEHOLD A WHIRLWIND OF THE LORD IS GONE IN FURY, EVEN A GRIEVOUS WHIRLWIND: IT SHALL FALL GRIEVOUSLY ON THE HEAD OF THE WICKED. THE ANGER OF THE LORD SHALL NOT RETURN, UNTIL HE HAVE EXECUTED, AND TILL HE HAVE PERFORMED THE THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART: IN THE LATTER DAYS YOU SHALL CONSIDER IT PERFECTLY.” YEP! NAHUM 1:3, “THE LORD IS SLOW TO ANGER AND GREAT IN POWER; AND WILL NOT AT ALL AQUIT THE WICKED: THE LORD HAS HIS WAY IN THE WHIRLWIND AND IN THE STORM, AND THE CLOUDS ARE THE DUST OF HIS FEET.” IT IS NOT AS IF HE HAD NOT EXPLAINED HIMSELF... IS IT? HE TOLD US TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER. HE TOLD US TO FORGIVE EACH OTHER AS WE HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN, BUT "VENGEANCE IS MINE, SAITH THE LORD" IT IS NOT OUR JOB TO DEAL OUT VENGEANCE BUT TRUTH. JEREMIAH 4:13, “BEHOLD, HE SHALL COME UP AS CLOUDS, AND HIS CHARIOTS SHALL BE AS A WHIRLWIND: HIS HORSES ARE SWIFTER THAN EAGLES. WOE UNTO US FOR WE ARE SPOILED.” YEP. WOULD IT BE CONSIDERED PROPHETIC IF I SAID, “WATCH FOR THE WHIRLYBIRDS, THE HELICOPTERS AT THE CAPITOL TOO”? GOD IS NOT LIKE ICE WHERE THE MERCURY DROPS BELOW ZERO.... HE IS MERCY-FULL, JEREMIAH 32:26-42, “THEN THE WORD OF YAHWEH CAME TO JEREMIAH, SAYING, “BEHOLD I AM YAHWEH, THE GOD OF ALL FLESH. IS THERE ANYTHING TOO HARD FOR ME?’ THEREFORE THUS SAYS YAHWEH: ‘BEHOLD, I WILL GIVE THIS CITY INTO THE HAND OF THE CHALDEANS, INTO THE HAND OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF BABYLON, AND HE SHALL TAKE IT. AND THE CHALDEANS WHO FIGHT AGAINST THIS CITY SHALL COME AND SET FIRE TO THIS CITY AND BURN IT, WITH THE HOUSES ON WHOSE ROOFS THEY HAVE OFFERED INCENSE TO BAAL AND POURED OUT DRINK OFFERINGS TO OTHER GODS, TO PROVOKE ME TO ANGER; BECAUSE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH HAVE DONE ONLY EVIL BEFORE ME FROM THEIR YOUTH. FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAVE PROVOKED ME ONLY TO ANGER WITH THE WORK OF THEIR HANDS,’ SAYS YAHWEH. ‘FOR THIS CITY HAS BEEN TO ME A PROVOCATION OF MY ANGER AND MY FURY FROM THE DAY THAT THEY BUILT IT, EVEN TO THIS DAY; SO I WILL REMOVE IT FROM BEFORE MY FACE BECAUSE OF ALL THE EVIL OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH, WHICH THEY HAVE DONE TO PROVOKE ME TO ANGER- THEY, THEIR KINGS, THEIR PRINCES, THEIR PRIESTS, THEIR PROPHETS, THE MEN OF JUDAH, AND THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM. AND THEY HAVE TURNED TO ME THE BACK, AND NOT THE FACE; THOUGH I TAUGHT THEM, RISING UP EARLY AND TEACHING THEM, YET THEY HAVE NOT LISTENED TO RECEIVE INSTRUCTION. BUT THEY SET THEIR ABOMINATIONS IN THE HOUSE WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME, TO DEFILE IT. AND THEY BUILT THE HIGH PLACES OF BAAL WHICH ARE IN THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM (GEHENNA ALSO REFERRED TO AS HELL), TO CAUSE THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE TO MOLECH, WHICH I DID NOT COMMAND THEM, NOR DID IT COME INTO MY MIND THAT THEY SHOULD DO THIS ABOMINATION, TO CAUSE JUDAH TO SIN. ‘NOW THEREFORE,’ THUS SAYS YAHWEH, THE GOD OF ISRAEL CONCERNING THIS CITY OF WHICH YOU SAY, ‘IT SHALL BE DELIVERED INTO THE HAND OF THE KING OF BABYLON BY THE SWORD, BY THE FAMINE, AND BY THE PESTILENCE; BEHOLD, I WILL GATHER THEM OUT OF ALL COUNTRIES WHERE I HAVE DRIVEN THEM IN MY ANGER, IN MY FURY, AND IN GREAT WRATH; I WILL BRING THEM BACK TO THIS PLACE AND I WILL CAUSE THEM TO DWELL SAFELY. THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD: THEN I WILL GIVE THEM ONE HEART AND ONE WAY, THAT THEY MAY FEAR ME FOREVER, FOR THE GOOD OF THEM AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM. AND I WILL MAKE AN EVERLASTING COVENANT WITH THEM, THAT I WILL NOT TURN AWAY FROM DOING THEM GOOD: BUT I WILL PUT MY FEAR IN THEIR HEARTS SO THAT THEY WILL NOT DEPART FROM ME. YES, I WILL REJOICE OVER THEM TO DO THEM GOOD, AND I WILL ASSUREDLY PLANT THEM IN THIS LAND, WITH ALL MY HEART AND WITH ALL MY SOUL. FOR THUS SAYS YAHWEH: JUST AS I HAVE BROUGHT ALL THIS GREAT CALAMITY ON THIS PEOPLE, SO I WILL BRING ON THEM ALL THE GOOD THAT I HAVE PROMISED THEM.” I LOVE A HAPPY ENDING!!!! PSALM 1:148:2-7, “PRAISE YE HIM, ALL HIS ANGELS PRAISE YE HIM, ALL HIS HOST. PRAISE YE HIM, SUN AND MOON PRAISE HIM, ALL YE STARS OF LIGHT. PRAISE HIM, YE HEAVENS, AND YE WATERS THAT ARE ABOVE THE HEAVENS. LET THEM PRAISE THE NAME OF JEHOVAH FOR HE COMMANDED AND THEY WERE CREATED. HE HATH ALSO ESTABLISHED THEM FOR EVER AND EVER. HE HATH MADE A DECREE WHICH SHALL NOT PASS AWAY. PRAISE JEHOVAH FROM THE EARTH, YE SEA-MONSTERS, AND ALL DEEPS.”
GOD DOES JUDGE CITIES AND HE DOES BLESS CITIES AS HE WISHES. THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD IS ABOUT GETTING THE LEAVEN OUT OF US. WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO IT OURSELVES. IF WE DON’T, HE DOES. SEPARATING IT FROM US LIKE CHAFF IN THE THRESHING MACHINE. WE ARE LITERALLY BEING THRASHED TO PURIFY US FOR HIS KINGDOM COME. IF THE THRASHING HAS TO COME FROM THE BLADES OF A CHOPPER, SO BE IT.
WHEN I RESIDED AT GRANBURY, TX, AT THE TIME OF MY MOTHER’S INTERNMENT IN ENGLAND, I WAS CONNECTED THROUGH MY BOATS WITH THE TRINITY RIVER, FORMERLY “LA SANTISIMA TRINIDAD” THE “MOST HOLY TRINITY” RIVER THAT RAN THROUGH DALLAS AND FORT WORTH AND DOWN TO THE GULF OF MEXICO. BOTH BOATS WERE BOTH MOORED ON LAKE WORTH AT SOME TIME WHICH WAS ON THE TRINITY. SO, JUST 13 MILES AWAY FROM THE HOLY TRINITY CHURCH IN ENGLAND WHERE MOTHER WAS BURIED WAS A MORE RENOWNED PLACE, THE SITE OF GLASTONBURY ABBEY. “THE MOTHER AND BURYING PLACE OF THE SAINTS, FOUNDED BY THE VERY DISCIPLES OF CHRIST.”
PHILIPPIANS 2:9-11, “WHEREFORE GOD ALSO HATH HIGHLY EXALTED HIM, AND GIVEN HIM A NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY NAME: THAT AT THE NAME OF JESUS EVERY KNEE SHOULD BOW, OF THINGS IN HEAVEN, AND THINGS IN EARTH, AND THINGS UNDER THE EARTH. AND THAT EVERY TONGUE SHOULD CONFESS THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER.”
MY TWO MOTHERS, MY GRAND MOTHER AND MY MOTHER WHO WAS GRAND, ARE BOTH BURIED CLOSE TO THAT SOMERSET RAINBOW’S END TOO, REALLY, THERE ARE PICTURES TO PROVE IT...A BEAUTIFUL RAINBOW APPEARED ON THE DAY OF MY MOTHER HAZEL’S GRAVE, AND I HAVE ONLY JUST REALIZED THAT IT EMBRACED GRANDMA’S GRAVE TOO...TWO AS THEY WERE PLANTED SIDE BY SIDE. I AM NOT MAKING THIS STUFF UP. MY PART IRISH MOTHER SOUGHT THE BURIED TREASURE OF JESUS WHO IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN ANY GOLD, POT, OR A POT OF GOLD. AS I REFLECT, SOME COULD SAY THAT THE RAINBOW TELLS HIS STORY IN THE SKY BECAUSE HE IS LIGHT AND HE WAS BROKEN FOR OUR SINS. LIGHT BROKEN CREATES THE MANY DIFFERENT HUES. THE DOUBLE RAINBOW SPEAKS OF ITS REFLECTION; THE STORY OF MYTHS AND FABULOUS FABLES ALSO SEEN IN THE SKY AS A LESS BRILLIANT MIRROR IMAGE, WHICH IS WHY THE COLORS ARE RE-VERSED, EVEN AS MYTHS RE-VERSE HIS VERSES, ALMOST THE SAME BUT SOMEHOW... BACKWARDS AND JUST A BIT MORE ...VAGUE.
IN THE MARCH 28, 2000, MY DINNER CRUISE BOAT ZION'S DREAM WAS UNDER CONSTRUCTION ON AIRPORT FREEWAY ON THE EAST SIDE OF FORT WORTH WHEN A TEXAS SIZED F3 TORNADO TORE THROUGH TOWN. YOU COULD CALL IT A WHIRLWIND OF THE SOUTH, I MEAN, WITH 157 MPH WINDS AN F3 BRINGS ALOT OF TRAUMA AND DRAMA, ESPECIALLY WITH BASEBALL SIZED HAIL. THAT COMBINED WITH ANOTHER THAT SET DOWN IN GRAND PRAIRIE AND IN ARLINGTON IN THE SAME SYSTEM, THEY RACKED UP A HALF BILLION DOLLAR PRICE TAG! HIGH RISES HAD THEIR WINDOWS PLUCKED OUT AND CHAIRS, DESKS, AND OFFICE EQUIPMENT AND PAPERWORK TOOK TO THE SKIES TO BE CARRIED MILES AWAY. CARS WERE TOSSED LIKE TOYS AND GLASS RAINED FROM THE SKY LIKE HAIL. PERSONNEL CROUCHED WHERE EVER THEY COULD AND THE BUILDERS OF MY BOAT WATCHED THE SPECTACLE IN AWE FROM HER BOW. THAT WAS BEFORE SHE EVEN WENT INTO THE WATER WHEN SHE SAT CLOSE TO THE TRINITY RIVER. ANOTHER SMALLER TORNADO WAS WITNESSED BY THE MARINA OWNER AS IT DANCED AROUND HER AGAIN BEFORE SHE WAS RETIRED MOVED FROM LAKE WACO TO LEESBURG IN CAMP COUNTY, TX. SHE HAS TOURED THE CIRCLE OF THE GRAND PRAIRIE. WHEN JESUS CHRIST MADE HIMSELF KNOWN TO HER, SHE WOULD SAY TO ME, "AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH" AND "PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE TIMELY ARRIVAL OF CHRIST TO THE WESERN ISLES". WELL PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING THAT FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, BUT WE ARE NOW SEEING "SIGNS" THAT THINGS ARE CHANGING, EVEN ACCORDING TO GOD'S PLAN. TO REPEAT FROM 2 PETER 3, "BE NOT IGNORANT OF THIS ONE THING, THAT ONE DAY IS WITH THE LORD AS A THOUSAND YEARS, AND A THOUSAND YEARS AS ONE DAY. THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE, AS SOME MEN COUNT SLACKNESS; BUT IS LONG SUFFERING TO US-WARD, NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH, BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE. BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT; IN THE WHICH THE HEAVENS WILL PASS AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE, AND THE ELEMENTS SHALL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT, THE EARTH ALSO AND THE WORKS THAT ARE THEREIN SHALL BE BURNED UP."
I WAS AT HER HOUSE IN NORTH CAROLINA WHEN ANOTHER "SYSTEM" OF HURRICANES WAS HURRYING THROUGH. THE PHONE RANG AND IT WAS HER NEIGHBOUR TELLING HER TO TAKE MY SISTER OUTSIDE TO SEE THE AMAZING RAINBOW OVER OUR HOUSE. IT WAS AMAZING! OF COURSE, I HAD TO GO OUT TOO. THERE WAS NO POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF IT, BECAUSE I WOULD HAVE SEEN IT. I WAS STANDING IN A HUMID PASTEL HUE IN THE WOODS AT THE END OF HER PROPERTY. THE NEWS CASTER QUOTED FROM THE BIBLE THAT DAY AS HE REPORTED ON THE WEATHER, SAYING, "AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH". TWO OF OUR FOALS WERE BIRTHED THE DAY THE STORM SYSTEM ON ITS WAY TO JOPLIN ROARED CROSS COUNTRY FROM OUR RANCH IN MART. MAY 22, 2011 THE HORRIFIC EF5 MULTIPLE VORTEX TORNADO BLASTED JOPLIN MISSOURI. WIKIPEDIA REPORTS 158 FATAL INJURIES 1150 INJURIES. CAN YOU IMAGINE? WE SPENT THAT DAY TRYING TO OUT RUN THE ANGRY STORM CLOUDS. WE WATCHED THE TREACHEROUS CLOUDS GO TOWARDS STEPHENVILLE WHEN THE SUPER CELL STRUCK, I TRAVELLED FROM WACO TO WHITNEY IN THE WORST ELECTRICAL STORM EVER, EXPLOSIONS ROCKING THE CAR AS I DROVE PAST EXPLODING TRANSFORMERS.
ZION'S DREAM WAS PULLED FROM FLOODS AFTER TORNADOS HAD RIPPED THROUGH, AND THE MARINA HAD TO CLOSE DOWN IN WACO. PRIOR TO THAT THE MARINA HAD SERIOUSLY FLOODED ON LAKE WHITNEY. IT ACTUALLY BECAME A NEW NORM AND LIFESTYLE DEALING WITH THEM BLOW AFTER BLOW. WHEN WE MOVED UP TO LEESBURG TEXAS, IT JUST GOT WORSE! STORM AFTER STORM COMING AND GOING, THE CANTON STORMS, THE ROCKWALL STORMS, THE STORMS THAT WE GOT TRAPPED IN ON OUR ROAD. HUGE TREES WERE FALLING DOWN RIGHT, LEFT AND CENTER. NOT JUST POWER LINES BUT ENORMOUS POWER POLES OPPOSITE OUR FRONT GATE FELL RIGHT BESIDE US. IT WAS LIKE BEING IN ANOTHER MOVIE, SUREAL, EXCEPT I HAD A GREAT PEACE. NOT TO MENTION THAT THE MANY NIGHTS IN HOTELS WERE A RATHER PLEASANT INTERLUDE, AS WE WAITED FOR POWER TO BE RESTORED. EVEN THE RENOWN CINCO DE MAYO STORM IN FORT WORTH HIT RIGHT BEHIND THE TWIN TOWERS WHERE I WORKED ON SUMMIT AVE., EVEN AT THE TRINITY RIVER. MY LIFE IN GRANBURY SAW ITS SHARE OF FOUL WEATHER. AFTER THE OAK TRAIL SHORES TORNADO, IT SEEMS A PERSONALIZED WHIRLWIND OF THE SOUTH HAD VISITED US TO ONCE AGAIN PROVE THE MIGHT OF THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY. IT WAS A BIT SCARY AS WE HUDLED IN THE CLOSET TOGETHER AND PRAYED THAT THE LORD WOULD PLACE ANGELS N,S,E,W OF OUR PROPERTY. HE DID. WHEN THE STORM HAD ABATED, WE VENTURED OUT TO SEE WHAT LOOKED LIKE A WAR ZONE. THE HOUSE REMINDED ME OF A HAYSTACK OR BIG PIN CUSHION, IT REALLY WAS NOT HURT, BUT COVERED IN THINGS IMPALED IN IT. THE 40X40 GRANARY HAD BEEN PICKED UP AS A WHOLE AND MOVED A FEW FEET AND THE 70' BARN...WAS NOT THERE. GONE. ALONG WITH MANY OTHER TREASURES. THE WORSE PART OF THE DAMAGE WAS THAT SO MANY HUGE LIVE OAK TREES HAD BEEN FELLED. THE BEST PART WAS THAT THE HOUSE AND FAMILY WERE UNHARMED. "THANK YOU LORD!!!!" BUT I MADE A MENTAL NOTE THAT "NEXT TIME" I PRAYED AGAINST SOMETHING LIKE THAT, I WOULD NOT LIMIT THE ANGELS HELP TO JUST MY HOUSE...I WOULD THINK A BIT BIGGER!
ELIZABETH AFTER THE TORNADOS UPROOTED LIVE OAKS AT OUR RANCH IN GRANBURY
AFTER THE DARK STORMS COME THE AMAZING RAINBOWS. THE BRAZOS RIVER OUT DID ITSELF FOR MY KIND AMBASSADORS FROM OVERSEAS AS IT PUT ON THIS ONCE IN A LIFETIME PHENOMENAL DISPLAY. WE FELT LIKE THE GUESTS OF HONOR AT GOD’S GLORIOUS CURTAIN CALL; HIS BRILLIANT BANNERS MAJESTICALLY DRAPED ACROSS THE HEAVENS FOR OUR OVERWHELMING PLEASURE AND I HAVE SINCE READ THAT COLORS, FOR RESONATE WITH THEIR OWN SOUND... IF ONLY WE HAD EARS TO HEAR THEM.
SURELY HIS BANNER OVER US IS LOVE AND WHAT A COLOURFUL SONG THOSE RAINBOWS MUST HAVE SUNG! OUR FIRST PADDLEWHEEL BOAT RIDE IN TEXAS WAS A LONG WAY FROM ENGLAND, BUT SHOTS ON CAMERAS OF SPECIAL MEMORIES FLEW BACK ACROSS THE ATLANTIC AS A MULTI COLORED BRIDGE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED KINGDOM EVEN AS WE TOO SHOT BACK AND FORTH IN THE AIR LIKE ARROWS FROM A BOW.
WHEN I CALLED MY AUNTS, AND TOLD THEM OF MY PLANS FOR A RIVERBOAT OF MY OWN, THEY WERE SO EXCITED AND THRILLED FOR ME; IT WOULD BE BLISSFUL. INDEED, IGNORANCE IS BLISS. ON THIS SIDE OF THE POND, I WAS GIVEN LESS POSITIVE INPUT TO PONDER, BUT PROBABLY MORE REALISTIC. “MOIRA, DON’T DO IT. MY FRIEND HAD ONE AND IT ALMOST KILLED HIM!” MY FRIEND RECALLED, SOMEWHAT PROPHETICALLY. I STILL REMEMBER THE LOOKS OF GENUINE CONCERN AND COMPASSION FOR ME AND I WELL REMEMBER BLANKLY STARING BACK; I SUPPOSE IT MUST BE HOW KAMIKAZE PILOTS FELT BECAUSE A CALM HAZE FELL OVER ME; MY MIND WAS MADE UP. I WAS ADAMANT. WHAT I SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE WAS THINK I COULD BE SUCCESSFUL WITHOUT BEING OBEDIENT. THAT IS CALLED BEING STUPID. WE KNOW THAT WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.
NONE OF US HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FORGET THAT SIGHT NOR HAVE WE EVER SEEN RAINBOWS LIKE IT IN EITHER OF THOSE COUNTRIES...BUT MY MIND BOGGLES AT THE THOUGHT OF THE WORLD’S FIRST EVER RAINBOW WHEN NOAH STEPPED OUT OF HIS ARK AND GOD DREW BACK HIS CURTAINS FOR ACT II OF HIS NEXT BIGGEST SHOW ON EARTH. IT MUST HAVE BEEN SPECTACULAR AS THE SPECTRUM OF COLORS DID A SPECIAL LINE DANCE JUST FOR HIM, NOAHA DOUBT ABOUT IT. NOAH WAS NOT ON THE TITANIC, ALTHOUGH IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN AS THE WAR OF THE TITANS WHEN GOD’S JUDGMENT RAINED DOWN. HIS WAS NOT A SINKING SHIP TO BE WRECKED IN LIFE’S STORMS. HIS WAS A COVENANT-SHIP, AND GOD HAD GIVEN NOAH PRECISE DETAILS HOW TO BUILD IT. HIS ARK WAS SEALED AGAINST THE PITCH OF THE WATERS...WITH PITCH, AND THE CATACLYSMIC EVENT WAS AFTERWARDS SEALED WITH THE UPWARD FACING BOW... OF DEFENSE. IT IS GOD’S ARCH THAT SATAN SO DESPERATELY WANTS TO STEAL AS HIS OWN. SURELY HE IS AS THE “FALLEN ARCH” ANGEL.
GOD MADE ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL, ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL...SATAN’S DESIRE IS TO PERVERT AND DEFILE THEM ALL, MOST OF ALL...US! WE ARE TO HIM AS HUMAN TRASH CANS INTO WHICH HE DUMPS AS MUCH GARBAGE AS WE WILL LET HIM. WE GIVE HIM SUCH A STEAL OF A DEAL, I MEAN, I HAVE TO PAY MY GARBAGE PICKUP SERVICE HARD EARNED CASH TO GET THEM TO TAKE MY TRASH AWAY. GOD MADE OUR BODIES AND GAVE THEM TO US. HE RESENTS US GIVING THEM TO SATAN AND HIS DEMONS TO USE AND ABUSE. HE RESENTS US TELLING FABLES ABOUT WHO CREATED HIS OWN FABULOUS CREATION, BUT FACT AND FICTION IS GOING TO BE SEPARATED OUT SOONER NOT LATER. EVEN OUR PHONES WITH THEIR AMAZING CAMERAS TESTIFY OF THE ENDLESS BEAUTY, MAJESTY, INTRICACY AND INGENUITY OF HIS CREATION.
ONLY A FOOL OF FOOLS WOULD DARE PROCLAIM THAT ALL THIS UNIQUE HIGH TECH DNA CODE WAS THE RESULT OF AN EXPLOSION. WHAT GARBAGE. SOMETHING TO LOOK AT THOUGH ARE THE ISLANDS OF GARBAGE NOW FLOATING IN THE SEAS, FULL OF PLASTICS, TOXIC CHEMICALS HARMFUL TO NEARLY ALL PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE, NEEDLES, NYLON FISHING LINES, CANS, REALLY EVERYTHING THAT WE DON'T WANT... THAT IS WHAT MAN WITH ALL HIS EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE AND CREATIVITY...HAS CREATED. HE SCORES A BIG "F".
EVEN DARWIN’S ARCH THAT SEEMED TO STAND AS A ROCK SOLID RAINBOW... COLLAPSED INTO THE SEA IN MAY OF 2021 IN THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. GOING DOWN! WE HAVE WATCHED SEVERAL TITAN-IC SIZED CRUISE SHIPS TOSSED AROUND ON THE SEAS LATELY TOO, MOST OF THEM PLEASURE AND PARTY SHIPS. THE ARCH OF GOD’S COVENANT STILL OVERARCHES THEM ALL. AS SEEN IN HIS ARK OF THE COVENANT THAT WILL ALSO FOREVER STAND AS TESTIMONY THAT THROUGH GOD’S GRACE AND BY HIS OUTSTRETCHED ARM, HE HAS ALLOWED MAN TO WIN THE RACE FOR THE HUMAN RACE, EVEN AGAINST ALL ODDS. JESUS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT STANDS AS THE NEW TESTAMENT AS PART OF THIS MYSTERY.
RECENTLY ANOTHER ARCH IS MARCHING THROUGH OUR PRESTIGIOUS CITIES: THE ARCH OF BAAL. FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW, IT CELEBRATES BAAL WORSHIP AND THE LIVE SACRIFICE OF BABIES AND CHILDREN. IT IS LIT UP IN PINK/RED TO REMIND ITS ADMIRERS OF BABY'S BLOOD. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP. THIS IS SIMPLY A STATEMENT OF HOW DEPRAVED TODAY'S SOCIETY HAS BECOME AND HOW IMPERATIVE IT IS FOR SANE PEOPLE TO TAKE BACK THE REINS AND TURN BACK TO FACE GOD AND GIVE HIM HONOUR AND GLORY. IF WE DON'T IT WILL BE GORY. REMEMBER THE ARK. REMEMBER THE FLOOD.
GOD’S COVENANT RAINBOW WITH NOAH WAS TO USHER IN A NEW AGE AFTER JUDGMENT. YES, THE WHOLE EARTH WAS ALREADY JUDGED AND FOUND GUILTY. JUDGMENT WAS HARSH! ANYONE WATCHING THE EVENTS ON TV WHEN SO MANY PEOPLE WERE SUDDENLY DROWNED ON BOXING DAY 2004 IN THE TSUNAMI... COULD ONLY IMAGINE WHAT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN LIKE WHEN THE ENTIRE EARTH WAS FLOODED. MY MOTHER TALKED WITH GOD CONSTANTLY. HE WOULD SAY TO HER, “AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH”. SHE WOULD SAY TO ME, “AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH.” AND SHE WOULD REPEAT HIS WORDS TO ME, “PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE TIMELY ARRIVAL OF CHRIST TO THE WESTERN ISLES.”
WHEN GOD’S EPIC CLEAN UP PROGRAM WAS COMPLETE, IT WAS SEALED WITH THE FIRST EVER PERFECT RAINBOW...AS A PERFECT REMINDER. I WOULD BE WILLING TO BET THAT NOAH’S RAINBOW WAS UNPARALLELED - WELL, EXCUSE ME, SINCE RAINBOWS RUN PARALLEL TO THEMSELVES, IT WOULD BE UNPARALLELED PARALLELS ARCHING OVER HIS ARK IN AN ARRAY OF LIVING PASTEL COLORS DESIGNED BY THE PASCHAL SON. IN THE RAINBOW THAT ALSO MIRRORS THE FIRMAMENT, GOD PROMISED US THAT WHILE THE EARTH REMAINED, SEED TIME AND HARVEST, AND COLD AND HEAT, AND SUMMER AND WINTER, AND DAY AND NIGHT SHALL NOT CEASE, GENESIS 8:22, AND THAT DESPITE GLOBAL WARMING…OR COOLING…AND THAT IS GOOD.
HE ALSO PROMISED THAT HE WOULD NOT FLOOD THE WHOLE EARTH LIKE THAT AGAIN. THAT IS THE GOOD NEWS TOO. THERE IS SOME BAD NEWS THOUGH. FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT SAFE IN GOD'S ARK, THERE IS GOING TO BE A DIFFERENT JUDGMENT...OF FIRE. MY POINT? THE BIBLE STARTS WITH THE BOOK OF GENESIS WHICH FIRST TELLS OF GOD'S RAINBOW THAT FOLLOWED HIS JUDGMENT AFTER FALLEN ANGELS HAD CORRRUPTED HIS EARTH. THE BIBLE ENDS WITH THE BOOK OF REVELATION AND ANOTHER RAINBOW, THAT PRECEDED JUDGMENT.
REVELATION 10:1, "AND I SAW ANOTHER MIGHTY ANGEL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, CLOTHED WITH A CLOUD: AND A RAINBOW WAS UPON HIS HEAD, AND HIS FACE WAS AS IT WERE THE SUN, AND HIS FEET AS PILLARS OF FIRE: AND HE HAD IN HIS HAND A LITTLE BOOK OPEN: AND HE SET HIS RIGHT FOOT UPON THE SEA, AND HIS LEFT FOOT ON THE EARTH, AND HE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, AS WHEN A LION ROARETH: AND WHEN HE HAD CRIED, SEVEN THUNDERS UTTERED THEIR VOICES. AND WHEN THE SEVEN THUNDERS HAD UTTERED THEIR VOICES, I WAS ABOUT TO WRITE: AND I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING UNTO ME, SEAL UP THOSE THINGS WHICH THE SEVEN THUNDERS UTTERED, AND WRITE THEM NOT. AND THE ANGEL WHICH I SAW STAND UPON THE SEA AND UPON THE EARTH LIFTED UP HIS HAND TO HEAVEN, AND SWARE BY HIM THAT LIVETH FOR EVER AND EVER, WHO CREATED HEAVEN AND THE THINGS THAT THEREIN ARE, AND THE EARTH, AND THE THINGS THAT THERIN ARE, AND THE SEA, AND THE THINGS WHICH ARE THEREIN, THAT THERE SHOULD BE TIME NO LONGER: BUT IN THE DAYS OF THE VOICE OF THE SEVENTH ANGEL, WHEN HE SHALL BEGIN TO SOUND, THE MYSTERY OF GOD SHOULD BE FINISHED, AS HE HATH DECLARED TO HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS. AND THE VOICE WHICH I HEARD FROM HEAVEN SPAKE UNTO ME AGAIN, AND SAID, GO AND TAKE THE LITTLE BOOK WHICH IS OPEN IN THE HAND OF THE ANGEL WHICH STANDETH UPON THE SEA AND UPON THE EARTH. AND I WENT UNTO THE ANGEL, AND SAID UNTO HIM, GIVE ME THE LITTLE BOOK. AND HE SAID UNTO ME, TAKE IT, AND EAT IT UP; AND IT SHALL MAKE THY BELLY BITTER, BUT IT SHALL BE IN THY MOUTH SWEET AS HONEY. AND I TOOK THE LITTLE BOOK OUT OF THE ANGEL'S HAND, AND ATE IT UP; AND IT WAS IN MY MOUTH SWEET AS HONEY: AND AS SOON AS I HAD EATEN IT, MY BELLY WAS BITTER. AND HE SAID UNTO ME, THOU MUST PROPHESY AGAIN BEFORE MANY PEOPLES, AND NATIONS, AND TONGUES, AND KINGS."