ON THE HIGH GROUND
It has been a long time since THE LORD OF HOSTS has taken me from THE FIRST HEAVEN
to the SECOND and last
to THE THIRD TO LISTEN TO THE ANCIENT OF DAYS. So if any who wish to read this,
know that it is a long ride.
ON THE HIGH GROUND
In the hour just before dawn on Sunday April 9, 2006 I found myself over a city,
looking down upon the lights and buildings. As i watched
it "seemed" as if the city was slowly rotated so i could get a good look from all cardinal points.
First it was a fairly good sized city with a density of lights and fairly tall
buildings in and around it's center. Outside of the center
i saw grids of neighborhoods with streets and highways.
I looked hard for some reference point, either manmade or natural
focal point that could help me to discern what city it was.
Second it was a city not on a large body of water or harbor. Maybe a river ran
through or around it, but it sure was not big enough to ring any bells in my memory.
As i looked down and watched i
pondered and waited for that VOICE. After a time i heard
the first question.
"IS IT AN
MY CAPTAIN. Over time i have learned to consider HIS
QUESTIONS and answer as best as i can. "I do not
know, LORD.".
"IF A DREADFULL EVENT WOULD
In my spirit i got a sudden check. There was ONE QUESTION
that gave me some information i did not know what to
do with. "Yes, LORD, it seems there are always those who blame YOU when "bad
things" happen." As HE STOOD watching me, i knew that my answer was incomplete. Again i looked down and i could feel my
thoughts grinding. And i asked myself, "Why do
people blame GOD for everything that happens that brings trials and griefs.". From personal experience
i know
some of my worst grief came when i did something stupid,
and trials come with just being "alive".
And it hit me. GOD is blamed for SENDING CALAMITY, or by not PROTECTING those
who expect to ride through
"troubles". Both points of view were there last year when hurricanes
came and went. And as i was putting an answer together
HE SPOKE. "Hast thou considered my servant Job, that [there is] none like
him in the earth, a perfect and an upright
man, one that feareth God, and escheweth
evil?"
Now that i did not expect. And i
saw HIM SMILE and just shake HIS HEAD as HE "walked towards me". Now
we
were still some 50,000 feet above this city. A place on a planet
sitting in space completely unaware of our discussion. A city headed for
a SEIZMOS EVENT.
"CONCIDER MY SERVANT", HE BEGAN, "WHO IS PERFECT AND UPRIGHT WHO
FEARS GOD. WHO THE ENEMY COULD NOT TOUCH BECAUSE I AM HIS GOD".
"Yet to defeat ha'satan you removed the HEDGE you
had built around him".
"NOR DID I ASK JOB WHAT HE THOUGHT ABOUT IT BEFORE HAND."
"Which was what the next 42 chapters is all about."
Out of no where it came to me. JOB had no clue what the next 40+ chapters had
for him, yet he stayed true and would not "curse" his GOD. Once again
i looked down and i felt a
shudder go through me.
"DO YOU THINK THAT IF I SENT TO THAT CITY A PROPHET TO CALL THEM TO REPENT,
WOULD THEY REPENT LIKE
Suddenly i got a "sinking" feeling and looked
up at HIS SMILE. I "knew" i was about to receive...and
I must have flinched because HE LAUGHED and touched my shoulder.
"NOW IF I SENT YOU TO THIS UNWALLED CITY TO CALL FOR REPENTANCE TO WHOM WOULD YOU GO TO FIRST?"
I could not help myself because i found myself looking
down and wondering where would i
go first. Again HE LAUGHED and i looked into HIS EYES...
"I ASKED YOU "WHO" OLDDOG, AND YOU IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT "WHERE",
AS IN WHERE WOULD YOU FIND THE AUTHORITY WITHIN THIS CITY TO GO TO FIRST... I
DID NOT SAY I WAS SENDING YOU, DOG...."
Now in my mind i wondered how much time i had... Jonah had 40 DAYS...
And suddenly we were elsewhere....and i must have had
a real stupid look on my face because HIS VOICE HUSHED... "WHAT CAN I DO
WITH YOU OLDDOG. EVEN IF I SENT YOU AS YOU ARE RIGHT
NOW, WOULD "THEY" LISTEN?"
Now i had been once again in FULL ARMOR which meant
other changes were in effect. And i pondered HIS QUESTION
as we sat near the RIVER WHERE ABBA HAD SAT with me before. I took a deep breath
and let it out slowly and looked to HIM.
"DON'T BE HARD ON YOURSELF DOG, IS IT NOT WRITTEN.. "And
the rest of the men which were not killed by
these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not
worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood:
which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders,
nor of their
sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts."
"IF SUCH WOULD NOT REPENT AFTER ONE THIRD OF THE WORLD IS SLAIN, WHAT RESPONSE
WOULD YOU GET FROM A MODERN WORLD THAT DOES NOT WANT
TO HEAR THE TRUTH". "NOW WOULD THEY EXPECT SIGNS AND WONDERS OR REALLY
COSMIC "SPECIAL EFFECTS". JUST SAYING TO THEM
"IT WILL
NOT RAIN" WILL GET NO ONE'S ATTENTION TILL FAMINE OCCURS. AND THEN THEY WILL
TRY TO REMEDIE THE SITUATION IN THIER OWN STRENGTH. IT IS ALSO WRITTEN... "And
the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains,
and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the
dens and in the rocks of the mountains; "And said to the mountains and rocks,
Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: "For
the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?"
With those words we were once again elsewhere and like Isaiah had seen, heard,
and smelled...ABBA, THE ANCIENT OF DAYS SAT...the ECHOES of WORSHIP CRIED HOLY,
HOLY, HOLY...KADOSH, KADOSH, KADOSH.... SANCTUS, SANCTUS, SANCTUS...all the LANGUAGES
of THE UNIVERSE were joined together in ADORATION.
AND THE FRAGRANCE OF HIS INCENSE filled my nose and my spirit and suddenly a sweet
and savory FLAVOR filled
my mouth as all me senses bore witness as i fell to
my face at HIS FEET.
In ETERNITY time really does not pass and i just lay
there filled with AWE and WONDER and thinking that poor Isaiah must have gotten
slammed, too when he said "oh woe is me..." "BEING UNDONE"
is being utterly shreaded in the INTENSITY of HIS PRESENCE.
And i felt HIS HAND gently rub my head and i looked up again into MY ABBA'S eyes. For a moment we were
alone
and once again i felt like a child in HIS ARMS. When
that moment was done i was STANDING BEFORE THE ANCIENT
OF DAYS, AND AT HIS RIGHT HAND STOOD THE LAMB.
"ONCE WHEN I CALLED YOUR NAME YOU ANSWERED AND DECLAIRED "HININE".
I CHOSE YOU ROBERT, SON OF ROBERT, SON OF JOSEPH, SON OF LEO TO BE MY SERVANT. YOU ASK YOURSELF OFTEN WHAT YOU
ARE TO DO FOR MY KINGDOM. IT PLEASES ME TO SEND YOU NOW. THOSE WHOM I PLACED YOU
WITH HAVE A FIRE AND A PASSION THAT NOW COMES FORTH. YET IN YOU I HAVE PLACED
A SIMULAR PASSION, BUT WITH ICE AND NOT FIRE. BOTH CONSUME AND DESTROY AS I WILL
IT. SO NOW I COUNTER THE COLD AND METHODICAL CALCULATIONS OF THE DESTROYER WITH
MY OWN TOOL."
And with that i was once again looking down at "the
city". And i felt a hand on either shoulder and a VOICE in my ear. "DID YOU NOTICE
THE CHANGES IN THE LAST WEEK?"
Inside i could feel my spirit go "DUHHHH".
And HE LAUGHED. "NOW I CAN UNDERSTAND YOUR PASSION ABOUT THE NICOLAOTINS
BECAUSE IT IS THE SAME AS MINE. BUT YOU WONDER WHY YOU KEEP SEEING RED FLAGS EVERYWHERE
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