A Dream

A group of us, some people I know and am currently in relationship with and some people I do not know but understood in the dream that I was in relationship with them, and my little brother Brian, all took a journey to go and live in a complex of cabins in a far away land. The dream being set in medieval times had us walking in this journey. We undertake this journey with a legitimate agreement with the landlord/owner of these cabins to occupy and to live in them…. a lease if you will, which I recognize as a contract between us.

As we arrive at our destination we find that there are squatters living illegitimately in these domiciles. When we tell them that they must go and that we have authority from the owner of the properties to occupy them they recognize the authority of our claim to be there they angrily and begrudgingly leave. After spending some time organizing and making sleeping arrangements we all separate to go off to our separate cabins for the night.

All of a sudden I awaken to a pair of arms grabbing me from under the house through a hole in the floor. The grip is strong but not insurmountable but is trying to drag me into the space under the cabin for what ever reason. Shortly, I hear my brother yelling to me with clear distress in his voice to resist being dragged into the crawl space. I understand that he too is being attacked in his cabin. After the attack seems to abate we all begin meeting outside to compare our experiences. There are some things that dawn on us.

We had assumed that because we were the legitimate tenants that no one would oppose our being there. The squatters were rough looking people but it never occurred that they would resist and otherwise try to harm us for being there. In fact, the idea that there would be any struggle at all is foreign to me.

Very shortly after we had all separated to go to our respective cabins and within moments of my entering my cabin I immediately came under a very powerful attack. The attack was not by any human force but by a strange pressure like force that pinned me against the wall I was nearest. It was as if I was under 300’ of water and the immense weight of it was crushing me into incapacitation. As I am being crushed under this weight I have some strange thoughts come to me.

After recognizing this attack of unparalleled supernatural power, which I identified as witchcraft, I began to realize my profound vulnerability to this power seizing me. I realized how insufficient alone my claim to this lease was, in that I desperately needed the landlord Himself to come and establish my claim. I interestingly, began to realize the sin in my real life (the compromises, the struggles that I far too often do not struggle with, the outright disobedience I am willing to live in and also my laziness that so often has me ignoring my need to sow into the things of the Spirit thus strengthening my "inner man") and immediately connected that to my inability to withstand the profoundly powerful attack I was under.

Believing that I was going to die without remedy I began to pray in the Spirit, “tongue talking”. Although I did not immediately experience relief, nor did I sense any coming- I still believed I was going to die- within a few more minutes the strange but powerful attack subsided and I could begin to take a breath.

When I was released I ran outside and found the others too had been under attack and had gone outside to share the experiences they had. I began to scream, "We are not ready for this! We are not prepared! We are not ready for this! We are not prepared!" After i caught my breath I began to relate my encounter to them and they were intrigued by what we were to learn from it as well as their won encounters. Immediately after relating my story I looked over behind the group and I saw a small contingent of the larger group of squatters mount horses and begin to ride away; they had hate and anger on their faces which made me realize that we would be seeing them again. Interestingly they wore human skulls as necklaces around their necks.

I awoke with a sense of heaviness in the extreme!. Some of what was being communicated to me is presently clear. I am going to seek God for the rest and if/when I get more I will relate that also.

Deuteronomy 8

“Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today; 12 otherwise, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built good houses and lived in them, 13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies,‎14 then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Reminds me of what our religion has come to these days in the west.

Do not worry however, as God chastised Israel He will chastise us, and bring us back to the place of repentance, surrender, holiness, and Kingdom for the lost and broken around us. It's coming like a flood.

I had a dream 09-15-09:

I had a dream where we, a wide ranging group of people, some I knew some I do not, were at a road side "Mom and Pops" store doing our thing (shopping & browsing). I suddenly noticed that it was supposed to be dark outside but the sun was up- it was a time that it would normally be dark outside- I am thinking 10 p.m. I hurriedly began to call my family who lived out west and asked them about what the sun was doing- when I call and ask they then begin to notice that it was dark much earlier than usual and that something was clearly wrong. Most people did not notice this dramatic event- it was as though the rotation of the earth was changing, however, the sun was still in an appropriate position, just not at a usual time. Of course if the axis and/or rotation changes, even slightly, then we are looking at global catastrophe- life, AS WE KNOW IT, will be violently destroyed. As I am seeking to confirm this phenomenon, I am waiting for the storms to come knowing that they must come because of this kind of change. From the first notice of this event the verse at Acts 2: 19 constantly plays in my mind through out the dream; 'AND I WILL GRANT WONDERS IN THE SKY ABOVE AND SIGNS ON THE EARTH BELOW, BLOOD, AND FIRE, AND VAPOR OF SMOKE.

The fundamentals of life as we know it are in the process of change, the storms that would normally rage immediately at the slightest change are delayed temporarily but are brewing and gaining strength. I am struck at how few people notice the changes occurring and who can comprehend the ensuing disaster.

Two things I ask of you Lord;
deny them not to me before I die:

Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
give me neither poverty nor riches;

feed me with the food that is needful for me,
lest I be full and deny you
and say, “Who is the LORD?”

or lest I be poor and steal
and profane the name of my God.

My son, eat honey, for it is good,
and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
Know that wisdom is such to your soul;
if you find it, there will be a future,
and your hope will not be cut off.
Proverbs 14

Fat & Sassy

The physical therapist assigned to help me strengthen my core is very knowledgeable. I am impressed with how much knowledge this person has on the subject, particularly the spine. Interestingly, this person is obese and their core is much larger and injurious to their spine than my situation. Clearly a person can have knowledge, even expertise, and not put into practice and live the life style that they regularly advocate.

The physical therapist's vast knowledge and apparent lack of will to apply it to the their own life is sorta like Christianity in the west. Western Christianity has never been more sophisticated, organized, and wealthy, yet never so powerless- look at the evidence.

Amazingly, we have made a religion of knowing the Bible while not living according to it's mandate and by it's exapmle. We make great boasts about believing it literally yet walk in the most incredible unbelief of spiritual reality. We pursue "mammon" just as vigorously as we do our own glory when God declared that we cannot serve both God and mammon.

I am amazed at how similar the modern Christian aristocracy is to the ancient Jewish aristocracy....... you know the Pharisees, and for those of you who deny spiritual reality yet take the Scriptures literally, the Sadducees.

Alexis de Tocqueville

"I seek to trace the novel features under which despotism may appear in the world. The first thing that strikes the observation is an innumerable multitude of men all equal and alike, incessantly endeavoring to procure the petty and paltry pleasures with which they glut their lives.

Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks on the contrary to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness: it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances—what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?…

The principle of equality has prepared men for these things: it has predisposed men to endure them, and oftentimes to look on them as benefits."

-- Alexis de Tocqueville

Oh Western "church",

You are holding to a form of godliness, yet you deny its power;

“YOU WILL KEEP ON HEARING, BUT WILL NOT UNDERSTAND; AND YOU WILL KEEP ON SEEING, BUT WILL NOT PERCEIVE; FOR THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE HAS BECOME DULL, AND WITH THEIR EARS THEY SCARCELY HEAR, AND THEY HAVE CLOSED THEIR EYES; OTHERWISE THEY MIGHT SEE WITH THEIR EYES, AND HEAR WITH THEIR EARS, AND UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART AND RETURN, AND I WOULD HEAL THEM.”’

‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. ‘So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. ‘Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. ‘Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. ‘He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. ‘He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the church.

“Woe to the rebellious children (the "church" in America),” declares the LORD,“Who execute a plan, but not Mine, And make an alliance, but not of My Spirit, Who proceed down to Egypt(government)Without consulting Me,To take refuge in the safety of Pharaoh(politicians)And to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt (government)!
“Therefore the safety of Pharaoh will be your shame And the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation. For this is a rebellious people, false sons,Sons who refuse to listen To the instruction of the LORD; Who say to the seers, “You must not see visions”; And to the prophets, “You must not prophesy to us what is right,
Speak to us pleasant words, Prophesy illusions. “Get out of the way, turn aside from the path, Let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”
“Since you have rejected this word
And have put your trust in oppression and guile, and have relied on them, Therefore this iniquity will be to you Like a breach about to fall, A bulge in a high wall,
Whose collapse comes suddenly in an instant, Whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter’s jar,

For thus the Lord GOD has said, “In repentance and rest you will be saved,
In quietness and trust is your strength.