FORT WORTH TEXAS AND JERUSALEM, THE FORT OF WORTH
AN UNVEILING IN WACO TWO FRIENDS THAT I HAD NOT HEARD FROM IN SOME TIME EACH CALLED TO INVITE ME TO “THE UNVEILING”. WOT UNVEILING? THE UNVEILING OF 2 MAGNIFICENT BRONZE SCULPTURES; I COULD REMEMBER THAT DATE, IT WAS MY TWINS 21ST BIRTHDAY FEBRUARY 3, 2009. I ATTENDED. THE STATUES WERE MOUNTED IN FRONT OF THE HISTORIC BRIDGE OVER THE BRAZOS IN THE CITY OF WACO. THEY WERE THE FIRST OF MANY OTHERS TO BE ADDED LATER, A WHOLE HERD I HAD HEARD! THE CITY HAD ANXIOUSLY AWAITED THE ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST 2 PIECES. “WHEN WILL THEY BE HERE?” “WHEN THEY ARE FINISHED!” BOB SUMMERS WAS THE ARTIST AND NOW HE HUMBLY STOOD BY AS THEY CEREMONIALLY DREW ASIDE THE BILLOWING VEILS. EVERY ONE THERE GASPED BECAUSE IT WAS BREATHTAKING AND WELL WORTH THE WAIT, THEY WERE SUPERB AS THEY STOOD AT THE BRINK OF THE BRAZOS RIVER, THE "ARMS OF GOD". WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY. OF COURSE, IT WILL PALE INTO INSIGNIFICANCE WHEN COMPARED TO GOD’S UNVEILING WHICH IS SOON TO TAKE PLACE. THE VEIL WILL BE LIFTED WITH GREAT CEREMONY EVEN AS THE VEILS AND COVERINGS OF HIS TEMPLE ARE TAKEN DOWN. HOW EXCITING IS THAT! READ ALL ABOUT IT IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION...WHEN THE MYSTERIES OF GOD ARE ALL TO BE REVEALED. THE STATUES ON THE BRAZOS WERE OF A COWBOY, A LOOK ALIKE OF LEE MARVIN NO LESS, TAKING THE LONG HORN BULL TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER. THE OLD CHISHOLM TRAIL CROSSED THE BRAZOS AT THIS POINT IN WACO, AND RANCHERS WOULD PAY A FEW CENTS PER HEAD FOR THEM TO “PASS OVER” SWOLLEN WATERS VIA THE BRIDGE, OR MANY CATTLE WOULD OTHERWISE HAVE DROWNED ON THEIR WAY TO THE FORT WORTH STOCKYARDS. FORT WORTH IS ON THE TRINITY RIVER WHEREAS WACO IS ON THE BRAZOS. IT HAD TO BE PASSED OVER TO BRING THE CATTLE TO THE STOCKYARDS IN FORT WORTH OR EVEN THE RAILHEAD. THE BRAZOS CAN BE DANGEROUS WHEN IT IS SWOLLEN. I HAD GOT CAUGHT ON THE WRONG SIDE OF IT ONCE AT THANKSGIVING. WE HAD LEFT FROM PECAN PLANTATION FOR A TRAIL RIDE AND THERE WERE A COUPLE OF YOUNG CHILDREN IN THE GROUP. A TEXAS SIZED THUNDERSTORM SUDDENLY BLEW IN AND AS THE RAINS PELTED DOWN, MY FRIEND AND I DECIDED TO CUT OUT AND TRY TO HEAD FOR HOME BEFORE THE RIVER ROSE TOO HIGH TO CROSS BACK OVER SAFELY. WE ESCORTED ONE OF THE CHILDREN ON HER PONY BUT BY THE TIME WE ARRIVED AT THE BRAZOS, IT WAS ALREADY TUMBLING AND RAGING. MY FRIEND DENISE PUT THE LITTLE GIRL ON HER HORSE BEHIND HER AND SHE PONIED THE PONY OVER. YES, SHE WAS THE HEROINE THAT DAY! THE SMALL PONY REALLY STRUGGLED AGAINST THE STRONG CURRENT AND WITHOUT THE BIGGER HORSES BESIDE IT, IT COULD EASILY HAVE BEEN SWEPT AWAY. WE MADE IT BACK ONE STEP AT A TIME IN DRIVING RAIN AS THUNDER AND LIGHTNING CRASHED AROUND US. ON THE OTHER HAND, ANOTHER YEAR I HAD TAKEN MY HORSE ZEB ON THE “CHISHOLM TRAIL RIDE”. OF COURSE, IT WAS NOT THE REAL THING. IT WAS JUST A DAY TRIP FOR FUN AND IT TOOK PLACE IN JUNE. WE TRANSPORTED OUR HORSES OUT TO ONE OF THE BIG TEXAS RANCHES AND WE RODE BACK TO THE FORT WORTH STOCKYARDS IN GROUPS OF 100. TIME TO HERD ’EM UP AN’ MOVE ’EM OUD PARDNER. THE STOCKYARDS OF FORT WORTH ARE WORLD RENOWN. THEY SIT ON THE GRAND PRAIRIE OF TEXAS, A HUGE THRESHING FLOOR, WHERE THE WEST BEGINS. WE GALLOPED OVER THE AWESOME PRAIRIE ON THE CHISHOLM TRAIL RIDE AND I DON’T KNOW WHO HAD MORE FUN, ME OR MY PALOMINO ZEB. I LOVED EVERY MOMENT AND WHEN WE GOT BACK TO THE STOCKYARDS WE RODE IN WITH A HERD OF TEXAS LONGHORNS. BACK IN TOWN, WE LOOSENED THE HORSES SADDLES, TOOK OFF THEIR BITS AND BRIDLES AND TIED THEM UP WITH HALTERS WHILE WE CHOWED DOWN ON BBQ AND ENJOYED THE STREET DANCE THAT FOLLOWED. I WILL NEVER FORGET THAT VERY HOT, YET EXHILARATING DAY. JUST SOUTH OF FORT WORTH, NORTH OF WACO ARE THE SMALLER TOWNS, CLEBURNE, JOSHUA, GODLEY AND CROWLEY. RAINBOW SITS JUST OUTSIDE GRANBURY TOO. THE TOWN OF CLEBURNE HAS A MUSEUM TO COMMEMORATE THE CHISHOLM TRAIL RIDE AND WE HAD SPENT A FEW DAYS IN THAT AREA TRYING TO DECIDE IF IT WOULD BE FEASIBLE TO RUN ZION’S DREAM UP THERE AS PART OF THEIR ATTRACTION. AT ONE TIME, COWS WOULD HAVE BEEN DRIVEN THROUGH THESE TOWNS ON THEIR WAY TO THEIR "LAST SUPPER". MANY PEOPLE TODAY HAVE A DECISION ON WHICH ROUTE TO TAKE IN THEIR OWN LIVES BEFORE THEIR TRAIL’S END TOO. MANY HAVE CHOSEN THE WAY OF THE CROWLEY’S TO TAKE THEM TO THEIR GOD, SATAN. OTHERS HAVE TAKEN A MORE GODLEY PATH, HONOURING THE GOD OF NOAH’S RAINBOW, JESUS AND HIS LAST SUPPER BEFORE HE SACRIFICED HIMSELF AS THE PASSOVER LAMB.
YES, HE IS REAL! AYNT EE PURDY!
I HAD NO RECOLLECTION OF HAVING DONE THIS UNTIL I SAW THE PICTURE!
FORT WORTH, TEXAS
ON THE OLD CHISHOLM TRAIL, THE CATTLE WERE ROUNDED UP AND TAKEN TO MARKET AT THE FORT WORTH STOCKYARDS IN TARRANT COUNTY. THEY HAD BEEN LOOKED AFTER, FATTENED AND KEPT ALIVE TO ARRIVE IN GOOD HEALTH…UNTIL THE DAY OF THEIR SLAUGHTER…AND THEN THE BULL WOULD BE THE FEAST! IT IS A BIT SOBERING TO THINK THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE ROUNDED UP AND SIFTED TOO. SORRY BUT CATTLE DIE AND SO DO WE BECAUSE WE ARE ALL MORTAL. THOSE WHO ARE A BIT "BULLISH" MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER WHAT GOD SAYS .
II KINGS 19:27 – 28, “BUT I KNOW THY SITTING DOWN, AND THY GOING OUT, AND THY COMING IN, AND THY RAGING AGAINST ME. BECAUSE OF THY RAGING AGAINST ME, AND BECAUSE THINE ARROGANCY IS COME UP INTO MINE EARS, THEREFORE WILL I PUT MY HOOK IN THY NOSE, AND MY BRIDLE IN THY LIPS , AND I WILL TURN THEE BACK BY THE WAY BY WHICH THOU CAMEST.” OUCH! YOU SEE, HORSES HAVE BITS IN THEIR MOUTHS, BUT BULLS ARE OFTEN PIERCED TO HAVE A RING THROUGH THEIR NOSE...TO MAKE THEM COMPLIANT.
ISAIAH 10:1-3, "WOE UNTO THEM THAT DECREE UNRIGHTEOUS DECREES, AND THAT WRITE GRIEVOUSNESS WHICH THEY HAVE PRESCRIBED; TO TURN ASIDE THE NEEDY FROM JUDGMENT, AND TO TAKE AWAY THE RIGHT FROM THE POOR OF MY PEOPLE, THAT WIDOWS MAY BE THEIR PREY, AND THAT THEY MAY ROB THE FATHERLESS. AND WHAT WILL YE DO IN THE DAY OF VISITATION, AND IN THE DESOLATION WHICH SHALL COME FROM FAR? TO WHOM WILL YE FLEE FOR HELP? AND WHERE WILL YE LEAVE YOUR GLORY?
ISAIAH 30:28, "AND HIS BREATH, AS AN OVERFLOWING STREAM, SHALL REACH TO THE MIDST OF THE NECK, TO SIFT THE NATIONS WITH THE SIEVE ((H5299) NAPA - A LOFTY PLACE, HEIGHT, SIEVE, WINNOWING INSTRUMENT FROM (H 5130) NUP - TO MOVE TO AND FRO, WAVE, BESPRINKLE, BRANDISH, THREAT, SWING, WIELD, SHAKE, TO WAVE AN OFFERING, TO SHED ABROAD) OF VANITY (H7723) SAV - DESOLATING EVIL, DESTRUCTIVE RUIN, EMPTINESS, VANITY, FALSEHOOD, NOTHINGNESS, EMPTINESS OF SPEECH, LYING, WORTHLESSNESS (OF CONDUCT)): AND THERE SHALL BE A BRIDLE IN THE JAWS OF THE PEOPLE, CAUSING THEM TO ERR."
AMOS 9:9, "FOR, LO, I WILL COMMAND, AND I WILL SIFT THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AMONG ALL NATIONS, LIKE AS CORN IS SIFTED IN A SIEVE, YET SHALL NOT THE LEAST GRAIN FALL UPON THE EARTH. FORT WORTH WAS BIRTHED AS A ROUGH AND ROWDY COWBOY TOWN WITH BARS, BRAWLS AND SALOONS. IT WAS FOUNDED AS AN ARMY CAMP OR FORT FROM WHICH TO PROTECT THE SETTLERS FROM THE NATIVE INDIANS. TO THE WEST WAS THE CASINO AREA BESIDE LAKE WORTH WHERE MY BOATS WERE AT ONE TIME. IT TOO WAS FOUNDED IN GAMBLING, DRINKING, CAROUSING AND PARTYING. FORT WORTH WAS FONDLY KNOWN AS THE QUEEN OF THE GRAND PRAIRIE, WHEREIN LATER SAT MY "QUEEN MARIAH". ONCE UPON A TIME, MONEY ROCKED AND ROLLED IN FROM BOOT LEGGING AND GIN. IT IS BEST KNOWN FOR ITS COWBOYS, CATTLE, HORSES, CATTLE TRAILS, AND TRAIN RAILS. FURTHER UP THE ROAD, THE “STOCKYARDS” ARE NOW A NATIONAL HISTORIC UNESCO SITE. BILLY BOB’S IS A BIG TOURIST ATTRACTION TOO FOR TOURISM IS A MAJOR MONEY MAKING INDUSTRY INDUSTRY. HOWEVER, DESPITE THE COWBOYS AND ENTERTAINMENT, FORT WORTH IS FIRST AND FOREMOST… A FORT...OF WORTH! IT IS AGAIN KNOWN FOR ITS DEFENSE AND AERONAUTICS INDUSTRY WHERE THE CARSWELL AIR FORCE BASE HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO A JOINT SERVICE TRAINING STATION FOR THE ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE, COAST GUARD AND NATIONAL GUARD. A HUGE MILITARY FACILITY SITS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAKE FROM WHERE MY BOATS WERE MOORED, AND BESIDE IT IS LOCKHEED. MUCH WEAPONRY IS LOCKED UP HERE INDEED; SOME OF IT SAILS THE SEAS AS THE USS FORT WORTH. AND THE F-35 SAILS THE SKIES...LIKE LIGHTNING. THE CITY OF FORT WORTH BUILT LAKE WORTH FOR A RESERVOIR. CONSEQUENTLY, EVERYTHING AROUND THE EDGE OF THE LAKE WAS OWNED BY THE CITY OF FORT WORTH. IT BECAME THE EPICENTER OF THE RAILROADS, GRANARIES AND STOCK, EVEN AS SHE SAT TO THE WEST OF DALLAS. AS QUEEN OF THE GRAND PRAIRIE, A THRESHING FLOOR. ATOP THE SCENIC EAST BLUFFS OF LAKE WORTH THERE USED TO SIT A WOODEN SIX STORY BUILDING CALLED THE OLD SHRINE MOSQUE, OR FORT WORTH TEMPLE. IT WAS BUILT BY THE SHRINERS, AFTER ONLY 8 YEARS, FIRE CONSUMED IT AND THE TEMPLE WAS RELOCATED AND REBUILT IN DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH. TODAY JUST A SHELTER AND PARK SIT ON THE OLD TEMPLE SITE AT MOSQUE POINT. THE FORT WORTH NATURE RESERVE SEES BIRDS FLY IN FROM THE WORLD OVER TOO, INTERMINGLED WITH MECHANICAL BIRDS, SOARING THE SKIES TO LAND AT THE JOINT RESERVE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAKE BUT IT SEEMED THIS AREA OF LAKE WORTH HAD A SCORCHING HISTORY OF DESTRUCTION BY NATURAL FIRE, ELECTRICAL FIRES AND TRANSFORMERS TRANSFORMING MATTER INTO ASHES. YOU WOULD THINK PROMETHEUS LIVED THERE. APPARENTLY THIS DID NOT CEASE JUST BECAUSE I WAS THERE, IT JUST GAVE ME OPPORTUNITY TO WITNESS IT. THIS HISTORICAL AREA HAD BEEN PLAGUED WITH FIRES AND CATASTROPHES AT EVERY TURN AND EVEN THE FIRST PADDLEWHEEL TO COME TO THE LAKE BEFORE THE QUEEN MARIAH WAS DESTROYED IN A FIRE. MY DAUGHTER WAS IN THE GRANBURY HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR BUT THE ONLY PERFORMANCE I EVER SAW HER IN AT SCHOOL WAS A LEGENDARY STORY ABOUT THE BIG GAMBLING BOATS ON THE MISSISSIPPI. AT THE TIME, I THOUGHT HOW NEAT IT WOULD BE IF THE HIGH SCHOOL COULD GIVE A PERFORMANCE ON MY BOATS, BUT I WAS NOT AWARE THAT THERE REALLY HAD BEEN A SHOW BOAT AT LAKE WORTH RIGHT WHERE MY BOATS WERE LOCATED. THIS BOAT WAS BUILT ON LAND, LIKE NOAH’S ARK HAD BEEN, BUT IT WAS NOT BUILT TO EVER BE ON THE WATER; INSTEAD IT WAS A HUGE CASINO MEANT TO LOOK LIKE A RIVER SHOWBOAT THEREFORE IT COULD NOT SINK, BUT AFTER ONLY 2 YEARS, IT TOO WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE. MY BOATS SAT ON THE SAME PARK AREA ON LAKE WORTH AS THE OLD FORT WORTH AMUSEMENT PARK WHOSE HISTORY WAS FAR FROM AMUSING TOO. IT HAD EVERYTHING AND WAS RENOWN FROM COAST TO COAST: ROLLER COASTERS, CAROUSEL RIDES, BATHING, BOATING, GAMBLING, DANCING, SINGING, DRINKING, EATING, DRINKING, DRINKING, DRINKING... THE CASINO BALLROOM WAS HUGE AND ATTRACTED MAJOR ENTERTAINERS OF ITS TIME...YET IT TOO WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE. HAVING SPENT TIME THERE...I THINK IT WAS LITERALLY CURSED. GOD’S BLESSING WAS NOT ON THAT PLACE! THE QUEEN MARIAH EVEN SANK THERE AFTER I SOLD HER! I HAS ALREADY MOVED ZION’S DREAM AWAY. I REALLY THINK THAT IF SHE HAD STAYED, SHE TOO WOULD HAVE BEEN DESTROYED, EVERYTHING ELSE OF WORTH HAD BEEN. MOST OF THE PARK WAS BURNED, INCLUDING THE FAMOUS 300LB GORILLA, BIG BOY WHO MET A TRAGIC FIERY END TOO. WOT? WHY WAS THERE A 300LB GORILLA YOU MAY ASK? MAYBE BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE TO BE ENTERTAINED BY THE EXOTIC… AND MAYBE BECAUSE HE WAS A NEBULOUS SYMBOL OF NEB, THE GOD NEBO, AS IN NEBUCHADNEZZAR, I DON'T KNOW? READ ON. THE CASINO BEACH WAS A HUGE TOURIST ATTRACTION IN ITS HEYDAY. OLD TIMERS WOULD COME BY MY BOATS AND REMINISCE ABOUT THE GOOD OLD DAYS. MOST JUST REMEMBERED IT FROM THE SECOND REBUILD AND THERE WERE PICTURES OF IT IN THE LOCAL RESTAURANTS ON JACKSBORO HIGHWAY, SOME HAD HEARD ABOUT IT FROM FAMILY MEMBERS AND THE MANY STORIES THAT SURROUNDED ITS FLAME-BOUYANT HISTORY. AROUND THIS VERY SMALL BODY OF WATER WERE SOME OTHER CURIOUS SITES, ONE OF WHICH WAS A CASTLE OR FORT WHICH WAS THE FOCUS OF SOME OF OUR TRIPS. YES, THERE REALLY WAS A LITTLE FORT AT LAKE WORTH IN FORT WORTH, TX, BUILT ALONG THE LINES OF INVERNESS CASTLE IN SCOTLAND. WE FORT IT WELL WORTH THE EFFORT TO SEE IT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS TINY SEA WHERE THE APPROACH WAS FLAT AND MARSHY. WE WERE UNABLE TO GET IN CLOSE BUT VIEWED ACROSS THE WATER IT HAD A WONDERFUL MYSTIQUE ABOUT IT, AND WHEN LIT UP, IT MADE FOR AN EXQUISITE EVENING EXCURSION. NOBODY WAS ANTICIPATING A REAL CASTLE ON LAKE WORTH DURING THEIR SCENIC DINNER CRUISE, FEW WERE EVEN AWARE THAT IT WAS THERE, BUT IT HAD BEEN SINCE 1938. IT IS SAID TO HAVE AN UNDERGROUND TUNNEL LEADING TO THE LAKE, I DON’T KNOW. IT TOO EXPERIENCED DAMAGE FROM A FIRE AND EVENTUALLY, LIKE MANY OTHER ENTERPRISES ON THAT LAKE, SUFFERED FINANCIAL LOSS AND WAS TAKEN BY THE CITY AND SUBSEQUENTLY AUCTIONED OFF. THE CASTLE WAS PURCHASED BACK FROM THE CITY OF LAKE WORTH AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME THAT I PURCHASED THE QUEEN MARIAH. THE NEW OWNERS DID A GREAT JOB REFURBISHING IT BUT DETAILS ON THE LAND AND OWNERSHIP ARE VAGUE FOR THIS PROPERTY AS THE RECORDS IN FORT WORTH WERE ALSO BURNED IN A FIRE! THERE IS MORE. THE MYTHOLOGICAL RESIDENT OF GOAT ISLAND ACTUALLY MADE IT TO WIKI! IN THE VERY CENTER OF LAKE WORTH IS A TINY ISLET WITH DENSE COPSES, UNDERBRUSH AND THICKETS AND IT IS AFFECTIONATELY REFERRED TO AS GOAT ISLAND. LOCAL FOLKLORE HAS IT RUMORED THERE IS A HALF MAN, HALF GOAT THAT RUNS AMOK SCARING PEOPLE. WE NEVER LAID EYES ON THIS FICTITIOUS BEASTIE FROM GOAT ISLAND EVEN THOUGH ZION'S DREAM WAS THERE ON OCCASIONS FOR SWIM PARTIES, BUT IF BIG BOY THE GORILLA REPRESENTED NEBO, I THINK THIS GOAT MAN REPESENTED PAN. FIRE WAS RAMPANT AT MY ENTERPRIZE TOO, AND IT SEEMS THAT EVERYTHING OF SIGNIFICANCE THAT HAD EVER BEEN HERE WAS EVENTUALLY DESTROYED BY FIRE OR TRAUMA. MOST OF THE THINGS THAT WERE REBUILT WERE ALSO CONSUMED WITH FIRE. NEARLY EVERY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE I HAD AROUND OR ON THE BOATS WAS EVENTUALLY DAMAGED BY ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS. IT ALL BECAME HOR-RUBBLE. THE QUEEN MARIAH WAS PLAGUED WITH ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS. ONE EVENING WE WERE PULLING INTO TO DOCK BESIDE HER ON ZION'S DREAM. THE TWO BOATS LINED UP PERFECTLY AND PULLING UP TO HER WAS SIMPLER FOR PASSENGERS DISEMBARKING THAN AT OUR DOCK. THIS EVENING JOHN HAD STEPPED ONTO THE QUEEN MARIAH AND I SAW HIM LIGHT UP LIKE A CHRISTMAS TREE! WOW! HIS HAIR WAS ON END AND WE WERE BOTH MORE THAN A LITTLE ALARMED, EVEN MORE SO WHEN WE SAW A LARGE HOLE BURNED RIGHT THROUGH HIS PANTS LEG. DOUBLE WOW, BUT NO OW! WOW! THAT WAS TOO CLOSE. IT HAPPENED THAT THE BOAT WAS ENTERTAINING LAWYERS THAT NIGHT...I CRINGE TO THINK HOW THAT STORY COULD HAVE ENDED! ANOTHER NIGHT THE TRANSFORMER TRANSFORMED THE EVENING AS IF ENTERTAINING US FOR JULY 4TH. IT TWINKLED AND WINKED ALL EVENING IN THE PARKING LOT BEFORE HELP ARRIVED, BUT REALLY, THERE WAS NO END TO THE TRAUMA AND DRAMA WHILE ZION'S DREAM AND THE QUEEN MARIAH WERE AT THE CASINO BEACH ON LAKE WORTH, FORT WORTH, TX. ZION AND MORIAH I LOOKED UP REFERENCES ON ZION. I CHRONICLES 11:5, “AND THE INHABITANTS OF JEBUS SAID TO DAVID, THOU SHALT NOT COME HITHER. NEVERTHELESS DAVID TOOK THE CASTLE OF ZION, WHICH IS THE CITY OF DAVID.” ZION AND THE CITY OF DAVID ARE THE SAME ACCORDING TO DAKE’S. JERUSALEM WAS BUILT ON AKRA, BEZETHA, MORIAH, OPHEL AND ZION. IN THE BIBLE IS A ZION IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND A SION IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. ZION IS ALSO A HOLY HILL ACCORDING TO PSALM 2:6-7 & 10-12, “YET HAVE I SET MY KING UPON MY HOLY HILL OF ZION. I WILL DECLARE THE DECREE: THE LORD HAS SAID TO ME, THOU ART MY SON; THIS DAY HAVE I BEGOTTEN THEE...BE WISE NOW THEREFORE, O YE KINGS: BE INSTRUCTED, YE JUDGES OF THE EARTH. SERVE THE LORD WITH FEAR, AND REJOICE WITH TREMBLING. KISS THE SON, LEST HE BE ANGRY, AND YE PERISH FROM THE WAY, WHEN HIS WRATH IS KINDLED BUT A LITTLE. BLESSED ARE ALL THEY THAT PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM. ” THAT KING UPON THE HOLY HILL IS NOW JESUS, NONE OTHER, AND HE WILL BE RETURNING FOR PSALM 9:11 DECLARES, “SING PRAISES TO THE LORD, WHICH DWELLS IN ZION: DECLARE AMONG THE PEOPLE HIS DOINGS.” ISAIAH 11:9 DECLARES, “THEY SHALL NOT HURT NOR DESTROY IN ALL MY HOLY MOUNTAIN: FOR THE EARTH SHAL BE FULL OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD, AS THE WATERS COVER THE SEA.” HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, HIS WORD IS GOING TO FLOW LIKE A RIVER, A CURRENT. THIS HOLY MOUNTAIN IS AN UNDEFILED, DEDICATED, HALLOWED, SANCTUARY, CONSECRATED, PURIFIED, PURE MOUNTAIN/HILL THAT SHALL LOOM UP AS A MOUNTAIN OF HOLINESS. THE WORD MOUNTAIN ((H2022) IS HAR FROM (H2042) HAR HAR – MOUNTAIN OR PROMOTION). HA HA HA! 911 BACKWARDS AND FOREWARDS, EITHER WAY, IT IS NOW REVERSED...GOOD NEWS, HA! YOU SEE, IT IS A HAPPY, JOYFUL PLACE. ISAIAH 56:7A, “EVEN THEM WILL I BRING TO MY HOLY MOUNTAIN AND MAKE THEM JOYFUL ((H8055) SAMACH – TO BRIGHTEN UP, BLITHE, GLEESOME:- CHEER UP, BE (MAKE) MERRY, (CAUSE TO, MAKE TO) REJOICE, X VERY) IN MY HOUSE OF PRAYER". PSALM 46:1-2, “GREAT IS THE LORD, AND GREATLY TO BE PRAISED IN THE CITY OF OUR GOD, IN THE MOUNTAIN OF HIS HOLINESS. BEAUTIFUL FOR SITUATION, THE JOY OF THE WHOLE EARTH, IS MOUNT ZION, ON THE SIDES OF THE NORTH, THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING. PSALM 48:12-14, “WALK ABOUT ZION, AND GO ROUND ABOUT HER: TELL THE TOWERS THEREOF. MARK YE WELL HER BULWARKS, CONSIDER HER PALACES; THAT YE MAY TELL IT TO THE GENERATION FOLLOWING. FOR THIS GOD IS OUR GOD FOREVER AND EVER.” ...AND OBVIOUSLY, WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE STRUCTURE OF MY BOAT HERE...THE ANTITHESIS MAYBE; WE ARE TALKING ABOUT GOD. JOEL 2:1, “BLOW THE TRUMPET IN ZION, AND SOUND AN ALARM IN MY HOLY MOUNTAIN: LET ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND TREMBLE; FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH AND IS NIGH AT HAND.” ZION IS A CITY ON A HILL, LIKE A TELL...FROM WHICH TO TELL THE WHOLE WORLD THAT GOD IS GOD FOREVER. JESUS WAS POSTED ON THAT HILL AS A SIGN POST, A BLOODY POST-IT NOTE FROM GOD HIMSELF, THAT GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVED IN HIM WOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. GOD’S PEOPLE HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE IN AN EVERLASTING KINGDOM. ZION BROADCASTS THE GOOD NEWS. JOHN 18:36, “JESUS ANSWERED, MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD: IF MY KINGDOM WERE OF THIS WORLD, THEN WOULD MY SERVANTS FIGHT, THAT I SHOULD NOT BE DELIVERED TO THE JEWS: BUT NOW IS MY KINGDOM NOT FROM HENCE. PILATE THEREFORE SAID UNTO HIM, ART THOU A KING THEN? JESUS ANSWERED, THOU SAYEST THAT I AM A KING. TO THIS END WAS I BORN, AND FOR THIS CAUSE CAME I INTO THIS WORLD, THAT I SHOULD BEAR WITNESS UNTO THE TRUTH. EVERY ONE THAT IS OF THE TRUTH HEARS MY VOICE.” ISAIAH 26:1, SAYS, “IN THAT DAY SHALL THIS SONG BE SUNG IN THE LAND OF JUDAH; WE HAVE A STRONG CITY; SALVATION WILL GOD APPOINT FOR WALLS AND BULWARKS.” ZION, OR SION IS A HILL, THE LAND PROMISED TO ABRAHAM, UPON WHICH SITS JERUSALEM IN THE LAND OF CANAAN. ZION, OR SION IS ALSO THE MOUNTAIN OF THE PROMISE TO ABRAHAM OF THE COVENANT, THE SOLID ROCK OF TRUTH. JESUS IS THE FOUNDATION STONE. HE WENT TO THE DEEPEST DEPTHS OF THE EARTH TO SECURE ITS FIRM FOUNDATION UNDER THE HILLS OF JERUSALEM. NOTHING CAN UNDERMINE IT. (SEE THE CHEVROLET AT PASSOVER PAGE FOR MORE ON THE FOUNDATION AND REDEMPTION) I COULD NOT HELP BUT NOTICE A FEW HIGHLY UNLIKELY PARALLELS BETWEEN JERUSALEM ON MOUNT ZION AND FORT WORTH: JERUSALEM AND FORT WORTH WERE OCCUPIED AS PROMISED LANDS AND LANDS OF WORTH, PLENTY, LIBERTY AND JUSTICE. FOR-TWO-RTH, UC? JERUSALEM WAS THE CITY ON A HILL, BUILT ON THE SAME THRESHING FLOOR THAT KING DAVID HAD PURCHESED IN ORDER TO BUILD AN ALTAR IN THE PROMISED LAND. IT WAS AS FORT WORTH, TX. A CITY ON A HILL, NOT IN JER-USA-LEM, BUT IN THE NEW PROMISED LAND OF USA. KING DAVID DECIDED HE WOULD TAKE THE WHOLE CITY OF JEBUS, AND IT WOULD LATER BE CALLED JERUSALEM, THE HOLY CITY OF DAVID. BOTH FORT WORTH AND JERUSALEM ARE SUNNY. ZION LITERALLLY MEANS A SUNNY PLACE OR SUNNY MOUNTAIN, AND IT REFERENCES THE RISING AND SETTING OF THE SUN. DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH IS ACTUALLY CALLED SUNDANCE SQUARE. THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT LIMITED TO A PLACE, BUT IS WORLDWIDE, FOR ALL TO EMBRACE, FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST, EVEN TO FORT WORTH WHICH IS KNOWN AS "WHERE THE WEST BEGINS". SUNRISE IS IN THE EAST AND IT SETS IN THE WEST. I BELIEVE GOD'S TIME FOR US IS NOW IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE, THE SETTING OF THE SUN BEFORE A NEW DAY, A NEW ERA. IN MY BOOK, THIS IS LIKENED TO THE END OF THE AGE OF GENTILES. JERUSALEM AND FORT WORTH BOTH HAD TEMPLES. THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON WAS RAISED ACCORDING TO GOD'S PLANS GIVEN TO KING DAVID AFTER HE HAD BUILT THE ALTAR. THAT TEMPLE WAS DESTROYED BY THE BABYLONIANS AND LATER REBUILT BY ZERUBBABEL. IT WAS LATERTHEN REFURBISHED GREATLY BY THE ROMAN HEROD THE GREAT. IT WAS A MASSIVE ARCHITECTURAL FEAT AS HE RELANDSCAPED AND BUILT UP MOUNT MORIAH TO ACCOMMODATE THE ENLARGED STRUCTURE... THAT WAS RAZED TO THE GROUND BY THE ROMAN TITUS IN 70AD. TWO MOSQUES WERE BUILT ON TEMPLE MOUNT AND DESTROYED BY EARTHQUAKES AFTER THE MUSLIMS TOOK OVER THE SITE. IT WAS CAPTURE BY THE CRUSADERS IN 1099 AND LATER IT BECAME THE HEADQUARTERS FOR THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. LONG STORY SHORT, THIS SITE GOES ROUND IN CIRCLES BETWEEN FATHER ABRAHAM'S SONS ISHMAEL WHOSE MOTHER WAS HAGAR, ISAAC WHOSE MOTHER WAS SARA, AND HIS ADOPTED SONS THROUGH JESUS, CHRISTIANS. ALL CONSIDER IT THEIR OWN INHERITANCE. THE TEMPLE AT MOSQUE POINT ON LAKE WORTH WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE AND RELOCATED IN FORT WORTH. IT WAS NOT A JEWISH TEMPLE, BUT A MASONIC TEMPLE ASSOCIATED WITH THE YORK RITE AND SCOTTISH RITE MASONS IN WAYS THAT I DO NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND AND SINCE I AM NOT ONE, I MIGHT NOT HAVE GOT ANY OF THAT RITE? MY POINT IS THAT THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT TEMPLE IN FORT WORTH, WITH ROOTS THAT GO BACK TO JERUSALEM. BOTH TEMPLES WERE USURPED BECAUSE OF WARS. BOTH TEMPLES IN MY OPINION LOOK TO THE TEMPLE INSTEAD OF THE GOD THEY WERE BUILT TO HONOUR. BOTH TEMPLES HAVE WORSHIPPED BAAL, OR PAN AS OPPOSED TO GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON AND GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT. THE CHURCH OF CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD, HAS FALLEN OUT OF LOVE. IT IS FOR THE MOST PART BACKSLIDDEN...BUT THAT IS GOING TO CHANGE SOON. THERE IS GOING TO BE FIRE IN FORT WORTH. IT IS GOING TO BE THE FIRE OF GOD THAT IS GOING TO FALL AND BURN UP ALL UNGODLINESS. REVIVAL IS GOING TO COME. RESTORATION IS GOING TO COME. IT WILL BE A BON-FIRE. JEBUS WAS AN ENORMOUS CASTLE/FORT BUILT BY THE JEBUSITES, A RENOWN FORTIFIED CITY AND STRONGHOLD ON A HILL, 2220' HIGH IN THE SKY. WHEN JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED THERE WERE LEGIONS OF ROMAN SOLDIERS THERE ON THEIR FORT THAT HEROD HAD REBUILT, ALONG WITH A REBUILD OF HIS PAGAN TEMPLE. HEROD ALLOWED THE JEWS TO USE HIS REBUILT TEMPLE FOR THEIR OWN RITES TOO. HE REBUILT THE WALLS, SOME OF WHICH STAND TODAY, MANY THINKING THEY ARE ORIGINAL TEMPLE WALLS. BOTH, AS CITIES OF DEFENSE, HAD MILITARY ENCAMPMENTS. ORIGINALLY, FORT WORTH TEXAS HAD BEEN NAMED CAMP WORTH. FORT WORTH IS ALSO A CITY ON A HILL, INFACT I WORKED IN THE TWIN TOWERS ON SUMMIT AVENUE AT THE TOP OF THE HILL..., BUT MY BOATS, ZION'S DREAM AND THE QUEEN MARIAH, WERE BOTH AT THE VERY BOTTOM. FORT WORTH, TX, NOW HAS HUGE MILITARY BASES WITH THE NAVAL AIR STATION JOINT RESERVE BASE AND LOCKHEED MARTIN AERONAUTICS, SURPRISINGLY, EVEN THE CASTLE...IS ALL AT THE VERY BOTTOM OF THE HILL, NESTLED AT THE WATERS EDGE. UNDER JERUSALEM ARE LOCKED CISTERNS AND AN AQUEDUCT THAT BRINGS WATER TO THE TEMPLE MOUNT FROM SOLOMON’S POOLS AND THE HILLS OF BETHLEHEM; RATHER LIKE FORT WORTH HAS WATER GARDENS, AQUA DUCTS AND WATER BROUGHT TO IT FROM LAKE WORTH. IMMEDIATELY TO THE NORTH OF WHERE WE KEPT ZION'S DREAM AND QUEEN MARIAH ON LAKE WORTH, JUST UNDER THE HWY 199 BRIDGE, YOU COULD ACCESS THE SHALLOW FORT WORTH NATURE RESERVE. HERON CASTLE, CASTLE ST. MICHAEL OR WHITING CASTLE ARE SOME OF THE MANY NAMES BY WHICH THE CASTLE ON LAKE WORTH HAS BEEN KNOWN. IIT TEETERED AND TOTTERED ON THE BANKS OF LAKE WORTH ON THE BRINK OF BANKRUPTCY INBETWEEN ENTERTAINING MOVIE STARS AND DIGNITARIES. THE SIMILAR SCOURGES OF FIRES. HAVOC AND DESTRUCTION SEEMED TO AFFLICT IT TOO. I CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER IF THERE IS EVEN AN ANCIENT BURIAL SITE THERE. CERTAINLY, INDIANS USED TO LIVE THERE, BUT WHY SO MUCH CHAOS; IT WAS WHAT YOU MIGHT CALL OVERKILL? BOTH CASINO BEACH AND KING SOLOMON HAD GORILLAS, PEACOCKS, AND EVEN BEAUTIFUL WOMEN FOR ENTERTAINMENT. NEB-UCHADNEZZAR WORSHIPPED THE MONKEY GOD NEB-O, THE GOD OF WRITING. THEY EVEN HAD TEMPLE SCHOOLS DEDICATED TO HIM CLOSE TO BABEL. THEIR GOD OF WRITING SEEMED TO RE-VERSE GOD’S WRITTEN WORD, EVEN AS TODAY MEN HAVE REVERSED THE VERSES ABOUT GOD’S CREATION. SADLY SCIENTISTS FUNDED BY GOVERNMENT GRANTS HAVE AUTHORIZED THEMSELVES TO SET UP CHIMPANZEE PARKS. IT SOUNDS AS IF SOMEBODY CARES ABOUT THEM...BUT THESE POOR ANIMALS ARE USED FOR RESEARCH, LIKE AUSCHWITZ PRISONERS TO BE SUBJECTED TO EXPERIMENTATION FUN-DED BY “FOUNDATION MONEY” . BIG BOY THE GORILLA WAS ALSO INCINERATED IN THE FIRE AT CASINO BEACH. IT SEEMS THAT ANYTHING OF WORTH WAS. JERUSALEM IS THE EPICENTER OF JUDEO CHRISTIAN CULTURE. ABRAHAM HAD PREPARED AN ALTAR TO SACRIFICE ISAAC THERE; DAVID BOUGHT LAND FOR AN ALTAR TO SACRIFICE THERE, RUTH MET BOAZ THERE. LAMBS WERE RAISED IN THE SUBURBS OF JERUSALEM TO BE SACRIFICED IN THE TEMPLE FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS THERE. JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED THERE IN THE CRUCIBLE OF AFFLICTION. CATTLE WERE BROUGHT TO FORT WORTH TO GO TO BE SLAUGHTERED FOR MEAT AND A MULTITUDE OF BY PRODUCTS. IN THE BIBLE, CATTLE REPRESENTED NATIONAL REPENTANCE BUT STILL HEBREWS 10:4 TELLS US THAT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE THAT THE BLOOD OF BULLS AND OF GOATS SHOULD TAKE AWAY SIN. JEUS WAS THE ONLY GIFT OF WORTH TO REDEEM MAN FROM HIS SIN. THE HILLSIDE OF THIS HOLY MOUNTAIN ZION WERE FOR THE LEVITICAL SHEPHERDS TO RAISE THEIR PERFECT LAMBS TO PRESENT TO GOD. JESUS WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM AS A LAMB TO BE SACRIFICED ON MOUNT MORIAH, AS ABRAHAM HAD SACRIFIED THE RAM INSTEAD OF HIS SON. ANY ANIMAL SACRIFICE WAS PURELY A SUBSTITUTE OF WHAT THE BLOOD OF JESUS WOULD DO THAT WAS SO IRREVERENTLY AND MALICIOUSLY SHED OUTSIDE THE CITY OF DAVID THE HILL OF ZION. ON MOUNT MORIAH, OVER 2000 YEARS AGO THE HOLIEST OF GIFTS WAS OFFERED TO THE WORLD BY GOD HIMSELF. UNBELIEVABLE!? IF YOU HAVE EVER BEEN TO AN AUCTION, YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN HOW ANIMALS ARE MISTREATED AND YOU MIGHT BE SHOCKED. THEY ARE, AND WORSE, BUT NOTHING COMPARES TO WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INHUMANE AND SHOCKING CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS. FEW PEOPLE TODAY WHO TALK ABOUT RIGHTS EVER MENTION THIS. YOU SEE, WE HAVE NO RIGHTS EXCEPT OF GOD HIMSELF. WE ARE WRONG. ON THIS ICONIC HOLY MOUNTAIN JESUS WAS PRESENTED AS THE FOUNDATION STONE, THE MOUNTAIN OF TRUTH UPON WHICH HIS RIGHTEOUS EVERLASTING KINGDOM IS ESTABLISHED. WHEN KING DAVID SINNED, HE SAW THAT THE HILL HAD GREAT WORTH AND HE WAS NOT GOING TO ACCEPT IT FREE IF HE WAS GOING TO OFFER SACRIFICES ON IT. THE JEBUSITE SITE WAS A GREAT FORT OF GREAT WORTH ON WHICH THE SON OF GOD WOULD BE SACRIFICED AS THE ULTIMATE OFFERING, FOR THE WHOLE WORLD, INCLUDING FORT WORTH, TX, USA. JERUSALEM PAID A TERRIBLE PRICE FOR THE CRIME OF MURDERING THE SON OF GOD. IF WE WANT GOD'S BLESSINGS, WE HAVE TO BLESS GOD, NOT BLASPHEME AND NOT PRETEND THAT WE HONOR CHRIST IN CHURCH AND THEN DISHONOR HIM IN SECRET PLACES. I HAVE HAD TO REPENT FOR TAKING GOD'S WORTH IN VAIN. IF YOU HAVE, MAYBE YOU WOULD LIKE TO REPENT TO. BETTER DAYS ARE AHEAD, FOR SOME. WORSE DAYS FOR OTHERS. THE ULTIMATE WORTH OF A CITY IS SEEN IN THE WORTH OF ITS PEOPLE. IT WILL REFLECT THEM. JERUSALEM HAS BEEN RAZED TO THE GROUND MANY TIMES. FROM 70AD TO 1948 THE JEWS NOT ONLY LOST THEIR HEAVILY FORTIFIED CITY OF WORTH IN WHICH THEY TRUSTED, BUT THEIR ENTIRE NATION. THE CASINO BEACH WAS KNOWN FOR ITS GAMBLING. NEARLY ALL OF VALUE THAT WAS MAN MADE IS NOT THERE ANY MORE. IT IS BEST NOT TO GAMBLE ON GOD THAT HE MAYBE DOES NOT MEAN WHAT HE SAYS. GOD'S DESIRE IS TO BLESS AMERICA AND FORT WORTH. BUT THERE COMES A TIME WHEN HE JUST SAYS NO MORE...BECAUSE HE IS ALSO JUST. JOHN 1:1-5, “IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD WAS GOD. THE SAME WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD. ALL THINGS WERE CREATED BY HIM; AND WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT ANYTHING MADE THAT WAS MADE. IN HIM WAS LIFE; AND THE LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN. AND THE LIGHT SHINETH IN DARKNESS; AND THE DARKNESS COMPREHENDED IT NOT.” TODAY, THE SHINY MEDIA, THE HOLLYWOOD STARS, OUR GLASS TABLETS AND CRYSTAL SCREENS SCREAM OUT A FALSE WORD. CONSECRATED CHRISTIANS HAVE FALLEN FACE FIRST. THE GLITZ AND GLAMOUR IS A FALSE FLAG TO ATTRACT HUMANS AS MOTHS, LIKE BUG ZAPPERS IN WHICH TO BE ZAPPED. SATAN'S TRAP HAS BEEN SET AND THE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW GOD'S TRUTH, AND WORSE, THOSE THAT DO, ARE DECEIVED BY IT, THINKING THAT GOD WILL FORGIVE THEM. HE MIGHT, HE MIGHT NOT. THAT IS WHY THERE IS JUDGMENT DAY. JERUSALEM WAS JUDGED AND IT WAS TERRIBLE. GOD'S LIGHT IS HIS WORD. "AND THE LIGHT SHINETH IN DARKNESS; AND THE DARKNESS COMPREHENDED IT NOT". AS MORTAL BEINGS, OUR CARNALITY WILL BE CAST OFF AND OUR SPIRITS WILL GO TO A PLACE PREPARED FOR US. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR SPIRIT WILL GO FOR ALL ETERNITY? SEEK HIM WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND. REPENT W
AMOS 9:9, "FOR, LO, I WILL COMMAND, AND I WILL SIFT THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AMONG ALL NATIONS, LIKE AS CORN IS SIFTED IN A SIEVE, YET SHALL NOT THE LEAST GRAIN FALL UPON THE EARTH. FORT WORTH WAS BIRTHED AS A ROUGH AND ROWDY COWBOY TOWN WITH BARS, BRAWLS AND SALOONS. IT WAS FOUNDED AS AN ARMY CAMP OR FORT FROM WHICH TO PROTECT THE SETTLERS FROM THE NATIVE INDIANS. TO THE WEST WAS THE CASINO AREA BESIDE LAKE WORTH WHERE MY BOATS WERE AT ONE TIME. IT TOO WAS FOUNDED IN GAMBLING, DRINKING, CAROUSING AND PARTYING. FORT WORTH WAS FONDLY KNOWN AS THE QUEEN OF THE GRAND PRAIRIE, WHEREIN LATER SAT MY "QUEEN MARIAH". ONCE UPON A TIME, MONEY ROCKED AND ROLLED IN FROM BOOT LEGGING AND GIN. IT IS BEST KNOWN FOR ITS COWBOYS, CATTLE, HORSES, CATTLE TRAILS, AND TRAIN RAILS. FURTHER UP THE ROAD, THE “STOCKYARDS” ARE NOW A NATIONAL HISTORIC UNESCO SITE. BILLY BOB’S IS A BIG TOURIST ATTRACTION TOO FOR TOURISM IS A MAJOR MONEY MAKING INDUSTRY INDUSTRY. HOWEVER, DESPITE THE COWBOYS AND ENTERTAINMENT, FORT WORTH IS FIRST AND FOREMOST… A FORT...OF WORTH! IT IS AGAIN KNOWN FOR ITS DEFENSE AND AERONAUTICS INDUSTRY WHERE THE CARSWELL AIR FORCE BASE HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO A JOINT SERVICE TRAINING STATION FOR THE ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE, COAST GUARD AND NATIONAL GUARD. A HUGE MILITARY FACILITY SITS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAKE FROM WHERE MY BOATS WERE MOORED, AND BESIDE IT IS LOCKHEED. MUCH WEAPONRY IS LOCKED UP HERE INDEED; SOME OF IT SAILS THE SEAS AS THE USS FORT WORTH. AND THE F-35 SAILS THE SKIES...LIKE LIGHTNING. THE CITY OF FORT WORTH BUILT LAKE WORTH FOR A RESERVOIR. CONSEQUENTLY, EVERYTHING AROUND THE EDGE OF THE LAKE WAS OWNED BY THE CITY OF FORT WORTH. IT BECAME THE EPICENTER OF THE RAILROADS, GRANARIES AND STOCK, EVEN AS SHE SAT TO THE WEST OF DALLAS. AS QUEEN OF THE GRAND PRAIRIE, A THRESHING FLOOR. ATOP THE SCENIC EAST BLUFFS OF LAKE WORTH THERE USED TO SIT A WOODEN SIX STORY BUILDING CALLED THE OLD SHRINE MOSQUE, OR FORT WORTH TEMPLE. IT WAS BUILT BY THE SHRINERS, AFTER ONLY 8 YEARS, FIRE CONSUMED IT AND THE TEMPLE WAS RELOCATED AND REBUILT IN DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH. TODAY JUST A SHELTER AND PARK SIT ON THE OLD TEMPLE SITE AT MOSQUE POINT. THE FORT WORTH NATURE RESERVE SEES BIRDS FLY IN FROM THE WORLD OVER TOO, INTERMINGLED WITH MECHANICAL BIRDS, SOARING THE SKIES TO LAND AT THE JOINT RESERVE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAKE BUT IT SEEMED THIS AREA OF LAKE WORTH HAD A SCORCHING HISTORY OF DESTRUCTION BY NATURAL FIRE, ELECTRICAL FIRES AND TRANSFORMERS TRANSFORMING MATTER INTO ASHES. YOU WOULD THINK PROMETHEUS LIVED THERE. APPARENTLY THIS DID NOT CEASE JUST BECAUSE I WAS THERE, IT JUST GAVE ME OPPORTUNITY TO WITNESS IT. THIS HISTORICAL AREA HAD BEEN PLAGUED WITH FIRES AND CATASTROPHES AT EVERY TURN AND EVEN THE FIRST PADDLEWHEEL TO COME TO THE LAKE BEFORE THE QUEEN MARIAH WAS DESTROYED IN A FIRE. MY DAUGHTER WAS IN THE GRANBURY HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR BUT THE ONLY PERFORMANCE I EVER SAW HER IN AT SCHOOL WAS A LEGENDARY STORY ABOUT THE BIG GAMBLING BOATS ON THE MISSISSIPPI. AT THE TIME, I THOUGHT HOW NEAT IT WOULD BE IF THE HIGH SCHOOL COULD GIVE A PERFORMANCE ON MY BOATS, BUT I WAS NOT AWARE THAT THERE REALLY HAD BEEN A SHOW BOAT AT LAKE WORTH RIGHT WHERE MY BOATS WERE LOCATED. THIS BOAT WAS BUILT ON LAND, LIKE NOAH’S ARK HAD BEEN, BUT IT WAS NOT BUILT TO EVER BE ON THE WATER; INSTEAD IT WAS A HUGE CASINO MEANT TO LOOK LIKE A RIVER SHOWBOAT THEREFORE IT COULD NOT SINK, BUT AFTER ONLY 2 YEARS, IT TOO WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE. MY BOATS SAT ON THE SAME PARK AREA ON LAKE WORTH AS THE OLD FORT WORTH AMUSEMENT PARK WHOSE HISTORY WAS FAR FROM AMUSING TOO. IT HAD EVERYTHING AND WAS RENOWN FROM COAST TO COAST: ROLLER COASTERS, CAROUSEL RIDES, BATHING, BOATING, GAMBLING, DANCING, SINGING, DRINKING, EATING, DRINKING, DRINKING, DRINKING... THE CASINO BALLROOM WAS HUGE AND ATTRACTED MAJOR ENTERTAINERS OF ITS TIME...YET IT TOO WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE. HAVING SPENT TIME THERE...I THINK IT WAS LITERALLY CURSED. GOD’S BLESSING WAS NOT ON THAT PLACE! THE QUEEN MARIAH EVEN SANK THERE AFTER I SOLD HER! I HAS ALREADY MOVED ZION’S DREAM AWAY. I REALLY THINK THAT IF SHE HAD STAYED, SHE TOO WOULD HAVE BEEN DESTROYED, EVERYTHING ELSE OF WORTH HAD BEEN. MOST OF THE PARK WAS BURNED, INCLUDING THE FAMOUS 300LB GORILLA, BIG BOY WHO MET A TRAGIC FIERY END TOO. WOT? WHY WAS THERE A 300LB GORILLA YOU MAY ASK? MAYBE BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE TO BE ENTERTAINED BY THE EXOTIC… AND MAYBE BECAUSE HE WAS A NEBULOUS SYMBOL OF NEB, THE GOD NEBO, AS IN NEBUCHADNEZZAR, I DON'T KNOW? READ ON. THE CASINO BEACH WAS A HUGE TOURIST ATTRACTION IN ITS HEYDAY. OLD TIMERS WOULD COME BY MY BOATS AND REMINISCE ABOUT THE GOOD OLD DAYS. MOST JUST REMEMBERED IT FROM THE SECOND REBUILD AND THERE WERE PICTURES OF IT IN THE LOCAL RESTAURANTS ON JACKSBORO HIGHWAY, SOME HAD HEARD ABOUT IT FROM FAMILY MEMBERS AND THE MANY STORIES THAT SURROUNDED ITS FLAME-BOUYANT HISTORY. AROUND THIS VERY SMALL BODY OF WATER WERE SOME OTHER CURIOUS SITES, ONE OF WHICH WAS A CASTLE OR FORT WHICH WAS THE FOCUS OF SOME OF OUR TRIPS. YES, THERE REALLY WAS A LITTLE FORT AT LAKE WORTH IN FORT WORTH, TX, BUILT ALONG THE LINES OF INVERNESS CASTLE IN SCOTLAND. WE FORT IT WELL WORTH THE EFFORT TO SEE IT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS TINY SEA WHERE THE APPROACH WAS FLAT AND MARSHY. WE WERE UNABLE TO GET IN CLOSE BUT VIEWED ACROSS THE WATER IT HAD A WONDERFUL MYSTIQUE ABOUT IT, AND WHEN LIT UP, IT MADE FOR AN EXQUISITE EVENING EXCURSION. NOBODY WAS ANTICIPATING A REAL CASTLE ON LAKE WORTH DURING THEIR SCENIC DINNER CRUISE, FEW WERE EVEN AWARE THAT IT WAS THERE, BUT IT HAD BEEN SINCE 1938. IT IS SAID TO HAVE AN UNDERGROUND TUNNEL LEADING TO THE LAKE, I DON’T KNOW. IT TOO EXPERIENCED DAMAGE FROM A FIRE AND EVENTUALLY, LIKE MANY OTHER ENTERPRISES ON THAT LAKE, SUFFERED FINANCIAL LOSS AND WAS TAKEN BY THE CITY AND SUBSEQUENTLY AUCTIONED OFF. THE CASTLE WAS PURCHASED BACK FROM THE CITY OF LAKE WORTH AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME THAT I PURCHASED THE QUEEN MARIAH. THE NEW OWNERS DID A GREAT JOB REFURBISHING IT BUT DETAILS ON THE LAND AND OWNERSHIP ARE VAGUE FOR THIS PROPERTY AS THE RECORDS IN FORT WORTH WERE ALSO BURNED IN A FIRE! THERE IS MORE. THE MYTHOLOGICAL RESIDENT OF GOAT ISLAND ACTUALLY MADE IT TO WIKI! IN THE VERY CENTER OF LAKE WORTH IS A TINY ISLET WITH DENSE COPSES, UNDERBRUSH AND THICKETS AND IT IS AFFECTIONATELY REFERRED TO AS GOAT ISLAND. LOCAL FOLKLORE HAS IT RUMORED THERE IS A HALF MAN, HALF GOAT THAT RUNS AMOK SCARING PEOPLE. WE NEVER LAID EYES ON THIS FICTITIOUS BEASTIE FROM GOAT ISLAND EVEN THOUGH ZION'S DREAM WAS THERE ON OCCASIONS FOR SWIM PARTIES, BUT IF BIG BOY THE GORILLA REPRESENTED NEBO, I THINK THIS GOAT MAN REPESENTED PAN. FIRE WAS RAMPANT AT MY ENTERPRIZE TOO, AND IT SEEMS THAT EVERYTHING OF SIGNIFICANCE THAT HAD EVER BEEN HERE WAS EVENTUALLY DESTROYED BY FIRE OR TRAUMA. MOST OF THE THINGS THAT WERE REBUILT WERE ALSO CONSUMED WITH FIRE. NEARLY EVERY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE I HAD AROUND OR ON THE BOATS WAS EVENTUALLY DAMAGED BY ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS. IT ALL BECAME HOR-RUBBLE. THE QUEEN MARIAH WAS PLAGUED WITH ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS. ONE EVENING WE WERE PULLING INTO TO DOCK BESIDE HER ON ZION'S DREAM. THE TWO BOATS LINED UP PERFECTLY AND PULLING UP TO HER WAS SIMPLER FOR PASSENGERS DISEMBARKING THAN AT OUR DOCK. THIS EVENING JOHN HAD STEPPED ONTO THE QUEEN MARIAH AND I SAW HIM LIGHT UP LIKE A CHRISTMAS TREE! WOW! HIS HAIR WAS ON END AND WE WERE BOTH MORE THAN A LITTLE ALARMED, EVEN MORE SO WHEN WE SAW A LARGE HOLE BURNED RIGHT THROUGH HIS PANTS LEG. DOUBLE WOW, BUT NO OW! WOW! THAT WAS TOO CLOSE. IT HAPPENED THAT THE BOAT WAS ENTERTAINING LAWYERS THAT NIGHT...I CRINGE TO THINK HOW THAT STORY COULD HAVE ENDED! ANOTHER NIGHT THE TRANSFORMER TRANSFORMED THE EVENING AS IF ENTERTAINING US FOR JULY 4TH. IT TWINKLED AND WINKED ALL EVENING IN THE PARKING LOT BEFORE HELP ARRIVED, BUT REALLY, THERE WAS NO END TO THE TRAUMA AND DRAMA WHILE ZION'S DREAM AND THE QUEEN MARIAH WERE AT THE CASINO BEACH ON LAKE WORTH, FORT WORTH, TX. ZION AND MORIAH I LOOKED UP REFERENCES ON ZION. I CHRONICLES 11:5, “AND THE INHABITANTS OF JEBUS SAID TO DAVID, THOU SHALT NOT COME HITHER. NEVERTHELESS DAVID TOOK THE CASTLE OF ZION, WHICH IS THE CITY OF DAVID.” ZION AND THE CITY OF DAVID ARE THE SAME ACCORDING TO DAKE’S. JERUSALEM WAS BUILT ON AKRA, BEZETHA, MORIAH, OPHEL AND ZION. IN THE BIBLE IS A ZION IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND A SION IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. ZION IS ALSO A HOLY HILL ACCORDING TO PSALM 2:6-7 & 10-12, “YET HAVE I SET MY KING UPON MY HOLY HILL OF ZION. I WILL DECLARE THE DECREE: THE LORD HAS SAID TO ME, THOU ART MY SON; THIS DAY HAVE I BEGOTTEN THEE...BE WISE NOW THEREFORE, O YE KINGS: BE INSTRUCTED, YE JUDGES OF THE EARTH. SERVE THE LORD WITH FEAR, AND REJOICE WITH TREMBLING. KISS THE SON, LEST HE BE ANGRY, AND YE PERISH FROM THE WAY, WHEN HIS WRATH IS KINDLED BUT A LITTLE. BLESSED ARE ALL THEY THAT PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM. ” THAT KING UPON THE HOLY HILL IS NOW JESUS, NONE OTHER, AND HE WILL BE RETURNING FOR PSALM 9:11 DECLARES, “SING PRAISES TO THE LORD, WHICH DWELLS IN ZION: DECLARE AMONG THE PEOPLE HIS DOINGS.” ISAIAH 11:9 DECLARES, “THEY SHALL NOT HURT NOR DESTROY IN ALL MY HOLY MOUNTAIN: FOR THE EARTH SHAL BE FULL OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD, AS THE WATERS COVER THE SEA.” HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, HIS WORD IS GOING TO FLOW LIKE A RIVER, A CURRENT. THIS HOLY MOUNTAIN IS AN UNDEFILED, DEDICATED, HALLOWED, SANCTUARY, CONSECRATED, PURIFIED, PURE MOUNTAIN/HILL THAT SHALL LOOM UP AS A MOUNTAIN OF HOLINESS. THE WORD MOUNTAIN ((H2022) IS HAR FROM (H2042) HAR HAR – MOUNTAIN OR PROMOTION). HA HA HA! 911 BACKWARDS AND FOREWARDS, EITHER WAY, IT IS NOW REVERSED...GOOD NEWS, HA! YOU SEE, IT IS A HAPPY, JOYFUL PLACE. ISAIAH 56:7A, “EVEN THEM WILL I BRING TO MY HOLY MOUNTAIN AND MAKE THEM JOYFUL ((H8055) SAMACH – TO BRIGHTEN UP, BLITHE, GLEESOME:- CHEER UP, BE (MAKE) MERRY, (CAUSE TO, MAKE TO) REJOICE, X VERY) IN MY HOUSE OF PRAYER". PSALM 46:1-2, “GREAT IS THE LORD, AND GREATLY TO BE PRAISED IN THE CITY OF OUR GOD, IN THE MOUNTAIN OF HIS HOLINESS. BEAUTIFUL FOR SITUATION, THE JOY OF THE WHOLE EARTH, IS MOUNT ZION, ON THE SIDES OF THE NORTH, THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING. PSALM 48:12-14, “WALK ABOUT ZION, AND GO ROUND ABOUT HER: TELL THE TOWERS THEREOF. MARK YE WELL HER BULWARKS, CONSIDER HER PALACES; THAT YE MAY TELL IT TO THE GENERATION FOLLOWING. FOR THIS GOD IS OUR GOD FOREVER AND EVER.” ...AND OBVIOUSLY, WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE STRUCTURE OF MY BOAT HERE...THE ANTITHESIS MAYBE; WE ARE TALKING ABOUT GOD. JOEL 2:1, “BLOW THE TRUMPET IN ZION, AND SOUND AN ALARM IN MY HOLY MOUNTAIN: LET ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND TREMBLE; FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH AND IS NIGH AT HAND.” ZION IS A CITY ON A HILL, LIKE A TELL...FROM WHICH TO TELL THE WHOLE WORLD THAT GOD IS GOD FOREVER. JESUS WAS POSTED ON THAT HILL AS A SIGN POST, A BLOODY POST-IT NOTE FROM GOD HIMSELF, THAT GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVED IN HIM WOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. GOD’S PEOPLE HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE IN AN EVERLASTING KINGDOM. ZION BROADCASTS THE GOOD NEWS. JOHN 18:36, “JESUS ANSWERED, MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD: IF MY KINGDOM WERE OF THIS WORLD, THEN WOULD MY SERVANTS FIGHT, THAT I SHOULD NOT BE DELIVERED TO THE JEWS: BUT NOW IS MY KINGDOM NOT FROM HENCE. PILATE THEREFORE SAID UNTO HIM, ART THOU A KING THEN? JESUS ANSWERED, THOU SAYEST THAT I AM A KING. TO THIS END WAS I BORN, AND FOR THIS CAUSE CAME I INTO THIS WORLD, THAT I SHOULD BEAR WITNESS UNTO THE TRUTH. EVERY ONE THAT IS OF THE TRUTH HEARS MY VOICE.” ISAIAH 26:1, SAYS, “IN THAT DAY SHALL THIS SONG BE SUNG IN THE LAND OF JUDAH; WE HAVE A STRONG CITY; SALVATION WILL GOD APPOINT FOR WALLS AND BULWARKS.” ZION, OR SION IS A HILL, THE LAND PROMISED TO ABRAHAM, UPON WHICH SITS JERUSALEM IN THE LAND OF CANAAN. ZION, OR SION IS ALSO THE MOUNTAIN OF THE PROMISE TO ABRAHAM OF THE COVENANT, THE SOLID ROCK OF TRUTH. JESUS IS THE FOUNDATION STONE. HE WENT TO THE DEEPEST DEPTHS OF THE EARTH TO SECURE ITS FIRM FOUNDATION UNDER THE HILLS OF JERUSALEM. NOTHING CAN UNDERMINE IT. (SEE THE CHEVROLET AT PASSOVER PAGE FOR MORE ON THE FOUNDATION AND REDEMPTION) I COULD NOT HELP BUT NOTICE A FEW HIGHLY UNLIKELY PARALLELS BETWEEN JERUSALEM ON MOUNT ZION AND FORT WORTH: JERUSALEM AND FORT WORTH WERE OCCUPIED AS PROMISED LANDS AND LANDS OF WORTH, PLENTY, LIBERTY AND JUSTICE. FOR-TWO-RTH, UC? JERUSALEM WAS THE CITY ON A HILL, BUILT ON THE SAME THRESHING FLOOR THAT KING DAVID HAD PURCHESED IN ORDER TO BUILD AN ALTAR IN THE PROMISED LAND. IT WAS AS FORT WORTH, TX. A CITY ON A HILL, NOT IN JER-USA-LEM, BUT IN THE NEW PROMISED LAND OF USA. KING DAVID DECIDED HE WOULD TAKE THE WHOLE CITY OF JEBUS, AND IT WOULD LATER BE CALLED JERUSALEM, THE HOLY CITY OF DAVID. BOTH FORT WORTH AND JERUSALEM ARE SUNNY. ZION LITERALLLY MEANS A SUNNY PLACE OR SUNNY MOUNTAIN, AND IT REFERENCES THE RISING AND SETTING OF THE SUN. DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH IS ACTUALLY CALLED SUNDANCE SQUARE. THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT LIMITED TO A PLACE, BUT IS WORLDWIDE, FOR ALL TO EMBRACE, FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST, EVEN TO FORT WORTH WHICH IS KNOWN AS "WHERE THE WEST BEGINS". SUNRISE IS IN THE EAST AND IT SETS IN THE WEST. I BELIEVE GOD'S TIME FOR US IS NOW IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE, THE SETTING OF THE SUN BEFORE A NEW DAY, A NEW ERA. IN MY BOOK, THIS IS LIKENED TO THE END OF THE AGE OF GENTILES. JERUSALEM AND FORT WORTH BOTH HAD TEMPLES. THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON WAS RAISED ACCORDING TO GOD'S PLANS GIVEN TO KING DAVID AFTER HE HAD BUILT THE ALTAR. THAT TEMPLE WAS DESTROYED BY THE BABYLONIANS AND LATER REBUILT BY ZERUBBABEL. IT WAS LATERTHEN REFURBISHED GREATLY BY THE ROMAN HEROD THE GREAT. IT WAS A MASSIVE ARCHITECTURAL FEAT AS HE RELANDSCAPED AND BUILT UP MOUNT MORIAH TO ACCOMMODATE THE ENLARGED STRUCTURE... THAT WAS RAZED TO THE GROUND BY THE ROMAN TITUS IN 70AD. TWO MOSQUES WERE BUILT ON TEMPLE MOUNT AND DESTROYED BY EARTHQUAKES AFTER THE MUSLIMS TOOK OVER THE SITE. IT WAS CAPTURE BY THE CRUSADERS IN 1099 AND LATER IT BECAME THE HEADQUARTERS FOR THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. LONG STORY SHORT, THIS SITE GOES ROUND IN CIRCLES BETWEEN FATHER ABRAHAM'S SONS ISHMAEL WHOSE MOTHER WAS HAGAR, ISAAC WHOSE MOTHER WAS SARA, AND HIS ADOPTED SONS THROUGH JESUS, CHRISTIANS. ALL CONSIDER IT THEIR OWN INHERITANCE. THE TEMPLE AT MOSQUE POINT ON LAKE WORTH WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE AND RELOCATED IN FORT WORTH. IT WAS NOT A JEWISH TEMPLE, BUT A MASONIC TEMPLE ASSOCIATED WITH THE YORK RITE AND SCOTTISH RITE MASONS IN WAYS THAT I DO NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND AND SINCE I AM NOT ONE, I MIGHT NOT HAVE GOT ANY OF THAT RITE? MY POINT IS THAT THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT TEMPLE IN FORT WORTH, WITH ROOTS THAT GO BACK TO JERUSALEM. BOTH TEMPLES WERE USURPED BECAUSE OF WARS. BOTH TEMPLES IN MY OPINION LOOK TO THE TEMPLE INSTEAD OF THE GOD THEY WERE BUILT TO HONOUR. BOTH TEMPLES HAVE WORSHIPPED BAAL, OR PAN AS OPPOSED TO GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON AND GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT. THE CHURCH OF CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD, HAS FALLEN OUT OF LOVE. IT IS FOR THE MOST PART BACKSLIDDEN...BUT THAT IS GOING TO CHANGE SOON. THERE IS GOING TO BE FIRE IN FORT WORTH. IT IS GOING TO BE THE FIRE OF GOD THAT IS GOING TO FALL AND BURN UP ALL UNGODLINESS. REVIVAL IS GOING TO COME. RESTORATION IS GOING TO COME. IT WILL BE A BON-FIRE. JEBUS WAS AN ENORMOUS CASTLE/FORT BUILT BY THE JEBUSITES, A RENOWN FORTIFIED CITY AND STRONGHOLD ON A HILL, 2220' HIGH IN THE SKY. WHEN JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED THERE WERE LEGIONS OF ROMAN SOLDIERS THERE ON THEIR FORT THAT HEROD HAD REBUILT, ALONG WITH A REBUILD OF HIS PAGAN TEMPLE. HEROD ALLOWED THE JEWS TO USE HIS REBUILT TEMPLE FOR THEIR OWN RITES TOO. HE REBUILT THE WALLS, SOME OF WHICH STAND TODAY, MANY THINKING THEY ARE ORIGINAL TEMPLE WALLS. BOTH, AS CITIES OF DEFENSE, HAD MILITARY ENCAMPMENTS. ORIGINALLY, FORT WORTH TEXAS HAD BEEN NAMED CAMP WORTH. FORT WORTH IS ALSO A CITY ON A HILL, INFACT I WORKED IN THE TWIN TOWERS ON SUMMIT AVENUE AT THE TOP OF THE HILL..., BUT MY BOATS, ZION'S DREAM AND THE QUEEN MARIAH, WERE BOTH AT THE VERY BOTTOM. FORT WORTH, TX, NOW HAS HUGE MILITARY BASES WITH THE NAVAL AIR STATION JOINT RESERVE BASE AND LOCKHEED MARTIN AERONAUTICS, SURPRISINGLY, EVEN THE CASTLE...IS ALL AT THE VERY BOTTOM OF THE HILL, NESTLED AT THE WATERS EDGE. UNDER JERUSALEM ARE LOCKED CISTERNS AND AN AQUEDUCT THAT BRINGS WATER TO THE TEMPLE MOUNT FROM SOLOMON’S POOLS AND THE HILLS OF BETHLEHEM; RATHER LIKE FORT WORTH HAS WATER GARDENS, AQUA DUCTS AND WATER BROUGHT TO IT FROM LAKE WORTH. IMMEDIATELY TO THE NORTH OF WHERE WE KEPT ZION'S DREAM AND QUEEN MARIAH ON LAKE WORTH, JUST UNDER THE HWY 199 BRIDGE, YOU COULD ACCESS THE SHALLOW FORT WORTH NATURE RESERVE. HERON CASTLE, CASTLE ST. MICHAEL OR WHITING CASTLE ARE SOME OF THE MANY NAMES BY WHICH THE CASTLE ON LAKE WORTH HAS BEEN KNOWN. IIT TEETERED AND TOTTERED ON THE BANKS OF LAKE WORTH ON THE BRINK OF BANKRUPTCY INBETWEEN ENTERTAINING MOVIE STARS AND DIGNITARIES. THE SIMILAR SCOURGES OF FIRES. HAVOC AND DESTRUCTION SEEMED TO AFFLICT IT TOO. I CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER IF THERE IS EVEN AN ANCIENT BURIAL SITE THERE. CERTAINLY, INDIANS USED TO LIVE THERE, BUT WHY SO MUCH CHAOS; IT WAS WHAT YOU MIGHT CALL OVERKILL? BOTH CASINO BEACH AND KING SOLOMON HAD GORILLAS, PEACOCKS, AND EVEN BEAUTIFUL WOMEN FOR ENTERTAINMENT. NEB-UCHADNEZZAR WORSHIPPED THE MONKEY GOD NEB-O, THE GOD OF WRITING. THEY EVEN HAD TEMPLE SCHOOLS DEDICATED TO HIM CLOSE TO BABEL. THEIR GOD OF WRITING SEEMED TO RE-VERSE GOD’S WRITTEN WORD, EVEN AS TODAY MEN HAVE REVERSED THE VERSES ABOUT GOD’S CREATION. SADLY SCIENTISTS FUNDED BY GOVERNMENT GRANTS HAVE AUTHORIZED THEMSELVES TO SET UP CHIMPANZEE PARKS. IT SOUNDS AS IF SOMEBODY CARES ABOUT THEM...BUT THESE POOR ANIMALS ARE USED FOR RESEARCH, LIKE AUSCHWITZ PRISONERS TO BE SUBJECTED TO EXPERIMENTATION FUN-DED BY “FOUNDATION MONEY” . BIG BOY THE GORILLA WAS ALSO INCINERATED IN THE FIRE AT CASINO BEACH. IT SEEMS THAT ANYTHING OF WORTH WAS. JERUSALEM IS THE EPICENTER OF JUDEO CHRISTIAN CULTURE. ABRAHAM HAD PREPARED AN ALTAR TO SACRIFICE ISAAC THERE; DAVID BOUGHT LAND FOR AN ALTAR TO SACRIFICE THERE, RUTH MET BOAZ THERE. LAMBS WERE RAISED IN THE SUBURBS OF JERUSALEM TO BE SACRIFICED IN THE TEMPLE FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS THERE. JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED THERE IN THE CRUCIBLE OF AFFLICTION. CATTLE WERE BROUGHT TO FORT WORTH TO GO TO BE SLAUGHTERED FOR MEAT AND A MULTITUDE OF BY PRODUCTS. IN THE BIBLE, CATTLE REPRESENTED NATIONAL REPENTANCE BUT STILL HEBREWS 10:4 TELLS US THAT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE THAT THE BLOOD OF BULLS AND OF GOATS SHOULD TAKE AWAY SIN. JEUS WAS THE ONLY GIFT OF WORTH TO REDEEM MAN FROM HIS SIN. THE HILLSIDE OF THIS HOLY MOUNTAIN ZION WERE FOR THE LEVITICAL SHEPHERDS TO RAISE THEIR PERFECT LAMBS TO PRESENT TO GOD. JESUS WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM AS A LAMB TO BE SACRIFICED ON MOUNT MORIAH, AS ABRAHAM HAD SACRIFIED THE RAM INSTEAD OF HIS SON. ANY ANIMAL SACRIFICE WAS PURELY A SUBSTITUTE OF WHAT THE BLOOD OF JESUS WOULD DO THAT WAS SO IRREVERENTLY AND MALICIOUSLY SHED OUTSIDE THE CITY OF DAVID THE HILL OF ZION. ON MOUNT MORIAH, OVER 2000 YEARS AGO THE HOLIEST OF GIFTS WAS OFFERED TO THE WORLD BY GOD HIMSELF. UNBELIEVABLE!? IF YOU HAVE EVER BEEN TO AN AUCTION, YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN HOW ANIMALS ARE MISTREATED AND YOU MIGHT BE SHOCKED. THEY ARE, AND WORSE, BUT NOTHING COMPARES TO WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INHUMANE AND SHOCKING CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS. FEW PEOPLE TODAY WHO TALK ABOUT RIGHTS EVER MENTION THIS. YOU SEE, WE HAVE NO RIGHTS EXCEPT OF GOD HIMSELF. WE ARE WRONG. ON THIS ICONIC HOLY MOUNTAIN JESUS WAS PRESENTED AS THE FOUNDATION STONE, THE MOUNTAIN OF TRUTH UPON WHICH HIS RIGHTEOUS EVERLASTING KINGDOM IS ESTABLISHED. WHEN KING DAVID SINNED, HE SAW THAT THE HILL HAD GREAT WORTH AND HE WAS NOT GOING TO ACCEPT IT FREE IF HE WAS GOING TO OFFER SACRIFICES ON IT. THE JEBUSITE SITE WAS A GREAT FORT OF GREAT WORTH ON WHICH THE SON OF GOD WOULD BE SACRIFICED AS THE ULTIMATE OFFERING, FOR THE WHOLE WORLD, INCLUDING FORT WORTH, TX, USA. JERUSALEM PAID A TERRIBLE PRICE FOR THE CRIME OF MURDERING THE SON OF GOD. IF WE WANT GOD'S BLESSINGS, WE HAVE TO BLESS GOD, NOT BLASPHEME AND NOT PRETEND THAT WE HONOR CHRIST IN CHURCH AND THEN DISHONOR HIM IN SECRET PLACES. I HAVE HAD TO REPENT FOR TAKING GOD'S WORTH IN VAIN. IF YOU HAVE, MAYBE YOU WOULD LIKE TO REPENT TO. BETTER DAYS ARE AHEAD, FOR SOME. WORSE DAYS FOR OTHERS. THE ULTIMATE WORTH OF A CITY IS SEEN IN THE WORTH OF ITS PEOPLE. IT WILL REFLECT THEM. JERUSALEM HAS BEEN RAZED TO THE GROUND MANY TIMES. FROM 70AD TO 1948 THE JEWS NOT ONLY LOST THEIR HEAVILY FORTIFIED CITY OF WORTH IN WHICH THEY TRUSTED, BUT THEIR ENTIRE NATION. THE CASINO BEACH WAS KNOWN FOR ITS GAMBLING. NEARLY ALL OF VALUE THAT WAS MAN MADE IS NOT THERE ANY MORE. IT IS BEST NOT TO GAMBLE ON GOD THAT HE MAYBE DOES NOT MEAN WHAT HE SAYS. GOD'S DESIRE IS TO BLESS AMERICA AND FORT WORTH. BUT THERE COMES A TIME WHEN HE JUST SAYS NO MORE...BECAUSE HE IS ALSO JUST. JOHN 1:1-5, “IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD WAS GOD. THE SAME WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD. ALL THINGS WERE CREATED BY HIM; AND WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT ANYTHING MADE THAT WAS MADE. IN HIM WAS LIFE; AND THE LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN. AND THE LIGHT SHINETH IN DARKNESS; AND THE DARKNESS COMPREHENDED IT NOT.” TODAY, THE SHINY MEDIA, THE HOLLYWOOD STARS, OUR GLASS TABLETS AND CRYSTAL SCREENS SCREAM OUT A FALSE WORD. CONSECRATED CHRISTIANS HAVE FALLEN FACE FIRST. THE GLITZ AND GLAMOUR IS A FALSE FLAG TO ATTRACT HUMANS AS MOTHS, LIKE BUG ZAPPERS IN WHICH TO BE ZAPPED. SATAN'S TRAP HAS BEEN SET AND THE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW GOD'S TRUTH, AND WORSE, THOSE THAT DO, ARE DECEIVED BY IT, THINKING THAT GOD WILL FORGIVE THEM. HE MIGHT, HE MIGHT NOT. THAT IS WHY THERE IS JUDGMENT DAY. JERUSALEM WAS JUDGED AND IT WAS TERRIBLE. GOD'S LIGHT IS HIS WORD. "AND THE LIGHT SHINETH IN DARKNESS; AND THE DARKNESS COMPREHENDED IT NOT". AS MORTAL BEINGS, OUR CARNALITY WILL BE CAST OFF AND OUR SPIRITS WILL GO TO A PLACE PREPARED FOR US. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR SPIRIT WILL GO FOR ALL ETERNITY? SEEK HIM WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND. REPENT W