Rhema - series

Barren Land, Barren People                  - 5/1999 - Prophecy/Article

The Dark Sayings                              - 1/1998 - Prophecy

Just Be Still                                            - 9/1999 - Article/Prophecy

My Day Is Close                                - 5/1999 - Prophecy

False and True....The Mirror of God - 5/1999 - Vision/Prophecy

American Check Point Charley         - Vision

 

Barren Land, Barren People

Bob Neumann, 5/1999

Dear Friends, this day began at just after 2am. I kept getting these strong images coming up deep from my spirit man. Some clear and some vague. Some down right weird. If it was not for HIS PRESENCE and HIS PEACE all could have been ignored and forgotten. But I could not. The first was... “you can get what you ask for.....you can’t get what you want, girl...” yes that is part of an old “Rolling Stones” song. Like I said....weird.

The second was “a broken heart will not be despised”.....at least that was scripture.

But the third was.... “we’re Sargent Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.....”. For three hours I kept hearing songs from an album I had not listened to for ??? 25+ years???????

Now I know Kingly humor when I hear it....but this was not it. So I kept asking what, how, and why about this “flash back”. And had no answer...until a new tune rolled out from my past....even older than the STONES and THE BEATLES...…

“keep a movin’ Dan

He’s a devil not a man

And he spreads the burning sand with water....

Cool clear water....(echo)water....”

 

Now please understand I was listening to the whole song over and over for an hour. Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers singing “cool water”.... I was singing along with the base part in the shower when I realized this was getting strange. On the drive to church/work I switched to the old Dallas Holmes song “Only ONE LORD”....another song from back in my memory....but at least it made sense. As if sense means anything right now.

While we were in prayer prior to service all these images came back and got added to. The SONG/MELODY as the week before was “Take me in to the HOLY OF HOLIES..... Take me in by the BLOOD OF THE LAMB.” The lyrics flowed during worship.....

The WORD began.…

 

ONLY ONE LORD, ONLY ONE GOD.

ONLY THE BROKEN HEARTED,

ONLY THE CRUSHED IN SPIRIT,

ONLY THOSE WHOSE HEARTS ARE TENDER

WILL I POUR INTO THIS DAY.

 

NO MORE DISTRACTIONS,

NO MORE AGENDAS,

NO MORE EXCUSES,

NO MORE LITTLE GODS

WILL I TOLERATE THIS DAY.

 

ARE YOU TIRED OF BEING BARREN?

ARE YOU TIRED OF BEING SHAMED?

ARE YOU TIRED OF BEING THIRST?

ARE YOU TIRED OF BEING MOCKED?

 

WILL YOU SING THE SONG OF HANNAH THIS DAY?

WILL YOU NOW SWALLOW YOUR PRIDE?

WILL YOU IGNORE THE COMMENTS OF MAN?

WILL YOU COME NOW TO MY TABERNACLE?

WILL YOU PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN ME?

WILL YOU GIVE ALL TO ME THIS DAY?

 

COME TO ME LIKE POOR BROKEN HANNAH.

COME TO ME AND CALL UPON MY NAME.

POUR OUT YOUR FEAR AND YOUR PAIN.

HOLD BACK NOT THE TEARS AND THE SHAME.

FOR A NEW HEART I GIVE YOU THIS DAY.

 

HANNAH ASKED FOR WHAT I DESIRED TO GIVE.

HANNAH NEEDED WHAT ONLY I COULD GIVE.

FOR WHEN HANNAH VOWED TO GIVE BACK

HER HEARTS DESIRE IN SERVICE ONLY TO ME

HER MIRACLE WAS SEALED THAT DAY.

 

TO ALL WHO ARE DRY AND CALLED BARREN

TO ALL WHO FEEL ABANDONED AND CURSED

FORGET NOT THE TENDERNESS OF HANNAH

SEEK ME WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART AND STRENGTH

AND YOU WILL FIND ME THIS DAY.

 

1 Samuel 2:2-3

2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.

3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

Yes, it was 0223 when I was awakened by Mick Jagger....so I guess this is for all on MOTHER’S DAY. As Mick said....”you can’t always get what you want, girl....” but ABBA enjoys giving to the DAUGHTER of HIS PEOPLE what she asks for when her heart is broken and open. HE has this thing about “broken vessels”. HE also has this thing about filling you up so HE CAN POUR YOU OUT.

As for me and the Duke riding through the hot desert sands.....with Roy and the boys....singing Lennon and McCartney.....it makes a whole lot of sense.....if you can get radically weird and let GOD have HIS WAY.....

But I don’t think I can handle all the ramifications, let alone share them today....

Selah

Old Dog

 

 

 

The Dark Sayings

Bob Neumann, 1/1998

Children, Believe ME With All Your Hearts when I SAY;

I WILL BE EXALTED AMONG THE NATIONS.

I WILL BE EXALTED AMONG THE PEOPLES.

 

It is good if you believe it, better if you do it. There are so many believers yet so few 'doers' among you. And what, MY children, am I speaking of? MY WORD. NOT PART....ALL.

You like MY “BEHOLDS”, but not MY “WOES''. Why? Little children have many likes and dislikes that originate in the child's judgment. Do you really trust that Eternity is balanced on your childish ways? Then you must seek MY WAYS and not your own. Put aside your pet interpretations of reality. Your philosophies, theologies and theories created to separate yourselves from your brothers and sisters. Put them aside and seek out MY WAYS and MY WISDOM. And within the totality of MY WORD is all WISDOM. Within the Fullness of MY SON, MY SPIRIT has breathed all into you. All has been given to you if you choose that which is TRUTH.

Are you that much unlike Solomon? He built MY Temple out of the treasures his father David had stored. He followed the plans and stayed true to the blueprint he was given. But he also built his own palace and a palace for one of his wives, Pharaoh's daughter. He also burned incense on the HIGH PLACES. It was not because of his 'righteousness' that I spoke to him in the “NIGHT SEASON”. It was because of MY COVENANT PROMISES to MY SERVANT, his father David. I called out to him and he answered ME. And when I offered to give him his hearts desire he chose service to ME by choosing MY KINGDOM and MY PEOPLE first. So by seeking MY KINGDOM first I gave him POWER, WEALTH, and WISDOM. But he did not repent so WISDOM served HIM little it seems. LEARN FROM THIS LESSON.

Are you any different? IS there not ONE in whom a much GREATER COVENANT is established? WAS THERE A MORE FAITHFUL SERVANT OR OBEDIENT SON THAN MY ONLY BEGOTTEN, MY LAMB WHO WAS WITHOUT SPOT OR STAIN. You ask for Wealth, Power, and Wisdom all the time; but did you choose MY KINGDOM over everything else. Did MY SON not show you MY WAY and example MY KINGDOM for you? DID HE NOT TEACH YOU; “SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS...”. I know you have children, but haven't you figured out that there is a profound difference between 'saying it' and 'seeking it'. But you still expect the 'desires of your heart'. That is what you have been taught over and over, isn't it. SO what is wrong? Are you standing on the TRUTH, MY WORD? OR are standing on something else and do not know it yet. SOMETHING LESS.....

If I show you the TRUTH, would you receive it? If I spoke of GREAT and MIGHTY THINGS that are to come; would you believe them? I HAVE. You see MY DESIRE toward you has been always for good and not evil. MY DESIRE is that none should perish, but it has always been up to you to decide. I have given you ALL, and I continue to send MY Servants to remind you of what I HAVE SAID. For There Is Nothing New Under the SUN. Just misplaced, ignored, or buried.

To your fathers I have spoken in “DARK SAYINGS”, MY SON taught in parables, and MY SPIRIT in prophecies, dreams, and visions. YOU WERE GIVEN GREAT WEALTH AND A PROFOUND BLUEPRINT to build with. Nothing has been hidden from those who seek MY RIGHTEOUSNESS. You look for MY VOICE when you should be listening. Still you want to “see”, to be entertained by “signs and wonders”. So when they say they got “it” over there....you go out to the desert to see. Then you hear 'rumors' about the upper room you hurry there. You are blown about by every breeze of the supernatural. HOW WOULD YOU KNOW EVEN IF IT WAS ME, if you won't listen?

SO MANY THINGS DECEIVE YOU.

I AM A GOD THAT CAN SPEAK OUT OF THE WHIRLWIND.

I AM A GOD THAT CAN SPEAK OUT OF THE FIRE.

I CAN SPEAK TO YOU FROM THE MOUNTAINTOP OR FROM THE DEEPEST PIT THAT YOU HAVE FALLEN INTO.

I AM YOUR GOD AND YOU MUST HAVE NO OTHER.

HOW I CHOOSE TO SPEAK TO YOU IS MINE TO CHOOSE.

 

CHILDREN, I CHOOSE TO SPEAK TO YOU IN THAT STILL...SWEET ...VOICE THAT ELIJAH HEARD. THE VOICE THAT MY SERVANTS HAVE ALWAYS LISTENED TO. FOR YOU SEE THE SERVANTS THAT PLEASE ME ARE THOSE WHO SET THEIR HEARTS ON ME AND FOUND THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS. AND THEIR SPIRITS CALLED OUT TO ME STEADFAST IN OBEDIENCE IN THE FACE OF DEATH. IT IS WRITTEN...”AS DEEP CALLS TO DEEP''. The RIVER grows continually deeper as it grows wider. TO SEEK ME is to go out into the DEEPEST WATERS and cast yourselves into ME. The DEEPER you ENTER ME the DARKER AND COLDER the WATER gets. But you say “DARKER”, “COLDER”...that can't be GOD ! That is because you have limited ME in your eyes and cut yourself off from ME. That is why I call out to you now. If you will not learn of ME then learn from your mistakes. Accept the fact that there are things wrong in your life. That I offer much more than what you have settled for. Trust not your emotions and lean not on your own wisdom and understanding. BE STILL, AND LISTEN.

So much of what you have received is not MY WHOLE COUNCIL. To many of you miss the obvious. Yet too many of you who have raised question to those who have taken charge for you have been “beaten down''. They have told you “never question GOD”. And defend themselves with the words “Touch not the LORD'S anointed”.

Really? Were not all MY SERVANTS TOUCHED? Beaten, chained, mocked, spat upon, and murdered? Where is their truth? Their anointing?

DID NOT MY SON SAY TO LET THE CHILDREN COME UNTO ME

AGAIN I SAY...

LET MY CHILDREN COME TO ME.

BRING ME YOUR QUESTIONS, YOUR PAINS, YOUR BURDENS, YOUR FEARS

AND I WILL BE YOUR FATHER.

I WILL NOT TURN AWAY ANY WHO SET THEIR HEARTS ON ME.

LOOK FOR ME IN THE WORD.

LOOK FOR ME IN YOUR CLOSETS.

CALL OUT TO ME AND I WILL HEAR YOU AND I WILL ANSWER YOU.

 

 

 

 

Just Be Still

Bob Neumann, July 1999

Bill, in the last few weeks I have gotten a number of posts from brothers and sisters that read your site and have been praying for me. They have been a great blessing. I just got off the phone with a dear brother from half way across the world. He blessed me greatly and while talking THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT kept hitting me with short vivid images. Let me be honest, I had grown despondent as THE MOST HIGH spoke dire warnings and I saw nothing happen within the ‘church’. Each time I dared to be obedient and write and post the THUNDERS as they came my family paid the price one way or another. Frankly I got tired of being the target all the time.

I also was tired of hearing the so called ‘prophets’ continue to repeat the words of PEACE, PROSPERITY, and PERPETUAL BLESSING when I hear the MOST HOLY SPIRIT weeping. On one hand I have the LAMB saying HE’S HAD ENOUGH....and the prophets of Jericho say “ain’t we blessed!”. Funny how they thought a “waterless” and “barren” land was pleasant. Each time I wanted to shout at one of these cutsie “words” I got the chain jerked and the simple command whispered “BE STILL”.

So I got stilled.....choke chains will do that to you. ABBA had been telling me and anyone with ears to listen to “BE STILL”. If HE has something to say HE will tell us what to say, how to say it, and when to say it. So I spoke when ordered, wrote when ordered. But for the most part took care of business. Got my house in order. Basically finished the foundation that will be Goshen in South Florida. I know others are doing the same scattered across the world, but few are interacting here. SELAH.

Funny word, SELAH. Like most Hebrew words it has two meanings. First it means to stop, ponder, meditate. The Second is in reference to a mountain fortress. That’s why ABBA has been shushing those who hear HIM. HE wants us to be TOWERS.

FORTIFIED INSTILLATIONS in a foreign land...a hostile environment. The why is simple. So we would not get caught up in the distractions and the deceptions. The church is still plowing along going over the same ground over and over. TOO BAD THEY PLANT LITTLE SEED. The “church” is still planning events and staging efforts based upon their agendas. Too many people running around and wearing themselves completely out with minimal harvest. But you will always have someone defend their endeavors by saying “if but one soul is saved!”. Or better yet, “you can’t put a price tag on a soul”. True, but THE WORD says all servants will be accountable for their use of THE MASTER’S TALENT(S). Poor stewardship is a bad excuse for being tossed out into utter darkness.

Yesterday I received a WORD from Sr. Marsha Burns that ABBA used to tell me “I TOLD YOU SO”.…

 

SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND

Words from the Lord to Marsha Burns:

July 3, 1999:

Be very still. I want You to hear My voice very clearly, and you cannot if you aren’t still. I am bringing a course correction to those of you who have gotten off track. I am bringing you back to the center of My will. Your recent distractions have taken you out of the flow of My Spirit, and it is time for you to awaken, hear My voice, and come back to a place of greater anointing. Don’t get into despair over your failure, for I will cause even this to be a place of victory. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

 

Solid word in itself.... but ABBA SAID:

BEING STILL WHEN I CALL YOU TO IT IS NOTHING MORE THAN MY ASKING WHETHER YOU WILL OBEY, CHILDREN. I DO NOT ASK SERVANTS TO OBEY, CHILDREN. I COMMAND AND MY WORD IS DONE. IF NOT OUT OF LOVE, IT IS DONE OUT OF FEAR. MY CHILDREN HAVE CHOSEN WHETHER OR NOT THEY WOULD OBEY IN SUCH A LITTLE THING.

MOST CHOSE WRONG. THEY WERE GIVEN A TIME TO BE STILL AND TO REST. I HAD A PURPOSE FOR IT. THOSE THAT HAVE OBEYED ARE READY TO PROCEED.

THOSE THAT DID NOT WILL BE GIVEN CORRECTION AND I WILL WATCH WHO WILL PICK UP THEIR CROSSES AGAIN, AND WHO WILL NOT. IN THIS TIME I HAVE SEPARATED MY SERVANTS FROM MY SHEEP. I HAVE ALSO SEPARATED MY CHILDREN FROM MY SERVANTS. I WILL HAVE A DISCIPLINED HOUSEHOLD.

ALL THINGS IN ORDER AND IN PLACE. BUT IT WILL BE MY ORDER AND MY PURPOSE.

So Bill....in obedience I break my silence. Imagine a Clydesdale in harness..... I get to move again. I am sending this as ordered to you and Bill and Marsha Burns.

Be blessed.

Old Dog

 

 

 

My Day Is Close

Bob Neumann, May 3, 1999

In the Camp of the Nicolaitans My Day is Close

For long many have cried "PEACE, PEACE'' and have spoken of a harvest yet to come. Only they served with eloquent speech as season came and season passed. As the trumpet of Judgment sounds no longer will idle words be spoken, no longer will distraction and diversion rule in the camp of the Nicolaitans.

For all servants and those held inside the camp as bondservants shall the SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD be poured out upon. Upon the lowest to the highest WILL THE WORD OF GOD BE MANIFEST. For young and old, male and female, shall see dreams upon their beds. They shall walk through the Valley of Vision. They will proclaim the ORACLES OF GOD with stammering lips, with faltering language, and an utter lack of guile.

FOR I HAVE CALLED THEM TO TAKE THEIR INSTRUMENTS OF PLANTING AND THEIR TOOLS OF HARVEST TO THE FORGE OF GOD. IN MY PURE FIRE WILL THE WEAPONS OF THE FINAL WAR BE SHAPED AND TEMPERED.

FOR WHEN THE FINAL HARVEST COMES IN THE VALLEY OF DECISION AN UNKNOWN ARMY SHALL ARISE IN MY NAME AND CLAIM A HARVEST UNIMAGINABLE AS I GATHER THE MULTITUDES OF NATIONS, THE MULTITUDES OF PEOPLES TOGETHER FOR MY DAY.

MY DAY CHILDREN IS CLOSE AT HAND. IT IS NOT FAR OFF. FOR I HAVE PROMISED MYSELF THIS AND SPOKEN OF IT LONG AND OFTEN AS MY DAY ONCE AGAIN ESTABLISHED UPON THIS EARTH. A DAY OF DARKNESS, A DAY UNLIKE ANY SEEN SINCE THE CREATION OF THE COSMOS. FOR IT IS TRULY A GREAT AND TERRIBLE DAY AS I EXALT MYSELF UPON THE HEATHEN AND GLORIFY MYSELF UPON THE PEOPLES.

FOR THERE IS A REMNANT AMONG YOU IGNORED AND DESPISED. YET WHO STILL STANDS UPON MY WALLS, WHO GIVES ME NO REST TILL ONCE AGAIN THE WORDS HEPHZIBAH AND BEULAH COME FROM MY LIPS. THEY ARE THE CROWN IN MY HAND FOR THEY HOLD THE ENEMY PRESENTLY AT THE GATE.

THEY DO NOT DEFILE THEMSELVES AT THE TABLES OF THE UNGODLY. THEY DO NOT RUN AFTER EVERY LIE AND DECEPTION. THEY HOLD FAST UPON MY WORD AND STAND IN MY NAME.

THEY ARE THE PEOPLE WHO WORSHIP AT MY FOOTSTOOL, WHOSE LIPS ARE CLEANSED BY THE COALS FROM MY HOLY FIRE. LISTEN TO THEIR WORDS AND BELIEVE MY SERVANTS EVEN NOW AS I BLOW MY TRUMPETS.

selah....hine hu ba...

 

 

 

False and True....The Mirror of God

Bob Neumann, 5/1999

Dear Brothers,

Yesterday I got one of those posts where a simple question was asked. I sent a “K.I.S.S.” post, “Keep it Short and Simple”. Now after the thoughts of this morning I went back to reflect on my answer and got a question from ABBA. HE has this ability to make you reassess your position without guilt. There would have been a time where I would have “reacted” with “what did I do wrong this time?”, but I’ve grown out of that to a degree. It helps when you start walking in multiple levels of HIS SPIRIT and you find that TRUTH often has depths not easily perceived. This is one of those “ouch” times.

The original question is how do you/can you tell if someone is a “real” “brother” in the LORD. My response was based on the “red letters”....JESUS said “WHO IS MY BROTHER?....HE WHO DOES THE WILL OF MY FATHER.” I added the ideas of “judging a tree by it’s fruit”. All scriptural and was firmly on solid foundation. Yet I had been questioning the same myself the last few weeks and been struggling with the issue of being unequally bound. Honestly I ran myself in circles and got myself tromped when I should have kept my mouth shut.

ABBA was trying to make a point and as long as I tried to get it I messed up big time.

So I shut everything down and turned everything off. Only to find my wife and son caught in a set of crosshairs I could not counter. No chance to “be still” and “wait on THE LORD” when the secular authority threatens action and you have five minutes to respond. So I fell and took the blows. Now I needed to understand the point ABBA was trying to make. I think I got it, but I will know in time.

I was given this mini-vision of a large antique mirror. It gave a clear full size view as you looked into it. As I stood before “THE MIRROR OF GOD”, THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT explained

“THE LAW OF THE KINGDOM SAYS THAT WHICH IS OF GOD IS OF LIGHT, AND NEVER CHANGES. THAT WHICH IS NOT OF GOD IS DARKNESS. DARKNESS, HAVING NO LIGHT HAS NO REFLECTION.”

Immediately I thought of the old Bela Lugosi movies and the idea of the “undead” casting no reflection. I remembered the line of the Count describing the howling of the wolves as the sound of “The Children of THE NIGHT”, and was cut short. THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT corrected me and said.

“DO NOT CONFUSE THE NIGHT AND THE DARKNESS. IT IS A MISTAKE TO CONFUSE THE SEPARATION OF THE TIMES OF THE DAY WITH THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT”.

I had to ponder this. Confusion leads to deception. When we do not perceive things from the position of THE KINGDOM we confuse things in our own minds. If we take as TRUTH that which is not, we are deceived. So the only way to judge whether my thinking is of GOD is to see if it reflects in GOD’S MIRROR. As I came to this thought I once again stood before the mirror. This time it was a distorted image and I stared at myself.

“LIGHT WHEN REFRACTED IS BENT. WHEN THE VESSEL IS LESS THAN PURE IT REFLECTS THROUGH IT’S IMPURITIES.”

And I grieved and repented.... Now I looked and the mirror showed a “blurred image”. Again instruction came.

“THE MIRROR OF GOD REFLECTS THE HEART AND THE SPIRIT, NOT THE FLESH.

WHEN THE HEART IS TROUBLED AND THE SPIRIT IS IN CONSTERNATION YOU HAVE LOST YOUR FOCUS. MANY OF MINE OWN HAVE TROUBLE BEING SHARPLY FOCUSED AT ALL TIMES. AS THE DAY CHANGES AND AS SITUATIONS CHANGE FOCUS MUST CHANGE ACCORDINGLY”.

So I pondered all this as my reflection skewed and darkened, then focused and brightened. And suddenly I felt a familiar hand on my shoulder and the Mirror turned incandescent. “WHY ARE YOU TROUBLED, OLD DOG.” THE MASTER ASKED.

“Who LORD is my brother, LORD? And why am I alone?”

“WHEN ARE YOU ALONE, DOG?”

I had no real answer for HIS WORD says HE would never leave me or forsake me.

“MY WORD ALSO ASKS.... ‘WHY SO DOWNCAST OH MY SOUL’....IT’S OKAY. YOU KNOW I UNDERSTAND, YET YOU QUESTION. IN SPITE OF WHAT PEOPLE MAY SAY LACK OF FAITH IS NOT SIN. THOSE WHO I HAVE CALLED TO SERVICE ALWAYS STRUGGLE BECAUSE IT IS IN THE STRUGGLE THAT FAITH GROWS AND BEARS MUCH FRUIT. EVEN THE BEST HAVE FALTERED AT TIMES. FALLEN BADLY EVEN. SOME HAVE BEEN AT THE BRINK OF DESPAIR. BUT MY GRACE IS ALWAYS THERE TO THOSE WHO CRY OUT IN THEIR PAIN, THEIR FEAR, AND THEIR DOUBT. I’M STILL FAITHFUL AND I KNOW THE HEART. WORDS WILL NOT IMPRESS ME UNLESS THEY MIRROR THE HEART EXACTLY.

“AND I’LL TELL YA DOG, THAT HAPPENS SELDOM. ESPECIALLY IN THOSE ‘MEN OF GOD’ AND ‘WOMEN OF GOD’ THAT SEEM TO BE ALL OVER THE PLACE. ABBA HAS THIS TENDER SPOT IN HIS HEART FOR BABIES AND CHILDREN, WHO PRAY IT AS IT IS. NO GAMES....JUST REAL.”

“BEING ‘BORN AGAIN’ MEANS A WHOLE LOT FROM MY POINT OF VIEW. TO BE REBORN MEANS THAT THINGS ARE MADE RIGHT. THE SINNER UNDER CONVICTION IS LAID BARE BEFORE ME. THERE IS NOTHING TO HIDE AND NO WAY TO EVADE THE REALITY OF SIN. SO THEIR PRAYER IS PURE FOR THEIR HEART IS MADE NEW”.

“I AM THE MIRROR, AND ALL THAT IS OF ME REFLECTS BACK TO YOU. WHAT IS NOT OF ME IS A COUNTERFEIT AND WILL NOT STAND BEFORE ME. THAT IS HOW YOU TELL THE TRUE FROM THE FALSE, THROUGH THE CLARITY OF WHAT REFLECTS IN ME.”

“THIS CAN BE SIMPLE DOG, OR VERY COMPLEX. DEAL WITH THE SIMPLE NOW. KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SHEEP AND GOATS. KNOW ALSO BETWEEN SHEPHERDS AND HIRELINGS. AS FOR TELLING SHEEPDOGS FROM WOLVES....IT DON’T CHANGE....I STILL KNOW MINE AND MINE KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THE ENEMY.”

“MY SHEEP AND MY GOATS ARE MINE. I ALONE JUDGE THEM, SEPARATE THEM. THAT IS NO MAN’S JOB. WARN BOTH MY SHEPHERDS AND THE HIRELINGS.

THEIR JOB IS TO STAND WATCH AND TO GUARD MINE AS THEY FEED AND DRINK OF ME. TELL THEM DOG, THEIR ACCOUNTS WILL BE WEIGHED AND THE HEALTH AND WELL BEING OF MY FLOCK I ALONE JUDGE.”

With that I watched a goat and a sheep, each full grown, stand before THE MIRROR. In THE MIRROR I only saw the sheep.

“IT IS ONLY WHEN THEY ARE GROWN AND COME TO THEIR FULLNESS WILL I SEPARATE BETWEEN THE TWO. ALL BORN IN MY FLOCK ARE MINE. SOME CHOOSE TO BE SHEEP, SOME CHOOSE TO BE GOATS. AND THEN THERE ARE THE GOATS WHO WANT TO BE SHEEP AND THEY ARE BORN AGAIN. YOU LIKE THAT ONE DOG! I CREATED THE LION AND THE LAMB. TO CHANGE AN OLD GOAT INTO A PRECIOUS LAMB IS WHAT I ENJOY THE MOST BECAUSE ABBA IS PLEASED.”

For a brief moment I thought He would put a shepherd and a hireling before THE MIRROR. HE didn’t. I wondered about the “brother” and THE MIRROR. Still trying to grasp between the counterfeit and the real. How deception is to be exposed. Then I got this last shot....

“TELL THEM TO JUDGE AS MY WORD REQUIRES. WEIGH EVERYTHING FIRST BY MY WORD AND THEN BY MY SPIRIT. BY LOGOS YOU WILL TRIP UP THE FALSE TEACHERS. BY DISCERNMENT OF MY SPIRIT WILL YOU SNARE THE FALSE ANOINTINGS. BY MY SPIRIT WILL YOU BATTLE AGAINST THE DARKNESS AS IT ATTEMPTS TO OVERCOVER YOU.”

So I share this as ordered. And I sure don’t have all the answers. Right now I’m going to work on the “overcover” thing.

Selah

Old Dog

 

 

 

American Check Point Charley

Bob Neumann

DEAR FRIENDS, i went to Gainesville Florida this weekend, had an 'interesting time' your thoughts are needed....

Driving North just after the Florida Turnpike merged with I-75 i had an open eyed vision at 70 mph. There were two roadblocks covering both sides of I-75. And it was a massive display of force. Hundreds of dark brown busses in rows. The forces involved numbered in the thousands as each vehicle was 'scanned' by their license plate in some way. Most cars were waved through. In some cases the driver was told to pull over in the closed lanes. There one of three things happened.

The car was told to turn around and join a long line of cars that were being rerouted toward the turnpike south which takes you to Orlando.

The Second option was one or more of the occupants were removed and the car was sent either on it's way ...or joined the convoy towards Orlando.

The THIRD option was what got my attention...those people removed from their cars joined this third group where everyone in the 'car' was removed. Men went to one group of busses....children and teens into another....women with small children and babies a third....the elderly and those in wheel chairs a fourth.

When a car was emptied a 'driver' jumped in and headed north. The busses with children and the informed (the term came to my spirit) went north....the busses with males went toward Tampa/West....women to Orlando/South....

It was a precision military operation. On the ground were Tanks and APC's....helicopter gun ships in the air.

T-52 's and bulldozers were pushing off the burning cars of those who either attempted to resist or flee.... and there was a very large pile of bodies lying to the side. No body bags....but teams scanning, fingerprinting, and looting the dead of valuables… Two other little things, in this nature occurred during this trip. They can wait.

Bob in Miami