He Breathed on Them 29 May 20

Working Dates: Friday, May 29, 2020 to Saturday, May 30, 2020

[8 pages]

Elsa Cook (29 May 20): I’m still angry.

Adam F. Thompson (29 May 20): Authority Over Leaders

John 20:19 When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.”

Jewish Voice (24 May 20): Take a moment and list people in your life that you can encourage today.

Adam F. Thompson (29 May 20): I want to encourage God’s people with the hope of the future for the Bride. I want us to be in no doubt that it is for us to shine in darkness; not to fall apart in fear, but to come into that place of intercession, in deeper and deeper intimacy with our heavenly Father.[1]

Mary Dorian (29 May 20): I felt a great decision was going to be made soon by the government of Israel concerning boundaries. This pending decision is very much on the hearts of those who are watching from Heaven. We need to pray for Israel that before they decide, they will make preparations for what this decision will influence and affect on Earth; asking the Holy Spirit to bring dreams and words of wisdom to the leaders of the government there. [2]

Brat (in “Hannah Prayed” 28 May 20): I shared with Jerusalem, too, and I heard NOTHING back.  And that was Tuesday.

Elsa Cook (29 May 20): I don’t need to hear the news for the day. I’m still furious about yesterday. I can’t believe that this is happening, and I’m livid. It’s anger that makes me act. It spurs my resistance, but it is where my faith falters.

Brat (30 May 20): I’ll try again to share today with the rabbis I know.

Revelation 19:14 And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, followed him on white horses.

Dientje Fortuna (29 May 20): Great word! But what are the specific avenues the church can use to accomplish a regeneration of the republic God gave to our forefathers? I’m ready to fight. I don’t know where the front lines are. Looking forward to Pentecost.

Vanessa Chantel (29 May 20): I’m waiting for the Divine Strategies, Battle Plans and Directions to The Front Lines too, Amen. Like Thoroughbred horses at the gate, seconds remaining… Waiting… Bucking, READY for that HORN to blow. Bless you. Love your Comment.

Lance Wallnau: What will you bring to the big conversation?

MorningStar Events (30 May 20): Retooling and Restructuring 🔧 MorningStar Stories

Anna Blake (29 May 20): What do you have to do to make the technique work? Are you confused or too half-hearted to intimidate the horse? What do you do if your horse doesn’t follow that human logic and gives a different answer? Can you blame it on your own bad timing or lack of focus? Most of us are willing to blame ourselves and try again, harder this time. What if it isn’t you? If techniques worked, would we need a whole toolbox full of them? And for all the listening going on, we never seem to hear much from the horse, do we?[3]

Journal (26 March 2012): “Deb Williams with Prophet Rick Joyner’s ministry (aka half of Thyatira) wrote back and intended on attaching a list of publishers (which she had already sent me in the past.)  I explained again that the publishers are frozen along with the Churches by what I write.  It’s a Catch 22 and a heart issue.  Deb responded the same day: “I know the Lord will open the right door at the right time. His timing is perfect.””

Lana Vawser (29 May 20): Remember this, mess doesn’t mean it’s not God, it may look like mess to us, but it’s divine order to Him. He’s coming to interrupt, disrupt and ERUPT within His Church.

Lance Wallnau (29 May 20): Daniel saw an image that corresponded to the flow of history yet to unfold. The grand image started with Babylon and ended with a figure of ten toes representing ten nations through which the beast would operate. This could be ten economic zones rising up and the antichrist system rising up in their midst, taking down three of them.

Adam F. Thompson (29 May 20): As in the time of Nebuchadnezzar and Daniel, many national leaders are going to be listening to the wisdom and revelatory knowledge carried by the Church, and they will be undone. The Church will have its rightful place on Earth, with authority to govern and release the revelation of the Kingdom of God. To come into the fullness of this, the Bride will experience a transition through the interstellar realm of darkness into a new solar system of glory and a great outpouring. The Church will look so beautiful as the spotless Bride (Ephesians 5:27 NASB) that the Bridegroom is coming back for (Revelation 19:7).

Brat (29 May 20): I so bless this word!  It affirms and confirms

“Hannah Prayed”: https://wordpress.com/post/truthinus.wordpress.com/1670

Jewish Voice (24 May 20): Send a short message to them so they know you’re thinking of them and they are not alone.

Brat (29 May 20): (I did!) AND at the same time, I am still praying for a friend in my corner, one that would write and engage back with me as a pen pal.  (That sentence makes sense in the context of knowing my story as shared on my blog.)

Jewish Voice (24 May 20): … We are blessed to have so many means of communication available to us – phone apps that connect the world, social media, messaging, video conferencing, and yes, we can still send a letter. Let’s use this time of separation and isolation to reach out to family, friends, classmates, co-workers and others in our sphere of influence. This is a time of unprecedented opportunity to share the hope that is only found in Yeshua to an audience that is listening and ready.[4]

Deb W. at MorningStar Ministries (30 May 20): Another thing the Lord has been speaking to me during this time is not to get tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine, but to keep my face set like flint on Him. There is much information circulating in the news, on social media, etc., that I was listening to and trying to understand. This word from the Lord brought me great peace!

Brat: Hi, Deb!  I remember you.  I shared my writings with you in 2012, 2013, and 2019.  Last night I was up most of the night praying.  I kept remembering my experiences of the frigid cold tarmac of hell and I couldn’t figure out why.

Journal (23 July 2012): “Mystical journey to the icy cold side of hell.  Empty, barren, desolate, an abomination.  This was the polar opposite of the fiery flames of hell this last winter where my fingertips actually burned and I had tiny blisters on my fingertips that kept recurring for six weeks.  Now this current hell was cold and empty and there wasn’t a person around.  It was barren and desolate.  There was no energy for any kind of emotion.  And even if there had been people milling around, there was no emotion to share, so it wouldn’t have mattered.  This Dark was so black and barren that a tarmac in the Arctic tundra in its darkest season with no sunlight would have looked comforting.”

Adam F. Thompson (29 May 20): At this point I came out of the dream encounter, puzzled by the word “interstellar.” I’d heard of it, but I had to do a search to know that it meant a space or place between stars or solar systems. This “space” or realm is very dark and very cold. There’s a parable in this. God speaks to us in parables – as did Jesus with His disciples – so that we will search out the mystery of them and be drawn into intimacy with Him.

Lana Vawser (29 May 20): The Lord has been showing me about the Spirit of God coming in such intensity upon His people and in His house and the fire of God at a level that we have not experienced before.

Brat: So, you saw Eli’s Churches in “Hannah’s Prayer”?

Lance Wallnau (29 May 20): Inside: The Church In The Crosshairs

Saturday, May 30, 2020: I cannot figure out why I was being led back to that place.  No one should ever have to go there, not even once.  Now I’m wondering if I’m supposed to share again to possibly bring closure where once (twice, three times) there was Silence.

Sophia text message (30 May 20): Please cover me and my family in prayer as we go to Ventura.  Please pray against all drama and the Jezebels who cause it.  I get nervous before I go because many of them have been told lies about me from my abusers.

Brat: Lord Jesus, please cover us both and our families.  To this day I don’t know who started the drama and the Jezebels who perpetuated it.  MorningStar and Thyatira struggled with tolerating Jezebel in the vacuum of the Silence and lies spread forth about me, just as they did with Sophia in her situation over here.  No matter how much I rebuked the lies and spoke the Truth, nothing ever healed the wounds.  Everything was always twisted to loop back to me, as if I was the culprit, villain, beast, and false prophet all rolled into one.  No one ever spoke up and took responsibility for anything.  That gap festered the lies, pain, sorrow, and destruction caused by the Iron Dome of Silence.  I get nervous, too, before I share, because many of them have been told lies about me from my abusers.

But GOD is our anchor in the storm!  Lord, as Your daughter of Judah, and daughters of Jesus the High King, Sophia and I stand in Your presence knowing we are Yours!  You defend us because we cannot.  We have been grafted into Your family!  Make the Truth come out in the assembly for both of us; truth that can heal the wounds and draw us into the genuine tribes You have for us.  Clear our names and reputations for Your own Name’s sake.  Silence the lies with clear Truth and bring community, healing, restoration, and restitution out of the ashes.

Revelation 19:¹⁷ And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,

Brat: Well, this explains why the family of mockingbirds nesting outside my bedroom window have been singing day and night for three months straight.  It puts a new level to the torture of exhaustion.  And the crows have been back to their SCREAMING at full volume.  They are so loud that their cries pierce and curdle my blood.  Thankfully I am sealed by the blood of Jesus that He shed on the cross.

Steve Shultz: Will we be great intercessors or will we be more “interstellar?”

Brat (29 May 20): My need is for both: intercessor to bring this story personally back into alignment with an ally and for me to find my tribe, and interstellar to bless nations.  It’s not one or the other but both/and.

Adam F. Thompson (29 May 20): In reflecting Him we will see our identity in Him, which gives us the ability to walk in authority. This is when we realize the Kingdom of God is above the systems of the world, not under them. Fear has caused many Believers to be caught up in the world’s system, which is the seed-line of Esau rather than that of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. From Genesis 27 we know that Isaac imparted to Jacob God’s blessing that would be the “dew of Heaven and the richness of the earth” in wine and grain, and cause the nations to serve him.

Revelation 19:¹⁸ so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, great and small.”

Elsa Cook (29 May 20): Faith requires meekness, not fury. We are to live by the Spirit, Paul writes, not by those opposing desires of the flesh where anger is lumped together with quarreling, strife, and dissensions. The strife is over. A song of triumph should be sung, but I have no alleluias to give.

Steve Shultz: When God puts us to work, how will we conduct ourselves?

Mary Dorian (29 May 20): Also, for the state of Oregon, I saw this state hampered by a “false covering” over it. But the prayers of the saints there removed this false covering, and the fire of the Holy Spirit began to burn across this state, fulfilling the past prophetic words. Oregon will play an important part in the move of the Spirit. Many generals of the faith and many prophetic people live there. It is a strategic state for leading the battle that will come.

Lillian Daniel (30 May 20): Yes, my mother and I were very different people and we often clashed. But after decades as an adult orphan, I can still hear my Mama’s burst of laughter that day when I dramatically presented those false documents, and how I just had to laugh too.

Jewish Voice (24 May 20): And pray in the Ruach (Spirit) on every occasion, with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, keep alert with perseverance and supplication for all the kedoshim (saints). —Ephesians 6:18

Jude 1:⁵ Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.

Brat (in “Hannah Prayed” 28 May 20): I seem to recall that this kind of disbelief was related to lack of respect, not lack of faith.

Revelation 19:¹⁹ Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army.

Elsa Cook (29 May 20): What Am I to Do with My Anger?

Jewish Voice (24 May 20): Begin to pray for them daily.

Anna Blake (29 May 20): Techniques don’t work because some horses need us to prove we’re more reliable than their memory. In other words, horses are as concerned with our behavior as we are theirs. It’s a standoff until a leader steps up with a heart big enough to accept the other’s imperfections. Out beyond whips or treats, words or techniques, all the way past notions of right and wrong, is the solitary place where one horse and one human negotiate the gulf of intelligence between them.

John 20:20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.

Elsa Cook (29 May 20): Every morning, when I open my eyes, it’s there again. It’s kept me up half the night, but in those few hours of slumber, I hoped that it might disappear. But there it is.

Adam F. Thompson (29 May 20): As the Church goes through this place of darkness, things are not going to be as we knew them. As always, the enemy uses political leaders; particularly those who are over national, governmental roles – those who control the new world order – to oppress the people of God. But in the darkness, the Bride will shine. As we come together in intercession and intimacy with our heavenly Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit, we will reflect His light and multitudes will be drawn to it.

Elsa Cook (29 May 20): “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.” – Matthew 5:5 (NRSV)

John 20:21 Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”

Elsa Cook (29 May 20): Jesus only gets angry once. He flips a few tables and goes right back to being meek and mild in every version of the story I’ve ever heard. So, what am I to do with my anger when the battle is not yet won?

Romans 14:¹⁰ You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.

Pastor Tom Demaree (24 May 20): And it’s not like I hadn’t been warned!

Brat (30 May 20): For months I’ve been experiencing what feels like Roman candles and Molotov cocktails randomly firing inside my body.  We don’t know why.  Often they fire around various organs or glands.  It is painful.  I thought maybe this is all part of carrying the prophetic inside of me.

Revelation 12:³ Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads.

Brat (30 May 20): My best friend just had knee replacement surgery. I see the knee as representing humility, as every knee will bow before Jesus and every tongue will confess His lordship.

Romans 14:¹¹ It is written:

“‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will acknowledge God.’”

Brat (30 May 20): Jo is now recovering at home and texted me the most amazing thing this morning:

Jo: “…Floated to sleep, released the crackin.”

Me: “Crackin?”

Jo: “Yes, Crackin.  And dragons; all that do war against pain and heal cells.”

Me: “I wasn’t familiar with the terms and application.”

Jo: “Crackin: mythical dragon.  Defends the weak and I release him to defend me.”

Journal: I thought this was a beautiful way of the earth coming to defend the woman and helping her out by swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth (Rev 12:16).  I saw this as redemption at work: taking the harm and pain and turning it for Good.  This perspective made grace space for Jesus to come in and stand guard.  I saw this as merciful.  A guiding principle of our faith is that we get what we dish out.  Seeing mercy is not giving leeway to the dragon.  It is seeing Jesus’ light in the cracks.  In the Lord’s Prayer we pray, “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.”  Maybe the dragon is pointing us back to Jesus anyway, even though that’s never what he intended.

Deb W. at MorningStar Ministries (30 May 20): I received a word from the Lord on April 20 for this season. I felt Him say this was a time of retooling. Retooling is a major restructuring of how something is manufactured. It is normally an expensive undertaking and often requires the shutdown of operations to put the new tools in place. I believe this time is a season of restructuring for us all!

Lance Wallnau (29 May 20): I was talking to Marc Nuttle today about world debt. He said we’re in an unprecedented moment that happens about once in a millennium when the globe is about to restructure itself. This restructuring of policy and procedure, and how debt is going to be handled isn’t just happening in the United States; it’s happening in South America, Central America, Europe, Africa, China, and the Asia-Pacific Rim. As he was talking about this, I got goosebumps! In the Bible, it tells us about ten toes on the beast and the ten nations. I realized that this could be ten economic zones that are rising up, and the antichrist system rises up and takes down two or three of them.[5]

Donald J. Trump (28 May 20): The clock is ticking

Lara Trump (29 May 20): Where is YOUR name, Kathryn?

Adam F. Thompson (29 May 20): The Church is transitioning into a governmental role on Earth with authority over leaders.

Elsa Cook (29 May 20): It’s not only to give honor to the most persecuted, but to hunger and thirst for change. It’s to be generous with myself and others so that we are blessed to turn this world upside down with our protest. This is my faith and it is full of rage.

Lana Vawser (29 May 20): I have had numerous dreams and encounters over the last month where the Lord has been highlighting SIGHT to me and TENDERNESS of heart to what the Spirit of the Lord is saying and doing.

Brat (in “Hannah Prayed” 28 May 20): And there is still no accountability or restitution.

Israel365 (28 May 20): Generosity brings the Moshiach ✡ “Fruit from the tree, are Hashem‘s; they are holy to Hashem”

Elsa Cook (29 May 20): Who will teach me that meekness is not passivity but proactive generosity? Or must I remind myself every morning that this is what it means to live my faith?

Lance Wallnau (29 May 20): Do you see what’s happening? Right now, the United States is the only free nation standing in the path of China’s vast assimilating power. We need to ask ourselves, what kind of economic order does the Kingdom of God represent? What is a just system? This is the hour of sheep and goat nations, made up of sheep and goat regions, sheep and goat states, and sheep and goat cities. As we’re heading into this moment that Marc was talking about, this reset will affect the destiny of nations!

Revelation 19:²⁰ But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.

Lana Vawser (29 May 20): A BURNING CONVICTION FOR THE DECLARATION OF TRUTH: Pentecost will be a marker in the Spirit for the beginning of the fire of God falling in such intensity that many will receive a burning conviction deeper than they have ever had to speak HIS TRUTH and speak HIS TRUTH without fear and with great boldness. MANY that are anointed and called to be plumbline voices in this hour are going to receive a major increase of anointing and deeper revelation of what He is doing and saying as they cry out to Him. Their accuracy in seeing what the Lord is doing and hearing what He is saying will significantly increase. At Pentecost many will have encounters with the Lord that will clarify the message they carry and the conviction to proclaim the truth of His heart without compromise, with clarity, boldness, and with His love.[6]

Elsa Cook (29 May 20): Prayer
Help me, O God, to find the right road to live out this faith that gives honor to your people and your hope. Use the flesh you gave me to change the world.

Revelation 19:²¹ The rest were killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.

Adam F. Thompson (29 May 20): Many Old Testament prophets are the prototype of what the Bride will look like. When the spirit of Elijah and the governmental role of Daniel and Joseph comes upon the Bride, she will move in great intercessory power. She will run ahead of the “chariots” of earthly government because she sees the “rain” coming (1 Kings 18 NKJ). The Bride is coming into that place of great shiftings, moving of mountains and the manifested glory of God.

John 20:22 When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

Lana Vawser (29 May 20): Pentecost in many ways in the spirit will be a marker of a JUMPSTART for the Church and for those who are drawing close to His heart.

Mary Dorian (29 May 20): Lastly, a new sound will be heard across our land where there has been much sorrow. Jeremiah 33:11 (MSG), “But the time is coming when you’re going to hear laughter and celebration, marriage festivities, people exclaiming, ‘Thank God-of-the-Angel-Armies. He is so good! His love never quits,’ as they bring thank offerings into God’s Temple. I’ll restore everything that was lost in this land. I’ll make everything as good as new. I, God, say so.”

Steve Shultz: I really like this word by Mary Dorian…and she even mentions a word for us here in the state of Oregon! I totally agree with this because it’s been prophesied for years that Oregon would be the “Prophetic Eagle’s Nest” and we will see this happen big time into this new decade.

Brat: Speaking of intercessor or interstellar, the woman in Revelation 12 is given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness (which I see as prayer), and on the flip side, the Eagle’s Nest was also Hitler’s diplomatic reception house near Berchtesgaden.  Hitler saw himself as an interstellar star to purge the earth of everyone and everything not made in his image.

John 20:23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

Brat: The Jews know what it’s like to be treated as if they don’t exist.

Romans 14:¹² So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.

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[1] Adam F. Thompson (29 May 20): https://www.elijahlist.com/words/textonly.html?ID=23733

[2] Mary Dorian (29 May 20): https://www.elijahlist.com/words/textonly.html?ID=23734

[3] Anna Blake (29 May 20): https://annablake.com/2020/05/29/why-training-techniques-dont-work/

[4] Jewish Voice (24 May 20): https://www.jewishvoice.org/read/blog/encouragement-and-hope-day-7

[5] Lance Wallnau (29 May 20): https://lancewallnau.com/china-the-deep-state-the-church-in-the-crosshairs/

[6] Lana Vawser (29 May 20): https://lanavawser.com/2020/05/29/pentecost-will-be-a-marker-of-a-major-shift-into-the-manifestations-of-his-majesty/

Hannah Prayed 28 May 20

Shavuot, Thursday, May 28, 2020

[8 pages]

1 Samuel 2:1 Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the LORD; my strength is exalted in my God. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in my victory.

Rabbi Shaul Leiter (28 May 20): This is the potential for every single person, as the great scholar, the Rambam writes, “Because each of us has the power of the tribe of Levi, whoever makes the commitment to separate themselves from the crowd and to stand before G-d and to serve Him, G-d will be his portion and entitlement. Just as the Kohanim and the Levites merited” (Mishnah Torah. Zeraim. Laws of Shemitah and Yovel. Chapter 13).

1 Samuel 2:2 “There is no Holy One like the LORD, no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.

Alane Haynes (28 May 20): I immediately heard, “There has been a shift in the spiritual realm. The forces of darkness have held My people captive behind a gate of iron, but now the gate has been opened. Move forward in faith. In the days to come, you will see a great movement. Keep your eyes on Me!”[1]

Steve Shultz: I’m intrigued with the prophetic words coming forth…about new doors and gates opening before us.

Brat (28 May 20): Yesterday I had shared with Holly Watson a new door in “Community in Emanuel”.

1 Samuel 2:3 Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

Pastor Tom Demaree: Some of you more gracious readers might think, “Yeah, but, Tom, your job is to be a communicator (and thank-you to the rest of you, for resisting the urge to heckle), so it’s understandable why getting a little fuzzy at times might freak you out, even when you know it’s temporary.”

Brat: I reached out to you AGAIN and shared as you asked and you said NOTHING.  How like Ephesus of you.

When Light Came In (27 May 20): We got angry at people who abused us. It alerted us to the need to do something to get safe and sane.

Pastor Tom Demaree: Well, if you’re one of those gracious ones, thank you for 1 Corinthians 13:7-ing me, but, let’s not forget… Us “reverendized” folks don’t get a free pass for “bearing the burden” of our calling. We’re all called. We’re all in the same boat.

Alane Haynes (28 May 20): The enemy has already been defeated – he was defeated at the Cross – but he has brought a wave of fear over the earth that has gripped even God’s people. I saw the scene from the Wizard of Oz, where the “Great Oz” was seen for the impostor he was – just a little man behind a curtain causing havoc and harm through deceit. I believe that is such a picture of what the enemy has been doing.

Pastor Tom Demaree (in “Community in Emanuel” 26 May 20): If that last paragraph applies to you, you’ll probably have to humble yourself by asking some brothers or sisters for help. Most people cannot clear that chasm of loneliness by themselves.

Rabbi YY Jacobson (27 May 20): Shavuos Learning with Rabbi YY — 11 Essays to Print

Brat (in “O Rider in the Heavens” 24 May 20): …Mercy would contain components of my love language (in writing) and I would seek to include yours (and not Arc Speak to projected bitterness when there is no evidence that the intercessor took the time and love to see why the burning bush was not consumed).  …

When Light Came In (27 May 20): When we listen to our anger we learn to trust ourselves, and we open the door for light to come in.

Rabbi YY Jacobson (27 May 20): Just as a healthy marriage relies on the five languages of love – affirmation, time, giving, service, and touch – so does the momentous marriage of the Jewish people with G-d find fulfillment in five languages of divine connection – in words of affirmation, the quality time of mindfulness, study, prayer and Shabbos, the giving gifts to the poor, service and sacrifice, and the physicality of Mitzvos.[2]

Brat: How splitting of the proverbial hairs of Pergamum for you to Arc Speak to my plea for mercy and what Mercy would look like in my orbit!  What a strategy from far off to make it look loving to unsuspecting outsiders, but how cold and calculated in reality!

Jude 1:⁴ For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.

Rabbi YY Jacobson (25 May 2012): Rava answered the Sadducee with these words: “We walked [into it] with our whole being.”

Brat: I can see that.

Jude 1:⁵ Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.

Brat: I seem to recall that this kind of disbelief was related to lack of respect, not lack of faith.

When Light Came In (27 May 20): When we ignore our anger we abandon ourselves, our safety, our healing and our hope. We violate our own boundaries, and let others do it too.

Rabbi YY Jacobson (25 May 2012): What Rava meant was this: By definition, a relationship with G-d cannot be created on our terms; it must be on His terms. If there is something called Truth, if there is something called Reality, we cannot define it; it must define us. We cannot accept it on condition that it suits our senses and expectations. On the contrary, we must realign our condition to it. Once the Jewish people knew that G-d was communicating with them, they did not want to fit religion into their imagination; they had no pre conditions for a relationship with truth. It was in the desert that the Jews can declare, “We will do and we will listen.”[3]

Israel365 (28 May 20): All tithes from the land, whether seed from the ground or fruit from the tree, are Hashem‘s; they are holy to Hashem. ~ Leviticus 27:30 (The Israel Bible™)

Brat: Hear, O God!  For thirteen years Eli and sons have simply been devouring my tithe.  I see my writings as prayers and tithe.  Those wolves consume the feast for themselves and only leave sorrow in their wake while making themselves look magnanimous.  My offerings may be holy to You, but they are raped by the time they get to the sphere of influence.  When Sophia and I prayed on the phone yesterday she saw a vision of a huge tree that grew from the mustard seed of faith to give shelter to all. (Matthew 13:30-32)

American Friends of Gal Einai: Batsheba’s secret

1 Samuel 2:4 The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble gird on strength.

Rev. Dr. Marilyn Pagán-Banks (28 May 20): Always Sophia

When Light Came In (27 May 20): Our anger can be a real pain in the ass. But it’s also a gift that helps us heal.

Sophia Valentina Buller (28 May 20): Today the rest of your vindication comes MY darling 💕💕💕

EVERY TRUTH is out MY darling ❤️❤️❤️

I Have Avenged you MY darling 💝💝💝

Rev. Dr. Marilyn Pagán-Banks (28 May 20): The Holy Spirit conjures up in my memory a response to verse two written by Rev. Jennifer Garrison Brownell in The Words of Her Mouth:

“Always Sophia
leans in. …
I speak, one word or
a thousand.
She hearkens. She hears.
… Remind me that I have the voice
to speak words that bring down and build up
whenever necessary.”

Brat (in “Community in Emanuel” 26 May 20): Sophia said that my calling is like I stepped into the Book of Jude.

When Light Came In (27 May 20): We get angry at people who do unjust things to others. It catalyzes our callings to make a difference in this world.

Jude 1:³ Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people.

Kenneth L. Samuel (27 May 20): But with so many competing claims, it’s often hard to tell who’s fake and who’s factual.

Brat (in “Community in Emanuel” 26 May 20): I shared my blog with them yesterday out of a heart of encouragement and today UCC is stalking it?  How Sardis of you.  I cannot make you stop these behaviors, but I can report and expose this in the assembly.

Rabbi YY Jacobson (21 May 2015): The Shrewdest Jew’s Last Will and Testament

Gene Russo (27 May 20): “For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

“Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather” ~ Matthew 24:27-28

JESUS said this!!

What corpse? He just spoke about false Christs and prophets… what will they cause?

Dead churches

Then vultures will swarm, both demonic and people looking for a free ride.

Jesus will come for those that are HIS!! Take the time to know Him now while you still can!

1 Samuel 2:10 The LORD! His adversaries shall be shattered; the Most High will thunder in heaven. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king, and exalt the power of his anointed.”

Alane Haynes (28 May 20): First, biblically speaking, iron represents affliction and inflexible rule. I hear the Spirit of God saying that this is being broken off in this hour! Second, the gate turned to the right. I asked the Lord what that meant, and Holy Spirit showed me a compass. Right signifies east – the dawning of a new day, the sun rising, the glory of God. The turnaround has begun. The decree has been decreed by the King; the gate of inflexible rule in the spirit that has kept many bound is now open. I prophesy to you that in the days to come, what has begun in part will flood forth, and we will see many gates opening and a harvest of souls.

Gene Russo (28 May 20): So to sin even while serving God by the Spirit happens. We are forgiven in Christ. The closer you get to Jesus, the less you sin and err. Practice repentance!!

Sophia Valentina Buller (28 May 20): I Have Planted a heart of repentance into all who plotted your destruction, knowingly or unknowingly

Pastor Tom Demaree (24 May 20): And it’s not like I hadn’t been warned!

Revelation 12:³ Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads.

1 Samuel 2:5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry are fat with spoil. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn.

Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (in “Community in Emanuel” 26 May 20): “Nursing” can be understood in the sense that it is a preparatory stage leading to eventual weaning onto bread. Moses, in his humility, felt inadequate to this latter task of introducing the Jewish people to the “solid food” of the Torah, which is what he meant by the protest, “[Who am I] that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a nursing person carries a suckling child’ … from where am I [to get] meat?”

Brat: Speaking of eating, I shared with Laodicea, too, and she didn’t care.

Israel365 (28 May 20): The laws of the tithes serve as another reminder that our successes in life should be attributed to Hashem, the source of everything in this world. This verse describes the second tithe, one tenth of a farmer’s produce that is to be separated after the first tithe is set aside for the Leviim. This tithe must be eaten in Yerushalayim, or redeemed for coins with which to purchase and eat food in the holy city. By separating one-tenth of his produce and bringing it to Hashem’s capital city, the farmer is forced to remember that all of his produce is a gift from God; not merely the result of his own efforts. During COVID-19, it has been painfully clear to the world all our efforts can easily be broken. Truly the real source of all blessing is God and we must always recognize that! On another note, tonight begins Shavuot, or Pentecost, followed by Shabbat tomorrow night. As such, We will not be sending an inspiration tomorrow but we will be back at it after Shabbat! Happy Holiday and Shabbat Shalom!

Brat: I shared with Jerusalem, too, and I heard NOTHING back.  And that was Tuesday.

When Light Came In (27 May 20): We get mad at our kids. It reminds us of the importance of our role as coaches, to help raise e next generation of healthy adults.

Rabbi YY Jacobson (21 May 2015): The Talmud tells us: Three things did Achitofel command his children before his passing: 1. Do not enter into quarrels. 2. Do not rebel against the sovereignty of David. 3. If the weather is clear on the holiday of Shavuot, plant wheat.

Ivan Roman (28 May 20): I saw an incubator with dreams birthed in people’s hearts. We have been on the threshing floor. We are coming out of the threshing floor where the wheat separates the chaff with God-sized dreams. The insecurities and fear that hindered us in the last season are exposed. Repentance has made way for God’s desires to be made more evident to us without the hindrances. Dreams from God have become more clear for us. The next step is ours; it’s one called FAITH.

Pastor Tom Demaree (in “Community in Emanuel” 26 May 20): GOD-SIZED assignments are always too big. Especially for tiny-footprint folks like you-and-me. That’s why He brings us into new “broad places” of strategies, resourcing and friendship.

Jewish Voice: A harmony line that rings out future events

Brat: Only in my case there was no real friendship.  Lip service is not real service.  It’s hell.

Jude 1:⁷ In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.

1 Samuel 2:6 The LORD kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.

The Rev. Machrina Blasdell: The ancient Israelites didn’t think much about heaven. In Old Testament scripture, the Hebrew texts, heaven was the dwelling place of God. There was no sense of personal hereafter, and the Hebrew texts make no direct reference to an afterlife in heaven for the righteous. The belief was that all men and women, good and bad, sleep forever in Sheol, a dry, dusty, neutral underworld. It wasn’t until after the exile of the Jewish people to Babylon that the Jews, under the influence of their Persian neighbors, began to develop the dual notions of heaven and hell.[4]

When Light Came In (27 May 20): We get mad at people for being human. It invites us to look at the parts of our own humanity that feel awkward and uncomfortable.

Alane Haynes (28 May 20): People of God, rise in faith in the overcoming life of Jesus! The only fear that belongs in the heart of a child of God is fear of the Lord! There is, even now, the rumblings of a great awakening – a mighty turning from darkness to light. Oppression is lifting and the sound of freedom is in the air.

1 Samuel 2:7 The LORD makes poor and makes rich; he brings low, he also exalts.

Ivan Roman (28 May 20): It’s critical we get over our offense in the area of finances. A generous person with wealth helps those around them prosper. Money is not the root of evil; the love of money is. God, in this season, is breaking people free from fear of lack.[5]

Brat: And there is still no accountability or restitution.

Israel365 (28 May 20): Generosity brings the Moshiach ✡ “Fruit from the tree, are Hashem‘s; they are holy to Hashem”

Rabbi Shaul Leiter (28 May 20): Therefore, this is what we must do. Do not look at your situation now (and certainly not at the past). Decide that from now onward, that your desire is to “…stand before G-d, to work and serve Him”, G-d will give us the strength to purity ourselves from all the negative influences of our past when we were like a “desert” and enable us to draw down Divine revelation into our soul.

Oh, come, Desire of nations, bind
In one the hearts of all mankind,
Oh, bid our sad divisions cease,
And be yourself our King of Peace.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to you, O Israel!

1 Samuel 2:8 He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and on them he has set the world.

Revelation 3:¹² The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name.

Russ Walden (27 May 20): I hear the Father say this: “The angels are pressing into your life this day. They are pressing into the glory that I have placed on the inside of you, for it is My glory that attracts angel activity in your life. I made you a little lower than angels and set My name upon you and My glory in you, that you might never be alone or left out or excluded in any way.”[6]

Revelation 3:⁷ “To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:

These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.

Jewish Voice (in “Community in Emanuel” 26 May 20): As we journey through the story of Ezra-Nehemiah in the days ahead, listen in for a pattern, a 3-part harmony, as God composes another movement in His song through the mouths of His prophets. See if you can make out the sounds of:

Oh, come, O Key of David, come,
And open wide our heav’nly home,
Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to misery.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to you, O Israel!

Rabbi YY Jacobson (15 May 2010): The Art of Life; the Life of Art – On Angels and Men[7]

Col. Shawn McCammon (25 May 20): We may be patriots, but the Commander of all the angel armies is our Sovereign King. Let us all remember this as we press forward with conviction to choose true freedom over our own comfort, fixing our eyes not on what is seen, but on the eternal (2 Cor. 4:18, NIV).[8]

Rabbi Shaul Leiter (28 May 20): At the time of the sin of the Golden Calf, during the first year in the desert, the firstborns, perhaps because of their heightened sense of spirituality, not only did not make efforts to stop the defamation of G-d’s name, some even participated in the idol worship of the calf. It was only the tribe of Levi who did not participate, but who, when Moshe called out, “Whoever is for G-d, come to me!” the Levites were the ones who responded. From then on, the Levites became the Jewish example of dedication to G-d. Led by the family of Aharon who became the Kohanim (priests), the Levites replaced the firstborn in performing the Divine service. Rashi calls the Levites the “King’s Legion”. G-d treasured the Levites and instructed that they be counted separately and gave other particular directives for Levites only.

Jude 1:⁶ And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.

Steve Shultz (27 May 20): Yes, the angelic realm is very busy and many have shared there’s been an up-tick in angelic activity around their lives…this is good news for us all!

1 Samuel 2:9 “He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness; for not by might does one prevail.

Alane Haynes (28 May 20): Get ready, get ready, get ready! Watch and see as those who mocked our God are removed from their positions of authority and watch as godly leaders are raised up in their stead! I pray for deliverance and salvation, but I also pray that our God, who knows the end from the beginning, will remove those from positions of authority that He knows are enacting unrighteous decrees!

1 Samuel 2:10 [echo] The LORD! His adversaries shall be shattered; the Most High will thunder in heaven. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king, and exalt the power of his anointed.”

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[1] Alane Haynes (28 May 20): https://www.elijahlist.com/words/textonly.html?ID=23731

[2] Rabbi YY Jacobson (27 May 20): https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/7538

[3] Rabbi YY Jacobson (25 May 2012): https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/844

[4] The Rev. Machrina Blasdell: https://episcopalchurch.org/library/sermon/heaven-day-pentecost-may-31-2020

[5] Ivan Roman (28 May 20): https://www.elijahlist.com/words/textonly.html?ID=23730

[6] Russ Walden (27 May 20): https://www.elijahlist.com/words/textonly.html?ID=23725

[7] Rabbi YY Jacobson (15 May 2010): https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/892

[8] By: Col. Shawn McCammon, command chaplain for the 32nd Army Air Missile Defense Command headquartered at Fort Bliss, Texas.[https://resources.foursquare.org/stop-movement/]

Community in Emanuel 26 May 20

Working Dates: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 to Wednesday, May 27, 2020

[10 pages]

From the Lectionary Readings for Pentecost: Psalm 104:24-34, 35b

Rabbi Yosef Berger, Rabbi of King David’s Tomb – Jerusalem, And rabbi of the Mishkolts community in Emanuel

The Piano Guys: “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”: https://youtu.be/iO7ySn-Swwc

Jewish Voice: I love to sing. But do you know what I love more than that? To sing in a choir! The layering of voice parts blends together to make such a full and beautiful sound that any music lover would be lifted up onto their toes in delight! So rich, full, complete!

Oh, come, oh, come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to you, O Israel![1]

Journal (in “She may have let go…” 20 May 20): …She may have let go… BUT this Wildwoman does not have a tribe.  THIS Wildwoman does not have a sisterhood.  And no matter how much charm, or charisma, or platitudes, or right thinking, or wishful thinking, or a self-fulfilling prophecy anyone wants to twist into this, it is still sh*t lonely, because of the cruel decree that the Institution put on my head years ago by insisting on NO CONTACT that is still being enforced.  And all my friend can say is that I’m “Lost, Lost, Lost!”?  It’s true, but so what?  No one comes to search for the least of these.  She let go and the earth swallowed her up.  She gave birth and her son was snatched up to God and to His throne [Rev 12].  The emperor still has no clothes and the Leviathan made sure in a three-fold cord that her voice would get drowned out in the noise, surf and turf.

But GOD will have the last word!

Jewish Voice: Speaking to those who would go into exile, God gave Jeremiah prophetic words of hope to sustain them.  …”I will visit you, and fulfill my good word toward you – to bring you back to this place” (Jeremiah 29:10).  I am sure these words seemed like a slap in the face at the time. After all, they were in the midst of a war they wouldn’t win and were about to be killed or carried off as slaves to a foreign land. Yet, here was God, giving them a hope to hold onto if they would only believe Him.  The problem was, the plans He had in mind for them weren’t clear to them and didn’t make sense in their minds. To them, it was a cacophony of words, jumbled notes, an indistinct melody.

Psalm 104:26 There go the ships, and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.

For King & Country: “Burn the Ships” [https://youtu.be/pOVrOuKVBuY]

Pastor Tom Demaree (24 May 20): If that last paragraph applies to you, you’ll probably have to humble yourself by asking some brothers or sisters for help. Most people cannot clear that chasm of loneliness by themselves.

Brat: I reached out to you AGAIN and shared as you asked and you said NOTHING.

Disturbed: “The Sound of Silence” [https://youtu.be/u9Dg-g7t2l4]

Pastor Tom Demaree (24 May 20): Despite those warnings–maybe just because of the way I’m wired, maybe because, uh, let’s face it, I’m not the most mellow dude you’ve ever met… When frustrating things (like this morning) happen, and my anxiety level red-lines (actually a rare occurrence nowadays–thank You Jesus), it’s almost always triggered by fear.

Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi: Here, the references to nursing an infant likewise signify something deeper than simple literary imagery. A newborn infant is not fully developed; a baby has a lot of growing up yet to do. At first, a child is almost exclusively a creature of emotion, feeling pleasure, fear, etc. but unable to think about or understand what it experiences. Even its emotions need time to blossom and develop all the nuance of which they are capable. (For example, a child does not experience “bittersweet” or poignant feelings – just wild joy or raging anger.)

Pastor Tom Demaree (24 May 20): Picture one of those wood-and-rope bridges you always see in the adventure movies… Your first few steps onto that bridge–that bridge to vulnerability, to community–those first few treads might look so rickety and dry-rotted they’ll collapse right under your feet! But, if you let Him, Jesus will take you by the hand and walk you all the way across.

Adapted by Mrs. Chaya Bracha Leiter: Rabbi Alkabetz also wrote that the following Shabbat, the voice again came to Rabbi Caro, whereupon he again gathered the ten together to warn them and to urge them to enter the “inner place”. They agreed to set aside every desire, to refrain from meat and wine, and to mourn the exile of the Divine Presence, and the causes of Exile. Rabbi Alkabetz left immediately for Israel, and soon afterwards both Rabbi Caro and he established residence in Safed.

Pastor Tom Demaree (24 May 20): America is speeding toward an electoral train-wreck of upheaval, polarization and division. So let’s be cool-cats, like Mrs. Pastor Tom— sober, alert, cognizant of who we’re actually fighting against and diligent to do it together— encouraging, resourcing, and interceding-for one another like never before.

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the land, which Thou, O Hashem, hast given me.’ And thou shalt set it down before Hashem thy God, and worship before Hashem thy God. ~Deuteronomy 26:10

Psalm 104:24 O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

Jewish Voice: Let’s take a choir’s many parts and break it down into 3-part harmony for a minute. For the sake of our exercise, let’s use the voice parts of 1st Soprano, 2nd Soprano and Alto. A typical melody line for each of these voice parts looks a little different. Usually the highest voice (1st Soprano) carries the melody. Theirs is the part of the song that comes out the strongest and most clearly. It’s usually the one that captures our attention first and is the one we most often try to sing along with. That is because their melody line is memorable.[2]

Psalm 68:35 Awesome is God in his sanctuary, the God of Israel; he gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God!

Jewish Voice: The second voice part (2nd Soprano) carries a harmony line that is not too far below the 1st soprano’s melody, and it adds another layer and depth to it. This line can be harder to pick out in a song, but it often has just as much melodic movement in it as the top voice part and complements it beautifully.

Simcha-Shmuel Treister: This body of Torah is dressed in stories from this world. The fools of this world only look at this outer clothing of stories. They don’t delve into what is contained beneath the outer shell. Those who know better look into the body beneath the outer shell. The wise ones, servants of the Highest King, those who stood at Mount Sinai, see through to the soul of the Torah that is truly her essence and in the future will delve into the soul that is within the essence of the Torah.

Oh, come, oh, come, our Lord of might,
Who to your tribes on Sinai’s height
In ancient times gave holy law,
In cloud and majesty and awe.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to you, O Israel!

Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles: But a third and perhaps the main reason for our reading the Book of Ruth on this festival is because it gives us such a vivid picture of the perfect sincere convert. Shavuot is the “Time of the Giving of Our Law,” and when we received it, we too, like converts, pledged ourselves to accept the Torah and fulfill its 613 commandments.

Jewish Voice: God’s plans for His people are often deeper than we know or can figure out, but they are not a mystery to Him. He knows them, and He knows them well.

Brat: Sophia said that my calling is like I stepped into the Book of Jude.

Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi: There is a passage in the book of Proverbs in which the Torah itself is the speaker, and anthropomorphically describes itself as having pre-existed the entire created universe. After such statements as “When [G‑d] established the heavens, I was there; when He drew a circle over the surface of the deep“, the Torah goes on to say, “I was with Him as a nursling, and I was His delight every day, playing before Him at all times; playing with the world, His earth, and my delights were with the sons of man.” (Proverbs 8:30-31) These statements are not merely poetic; they contain profound mystical references to the essential quality of the Torah, the bestowal of which we celebrate on the holiday of Shavuot.

Psalm 104:25 Yonder is the sea, great and wide, creeping things innumerable are there, living things both small and great.

Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi: The Torah’s being described as a “nursling” (“amon” in Hebrew) is reminiscent of Moses’ statement to G‑d in which Moses has just been told by G‑d that the Jews would miraculously be supplied with meat in the desert, and Moses “complains”, as it were, that he is not equipped to be the instrument of that event: “[Who am I,] Moses says to G‑d, that You should say to me, ‘Carry it [the Jewish nation] in your bosom as a nursing person [in Hebrew, “omen“] carries a suckling child’ … from where am I [to get] meat?” (Num.11:12-13)

Psalm 104:28 when you give to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: I profess this day unto Hashem thy God, that I am come unto the land which Hashem swore unto our fathers to give us.’” ~Deuteronomy 26:3

Pastor Tom Demaree (24 May 20): I’m not sayin’ I’m any better, but… Geesh!

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: Since this description excludes non-Jews, they would not make this statement even if they brought first-fruits. The fruits were brought in baskets, beautifully displayed, and given to the priests. The fruits were given to the priests after the donor recited a confession, detailed in Deuteronomy.

Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles: Megilat [the Scroll of] Ruth was recorded by the prophet Samuel. …This scroll contains no reference to pure or impure or to forbidden or permitted. Why, then, was it written? To teach you how profitable is the reward for those who perform kindness. (Midrash Ruth Raba 2:15)[3]

Psalm 104:27 These all look to you to give them their food in due season;

Oh, come, our Wisdom from on high,
Who ordered all things mightily,
To us the path of knowledge show,
And teach us in her ways to go.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to you, O Israel!

Jewish Voice: “He who has ears to hear, let him hear” (Matthew 11:15).

Rabbi Shlomo HaLevi Alkabetz: All these things were spoken to us, and our ears did hear. Additional matters of wisdom were shared, and great were the promises that brought us all to tears from so much joy. We also heard of the Shechina‘s suffering, due to our sins, and the voice was as a sick person imploring us. Then we strengthened ourselves until daybreak, reciting verses unceasingly with joy and trembling.

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: My father was a fugitive Aramean. He went down to Egypt with meager numbers and sojourned there; but there he became a great and very populous nation. ~Deuteronomy 26:5

Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi: Now, it must be understood that G‑d Himself is absolutely transcendent and unknowable. Any relation to Him that we have is a gift from G‑d, which He bestowed upon us through the vehicle of the Torah: by “compressing”, as it were, Himself into the Torah, we are enabled to grasp G‑d Himself through our grasp of the Torah. The Torah itself is the vessel, the conduit, which contains and transmits this G‑dliness to us. This is why, although Moses modestly felt he was unable to bring G‑dliness all the way down to our level (that of “bread”), the Torah itself does describe itself as performing this function, as it says, “I was with Him as a nursling.”

Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles: It is appropriate to read the Book of Ruth on Shavuot for two reasons: First, because it gives us a picture of how the poor were treated in the harvest season with sympathy and love. Secondly, because Shavuot is the yahrzeit (anniversary of the death) of King David, and in the Book of Ruth we are shown the origin of the House of David — King David was the great-grandson of Ruth and Boaz.

Jewish Voice: Each part is unique. One part doesn’t usually know the other’s part, they simply know and sing their own. But when each sings its line and it combines with the others, what a glorious, sweet sound they make!

Oh, come O Rod of Jesse’s stem,
From ev’ry foe deliver them
That trust your mighty pow’are to save,
Bring them in vict’ry through the grave.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to you, O Israel!

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: These verses were specifically used as acknowledging God as the one who redeemed the Israelites from the Egyptian bondage and expressing gratitude to God for bringing them to the Promised Land.

Pastor Tom Demaree (24 May 20): Don’t misinterpret my rabbit-trail, here… There are certainly different gifts and callings within the Body, and within our society at large. And yes, some do require us to show greater respect, greater honor, even double-honor!

Trump Support Center (26 May 20): A customer service representative will look at your case soon. Submitting the same case multiple times may delay a response.

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: This aspect of the holiday is highly exclusive, focusing only on Jews living in Israel. Only first fruits grown entirely in the land of Israel are included in this mitzvah. Even first fruits grown by non-Jews inside the land of Israel are not considered bikurim. Upon presenting the first fruits to the Kohen in the Temple, the Jew recites an avowal from the book of Deuteronomy which begins with this self-identifying statement.

Pastor Tom Demaree (24 May 20): But is there a heavenly pecking order to how God would call us to honor one another? Yes there is.

Col. Shawn McCammon (25 May 20): Meanwhile, in the unseen spiritual realm, the Father continues His work without hindrance. I yield my spirit to the Commander’s voice and wait. What authority would I have without the Father who has given it to me? I stand before Him alone. God reigns in power over our enemies, even invisible ones.

Rabbi Shlomo HaLevi Alkabetz: “See and hear this voice speaking? Ask your elders and know that for hundreds of years you are the only ones to merit such an experience. Therefore, from now on, be alert to help each other, and to strengthen the weak. Hold yourselves as leaders, for you are the princes of the king’s palace, and you have merited to enter the hallway. Now strive to enter the inner chamber, but do not forsake the entry, for he who leaves the gate – his blood is on his head.[4]

Psalm 104:29 When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: “The world leaders are all lost and confused,” Rabbi Weiss said. “The UN has become totally evil, putting abortion ahead of saving lives. The World Health Organization has gone to the highest bidder which is China. Trump and Netanyahu are the best of the lot but until the attach themselves to the Temple Mount and not just Jerusalem, they will never bring their plans to fruition. [5]

Pastor Tom Demaree (24 May 20): When it comes to leaders, especially among the Beloved, we need to stop our sycophantic enabling of no-bueno antics. If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard somebody run interference, in hushed deference, mind you, for some glamour-puss, all-about-me, accountable-to-no-one leader…

Geesh.

Rabbi Yosef Berger (in “O Rider in the Heavens” 24 May 20): Frankincense resin, known as לבונה (levona) was one of the eleven components of the incense used in the service in the Jewish temples in Jerusalem. Many people in Israel, some seriously ill with the coronavirus, have found the resin to completely cure COVID-19, the disease that is currently causing the entire world to suffer. It is for this reason that I feel compelled to tell you about the frankincense that has been known since ancient times to have a special power to heal. It is known to bear antiviral properties and in several cases, I have personally witnessed in Jerusalem, it cures the patient within a few days.

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: Rabbi Weiss noted that one clear message that came out of the pandemic was that religious people can no longer rely on their leaders or on the scientists charged with their safety and health.

FWD Donald J. Trump (26 May 20): You need to read this

Rabbi Yosef Berger (in “Rides Upon the Clouds” 23 May 20): I would remind you at this time that the source of your success against all odds has been your connection with Jerusalem and Israel. Just like the Persian King Cyrus, the source of your success is the Temple and the source of the healing power of frankincense is also the Temple. King David purchased the Temple Mount and brought the first sacrifice, successfully diverting a disastrous epidemic. So too, you must continue in your path towards helping Israel to establish the Third Temple. At this time, you should look to the Temple for inspiration and aid, seeing the Temple frankincense as a cure for this illness plaguing the world.

Jewish Voice: The book of Ezra-Nehemiah (two books in our English Bible/one book in the Hebrew Bible) tells the story of the Jewish people coming out of exile, returning to Jerusalem and rebuilding the Temple and the city’s walls. These events were prophesied by Jeremiah and others. This is our melody line. The harmonies underneath it, through the words of the prophets, point us to yet “another day of hope.”

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: The Sanhedrin is holding a reenactment of the Shavuot offering on Tuesday and will include a reenactment of the Thanksgiving offering in recognition of God’s mercy in ameliorating the coronavirus pandemic.

Psalm 104:30 When you send forth your spirit, they are created; and you renew the face of the ground.

Pastor Tom Demaree (24 May 20): In 1 Peter 2:17, before God commands us to “honor the king,” He begins by commanding us, firstly, to “honor all people.” Bottom line: We all report directly to the CEO of the Universe.

Trump Support Center (26 May 20): We believe this is an important way to reach our grassroots supporters with the most up-to-date information regarding the efforts of the Republican Party and President Trump, and we’re glad you’re on our team. It’s because of grassroots supporters like you that we will Make America Great Again, and we appreciate your support. Thank you for all that you do!

Kenneth L. Samuel (27 May 20): But in general, neither news reporters and pundits nor medical professionals and social scientists have the authority to determine public policy. So we look to our elected officials, those we have selected and empowered to serve the common good. We look to our elected officials for truth, compassion and leadership.

Brat (27 May 20): I shared my blog with them yesterday out of a heart of encouragement and today UCC is stalking it?  How Sardis of you.  I cannot make you stop these behaviors, but I can report and expose this in the assembly.

Kenneth L. Samuel (27 May 20): But with so many competing claims, it’s often hard to tell who’s fake and who’s factual.

Gene Russo (27 May 20): “For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

“Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather” ~ Matthew 24:27-28

JESUS said this!!

What corpse? He just spoke about false Christs and prophets… what will they cause?

Dead churches

Then vultures will swarm, both demonic and people looking for a free ride.

Jesus will come for those that are HIS!! Take the time to know Him now while you still can!

1 Samuel 2:10 The LORD! His adversaries shall be shattered; the Most High will thunder in heaven. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king, and exalt the power of his anointed.”

Jewish Voice: As we journey through the story of Ezra-Nehemiah in the days ahead, listen in for a pattern, a 3-part harmony, as God composes another movement in His song through the mouths of His prophets. See if you can make out the sounds of:

Oh, come, O Key of David, come,
And open wide our heav’nly home,
Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to misery.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to you, O Israel!

Col. Shawn McCammon (25 May 20): We may be patriots, but the Commander of all the angel armies is our Sovereign King. Let us all remember this as we press forward with conviction to choose true freedom over our own comfort, fixing our eyes not on what is seen, but on the eternal (2 Cor. 4:18, NIV).[6]

Simcha-Shmuel Treister: Come and see. The spiritual world and the physical world are weighed in one balance [because everything in the spiritual world has its reflection in this world]. So Israel is below and the heavenly forces are Above. It is written regarding the angels: “He makes His angels of spirit and his ministers of flames of fire.” (Psalms 104:4) Now when these spiritual forces make a presence in This World, they have to take on the clothing of physicality. If they didn’t appear in This World in appropriate form they couldn’t survive in This World and This World would not be able to take their holiness and relate to them at all.[7]

Brat (in “O Rider in the Heavens” 24 May 20): I’ll tell you something.  Mercy has a tangible feel and look to it.  Mercy in my orbit would look like on-going DIRECT communication, borne out of personal emails and exchanges (and not just Arc Speak over my head as if I were not here).  Mercy would seek to build a relationship and not just a bomber squad.  Mercy would contain components of my love language (in writing) and I would seek to include yours (and not Arc Speak to projected bitterness when there is no evidence that the intercessor took the time and love to see why the burning bush was not consumed).  Mercy would value my contributions and I would try and encourage yours (and not undermine the Holy Spirit fire in a Jonah sulk or a disciple flame burn-out).  Mercy sees the strife and grief on both sides and doesn’t go on to dig out more healthy flesh just because he has the sword and has the power to do so.  Mercy doesn’t continue to treat another person like they don’t exist long after the truth has been exposed.  The Parable of the Good Samaritan is also about mercy.  We have already been warned to be wary of people who have it all sorted out, who have it all together, and who aren’t DEMONSTRATING personal growth.

Pastor Tom Demaree (24 May 20): And it’s not like I hadn’t been warned!

1 Samuel 2:5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry are fat with spoil. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn.

Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi: “Nursing” can be understood in the sense that it is a preparatory stage leading to eventual weaning onto bread. Moses, in his humility, felt inadequate to this latter task of introducing the Jewish people to the “solid food” of the Torah, which is what he meant by the protest, “[Who am I] that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a nursing person carries a suckling child’ … from where am I [to get] meat?”

Brat: Suffer the little children that this piece is ten pages long.

Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles: The Rabbis said [further, a fourth reason]: “Why is Ruth read on Shavuot? To teach you that the Torah is acquired only through affliction and suffering”. (Yalkut Shimoni) Adds Rabbi Eliyahu Kitov [in “The Book of our Heritage”] This makes it possible to explain why we recall David through reading the story of Ruth on Shavuot: To teach you that a person can become a tool for the purpose of Heaven on this earth only through affliction and suffering. For both Ruth and David had to go through the same path of affliction.

Jewish Voice: And yet another harmony line speaking of a future era when time as we know it will be no more, but we enter the space of eternity

Psalm 104:31 May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works—

Jewish Voice: Our God is the Master Composer. The intricacies He has purposefully arranged on His grand scale of time are often indistinguishable to the human ear, unless we strain to hear.

Pastor Tom Demaree (24 May 20): And we all endure by the grace of that same Master.

Sophia Valentina Buller: Watch “O Come, O Come Emmanuel – Sovereign Grace” on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2JpvW9FU_Rg

Jewish Voice: A melody line which gives a clear sound of the present and near future

Oh, come, our Dayspring from on high,
And cheer us by your drawing nigh,
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
And death’s dark shadows put to flight.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to you, O Israel!

Brat (27 May 20): Dear Rabbi Yosef Berger,

Breaking Israel News showed this as your email address: pninim16@gmail.com. I would like to send you an encouragement, but don’t know if this is valid.

Rabbi Shaul Leiter (27 May 20): Sivan is the month in which the Torah was given. Friends, don’t forget, you can’t judge a book by its cover.

Psalm 104:32 who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke.

Col. Shawn McCammon (25 May 20): Yet, there is light. Religious services that might have reached a handful in person now reach many across the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and Afghanistan through video conferencing. The people turn to God in their uncertainty. And He is glorified, not in spite of the stop movement, but because of it.

Jewish Voice: Then, there’s the Alto, the third voice part in our example. Uniquely, the alto’s melody line typically doesn’t have much movement at all. Most altos go through an entire song sounding out the same notes below the beautiful and flourishing melody line up above, in order to offer a foundation for the song so the other parts can shine. The alto line is not as distinguishable, but like the 2nd Soprano, it provides a harmony line that complements the melody, adding yet another layer.

Rabbi Shaul Leiter (27 May 20): He then told me, “Sorry, I forgot to mention. One of my jobs is to scrape away all the extra ink…. We can’t send out scrolls written with letters like those to all these young new communities.”[8]

Jewish Voice: When it comes to the story line of the Bible, we will hear melodies and harmonies while the voices of the prophets contribute their lines to the song of the ages.

Psalm 104:33 I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being.

Pastor Tom Demaree (24 May 20): I believe the sweetest part of “His delight” in us is when we obey Him, together. So, let’s do that, shall we?

Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi: That verse goes on to say, “I was His delight every day.” This refers to the joy and pleasure which come only after intellectual comprehension. Not only is the Torah a “nursling” which brings out the intellectual level of the Jewish soul, it continues on to reveal the even deeper aspect of Delight.

Psalm 104:34 May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the LORD.

Pastor Tom Demaree (24 May 20): GOD-SIZED assignments are always too big. Especially for tiny-footprint folks like you-and-me. That’s why He brings us into new “broad places” of strategies, resourcing and friendship.

Jewish Voice: A harmony line that rings out future events

Oh, come, Desire of nations, bind
In one the hearts of all mankind,
Oh, bid our sad divisions cease,
And be yourself our King of Peace.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to you, O Israel!

Rabbi Shlomo HaLevi Alkabetz: “Happy are you, my dear ones that raise me. How high you have been elevated now that you are ten, as is proper in all matters of holiness. Happy are you in the future world. Fear not the reproach of man or his goading because you elevate all of Israel. Know that you are among the exalted, that glory rinses your hands and that the thread of kindness is drawn to you. If permission were granted, your eyes would behold the fire surrounding this house. Therefore, strengthen yourselves and do not break the bond with Above. Say aloud, ‘Hear, oh Israel…Blessed is the name of his glorious kingdom’.”

Jewish Voice: It is in the blend of these voice parts that the sound becomes deeper and more richly layered, having the ability to lift our spirits to glorious heights.

Psalm 104:35b Bless the LORD, O my soul. Praise the LORD!

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[1] “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”: Hymn # 31 from Lutheran Worship; Author: French Processional; Tune: Veni Emmanuel; 1st Published in: 1854

[2] Jewish Voice: https://www.jewishvoice.org/read/blog/ezra-nehemiah-3-part-harmony-day-1

[3] Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles: https://www.kabbalaonline.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/1860031/jewish/Ruth-Shavuot-Connections.htm

[4] Rabbi Shlomo HaLevi Alkabetz: https://www.kabbalaonline.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/379531/jewish/Shavuot-Night-in-Salonika.htm

[5] Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/150913/sanhedrin-to-hold-shavuot-pentecost-offering-in-samarian-hills/

[6] By: Col. Shawn McCammon, command chaplain for the 32nd Army Air Missile Defense Command headquartered at Fort Bliss, Texas.[https://resources.foursquare.org/stop-movement/]

[7] Simcha-Shmuel Treister:  https://www.kabbalaonline.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/682290/jewish/More-Than-Just-Stories.htm

[8] Rabbi Shaul Leiter (27 May 20): http://www.myascent.org/the-cover/

O Rider in the Heavens 24 May 20

Working Dates: Saturday, May 23, 2020 to Monday, May 25, 2020

[8 pages]

Anchored in Psalm 68:1-10, 32-35 from the Lectionary Readings for 7 Easter 24 May 2020

[… Continued from where “Rides Upon the Clouds” left off…]

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James W. Goll (21 May 20): Oh, I almost forgot to tell you something really important. In going from one era into the next, God always uses the backdrop of darkness before a great light appears.[1]

Rabbi Moshe Wisnefsky: The Naphtali Census

Matthew 4:¹² When Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he withdrew to Galilee. ¹³ Leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum, which was by the lake in the area of Zebulun and Naphtali— ¹⁴ to fulfill what was said through the prophet Isaiah:

¹⁵ “Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali,
the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan,
Galilee of the Gentiles—
¹⁶ the people living in darkness
have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of the shadow of death
a light has dawned.”

Rabbi Moshe Wisnefsky: When they finished the first eleven tribes, only one tribe was left, i.e., Naphtali. In his case, they did not need to return [to the beginning of the random list] and remove [the names belonging to this tribe] in order to write them on another list, for by this time there were no longer any [names belonging] to other tribes mixed in with this tribe; only it was left.

Rabbi Shaul Leiter (21 May 20): This message about the ability to transform the most spiritually forlorn place into a holy camp, is for and within the power of every Jew. However, there is something here particularly connected to women. The Jewish women came forward first, before the men, when the Mishkan was originally built, showing its special connection to women and their own unique ability to build a Mishkan anywhere. This is the inner meaning why a Jewish home is referred to a Mikdash Me-at, a miniature Temple.

Isaiah 42: ²² But this is a people plundered and looted,
all of them trapped in pits
or hidden away in prisons.
They have become plunder,
with no one to rescue them;
they have been made loot,
with no one to say, “Send them back.”

Israel365 (20 May 20): In all, 5,400 gold and silver vessels. Sheshbatzar brought all these back when the exiles came back from Babylon to Yerushalayim. ~ Ezra 1:11 (The Israel Bible™)

Brat (in “Blind and Deaf Israel” 26 Apr 20): When I say anything, then the rabbis talk about rounding up all the Jews who live outside of Israel to send them back. Do they not understand this is a digital prison?  The Funny Bunnies are plundering them, too.  They are in this pit and they, too, have been made loot.  They want the walls of Jericho to come down?  Well, what about Rahab?  I covered their butts when the stalkers came looking for spies.  I believed their God and my God.  There was no bullshit about trying to usurp their inheritance or, what is it called? …

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz (20 Apr 20): Christian replacement theology, also called supersessionism, holds that the Christian Church has succeeded the Israelites as the definitive people of God. Supersessionism requires reading the term Israel, referring to either the people or the land, as an allegory for the Christian Church.

Joey LeTourneau: “…’The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land. If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, ‘”a land which flows with milk and honey.”‘” (Numbers 14:7-8) [2]

Donald J. Trump (14 May 20): ILLEGAL SPYING

Norton LifeLock (4 May 20): The Privacy Challenges of Digital Contact Tracing

Lovesick Scribe (23 May 20):  Pandemic prophecies with erroneous time stamps, double-minded declarations and cryptic words regarding international leaders have been swirling and circulating over the past weeks and months from ministry leaders both well known and rising in the ranks. There has been no shortage of decrees implying “peace, peace” or prophetic doublespeak and yet there seems to be a shortage of accountability when these words have fallen to the ground. Dates have come and gone with inaccuracy. Prophetic decrees are worded in such a way that if something were to take place surrounding an individual or event, the allusion is offered that the prophecy was accurate. To what end, I respectfully ask?

Breaking Israel News (21 May 20): Iran Hacks Thousands of Israeli Sites with Cryptic Message of Israel’s Demise

American Friends of Magen David Adom (21 May 20): IRAN CALLS FOR JIHAD AGAINST ISRAEL

Israel365 (24 May 20): What is the definition of derogatory speech, known in Hebrew as lashon hara (לשון הרע)? It is often assumed that this refers to a person who makes up terrible things about someone else. That, however, is a different transgression, called ‘slander.’ The term lashon hara refers to a situation where one person harms others, intentionally or unintentionally, through true statements.

When Light Came In (21 May 20): As we heal, we can also notice if *we’re* building up walls. It’s tempting to create the illusion that we’re all sorted out or have it all together. We get tired of being the one who’s healing.

Yehudah Glick (21 May 20): You too can be a Watchman of the walls of Jerusalem!

Donald J. Trump (24 May 20): Home of the free

Psalm 68:6 God gives the desolate a home to live in; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious live in a parched land.

James W. Goll (21 May 20): And it’s true, I did more than just compose a blog on the subject, I talked publicly about this theme in multiple places and on multiple occasions.

Journal (in “She may have let go…” 20 May 20): The Wildwoman didn’t make a public announcement and put no ad in the paper.  But I did.  And I am still working on David’s obituary.  I am sick of my work being stolen and hijacked and me being left for dead like in Jesus’ story of the one who was left for dead while the religious walked around him but the good Samaritan finally came and helped him later [Luke 10].  I DID make a public announcement and I did post it.  God wants the abuses exposed.

Sophia Valentina Buller (22 May 20): PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL PLAY A ROLE IN GRANTING JUSTICE ON EARTH AS I HAVE DECLARED IN HEAVEN MY DARLING PRINCESS SOPHIA SEALED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT FIRE AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS IN JESUS NAME 🔥🔥🔥

Donald J. Trump (23 May 20): Executive Status

Rabbi Yosef Berger: There are several reasons that I am contacting specifically you. As President of the United States, you can make this know to the public. In the most selfless manner possible, you have sought to aid the nation you represent despite many who oppose you, putting petty political interests before the well-being of the people. Toward this end, you have investigated every possible pathway to aid your people and, as a result, are a beacon of hope to the world.

Gloria Robles, Intercessors For America (22 May 20): For those who have prayed for justice for a long time, we must be careful not to let our feelings dictate our praying. Two examples in the Bible are found here. We may sound like James and John in Luke 9:51-56 in their zeal telling Jesus, “Do you want us to call fire down on them?” James and John had zeal, but lacked wisdom. They thought calling down fire on those who rejected Jesus was what He would’ve wanted, but instead Jesus answered, and said, “The Son of man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” We may end up bitter like Jonah. He was angry when Nineveh repented at their sins. He felt Nineveh did not deserve God’s mercy. He wanted to see God’s judgment poured out on them. God spoke to Jonah concerning his nature of mercy.

Brat: I’ll tell you something.  Mercy has a tangible feel and look to it.  Mercy in my orbit would look like on-going DIRECT communication, borne out of personal emails and exchanges (and not just Arc Speak over my head as if I were not here).  Mercy would seek to build a relationship and not just a bomber squad.  Mercy would contain components of my love language (in writing) and I would seek to include yours (and not Arc Speak to projected bitterness when there is no evidence that the intercessor took the time and love to see why the burning bush was not consumed).  Mercy would value my contributions and I would try and encourage yours (and not undermine the Holy Spirit fire in a Jonah sulk or a disciple flame burn-out).  Mercy sees the strife and grief on both sides and doesn’t go on to dig out more healthy flesh just because he has the sword and has the power to do so.  Mercy doesn’t continue to treat another person like they don’t exist long after the truth has been exposed.  The Parable of the Good Samaritan is also about mercy.  We have already been warned to be wary of people who have it all sorted out, who have it all together, and who aren’t DEMONSTRATING personal growth.

Rabbi YY Jacobson (21 May 20): New Essay – Silence, In the Face of a Tragedy, is a Crime All Its Own[3]

Brat: Speak for yourself.

When Light Came In (21 May 20): But honesty about our healing makes us a safe person for others. They’re looking for people who are growing too.

Psalm 68:7 O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness, Selah

Rabbi Shaul Leiter (21 May 20): How is it possible in a desert, where so little lives and there was hardly a hint of Judaism, that the Jewish people carried the Mishkan during all their journeys and as soon as they camped, they rebuilt it at the center of their camp and immediately transformed the wilderness into a place of holiness, fitting for Divine service.

Gloria Robles, Intercessors For America (22 May 20): How are you praying for the officials whose misdeeds are being revealed by the uncovering of the cover-ups?

Gene Russo (in “Scene” 18 May 20): And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, “HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is THE LORD GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS AND WHO IS AND WHO IS TO COME.”

Jennifer LeClaire (21 May 20): If you’re more fervent, bolder, louder than others, you just might not fit in. In this video, Jennifer shares the secret to the remnant’s holy boldness.

Israel365 (21 May 20): It was reported to King David: “Hashem has blessed Oved Edom‘s house and all that belongs to him because of the Aron of Hashem.” Thereupon David went and brought up the Aron of Hashem from the house of Oved Edom to the City of David, amid rejoicing ~ II Samuel 6:12 (The Israel Bible™)

Yehudah Glick (21 May 20): Who would have believed our report, and to whom was the arm of the Lord revealed? (Isaiah 53)

Gene Russo (in “Michael Supports” 19 May 20): And I saw between the throne (with the four living creatures) and the elders a Lamb standing, as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth. [from Revelation 5:1-7]

Brat: Probably the most shocking experience in my journey has been the realization that the four living creatures are not loving in their living.  They can take off anywhere and see everything.  With so much sight and power and they still do nothing.  They give constant lip service to God as HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, but they stand with the elders between the throne and the Lamb looking as if He is slain.

Donald J. Trump (23 May 20): I’m offended

Anthony Medina (21 May 20): It’s is so important that you allow God’s resetting to get into your relational circles to strengthen bonds with those that will help you move forward and sever bonds with those looking to hold you back.

Charisma (23 May 20): God raised up Donald Trump to lead America at a pivotal time.

Kaji Douša (23 May 20): Prayer
Maybe we think, O God, that you are sleeping away our salvation. Thank you for sending Jesus to show us better. Amen.

Jo (in “Michael Supports” 19 May 20): What is happening is that it is like there is a gigantic earth quake, an earth-ending earthquake happening and we are all staggering around trying not to fall down the huge fissures appearing in the earth beneath our feet.  They open and close randomly and we are at the mercy of this.  I pray.  I try to get up and fight but I can’t anymore…  I am holding on to Augie in my energy and screaming to Cass and Rogan to hang on. Sometimes I am actually feeling the strength of angels surrounding me.  I do not feel alone. I do not feel scared, just overwhelmed with the enormity of all that is happening. I have no idea where this is all going.

Psalm 68:8 the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain at the presence of God, the God of Sinai, at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

Gene Russo (21 May 20): “Then I heard something like the voice of a great multitude and like the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns.

Psalm 68:9 Rain in abundance, O God, you showered abroad; you restored your heritage when it languished;

Anthony Medina (21 May 20): The covenant seeds are those people who you can trust your heart to and go into battle with. These people are good seeds; they can be trusted. They not only yield good fruit, but they also help you grow good fruit as well. Those who are covenant seeds are the ones that you need to share and battle with.

Journal (in “Planning Trip for Dave’s Burial” 20 May 20): … She sympathized with me that she knows I feel EVERYTHING and that my nervous system is picking up EVERYTHING.  She said it is critical right now for me to frequently check in with myself to make sure that what I am feeling belongs to me and only me.  What is not mine, I must shuck off.  I must not carry it if it doesn’t belong to me.  Such wise advice!  She reminded me that I can and do make decisions.  I do carry authority.  I do stand in for Mom and the family and am there for David and protecting Dad.  This time will not go on forever.  I just need to be present.  Part of being present is to only bring into the present what is mine and not all the rest of the energies attacking my nervous system.

Psalm 68:10 your flock found a dwelling in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided for the needy.

Joey LeTourneau (23 May 20): Like a quilt, we are many unique pieces of fabric. Perhaps we have come from our own cloth and design, which we have been working through over the years, but now is the time to, together, form the whole. A quilt’s beauty is marked by the contrasting patterns that compliment each other. Each unique piece is even more beautiful when it is stitched within the others. Our churches, businesses, organizations, etc. may have been their own “blankets” in the past, but now it’s time to take your place in the quilt God is mending together to revive His true fabric of society.

Journal (in “She may have let go…” 20 May 20): The Wildwoman didn’t journal about it.  I did and still do.  One supportive friend does not make a tribe.  But one supportive friend during this disorienting time of trying to cope with my brother’s death makes all the difference in being able to anchor in what is mine and discard what is not mine.

Rabbi Shaul Leiter (21 May 20): Jewish women, who create the home, who are responsible for educating the coming generations and who are the Jewish home’s center, are crucial for putting down the “Jewish tent stakes” in each and every place where a Jewish family arrives. It is the women that have that special ability to withstand the influence of the local environment, who can establish the Jewish home on strong foundations and show the way for Jewish education of the young for all of us.[4]

Psalm 68:32 Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth; sing praises to the Lord, Selah

Israel365 (24 May 20): Today, there is no question that there is a pandemic of gossip and slander. Many of us freely speak about each other in ways we shouldn’t. With the world in isolation, the world is much freer of this harmful talk and perhaps we can learn from this to be careful about how we speak when the pandemic is over!

Rabbi Yosef Berger: Frankincense resin, known as לבונה (levona) was one of the eleven components of the incense used in the service in the Jewish temples in Jerusalem. Many people in Israel, some seriously ill with the coronavirus, have found the resin to completely cure COVID-19, the disease that is currently causing the entire world to suffer. It is for this reason that I feel compelled to tell you about the frankincense that has been known since ancient times to have a special power to heal. It is known to bear antiviral properties and in several cases, I have personally witnessed in Jerusalem, it cures the patient within a few days.

Journal (in “She may have let go…” 20 May 20): The Wildwoman let go.  She didn’t even go and search the scriptures.  I did.  The scriptures mean something to me, because they mean something to God.  Old AND New Testament.

Lovesick Scribe (23 May 20):  Furthermore, accuracy is not a sign of a true prophet. An individual can be quite accurate and yet they are not pointing you to Jesus Christ. (Deuteronomy 13:1-4) If someone has to remind you of their accuracy, then that individual is drawing people to self rather than to Christ. Revelation 19:10 is a misinterpreted and dare I say abused Scripture in some circles. The testimony of Jesus, that of the Old Testament prophets and the New Testament preaching, is the spirit of prophecy. It is neither a slogan nor a catchphrase to say vague words of prosperity and spiritual regurgitation that seem to come back around in the same verbiage but from different individuals. It is not a verse to quote to pander extrabiblical teaching to the masses and draw men and women unto a ministry brand. When Christ crucified is preached, the testimony of the Son of God taking the wrath of God upon Himself for our sins and reconciling us back to the Father by grace through faith in Christ, then we witness the spirit of prophecy in action.

Psalm 68:33 O rider in the heavens, the ancient heavens; listen, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice.

Doors (1971): “Riders On The Storm” [https://youtu.be/iv8GW1GaoIc]

Kaji Douša (23 May 20): Jesus’ words to the anxious disciples in their own “furious storm” are instructively salvific. Rest matters so much that even God does it. But faith means knowing that when we need to be saved: God will calm the lake.

Revelation 4:⁶ Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal.

James W. Goll (21 May 20): But revelatory keys for the new era are being released. An invitation on how to build an Ark of His Presence has been issued. Divine creativity and a call to entrepreneurship are on the rise. Insight for your life, family and sphere of influence is yours in Christ Jesus. You simply have to rest around the ark of His covenantal presence, and you will receive the new. Ask and you will receive!

Brat (in “Michael Supports” 19 May 20): God help me.  Forgive me that I cannot pray.  Jesus be glorified anyway!  In that day we will no longer ask You anything.

When Light Came In (21 May 20): Safe people are growing people. Growing keeps them healthy in relationship.

John 16: ²³ In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Very truly I tell you, My Father will give you whatever you ask in My name.

Brat: We don’t have to ask, cuz we’ll already understand.

James W. Goll (21 May 20): Then I knew. Yes, my knower knew. I was overwhelmed with the future possible opportunity to address the throng of Heaven on a theme.

Israel Insider (21 May 20): Shalom!

Anthony Medina (21 May 20): 2. The contractual seeds were neither good nor bad. They are seeds that “hang in the balance.” They drew close to try and maybe grow in influence or get into your circles, but not in a malicious way. They are not fully open with you, but not completely closed off either. He said that these seeds will have to be rightly discerned. You’ll need to discern which ones to keep and which ones to discard because not all of them will go bad. You’ll need to keep these further from you until you see the shift in them happen, then you can allow them to come closer.

Steve Shultz: Much of what comes out of California affects the world…and we want to see the great plans of God come forth for California that will impact the world in a fresh, new way.

Rev. Safire Rose (in “She May Have Let Go…” 20 May 20): ‘No one was around when it happened.’

Brat: When a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?  If no one is there to hear its cry, does it hurt when it bounces off the forest carpet in the fall?

Rev. Safire Rose: ‘There was no applause or congratulations.’

Brat: Good for you.  In my grief your joy will come in the morning.

Rev. Safire Rose: ‘No one thanked her or praised her.’

Brat: I know.  That’s the reward of being invisible.  As every preacher insists, our rewards are in heaven.

Rev. Safire Rose: ‘No one noticed a thing.’

Brat: I know.  That’s the reward of minding your own business AND being systematically IGNORED.  Would you do this for the first thirteen years of your child’s life?

Rev. Safire Rose: ‘Like a leaf falling from a tree, she just let go.’

Brat: We already talked about this; ya’ know, tree in the forest or The Fall of Freddy the Leaf.

When Light Came In (21 May 20): We’re not meant to be bonsai trees in our relationships. Contained in the same pot, kept the same size. We’re meant to be forests. A wild and natural community of individuals, growing together.

Joey LeTourneau (23 May 20): To the leaders and people up and down this “99” region [of California], you have been prepared as a shepherd in the field for such a time as this. You are a “Boaz” for the family of God, a “family redeemer” that knows its roots and plumb line. You have been prepared to shepherd a culture with depth of heart, unity, truth, direction, hospitality, generosity, and a great love that calls to the parts of the world that have gone their own way. Your example in this season will give those like Ruth a place to be abundantly loved, favored and redeemed!

Sophia Valentina Buller (22 May 20): PRESIDENT TRUMP IS USHERING IN MY KINGDOM TO COME ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN IN JESUS NAME SEALED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT FIRE AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS IN JESUS NAME 🔥🔥🔥

Rabbi Yosef Berger: I would like to bless you and all of your people with health. I would also like to bless you and the United States with great success, to be blessed in return for your blessing Israel.

Psalm 68:34 Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel; and whose power is in the skies.

Yehudah Glick (21 May 20): Celebrate Jerusalem Day! The Spiritual Center of the World

Lenmari Layumas: Blessed are you, Israel. I am praying for you and your leader daily. GOD BE PRAISED IN YOU.

Psalm 68:35 Awesome is God in his sanctuary, the God of Israel; he gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God!

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[1] James W. Goll (21 May 20): https://www.elijahlist.com/words/textonly.html?ID=23701

[2] Joey LeTourneau (23 May 20): https://www.elijahlist.com/words/textonly.html?ID=23714

[3] Rabbi YY Jacobson (21 May 20): https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/7531

[4] Rabbi Shaul Leiter (21 May 20): (Tzirel Livnoni. Shulchan Shabbat. Volume 4. Machon Lubavitch)

Rides Upon the Clouds 23 May 20

Working Dates: Saturday, May 23, 2020 to Monday, May 25, 2020

[7 pages]

Anchored in Psalm 68:1-10, 32-35 from the Lectionary Readings for 7 Easter 24 May 2020

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Psalm 68:1 Let God rise up, let his enemies be scattered; let those who hate him flee before him.

Lovesick Scribe (23 May 20):  I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words to my people, and they would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their deeds. ~Jeremiah 23:21,22[1]

James W. Goll (21 May 20): So… what does this mean?

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz (20 May 20): Rabbi Berger noted that Jews have a tradition of reciting pitum ketoret, a prayer describing the composition of the Temple incense, as a means of dispelling epidemics. He also noted that after Korach caused the congregation of Israel to sin, a plague struck the nation. Aaron was commanded to pass the burning incense among the people to stop the plague. [2]

Yehudah Glick (21 May 20): On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night, they shall never be silent; those who remind the Lord, be not silent. And give Him no rest, until He establishes and until He makes Jerusalem a praise in the land. (Isaiah 62)

James W. Goll (21 May 20): His voice came to me, “I will speak in unusual ways in this season. I have been waiting for such a long time for My people to slow down in order to listen. I have many things to say in these days concerning new ways, new beginnings, fresh alignments, and new wine skins for the new wine. I want to share My heart on seed time and harvest – sowing in tears and reaping with joy. Will you turn aside as Moses did? I AM there waiting.” [3]

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz (20 May 20): Then Moshe said to Aharon, “Take the fire pan, and put on it fire from the mizbayach. Add incense and take it quickly to the community and make expiation for them. For wrath has gone forth from Hashem: the plague has begun!” ~ Numbers 17:11

Gene Russo (21 May 20): Are you starting to get it? “for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.”

Rabbi Yosef Berger, Rabbi of King David’s Tomb – Jerusalem, And rabbi of the Mishkolts community in Emanuel; pninim16@gmail.com 

James W. Goll (21 May 20): But will you turn aside long enough in order to listen? I AM is waiting there for you. He really is. Truly, He is there waiting for YOU. Will you answer His call to turn aside?

Bible Gateway (20 May 20): My Treasure- His Response

Official Trump Polling (20 May 20): Instant response requested

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz (20 May 20): Frankincense has been prized throughout history for its purported medicinal qualities, sometimes being worth more than its weight in gold, but was also known for the great spiritual significance, playing a prominent role in the Temple service.

Psalm 68:2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, let the wicked perish before God.

Yehudah Glick (21 May 20): We need to do this together! We need all of you to be Jerusalem’s Watchmen!

Elijah List (20 May 20): Israel news from a Messianic perspective

Trump 100 Club (20 May 20): Get on the roster

Rabbi Yosef Berger: I would remind you at this time that the source of your success against all odds has been your connection with Jerusalem and Israel. Just like the Persian King Cyrus, the source of your success is the Temple and the source of the healing power of frankincense is also the Temple. King David purchased the Temple Mount and brought the first sacrifice, successfully diverting a disastrous epidemic. So too, you must continue in your path towards helping Israel to establish the Third Temple. At this time, you should look to the Temple for inspiration and aid, seeing the Temple frankincense as a cure for this illness plaguing the world.

Daniel 10:¹³ But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia.

Israel Insider (21 May 20): Welcome to The Israel Insider. As a welcome gift we’d like to offer you a free e-book entitled “15 Important Facts You Need to Know About the Israeli Palestinian Conflict”, written by Ron Cantor, GOD TV’s Israel regional director.

Quinn G. Caldwell (20 May 20): How about the founders of your church? What would they say about the still living waters God and your pastors are pouring through your screen each week despite the shuttered sanctuary? Would they recognize you as their church, worshiping there in your jammies in the living room?

Shekinah Worship Center (22 May 20): Trump Decrees All Churches Open Immediately

Joey LeTourneau (23 May 20): There’s a common phrase about California, “As California goes so goes the nation.” California is a leader and forerunner in many ways. Typically, most of California’s attention is focused on the technological advances of the Silicon Valley, or the entertainment industry of Hollywood, or the sports teams of its major cities, or tourist attractions along the coast. [4]

Rabbi Yosef Berger: Though the spiritual source of frankincense is focused in Jerusalem, the resin comes in the form of granules, is a completely natural material, and grows in several places around the world.

Psalm 68:3 But let the righteous be joyful; let them exult before God; let them be jubilant with joy.

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz (20 May 20): Rabbi Yosef Berger, the rabbi of King David’s Tomb on Mount Zion, issued an open letter to President Donald Trump via Breaking Israel News:

Sophia Valentina Buller (22 May 20): YOU WILL MEET TRUMP ONE DAY MY DARLING PRINCESS SOPHIA SEALED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT FIRE AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS IN JESUS NAME 🔥🔥🔥

Donald J. Trump.com (21 May 20): The President needs you

Rabbi Yosef Berger: First, I want to express my great appreciation to you, for your courage and great will that you express in all areas to bring about a solution and cure for the disease. You clearly are thinking in novel and creative directions, all for the benefit of the public. You are undoubtedly guided by truth and have a great soul.

Breaking Israel News (21 May 20): Tonight Israel Celebrates the Anniversary of Liberating Jerusalem: But there’s Still Work to Do

Psalm 68:4 Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides upon the clouds–his name is the LORD– be exultant before him.

From Erin (22 May 20): “How Great Thou Art” [https://youtu.be/By0iyTukDkQ]

Norton LifeLock (4 May 20): The Apple-Google contact tracing protocol may not be completely private.[5]

Private Journal (in “Spiritual Restraining Order” 15 May 20): God, do YOU want me to complete my mission?  Do You care?  There’s only so much a human can take.  What do You want?  I have nothing left to give.  They just hijack my journals anyway and nothing is private.  All Linda could say was that I am “LOST, LOST, LOST!!”

Norton LifeLock (4 May 20): Of course, Apple and Google have to strike a balance between protecting users’ privacy and keeping them safe from COVID-19. Even with the current design, France’s government has said that the protocol is too privacy-preserving and does not meet its needs. On the other hand, once technology is built into phones, it is hard to control and reliably undo. Since Google and Apple are global companies, any functionality it provides for France’s government could also be used in more authoritarian countries for nefarious purposes (e.g., to track journalists and dissidents after the pandemic is over). Therefore, striking the right balance at this difficult time is of critical importance.

Psalm 68:5 Father of orphans and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

Wikepedia: In typesetting, widows and orphans are lines at the beginning or end of a paragraph which are left dangling at the top or bottom of a page or column, separated from the rest of the paragraph. (The typographer’s terms for the top and bottom of a page or column are head and foot.)

Norton LifeLOCK: This network has a weak encryption, and your browsing and personal information may be visible to others.

Lana Vawser: THE ENEMY HAS BROUGHT CONFUSION UPON MANY AND TRIED TO MUFFLE MY VOICE, BUT I AM CLEARING THE CONFUSION AND MAKING MY VOICE AND WORD CLEAR

1 Peter 3:19 in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison,

Private Journal (13 May 20): Lord!  Put a spiritual restraining order on all those who would wish to harm or twist or use or abuse from my journal!  This is holy ground and no one may touch Your anointed in Jesus’ name.  I am your anointed!  Muzzle the wolves and bring in compassionate and merciful people into my bloodline, as I am sealed in Your blood.  I may be lost from the world, but I am not lost to You!!

Joey LeTourneau (23 May 20): California needs a shepherd. Central Valley, will you be that shepherd? You have been prepared for this time in culture, together. It’s time to go into the world and show what God has been preparing inside of you, as you each have a unique part to play that will be far greater when you come together. Your alignment and leadership through this will help bring the lost sheep back into the fold.

When Light Came In (21 May 20): Growth allows the healthy give and take of interaction, love and trust to flow.

Yehudah Glick (21 May 20): Join the global movement connecting lovers of God with Jerusalem by signing up to give a monthly offering.

Trump Finance (21 May 20): MISSING: Kathryn from our list

Yehudah Glick (21 May 20): We request at least $18 – as the number 18 correlates with the Hebrew letters that spell “hai”, which means “life”. Eternal life. It is also the acronym of “Homotayich Yerushalayim” = your walls Oh Jerusalem.

Israel365 (20 May 20): Climbing the spiritual ladder to Jerusalem ✡ “came back from Babylon to Yerushalayim”

Official Trump Camp. (22 May 20): Huge sale JUST FOR YOU

Jamie Rohrbaugh (21 May 20): Prayer for a Paid-For House

Edie Bayer (21 May 20): Use your Mouth! Get your Fish!

Yehudah Glick (21 May 20): A world center of spiritualism, shining its light to the rest of the world, with the Mount at its center becoming a House of Prayer for ALL Nations.

Gene Russo (21 May 20): So, the born again church is the bride and their clothing is righteous acts done on earth! The glory is from the Lord for we will share in it!

James W. Goll (21 May 20): Do you want to know what it was? “Moving Forward, no Matter the Cost.” This theme illuminated my being, “Moving Forward.”

Rabbi Shaul Leiter (21 May 20): …That the Torah was given in a desert is a central theme in Judaism. As it explains in Midrash Tanchuma, a desert is a humble place. No assets. Similarly, to be able to receive the Torah we must be humble. No outside agendas. Things found in a desert are ownerless and free for the taking. Similarly, the Torah doesn’t belong to any individual or group. Anyone can take it and with effort make it their own.

Joey LeTourneau (23 May 20): “Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance. Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you – the sure mercies of David.” (Isaiah 55:1-3)

Official Trump Campaign Store (21 May 20): A new way to pass the time

Rabbi Shaul Leiter (21 May 20): “Don’t Let the Environment Control You!” (Bamidbar 5780)

James W. Goll (21 May 20): It appears to me that the Holy Spirit is dumping out on the table a giant jigsaw puzzle, and the pieces are finally coming together. This, too, is a part of the Prophetic Perspective on the new era.

Donald J. Trump.com (21 May 20): I’ve only selected 100 Patriots

Ben Lim (20 May 20): The Church must rise up as the Air Force One in prophetic intercession. And we must also deploy the Ekklesia as the Navy SEALS over the waters, to have authority over the trading currents of the seas.[6]

Gene Russo (21 May 20): Are you ready? Are you “born again”, baptized in the Holy Spirit and “doing” what God commissioned you to do?

Rabbi Shaul Leiter (21 May 20): All we have to do is to let the holy light that is already in us, our Divine soul, shine out, to carry us forward and light the path ahead. As soon as this happens, we will immediately see that all the obstacles and difficulties disappear or are pushed aside, until the place is literally transformed, so that it becomes the Land of Israel, a place of holiness.

Rev. Safire Rose (in “She May Have Let Go…” 20 May 20): ‘There was no effort. There was no struggle.’

Brat: For you maybe, but I’m fighting to breathe.  I’m fighting to remember to breathe.  I’m fighting to remember to get back in my own hooves and not to be so frickin’ detached that I can’t even tell if I have a heartbeat anymore.  Does anyone have passion and compassion anymore?  There is no mercy!  Are we so without effort and non-struggle that no one cares?  How Laodicea of you.  Now we’ve come full circle yet again and one more time; looping in endless circles like the Red Dancing Shoes which dance all on their own and never give the girl rest.

Rev. Safire Rose: ‘It wasn’t good and it wasn’t bad.’

Brat: Unless you need to rest.  Unless you need a tribe, who cares about you, and values your ministry and contribution.

Rev. Safire Rose: ‘It was what it was, and it is just that.’

Brat: So you don’t have to value anything?  How Buddhist of you.

Rev. Safire Rose: ‘In the space of letting go, she let it all be.’

Brat: Why should I give a sh*t if you don’t?  I cannot make you love me.  God is in the same predicament.

Exodus 20:1 And God spoke all these words:

² “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

³ “You shall have no other gods before Me.

When Light Came In (21 May 20): Safe people know that if they are still breathing, there’s something to discover in life. This opens them to relationship with others — it keeps a person from being rigid, staying stuck or feeling superior to others.

Rabbi Shaul Leiter (21 May 20): The Rebbe smiled and said, “Truly, you are right, your lineage is greater than mine. (Rabbi Naftali had holy ancestors, but this chassid will have holy descendants.)

Quinn G. Caldwell (20 May 20): Prayer
For the gifts of the ancestors, for the paths they blazed and the institutions they started, and for your Spirit, showing us new ways and purposes for using them, thank you. Amen.

Journal (in “She may have let go…” 20 May 20): …She may have let go… BUT this Wildwoman does not have a tribe.  THIS Wildwoman does not have a sisterhood.  And no matter how much charm, or charisma, or platitudes, or right thinking, or wishful thinking, or a self-fulfilling prophecy anyone wants to twist into this, it is still sh*t lonely, because of the cruel decree that the Institution put on my head years ago by insisting on NO CONTACT that is still being enforced.  And all my friend can say is that I’m “Lost, Lost, Lost!”?  It’s true, but so what?  No one comes to search for the least of these.  She let go and the earth swallowed her up.  She gave birth and her son was snatched up to God and to His throne [Rev 12].  The emperor still has no clothes and the Leviathan made sure in a three-fold cord that her voice would get drowned out in the noise, surf and turf.

But GOD will have the last word!

Joey LeTourneau (23 May 20): “Suppose one of you had a hundred sheep and lost one. Wouldn’t you leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the lost one until you found it? When found, you can be sure you would put it across your shoulders, rejoicing, and when you got home call in your friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Celebrate with me! I’ve found my lost sheep!'” (Luke 15:4-6 The Message)

Jennifer LeClaire (21 May 20): God is calling for a greater connection among the remnant. It can be lonely if you don’t know anyone else in your city who is on fire for God.

Steve Shultz: Everyone has had some of these come into their life, and they are not sent by God, but most of them will tell you that they ARE sent by God. They are up to “no good” in your life.

Gloria Robles, Intercessors For America (22 May 20): If we do see arrests handed down, I believe that our reaction as Believers should be not only justice, but mercy as well. Each time I saw the former official, I didn’t just see the person who was guilty. I saw a soul that Jesus Christ died to save. The Bible says that God is able to save those to the uttermost who come to Him (Hebrews 7:25). No matter what crimes they’ve committed, no matter what race, gender, or political party. He is able…to the uttermost, no matter how far off they are from Him. They still have a chance to repent and cry out for salvation. While you are praying for justice to come to the guilty involved, pray that they would come to know Jesus Christ as well.[7]

Susan Michael (20 May 20): Are we becoming a post-truth society?

Official Trump Polling (20 May 20): We can’t decide

Anthony Medina (21 May 20): 3. The convict seeds are only there to steal, tear down, discredit and destroy. These were never good for you and got into the mix via lies. These just want who you are, where you are, and what you have. It is imperative that you remove these seeds from your circles because they can potentially turn the contractual seeds bad and cause them to break covenant with others.

Quinn G. Caldwell (20 May 20): What about the ones who built the local library? What would they say if they knew the building was closed, the books inaccessible … but that the library was going strong, doing a rip-roaring business restoring people’s souls with books downloaded from the sky?

Gene Russo (in “Michael Supports” 19 May 20): And He (JESUS) came and took the book out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne.”

Brat: God, please take our Book of Truth! (Daniel 10:21) Get it into the hands of those prepared for Your harvest of righteousness. [https://truthinus.wordpress.com/]

Steve Shultz: In this world, we may minister to multiple thousands in our lifetime, but we must always seek God’s discernment and wisdom on who He says can be truly TRUSTED in our lives.

When Light Came In (21 May 20): Be wary of people who have it all sorted out, who have it all together, and who aren’t demonstrating personal growth.

 

[…To be continued in “O Rider in the Heavens” 24 May 20 …]

 

[1] Lovesick Scribe (23 May 20):  https://lovesickscribe.com/2020/05/23/when-god-has-not-sent-them/

[2] Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz (20 May 20): https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/150671/jerusalem-rabbi-pens-letter-to-trump-revealing-real-covid-19-cure-from-temple-service/

[3] James W. Goll (21 May 20): https://www.elijahlist.com/words/textonly.html?ID=23701

[4] Joey LeTourneau (23 May 20): https://www.elijahlist.com/words/textonly.html?ID=23714

[5] Norton LifeLock (4 May 20): https://www.nortonlifelock.com/blogs/research-group/privacy-challenges-digital-contact-tracing

[6] Ben Lim (20 May 20): https://www.elijahlist.com/words/textonly.html?ID=23698

[7] Gloria Robles, Intercessors For America (22 May 20): https://www.elijahlist.com/words/textonly.html?ID=23709

Michael Supports 19 May 20

Working Dates: Monday, May 18, 2020 to Tuesday, May 19, 2020

[7 pages]

[… Continued from “Scene” …]

Revelation 12:⁷ Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.

Lana Vawser (18 May 20): In the continued shaking that will take place, it is out of His love that He is bringing the shaking, out of His grace, to deal with the areas of pride, stubbornness and the stiff-necked to bring proper alignment, because He SO loves His Church, He is SO passionate and desperate for His Church to be positioned and ready for the harvest to come in that He will SHAKE and SHAKE to tenderise and awake.

Revelation 12:⁸ But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven.

Sophia Valentina Buller (17 May 20): THE WICKED HAVE FALLEN IN TO THEIR OWN TRAPS IN JESUS NAME SEALED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT FIRE AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS IN JESUS NAME 🔥🔥🔥

Revelation 12:⁹ The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

Brat (16 Dec 2012 [!] – check out the date!): As we approach the Mayan Calendar’s version of the “End of the World” coming up this Friday (21 December 2012), I toyed with the word “world.”  Right now there seems to be no distinction between the world and the Church-as-Institution.  The Church herself has been talking about the “End of the Church Age.”  So it would make sense that God would shower a Divine Down Pour upon the world on Friday, ending this Institution of iron mixed with clay (Dan 2:41-43) in all her religiosity.  It would be the beginning of the Age of Accountability.[1]

Lana Vawser (18 May 20): This is the hour where those that are close to the Lord and know His heart are in alignment with Him and the Holy Spirit is bringing a deeper tenderising to their heart and to the promptings of His Spirit and what He is saying. I released a word recently from a dream that I had recently where I heard the Lord say “I am going to SHOCK My people into alignment.” It was such a deep dream as the Lord was speaking deeply about revival. He was speaking about shocking His people into greater awakening and alignment but also the restoration of the fear of the Lord to the Church.

Pastor Steve Dittmar (19 May 20): So many discoveries are happening to me. I feel like a first-time observer. No, not observer, participant. And I want to share with you the resources of these scriptures to pray and meditate together into Pentecost. I have taken Acts chapters one and two and followed the narrative, bringing in additional scriptures from the gospels and the prophets.[2]

Sophia Valentina Buller (17 May 20): NO MORE SHALL THE WICKED BE CALLED RIGHTEOUS AND THE RIGHTEOUS BE CALLED WICKED IN JESUS NAME SEALED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT FIRE AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS IN JESUS NAME 🔥🔥🔥

Revelation 12:¹⁰ Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:

“Now have come the salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Messiah.
For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,
who accuses them before our God day and night,
has been hurled down.

Rabbi Curt Landry (in “Ascension” 17 May 20): Step 3: Stay calm and have a teachable heart. Every time the spirit of fear rears its ugly head again, stay calm, and stand in the truth you found in step 2. The Bible says the enemy accuses us day and night (Revelation 12:10).

Jewish Voice (18 May 20): First, our value is grounded in Messiah:

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Messiah. He chose us in the Messiah before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless before Him in love. He predestined us for adoption as sons through Messiah Yeshua, in keeping with the good pleasure of His will- to the glorious praise of His grace, with which He favored us through the One He loves! —Ephesians 1:3-6[3]

Lana Vawser (18 May 20): I feel this a strong warning from the Lord, to embrace what the Spirit is doing in the place of humility and surrender and allow His Spirit to continue to bring a tenderness of heart and to cry out for it.

Yosef Marcus: Moses is to raise the “head” of man – the source for lower desire – and unite it with its “skull” – the essence of the soul, a level at which the essence of G‑d is fully revealed.

Luke 23:³³ When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left.

Rick Joyner (19 May 20): Just as the first-century church in Jerusalem came under attack from influences that sought to compromise the crucial truths of the gospel, such as those seeking to bring the church under the law of Moses, each of these other temporary “capitals of the gospel” were likewise attacked by bad influences from their cultures.

Jewish Voice (18 May 20): The second reminder has to do with Yeshua’s (Jesus’) status and position, and who our Messiah really is (Ephesians 1:15-23). He is the Son of God. He is seated at the right hand of the Father. He is above any ruler, authority, power, leader and every other name that is named! All things have been placed under His feet and He has been appointed head over all things for His community. In a nut shell, I’m reminded that no matter the circumstances we find ourselves in, we serve an awesome God and, through His Son, we are highly favored, blessed, adopted into His family, and have the Holy Spirit as a down payment of our promised inheritance as sons and daughters.

Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: The Talmud notes that the Hebrew word for “inheritance”, “yirusha“, is spelled almost the same as the word for “betrothing”, “irusin“. The Talmud says to read “betrothed” in place of “inheritance” in the verse above, to teach us that we are in a sense “engaged” to the Torah. It must be a lifelong and passionate relationship, not something that could be construed as cold and detached like an inheritance. The Alter Rebbe (in Meah Shaarim 38) takes it a step farther: by definition, an inheritance requires no work or effort on the part of the recipient; we all know children who do not appreciate the resources accumulated by their parents.

Lana Vawser (18 May 20): Can I encourage you, to get before the Lord and ask the Holy Spirit to tenderise your hearts in deeper ways. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal any areas of pride, stubbornness, any areas where there has been any posture of being ‘stiff necked’. This is a crucial posture for us all in this time.

Rick Joyner (19 May 20): If this pattern of the center of world Christianity moving west continues, we can expect the next center of influence for the gospel and missions to be in Asia, then back to the Middle East and Jerusalem where it originated.

Julie A. Smith (18 May 20): I knew that God speaking this from the #1 sex-trade industry of the world was Him speaking about the entire industry on a grand scale! With the ocean and this vision in front of me, I started praying over Thailand. I declared: “Thailand and Pattaya will have a new name and a new identity.” I declared: “The sex-capital industry of the world will be brought down.” I declared: “The women of Thailand will receive a new identity, and they will no longer carry the identity of being ‘for sale.'” I declared: “Darkness from the highest levels (like this sheik and many others) will be exposed and brought to justice.” This also reminded me of a previous word I wrote about Hollywood being exposed.

Daniel 10:¹³ But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia.

Hakeem Collins (19 May 20): Your mouth will be used to speak light in darkness and destroy the works of the enemy through this invisible enemy – the coronavirus! Your mouth and your voice matter! Don’t let your mouth be muzzled but instead, uncover the plans of the enemy with your mouth.

Julie A. Smith (18 May 20): He immediately said, “That was the enemy taunting you in his territory, saying, ‘This is my territory, Julie. What are you going to do about it?'” What the Lord told me next was a real eye opener for me. He also said, “That man was a recruiter for his sheik.” A sheik is a royal leader, a lord, the chief or head of an Arab tribe or family.

Baal Shem Tov: If no one hears this proclamation from Heaven, what use is it to proclaim it? And if someone were to say that he hears it, what fool would believe him?[4]

Daniel 10:¹⁴ Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the future, for the vision concerns a time yet to come.”

Sophia Valentina Buller (18 May 20): AMERICA IS ISREAL MY DARLING PRINCESS SOPHIA SEALED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT FIRE AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS IN JESUS NAME 🔥🔥🔥

Jo (18 May 20): What is happening is that it is like there is a gigantic earth quake, an earth-ending earthquake happening and we are all staggering around trying not to fall down the huge fissures appearing in the earth beneath our feet.  They open and close randomly and we are at the mercy of this.  I pray.  I try to get up and fight but I can’t anymore…  I am holding on to Augie in my energy and screaming to Cass and Rogan to hang on. Sometimes I am actually feeling the strength of angels surrounding me.  I do not feel alone. I do not feel scared, just overwhelmed with the enormity of all that is happening. I have no idea where this is all going.

Sophia Valentina Buller (18 May 20): I WANT ISREAL DISGUSTED AS ANOTHER NAME AND THAT IS WHY THERE IS ANOTHER LAND KNOWN AS ISREAL IN JESUS NAME SEALED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT FIRE AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS IN JESUS NAME 🔥🔥🔥

Rabbi Moshe Alshich of Tzfat-Safed: If Israel were to become the carrier of G‑d‘s throne [or “merkava“], what would happen to the angels who had performed this function up until now, and who would be deprived of their former status? This is especially problematic, since Israel assumed this role for the next 40 years, not just for a brief interlude. G‑d certainly did not suddenly despise the angels. Rather the angels assumed a subordinate role, similar to the one they had played during the Exodus, when, by serving as the means of transport for Israel, they had in fact been the armies of the Jewish people. He who can ride angels is in an advantageous position. Israel now resumed the lofty position it had held at the time of the Exodus.

Sophia Valentina Buller (18 May 20): THE LAND OF PROMISE IS CANADA, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND PART OF CENTRAL AMERICA IN JESUS NAME SEALED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT FIRE AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS IN JESUS NAME 🔥🔥🔥

Rick Joyner (19 May 20): All of these places, including America, may not be that city, but they are all a part of the great highway that Isaiah prophesied would be built to prepare the way for the coming kingdom of God (see Isaiah 40). As we see the highway that has been built, we can better understand the work still needing to be done that is our part.

Julie A. Smith (18 May 20): It’s time for many nations to overcome and receive a new name and as they do, they will discover their new identity in Christ.

Daniel 10:¹⁵ While he was saying this to me, I bowed with my face toward the ground and was speechless.

Julie A. Smith (18 May 20): No, God did not send COVID-19, but He is using it in many ways. Corruption in the darkest places has come to a halt while the world was being shut-in. The #1 sex-trade industry came to a halt and was completely shut down in late March. Pattaya News reported on March 22: For Pattaya, this is the biggest single closure and event in recent history.

Hakeem Collins (19 May 20): The coronavirus wasn’t God’s plan to teach the Church a lesson, or just some widespread plague, but it was created by an invisible enemy to muzzle, mute and mask the mouth of the prophetic in the Body of Christ. The enemy wants to silence and censor the voice of the Lord in the Church.[5]

Daniel 10:¹⁶ Then one who looked like a man touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and began to speak. I said to the one standing before me, “I am overcome with anguish because of the vision, my lord, and I feel very weak.

Wanda Alger (in “Ascension” 17 May 20): “And when the blood of Stephen your witness was being shed, I myself was standing by and approving and watching over the garments of those who killed him.” (Acts 22:20)

Revelation 2: ¹² “To the angel of the church in Pergamum write:

These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword. ¹³ I know where you live—where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city—where Satan lives.

Julie A. Smith (18 May 20): That’s when God said: “It’s time for the land to give up its SIN! I want you to declare a new name and new identity over the women and this city!”

Daniel 10:¹⁷ How can I, your servant, talk with you, my lord? My strength is gone and I can hardly breathe.”

Rick Joyner (19 May 20): We can learn much about ourselves and who we have become by studying these, but none of these places of influence for what Christianity now is were the New Jerusalem, or the kingdom of God. We need to honor them, but also have a higher vision of the ultimate city that God is building. This city has been the ultimate vision of every true sojourner since Abraham.

Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: We can see another reason to read “betrothal” rather than “inheritance”. The function of being engaged is to prepare for the wedding; it is an active and preparatory state of being. If we want to hold onto the Torah that we are about to receive, we must prepare ourselves for the wedding. In Hebrew, the wedding ceremony is called “kedushin“, which can be translated as “sanctification” or as “separation”. The way to make a vessel for the Torah is to sanctify ourselves and separate from the trivialities of the mundane, just as a Jewish bride and groom separate themselves as much as possible from the tides of pre-wedding physicality to do some spiritual work, as preparation for a lifetime of commitment. May we all receive the Torah with joy, internalizing its wisdom and living it fully.

When Light Came In (16 May 20): But there’s something deep inside us that resonates with this flipped life. Something drawing us… that light of healing, freedom.

Daniel 10:¹⁸ Again the one who looked like a man touched me and gave me strength.

Rabbi Moshe Alshich of Tzfat-Safed: At this point, however, the angels no longer carried the Israelites on their wings, since the Shechinah could be seen in the Tabernacle. In spite of this, the Shechinah manifested itself primarily within the Children of Israel, who are considered part of G‑d Himself. The Shechinah spreads from the children of Israel to the angels, who correspond to them in numbers.[6]

Daniel 10:¹⁹ “Do not be afraid, you who are highly esteemed,” he said. “Peace! Be strong now; be strong.”

When he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, “Speak, my lord, since you have given me strength.”

Baal Shem Tov: From here we can learn a lesson about the proclamation made in Heaven. That, too, is not a verbal sound, for there are no words and no speech in the spiritual worlds, which are worlds of thought. Speech, on the other hand, is a physical phenomenon. For the procedures of kingdom on earth reflect the procedures of kingdom on High, and it is improper that a king should speak directly to his nobles, counselors and servants other than in pantomime or allusion. And indeed, this is how things are conducted in Arabian royal courts even today.

Gene Russo (19 May 20): And I saw between the throne (with the four living creatures) and the elders a Lamb standing, as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth. [from Revelation 5:1-7]

Daniel 10:²⁰ So he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? Soon I will return to fight against the prince of Persia, and when I go, the prince of Greece will come;

Rabbi YY Jacobson (10 May 2010): Had the Torah been given in a civilized city or community, people might have defined it as a product of a particular culture, milieu and environment. Sophisticated academics would explain to us the particular “genre” of Torah, as if it were an outdated, modern or post-modern piece of literature, an epic or lyric, a work of history, law, tragedy or philosophy. They would enlighten us as to whether Torah belonged to the time of the Athenians, the Hellenistic age, the Greco-Roman period, the Byzantine age or another period of civilization. Torah would be labeled, classified and qualified. It would be “put into perspective.”

Rick Joyner (19 May 20): The center of influence of Christianity had moved from Jerusalem west. Each place that it rested for a time added some of its cultural influence to the faith. For this reason, it became a saying: “In Jerusalem the gospel became a religion, in Athens it became a philosophy, in Rome it became an institution, in Britain it became a tradition, and in America it became an enterprise.” There is truth to this. A study of how these influences were both good and bad can help us understand much about the present state of Christianity and our times. [7]

Julie A. Smith (18 May 20): “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.” (Revelation 2:17)

Baal Shem Tov: The same is true in other instances. Let the wise one hear and increase wisdom.

Daniel 10:²¹ but first I will tell you what is written in the Book of Truth. (No one supports me against them except Michael, your prince.)

Gene Russo (19 May 20): And He (JESUS) came and took the book out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne.”

Brat: God, please take our Book of Truth! (Daniel 10:21) Get it into the hands of those prepared for Your harvest of righteousness. [https://truthinus.wordpress.com/]

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[1] Brat (16 Dec 2012): “End Of the World?” https://truthinus.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/end-of-the-world/

[2] Pastor Steve Dittmar (19 May 20): Secret Place – Unlocking Pentecost; Vol. 16 – Issue 24 – 5/19/20

[3] Jewish Voice (18 May 20): https://www.jewishvoice.org/read/blog/hope-his-calling-day-1

[4] Baal Shem Tov: https://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/4023028/jewish/611-Daily-Message-from-Heaven.htm

[5] Hakeem Collins (19 May 20): https://www.elijahlist.com/words/textonly.html?ID=23691

[6] Rabbi Moshe Alshich of Tzfat-Safed: https://www.kabbalaonline.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/379968/jewish/Numbering-Angels-and-Armies.htm

[7] Rick Joyner (19 May 20): https://publications.morningstarministries.org/word-for-the-week/highway%E2%80%94heritage-brief-20

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Working Dates: Monday, May 18, 2020 to Tuesday, May 19, 2020

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Gene Russo (18 May 20): A SCENE IN HEAVEN- ENJOY!!! [Revelation 4:1-11]

Daniel 10:⁴ On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris,

Gene Russo (18 May 20): Around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads.

Daniel 10:⁵ I looked up and there before me was a man dressed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist.

Gene Russo (18 May 20): And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and will worship Him who lives forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

Rabbi Moshe Alshich of Tzfat-Safed: There is one vital difference, however: The Heavenly army (Israel), though mobilized, will not actually fight. On the contrary, the angels who had so far been the transporters of the throne of G‑d will henceforth be the army fighting on behalf of Israel, who had now themselves become the bearers of G‑d’s throne. This is the meaning of the words: “You will count them according to their armies“; when you will count the Israelites, a corresponding number of angels will serve as their army. All this was meant to last for the duration of the people’s wanderings in the desert. The words “their army” is now understandable, since the angels already had served Israel in that capacity.

Gene Russo (18 May 20): Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne.

Daniel 10:⁶ His body was like topaz, his face like lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz (18 May 20): “Excess cosmic rays pose a health hazard to astronauts and polar air travelers, affect the electro-chemistry of Earth’s upper atmosphere, and may help trigger lightning.”[1]

Gene Russo (18 May 20): And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance.

Julie A. Smith (18 May 20): I believe the sex-trade industry in my home country being shut down as we speak is His sign that our promises are coming full circle, and our deepest longings are being fulfilled. When you come out of this shut-in, your Noah’s ark, what are your deepest longings and promises from God that you want to see fulfilled? I challenge you in this time to make those passionate declarations God placed in your heart, believing strongholds of the worst kind are coming down. It’s time for the land(s) to give up its sins, a new godly name and identity to take its place where sin abounds, and for God to rule and reign in the darkest places.[2]

Sophia Valentina Buller (18 May 20): I AM TRAPPING THE WICKED IN JESUS NAME SEALED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT FIRE AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS IN JESUS NAME 🔥🔥🔥

Gene Russo (18 May 20): Out from the throne come flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God; and before the throne there was something like a sea of glass, like crystal; and in the center and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind.

Glenn Burris Jr. (18 May 20): I have a daily responsibility to assess and keep in check these areas of my life. I have been called to be a watchman on the wall of my own life. Elijah forfeited God’s trust in fear and insecurity (1 Kings 19). We must fiercely protect what God has entrusted to us.[3]

Brat: So, I get it; you must protect Foursquare’s ass and your own.

Baal Shem Tov: The message can also come in other ways, as is known to anyone who has “eyes to understand,” and is not among those about whom the verse says, “Don’t be like a horse or a mule that don’t understand.” [Psalms 32:9]

Sophia Valentina Buller (18 May 20): TRUMP IS PAVING THE WAY FOR MY RETURN AS ELIJAH PAVED THE WAY FOR MY COMING IN JESUS NAME SEALED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT FIRE AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS IN JESUS NAME 🔥🔥🔥

Lana Vawser (18 May 20): ONE OF THE GREATEST PRAYERS THAT CAN BE PRAYED RIGHT NOW IS “LORD, TENDERISE MY HEART”[4]

Yosef Marcus: “Nullify your desire before His desire”, on the other hand, means that you have no desire outside of G‑dliness. You allow the higher desire, the essence of the soul, to illuminate your being so that your will is G‑d’s will.

Gene Russo (18 May 20): The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle.

Hakeem Collins (19 May 20): When an oxen is muzzled how can they eat? How can they feed themselves? An oxen is a hard working animal. If the oxen are muzzled then they are unable to eat the corn that keeps them working. The enemy wants to muzzle your mouth so that you starve, spiritually speaking, keeping you from what God intends to feed you when the harvest comes.

Rabbi Yosef Berger, the rabbi of King David’s Tomb on Mount Zion: For lo! That day is at hand, burning like an oven. All the arrogant and all the doers of evil shall be straw, and the day that is coming—said the lord of Hosts—shall burn them to ashes and leave of them neither stock nor boughs. But for you who revere My name a sun of victory shall rise to bring healing. You shall go forth and stamp like stall-fed calves, ~Malachi 3:19-20

Daniel 10:⁷ I, Daniel, was the only one who saw the vision; those who were with me did not see it, but such terror overwhelmed them that they fled and hid themselves.

James Goll (18 May 20): God Encounters Today: Prophet: The Need of the Hour Is for Insight

Baal Shem Tov: A sub-prophetic voice of Divine Sprit. From this teaching we learn that we are all privy to such “voices” from heaven. G‑d is always talking to us. The problem is that we aren’t interested to listen.

Brat: Steve Shultz talked with Wade Taylor every day on the phone.  Even C.S. Lewis had a pen pal.

Daniel 10:⁸ So I was left alone, gazing at this great vision; I had no strength left, my face turned deathly pale and I was helpless.

Glenn Burris Jr. (18 May 20): As told in 1 Kings, Elijah succeeded in the arena of powerful ministry, but lost everything in his personal life. Recently, I’ve become more aware of the increased ambiguity of the season we are in, the intensity of spiritual assaults and the ever-present sense of vulnerability we all have.

Sunday, December 16, 2012 [!] at 6:24 am   Posted the Reflection: “End of the World?” where I talk about losing my solitude spot and this being the end of my world.  Where is the Church?  God is leading us from the Church Age into the Age of Accountability.  Pastor Glenn Burris also said as much last night at the service at Lighthouse.

Tammy Dunahoo (in “Order” 4 May 20): Second Timothy 1:5 (NIV) speaks of “sincere faith” that was found in three generations. I realized my grandmother, my mother and I all possessed sincere faith, but mine is different from what I knew of theirs. I began to reflect upon the faith descriptions throughout Scripture. Jesus spoke of those with little faith, persistent faith, notable faith. The writer of Hebrews described courageous faith, unrelenting faith, persevering faith.

Brat: I wrote to you, too, and reached out to you in person when you and Gary were at Lighthouse Church.  And you stonewalled me every time.

Marchaé Grair (19 May 20): There are so many times I’ve looked at God’s presence in my life like I looked at my mother’s hand that day. I want God to just hand over my problems and let me figure out a solution. So many of us share the kryptonite of the “just let me do it” spirit.

Baal Shem Tov: But why did they talk in pantomime rather than in verbal words? And why does the Talmud mention this?

Sunday, December 16, 2012 [!]: “Dear Pastor Burris, I heard you preach last night at Lighthouse Church.  Our hearts are of one accord.  You talked about the Church needing to be held accountable.  I talked about the same thing in my Reflection for today.  I offer you my blogsite:  https://truthinus.wordpress.com/ ~Kathryn Hauser” [Received Silence]

Glenn Burris Jr. (18 May 20):  Assumptions: Do my insecurities assume the worst about the silence from others, or start down a path where I might misjudge their motives or actions?

Daniel 10:⁹ Then I heard him speaking, and as I listened to him, I fell into a deep sleep, my face to the ground.

When Light Came In (16 May 20): When we’ve experienced long years coerced, intimidated, belittled, attacked, controlled… Those first free months and years feel like gravity reversed and the world’s upside down.

Baal Shem Tov: The Talmudic story is thus teaching us that the proclamations made by the King of the world are also in “pantomime,”⁴and one must be able to “read” the “signals” of the proclamation that are taking place in one’s thoughts – the pangs of remorse that enter one’s mind everyday are the effects of the proclamation.

Sunday, December 16, 2012 [!]          By focusing on Accountability, “Ephesus” is not giving in to the Nicolaitans’ spirit of non-committal whappy-ness, and this is good.

Rev 2:⁶But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

The Nicolaitans had worked out a compromise with pagan society that gave them leeway, liberty, and license to do whatever they wanted. (NIV Study Notes, p 1926) I guess they felt they didn’t have to listen to the Holy Spirit.  By having the courage to be held accountable, “Ephesus” has fulfilled this scripture.

Verse of the Day (19 May 20): But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness. ~ James 3:17-18 NIV

Glenn Burris Jr. (18 May 20): Navigating these days of chaos, I’ve chosen to follow a simple checklist to discern the state of my faith:

Rick Joyner (19 May 20): Just as there are still “spiritual Pharisees” seeking to bring the church under the yoke of legalism, all of these other evil influences from these other centers are likewise still constantly trying to pervert the faith. It can help us greatly to resist them when we see the roots of them in history.

Julie A. Smith (18 May 20): Yes, we are in unprecedented times. With all the negative news and reports being released, it’s also incredible seeing God moving powerfully while tearing down strongholds at the same time. For example, as the world has been on halt, so has corruption. I believe this is a sign of “extreme exposure” at the highest levels as we continue toward the summer months and beyond this year. In these unprecedented times we’ll also see the hand of God move in unprecedented ways as godly history will be made and reported! Now that’s good news!

Pastor Steve Dittmar (19 May 20): Today, in Jewish communities around the world, their weekly reading during the week of Pentecost will include Ezekiel 1, which is all about the glory and the Son of Man seated on the throne. The disciples would have read that right before the Holy Spirit came. [5]

Mary Luti (in “Ascension” 17 May 20): Faith isn’t faith if it marches us straight to glory without passing despair. If it notices the statistics but not the deaths. If it gets Jesus off the cross and into glory with unseemly haste. Our piety must never separate us from our humanity. If we are too quick to say, “All will be well,” we make faith incredible.

Daniel 10:¹⁰ A hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees.

Gene Russo (18 May 20): And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, “HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is THE LORD GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS AND WHO IS AND WHO IS TO COME.”

Lana Vawser (18 May 20): Overjoyed is the one who with tender heart trembles before God, but the stubborn, unyielding heart will experience even greater evil. (Proverbs 28:14 – TPT)

Jewish Press (18 May 20): Certified Kosher Phones For Sale!

Julie A. Smith (18 May 20): I looked right at him and sternly said, “She’s not for sale!” He looked so surprised that I would tell him that. He replied, “Who are you? Who do you think you are?” I answered, “I’m her mom.” He replied, “So! What does that make you? Can’t she speak for herself?” I boldly replied, “That makes me a good mom.”

Hakeem Collins (19 May 20): The point of my story is to illustrate this: The enemy doesn’t want you to speak clearly and boldly out of your mouth. He wants the words spoken out of your mouth to sound muffled, confusing and distorted. Don’t allow the enemy to muzzle, mute and mask your mouth to speak in this season.

Gene Russo (18 May 20): “Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created.””

Baal Shem Tov: If no one hears this proclamation, what is the use to proclaim it? And how can anyone say that he does hear it, since sensory reality contradicts him? For who can say that he actually hears the proclamations made in Heaven? And even if someone does say that he has heard it, what fool would believe him rather than judge him as a false prophet? Therefore, what is the purpose of this proclamation?

Julie A. Smith (18 May 20): He was so surprised that I spoke up for my niece and did a 180 degree turn into the opposite direction, walking away from us while cursing at me. I knew this to be a significant incident that just took place but didn’t understand the details at that moment. When we arrived back to our hotel room, I asked the Lord what that situation was really about.

Glenn Burris Jr. (18 May 20):  Actions: Are my efforts aligned with God’s purposes and plans?

Daniel 10:¹¹ He said, “Daniel, you who are highly esteemed, consider carefully the words I am about to speak to you, and stand up, for I have now been sent to you.” And when he said this to me, I stood up trembling.

Sophia Valentina Buller (17 May 20): THE REASON EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT JEZABEL SO MUCH IS BECAUSE THE TRUTH OF WHO IS NOT OF ME IS COMING OUT IN THE OPEN AND THE WICKED ARE TRYING TO COVER THE TRUTH UP IN JESUS NAME SEALED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT FIRE AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS IN JESUS NAME 🔥🔥🔥

Baal Shem Tov: Thus, whenever we are aroused in this world with some fear, we must realize that we are being called upon from Above to connect with the Source of this fear. Similarly, when we are aroused to rejoicing, we must connect with the joy of serving G‑d.

Yosef Marcus: Man was created in the image of G‑d. The essence of the soul, which stems from G‑d’s essence, does not descend into the body and animal soul. Only a ray of the soul extends and enters the consciousness of the intellect and emotions. The soul’s core is far beyond the category of human intellect. It remains joined to its Source in the living G‑d with an eternal bond. It has only one desire and that is toward her Father in heaven alone – forever, unchanging, in a state of selflessness and nullification to Him.

Gene Russo (18 May 20): “After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.”

Wanda Alger (in “Ascension” 17 May 20): “And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, ‘Save yourselves from this crooked generation'” (Acts 2:40). Instead of looking for outside deliverance, THEY TOOK RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ENEMY OCCUPATION, unafraid to call the people higher.

Daniel 10:¹² Then he continued, “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.

Lana Vawser (18 May 20): Over and over and over in the last few months the Lord continues to highlight verses to me in Scripture about pride, stubbornness and being stiff-necked. This is a time to embrace the move of His Spirit by surrendering completely to the Lord, His ways, His wisdom and the new wineskin. This is a time where the Lord is shaking all that can be shaken and the Lord clearly showed me that those who stand in the position of pride and stubbornness and do not follow the prompting of the Holy Spirit and repent from pride, will be found wanting. The Lord is going to deal with pride in a way that we have never seen before and the Lord has been relentlessly encouraging the Church and calling the Church deeper into the place of humility, surrender and tenderness before Him.

Glenn Burris Jr. (18 May 20):  Attitude: Am I allowing the Word and the Spirit to stop and bring to submission any impurities that seek to distract, deceive and discourage me or others?

Brat: Rahab was not a distraction on the wall.  She saved your ass.

Julie A. Smith (18 May 20): There are high level officials and leaders who send recruiters to the sex-trafficking industry to look for women. These recruiters go after any women who they think they can recruit, human traffic, and bring back to their leaders. We were dressed like tourists but to them “all women are for sale.” After this incident with my niece and the revelation spoken from the Lord, this mama bear was fired up to take down the enemy—and it was time for a new name and a new identity to be spoken over Thailand. Believe me, when your “mama bear” rises up, you know you’ve found your calling!

Marchaé Grair (19 May 20): “No mom. I can do it.”

Sophia Valentina Buller (19 May 20): NO ONE CAN STOP, STEAL, ABORT, TWIST OR MESS WITH MY CHILDREN AND WHAT I AM DOING FOR THEM IN JESUS NAME SEALED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT FIRE AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS IN JESUS NAME 🔥🔥🔥

Rick Joyner (19 May 20): The further we go, the more fascinating and exciting this map will get. This is because it is composed of some of the most interesting and exciting people and events in all of history. These were your fathers and mothers, and the stories of what they did for The King, and for us, make them worthy to be honored.

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[1] Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz (18 May 20): https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/150479/a-solar-cycle-mirroring-creation-is-about-to-cool-the-earth/

[2] Julie A. Smith (18 May 20): https://www.elijahlist.com/words/textonly.html?ID=23685

[3] By: Glenn Burris Jr., president of The Foursquare Church (U.S.)

[4] Lana Vawser (18 May 20): https://lanavawser.com/2020/05/19/one-of-the-greatest-prayers-that-can-be-prayed-right-now-is-lord-tenderise-my-heart/

[5] Pastor Steve Dittmar (19 May 20): Secret Place – Unlocking Pentecost; Vol. 16 – Issue 24 – 5/19/20

Ascension 17 May 20

Sunday, May 17, 2020

[7 pages]

Luke 24:44 Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you–that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.”

Rabbi Curt Landry (17 May 20): Step 1: Be in the Word. Jesus said that His Word is spirit and life. When the enemy is in your face, you need to call upon the sword of the Spirit. But you must know the Word. Know it, study it, meditate on it so that you can use it in battle.[1]

James 4: ⁴ You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

Sophia Buller (17 May 20): I have a longing for Spirit and Truth to go together. The Bible needs to be the center of all of it and people with prophetic gifts shouldn’t be seen as weird. There is a way for Spirit and Truth to be in a church at the same time. Church, unfortunately I don’t see Spirit and Truth in most churches today. This is BREAKING my heart. This is something I need to address.[2]

Mary Luti (17 May 20): Christians live in the midst of two realities – unrelenting pain and a joy no circumstance can alter. Faith never evades that pain to proclaim that joy.

James 4: ⁵ Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us?

Wanda Alger (17 May 20): “But Peter, standing with the eleven, lifted up (exalt one’s self) his voice and addressed them…” (Acts 2:14, emphasis mine). Instead of shrinking back from doubt and unbelief, THEY STEPPED TO THE FRONT IN FAITH, unashamed of their testimony and their charge.[3]

James 4: ⁶ But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:

“God opposes the proud
but shows favor to the humble.”

Mary Luti (17 May 20): Faith isn’t faith if it marches us straight to glory without passing despair. If it notices the statistics but not the deaths. If it gets Jesus off the cross and into glory with unseemly haste. Our piety must never separate us from our humanity. If we are too quick to say, “All will be well,” we make faith incredible.

Rabbi Curt Landry (17 May 20): He simply stated, “It is written…” In just 3 statements, satan left. God’s Word said he had to (James 4:7)!

James 4: ⁷ Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Wanda Alger (17 May 20): “And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, ‘Save yourselves from this crooked generation'” (Acts 2:40). Instead of looking for outside deliverance, THEY TOOK RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ENEMY OCCUPATION, unafraid to call the people higher.

Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel:  “Why does the Bible surpass everything created by man? Why is there no work worthy of comparison with it? Why is there no substitute for the Bible, no parallel to the history it has engendered? Why must all who seek the living G-d turn to its pages? [4]

Rabbi YY Jacobson (10 May 2010): Why the Desert Was the Most Suitable Space for Torah[4]

When Light Came In (16 May 20): The most loving thing we can do is be honest.

Rabbi Curt Landry (17 May 20): Step 2: Find Scripture that pertains to the problem and proclaim it. When you use the Word, it will not come back null and void. As mentioned before, Jesus used the Word in the desert to cast out fear and put the enemy in his place. He did not engage in justifications or arguments.

Luke 24:45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures,

Rabbi Curt Landry (17 May 20): “5 Principles That Empower You to Cast Out Fear”

Brat (17 May 20): I have repeatedly done everything you already advised, applied your steps, followed the Holy Spirit’s promptings, and you still Arc Speak over my head as if I don’t exist, even though my pieces are public, calm, and teachable.

When Light Came In (16 May 20): In those cases, ending it is the loving thing. Ending contact for a season or forever. Ending the chaotic cycles of chicken-and-egg arguments. Ending the energy expenditure when the only responses are entitlement, blaming, shaming and gaslighting.

Anna Blake (in “And Keep Them” 16 May 20): We are retraining ourselves to get ahead of the cycle of correcting what the horse has already done. It does no good to shut the gate after the horse has bolted. We break the cycle of correction by changing the conversation. Laying that old worn rant down and not holding a grudge. We’re shifting to seeing good behavior and making a habit of praising what you like and ignoring the rest because the thing we pay attention to grows. Less correction, more direction.

Wanda Alger (17 May 20): If you read the book of Acts following Pentecost, there is a noticeable shift in the attitude of the apostles. The biggest change is not in their level of spiritual power to perform miracles, or their Kingdom authority over the works of the devil – it is their OUTRIGHT BOLDNESS to CONFRONT THE OPPOSITION.

James 4: ⁸ Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Rabbi Curt Landry (17 May 20): The Bible says that those with clean hands and a pure heart may come up the holy mountain of Zion (Psalm 24:3-5). Because the Blood of Yeshua purifies you, you can approach the throne of grace. However, the devil can have something held against you in the courts of Heaven.

Wanda Alger (17 May 20): Jesus promised His disciples power, but with a specific result – they would be “witnesses.” That word witness is another word for martyr. It carries the idea that one who is a witness will be so impassioned and emboldened with their testimony, they are willing to die for it – even a violent death!

Mary Luti (17 May 20): Most of us don’t work in overwhelmed hospitals and makeshift morgues. We’re not digging anonymous graves. We’re shielded from these awful scenes.

Rabbi Curt Landry (17 May 20): Just as Yeshua used the Word to conquer the enemy, so can you (Matthew 4:1-11).

Wanda Alger (17 May 20): “And when the blood of Stephen your witness was being shed, I myself was standing by and approving and watching over the garments of those who killed him.” (Acts 22:20)

Revelation 2: ¹² “To the angel of the church in Pergamum write:

These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword. ¹³ I know where you live—where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city—where Satan lives.

Rabbi YY Jacobson (10 May 2010): Had the Torah been given in a civilized city or community, people might have defined it as a product of a particular culture, milieu and environment. Sophisticated academics would explain to us the particular “genre” of Torah, as if it were an outdated, modern or post-modern piece of literature, an epic or lyric, a work of history, law, tragedy or philosophy. They would enlighten us as to whether Torah belonged to the time of the Athenians, the Hellenistic age, the Greco-Roman period, the Byzantine age or another period of civilization. Torah would be labeled, classified and qualified. It would be “put into perspective.”

Luke 24:46 and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day,

Wanda Alger (17 May 20): If we are truly living out a synchronization of past patterns, what changed between the resurrection and the day of Pentecost the first time? More specifically, how were the first disciples changed in a way that would reveal a targeted expectation? They had already received all power and authority to perform miraculous signs and wonders. They had already been commissioned to bring deliverance to the captives and even raise the dead. What more could they possibly need?

James 4: ¹⁰ Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

Brat (in “Spiritual Restraining Order” 15 May 20): Even C.S. Lewis had a pen pal to bounce ideas off of and share from the heart.

Thomas Griffin (in “Shocking” 12 May 20): You are an arrow for a specific target. Who’s your target today? Go be love to them in the name of Jesus, giving Him all the glory knowing that you are good enough to be used for His purpose because He is good enough and you are hidden in Him.

Ana Werner (in “Spiritual Restraining Order” 15 May 20): God is propelling many of us toward the direct target of what He has assigned us to do, but it’s out of the place of our intimate prayer time, behind closed doors, that we are able to attain that target.

James 4: ⁹ Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.

Leslie Vernick: “Loving someone unconditionally is not the same as having an unconditional relationship with them.”

Hebrews 6:⁴ It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, ⁵ who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age ⁶ and who have fallen away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.

Wanda Alger (17 May 20): “‘And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to Your servants to continue to speak Your word with all boldness, while You stretch out Your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.’ And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.” (Acts 4:29-31)

When Light Came In (16 May 20): Sometimes that means working things out, trying again. But “when someone repeatedly and seriously hurts us and is not willing to look at what they’ve done and is not willing to change, it is not possible to have a warm or close or healthy relationship” (Leslie Vernick).

Johnny Enlow (in “And Keep Them” 16 May 20): We hear way too many warnings today of “lying signs and wonders,” as if that is some kind of high priority, when our present reality is almost NO signs and wonders. A massive religious spirit is operational in “mainstream Christianity,” suffocating ANY signs and wonders and demonstrations of power, labeling it as “lying.”

James 4: ¹¹ Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.

Wanda Alger (17 May 20): The Greek word for “boldness” means “free and fearless confidence, cheerful courage, boldness, assurance; the deportment by which one becomes conspicuous or secures publicity.” Instead of hesitating and holding back, the disciples purposely became conspicuous! They wanted to be seen and heard, especially in the public square. The supernatural confidence that burned in their hearts compelled them to speak up, regardless of the cost. And, indeed, it cost them. Many times they were taken to jail, beaten, and even stoned. How did they respond? With joy!

Luke 24:47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

Rabbi YY Jacobson (10 May 2010): Who Owns Judaism?

Rabbi Curt Landry (17 May 20): “And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward.'” (Exodus 14:15)

James 4: ¹² There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?

Thomas Griffin (12 May 20): What He does in the earth, comes through man (men and women). This is because He gave dominion to man and whatever a king says, is the law. This is why Jesus had to come as both a son of man and son of God.

Rabbi YY Jacobson (10 May 2010): But Torah cannot be put into a particular cultural or artistic perspective. Torah is not culture, literature, art, history, law or fiction. Torah embodies the eternal truths about existence, life and destiny that speak in every language, in every culture, in every age, to every soul. The Torah cannot be reduced to a particular time frame or reference point. It benefits all the arts but never competes with them.

Ada Wong Nagata (24 May 2017): Now the disciples should realize they are not only followers anymore, but also leaders. They cannot only stand there, looking up toward heaven. Rather, they need to follow Jesus’ commission, and they need to get into action. Nevertheless, before their action, before the Holy Spirit is bestowed on them, they need to reflect, to pray, and to bless God.[5]

Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel:  “Set the Bible beside any of the truly great books produced by the genius of man and see how they are diminished in stature. The Bible shows no concern with literary form, with verbal beauty, yet its absolute sublimity rings through all its pages. Its lines are so monumental and at the same time so simple that whoever tries to compete with them produces either a commentary or a caricature. It is a work we do not know how to assess. Other books you can estimate, you can measure, compare; the Bible you can only extol. Its insights surpass our standards. There is nothing greater. In three thousand years it has not aged a day. It is a book that cannot die. Oblivion shuns its pages.”

Journal (16 May 20 at 11:11 am): The leaders in my orbit did all they could in this world to grind me into oblivion and block my legacy from fruition, but I am here to say that the Team who gathered for Dave, Dad, and me are truly the ones who love Jesus and God has revealed Himself to them.

Rabbi Curt Landry (17 May 20): Satan will use the spirit of fear on you again and again, but you do not have to choose to align with it. Stand in the truth until the victory is yours. Ask the Holy Spirit what He wants you to learn from the experience and have a teachable heart.

Gene Russo (in “And Keep Them” 16 May 20): Watch the glory of the Lord rise up upon His new leaders and those who are faithful to Him. Ask Holy Spirit to show you.

Luke 24:48 You are witnesses of these things.

Wanda Alger (17 May 20): We are much like the early disciples. We already have all the resources necessary to fulfill our commission. We’ve already heard the truth and witnessed His power. What holds us back from stepping out of our comfort zones is our own fear and self-doubt. The Holy Spirit wants to pour out fresh fire and holy boldness into the Church to unleash Kingdom authority right in the middle of enemy territory. The deliverance we’re praying for and transformation we long for is about to explode – THROUGH US!

Luke 24:49 And see, I am sending upon you what my Father promised; so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

Rabbi YY Jacobson (10 May 2010): “Absolute sublimity.” Such a work must be taught and transmitted in a desert. A desert is not associated with any particular culture or form of living. A desert is barren, raw, plain. A desert is not sophisticated; it is real. [5]

Stephen P. Hagerty (02 June 2011): There will be times when you feel that you need to hide some part of your life from God. Maybe you have hurt people who are close to you. Or maybe you have been hurt so badly you feel particularly stuck in your life. These things are what the Ascension of Jesus speaks to – these very real moments. God wants to know all parts of your particular life so that all of us will be fully present in heaven.[6]

Rabbi Curt Landry (17 May 20): Step 3: Stay calm and have a teachable heart. Every time the spirit of fear rears its ugly head again, stay calm, and stand in the truth you found in step 2. The Bible says the enemy accuses us day and night (Revelation 12:10).

Rabbi YY Jacobson (10 May 2010): Torah does not tell us that life is easy and that faith is bliss. On the contrary, we were placed in a personal and global wilderness, and life is a battle. And it is precisely this battle that G-d intended us to face, day in and day out. Do not be disturbed or demoralized, the Torah teaches, by your challenges, your demons, your inconsistencies and your weaknesses. Do not be shaken when you do not live up to your highest aspirations, and often do not actualize or maintain your inspiration. Do not be discouraged; because the Torah was given precisely to help us pave a road in the barren desert of the human psyche, to create a highway in the jungle of history.

Luke 24:50 Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed them.

When Light Came In (16 May 20): Sometimes the only thing that wakes a person up to their behavior is losing something important. Sometimes even that doesn’t create a change. But at least losing us means we find ourselves while they’re figuring it out … on their own.

Luke 24:51 While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.

Mary Luti (17 May 20): And why would we want to dwell on them, anyway? Aren’t we an Easter people? Don’t we specialize in hope, in divine silver linings, in life in the midst of death?

Ada Wong Nagata (24 May 2017): We have been celebrating the joy of Jesus’ resurrection, looking forward to being in God’s kingdom in the future. But it is not for us to know when or how. The Eastertide is about to end. We know in order to get to Easter, we had to go through Good Friday. Now, with the hope of that blessed day, we are not afraid of suffering. The time to get in action is here. It is not an easy task, but we will not be alone; the Holy Spirit will be with us. Stay tuned and stay in the presence of God. Amen.

Luke 24:52 And they worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy;

Stephen P. Hagerty (02 June 2011): Whatever happened had something to do with the divine. How do we know this? The clue is in how the disciples respond. They don’t freak out or start debating what just happened. What do they do? They start to worship and they return to Jerusalem filled with joy.

Mary Luti (17 May 20): Yes, and we’re right always to insist on hope. But maybe not so reflexively, maybe not so fast. For there are times when we’d do better to stay longer at the cross, to stand still there absorbing the pain for a while before we proclaim the Easter joy.

Luke 24:53 and they were continually in the temple blessing God.

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[1] Rabbi Curt Landry (17 May 20): https://www.elijahlist.com/words/textonly.html?ID=23681

[2] Sophia Buller (17 May 20): https://royallyrobed.wordpress.com/2020/05/17/on-my-heart-church/

[3] Wanda Alger (17 May 20): https://www.elijahlist.com/words/textonly.html?ID=23680

[4] Rabbi YY Jacobson (10 May 2010): https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/891

[5] Ada Wong Nagata (24 May 2017): https://episcopalchurch.org/library/sermon/right-things-right-time-ascension-day-2017

[6] Stephen P. Hagerty (02 June 2011): https://episcopalchurch.org/library/sermon/did-you-ever-wish-ascension-day-2011

And Keep Them 16 May 20

Saturday, May 16, 2020

[6 pages]

John 14:15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Rabbi Shaul Leiter (14 May 20): The Holy One Blessed be He is, in a sense, begging every Jew. He is asking us, “Please, go in my ways! Observe my commandments!” What happens when someone you love asks you from their heart to do something for them? It gives us the strength to overcome all obstacles. Even more so when the appeal comes from King of Kings, the Holy One Blessed Be He. It gives us that extra push to serve G-d, to study His Torah and fulfill His commandments, even in the face of trials and obstacles. Even though each of us was given free choice, still, from Heaven we are also given good advice – “choose life”, go in the way of traditional Torah Judaism.

Anne Ballard (16 May 20): Some people have been feeling a strong sense of injustice and noticing there is change that needs to be made as they look at some of the things that are happening in the United States. These people are the ones called to rebuild the ruins and raise up the former desolations. God has pricked their hearts because this is related to their destinies. When they hear this verse it is like a defibrillator shocking their hearts, and aligning them with God’s purpose to bring restoration to our land. God is giving a garment of praise as people lay down the spirit of heaviness.[1]

Lana Vawser (11 May 20): The purpose of the SHOCK is to restore the fear of the Lord to the Church and it will act as a defribulator that is going to bring LIFE back to the Church, it is going to bring revival and awakening like we have not seen before.[2]

Brat to Ella Onakoya (14 May 20 at 7:45 am): As long as they can pretend that they see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil, (but hijack the message through my words anyway and then Arc Speak over the stonewall), then they can perpetuate the lie even while they preach on it from the power of their pulpits.  It is the ultimate snuff job.  And in the power structure (without divine intervention) there is no way to hold anyone accountable. ~kh

[Received still more SILENCE.]

[Sigh.]

Brat (in “Spiritual Restraining Order” 15 May 20): Even C.S. Lewis had a pen pal to bounce ideas off of and share from the heart.

Rabbi YY Jacobson (14 May 20): What is this wall—which looks not like a wall but which is really the only eternal and timeless wall?[3]

[WTF?]

House of Destiny (15 May 20): God is the still causing impossible walls to fall down on behalf of His people, and we are those people! As you watch today, let your heart be filled with faith and hope, knowing God is fighting for you.

Johnny Enlow (15 May 20): 1 Corinthians 4:20, “For the Kingdom of God does not consist in words but in POWER.”[4]

Anna Blake (15 May 20): The worst horsemanship is the use of constant threats; looking for a fault to correct and then making a habit of correcting everything you don’t like, until your horse thinks everything he does is wrong. His confidence is destroyed. If we’re honest, a good number of humans were trained that way, too. Correction has been our go-to language with horses. Some of us think if we are loving while we micromanage corrections, it’s different for the horse. As if being constantly nagged by a passive-aggressive person is substantially better than being intimidated by an angry person. [5]

Rachel Hackenberg: Prayer
It’s bad, Jesus. It’s really bad, and the end isn’t in sight. Let there be love, for the living of each day. Let there be solidarity, for the perseverance of healing.

Johnny Enlow (15 May 20): A supernatural component is a must for it to be “Kingdom.” We have gotten far too comfortable with presenting a “kingdom” that comes only in words.

Anne Ballard (16 May 20): What if we saw the Body of Christ as a true family and we stood in the gap for people, making possible for them what was impossible and getting ahold of what they had need of? What if we chose to be intentional with one another, developing community and relationship? What if we committed to live in family – belonging to a small group that knew us and that we knew deeply?

Rabbi Shaul Leiter (14 May 20): Let’s go a little deeper. The root of the word Bechukotai is the word chokחק (“a law”). A chok is a law that is higher that our ability to understand. It is G-d saying, “Do it just because I said so”. This is the kind of commandment that we observe with קבלת עול (“Kabbalat Ohl”- taking on the Heavenly yoke), like a servant or a child following instructions. Some of the commandments like “Do not kill”, or “Do not steal” are entirely understandable. Some commandments like observing Shabbat and the holidays make sense once they are explained to us. Some commandments like observing the laws of shatnez (prohibition against wearing or using cloth made of a mix of wool and linen) or kashrut (the Jewish dietary laws) are chukim (plural of chok), beyond our understanding. These days, during the final countdown to Shavuot, how do we prepare? The Torah is telling us to observe all the laws as though they were chukim, beyond our understanding. It is only when we live a Jewish life this way that we can attain the special level of walking (“Walk in My ways.”).

Johnny Enlow (15 May 20): Theoretic love, devoid of supernatural presence or power, is easily reproducible by even deceivers. It is why Jesus said, “Wait for power.” This establishes the credibility of the love being exhibited. It is not about forgoing being loving. The disciples had already learned that foundation—but it was just a foundation. Now they needed the inherent and receive the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit upon them.

Nathan Shaw (16 May 20): The most important question you can ask yourself right now is this: What is the seismic shift God wants to make in my heart?[6]

Johnny Enlow (15 May 20): This question is often posed among Believers. Sometimes it is said in other ways. We might say, “Seek the Giver not the gifts.” We might point out 1 Corinthians 13, and say, “If I have not love it profits me nothing—and I miss something important.” That chapter starts out saying, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels…though I have the gift of prophecy…though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains…” etc., etc., because that was the post-Pentecost assumptive standard for “ministry.” There was never to be a juxtaposition of power vs. love. The standard was and IS that you should have this POWER, but it profits YOU nothing if you are not motivated by love. But other people DO profit from demonstrations of the supernatural power.

Nathan Shaw (16 May 20): I have heard a saying, “Crisis reveals and absolute crisis reveals absolutely.” Crisis and change have a way of exposing that which is in the heart. This is true of individuals, organizations, governments and nations. The true nature of many leaders, organizations, governments and nations will be revealed. Corruption and nobility of character will be brought into the light and help shape the destinies of nations in positive ways. The overall long-term positive impact will be far greater than the short-term negative impact caused by economic difficulty. Short-term pain will give way to long-term gain. Pray that that which remains hidden will be brought out into the light.

Anna Blake (15 May 20): We are retraining ourselves to get ahead of the cycle of correcting what the horse has already done. It does no good to shut the gate after the horse has bolted. We break the cycle of correction by changing the conversation. Laying that old worn rant down and not holding a grudge. We’re shifting to seeing good behavior and making a habit of praising what you like and ignoring the rest because the thing we pay attention to grows. Less correction, more direction.

Steve Shultz: God is on the move big time right now, and He OFTEN moves in the exact timing with the feasts in Israel.

John 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever.

Johnny Enlow (15 May 20): As I repeatedly see this picture of a huge wave and this great white ship, I hear the words “This will end cynicism.” The wave is the tangible presence and power of the Holy Spirit coming in with great revelation and great provision. The supernatural nature of it all will be an eliminator of cynicism, which is the heart disease of our day. Raw, supernatural Holy Spirit power is the coming cure.

Rabbi Shaul Leiter (14 May 20): There is a difference between standing and walking. While standing reflects firmness, balance and strength, it happens in one place. Walking is about consistently moving forward from level to higher level. Yet walking also requires great care so as not to trip or fall. This is why the verse continues, “…and observe My commandments” It is only through observing the commandments that a person is protected from falling from their level.

Anne Ballard (16 May 20): Generosity can change someone’s life. Choosing to give of your time, your resources, your knowledge or your money can make a direct impact on those in need. The Bible tells us in many different ways that the giver will be blessed for giving. Luke 6:38 tells us, “Give and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”

John 14:17 This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you.

Johnny Enlow (15 May 20): There never was a standard that powerless Christianity is okay as long as you have love. If it were so, Jesus would not have told them to go wait in an upper room for supernatural POWER. He would have just said, “Remember to be loving with people as I have showed you for 3 plus years.”

Jamie Rohrbaugh: I have shown you how to rearrange things to establish good boundaries so your family, health, work, and emotional safety can all be protected, and you are in the process of carrying out My instructions.

Journal (16 May 20 at 11:11 am): Lord Jesus, during this particularly intense and difficult time in my life between my brother’s death, my own health issues, more Arc Speak instead of direct connection from those in my orbit, as well as praying for loved ones who are struggling to survive the actual COVID-19 virus with double pneumonia, I also want to thank You for the kindness of others.

John 14:18 “I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you.

Anne Ballard (16 May 20): This season, watch as God strengthens those of us that have been avoiding facing discomfort or pain in our lives (from the past or present). He’s there, whispering in our ear over and over, “I’m with you. I won’t leave you. You can do this. You’re not alone.” If we don’t leave Him, He won’t leave us, for He is faithful (2 Timothy 2:13). In facing our fears, we will gain a knowledge of God’s goodness that will carry us through the dark valleys and tough seasons. God is releasing self-awareness to see what we have been unable to see thus far.

Johnny Enlow (15 May 20): We hear way too many warnings today of “lying signs and wonders,” as if that is some kind of high priority, when our present reality is almost NO signs and wonders. A massive religious spirit is operational in “mainstream Christianity,” suffocating ANY signs and wonders and demonstrations of power, labeling it as “lying.”

Lance Wallnau (15 May 20): God is going to shake up His church to wake up His church. “Shake and Wake” – that’s the word right now. Wake up and SPEAK UP, and your voice will bind the voice of the enemy.

Sophia: Watch “Theft By Fraud, The Laban Spirit” on YouTube: https://youtu.be/kUYWraYdkkg

Gene Russo (16 May 20): God is shaking everything including the church!

John 14:19 In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live.

Journal (16 May 20 at 11:11 am): Friends and family have regularly called or texted to check in with me.  My brother’s hospice doctor with the VA called me after David died, just to make sure I was doing okay.  Dave’s hospice social worker spent a whole hour with me on the phone helping me to make three-way phone calls through the bureaucratic maze.  I had made those same calls the day before, but now with her on the phone with me, we made progress.  When Dad and I went back to hospice to collect Dave’s things, the nurse came out to meet us.  After we went to the mortuary, the assistant called twice to check in and keep us updated.  They will interface with the National Cemetery on our behalf.  Can Dave be buried near Uncle Harley?  Even Dave’s housing social worker called to check in and gave me the head’s up that the chaplain would call later.  Then today, Dave’s apartment manager called with condolences.

Johnny Enlow (15 May 20): Every time I begin to pray into Pentecost I see a huge, incoming blue and green tsunami wave. I then see a white ship with the word “LEADER” arise from the incoming wave. I am aware that it refers to LEADERSHIP. The 7 mountains are being vacated of criminals and a great leadership void is going to be filled by Holy Spirit-filled and empowered saints of God.

Gene Russo (16 May 20): God has hidden His best and His remnant for these times.

Anna Blake (15 May 20): It takes courage to even think we could change the world, much less take the huge strides we are with horses. We are standing against our born instinct and making a choice to use our energy in a proactive way. We are no less than warriors of breath and grace, not complacent to do as we have been told. We are imperfect enough to be tolerant, courageous enough to be kind, and tough enough to see it through. With soft hands, we are predators who wage peace.

Johnny Enlow (15 May 20): You see, people did not follow Jesus simply because He was loving. They followed Him because He had love-validating power. Atheists can be loving. New Agers can be loving. Buddhists can be loving. What separates the Gospel of Jesus from any other is the constant demonstration of supernatural POWER. The power proves the greatness of the love.

Rabbi Shaul Leiter (14 May 20): This walking that G-d is requesting of us and the high spiritual level we can reach can only happen when the Divine soul descends from its place of revelation in Heaven and comes down into this lowest of all worlds, where G-dliness is the most hidden. Even the most supernal angel does not have this privilege. Angels are called standers, like in the verse, “And the Seraphim are standing”. While about the soul and its descent the verse says, “And I gave to you, walkers among the standers.”

Anne Ballard (16 May 20): By choosing to step out and bless someone around us in need, we also receive blessing, even if it’s just in the moment, knowing that we’ve helped someone else. During this time it is important to listen and be aware of other people’s needs. Giving will open the door for breakthrough.

Johnny Enlow (15 May 20): This is all about to dramatically change. There is no need to criticize or tear down the inferior version of “ministry”—only a need to showcase the upgrade. The rest takes care of itself. Modeling the superior will always disempower the inferior. The abundance of powerless Christianity is not really the problem. The absence of POWERFUL Christianity is the problem.

Journal (16 May 20 at 11:11 am): After all these years [!] of grinding SILENCE from leadership in my orbit, I shed grateful tears as I experience what it feels like to receive genuine care.  Even if a lot of these people were “only doing their job,” it is still kindness that has been crossing the barriers.  Some of these people knew Dave.  Some only knew him for four days after he was transferred to hospice.  But the care, concern, and follow-through for family by the folks in Veteran’s Administration is an example to every other organization in putting faith and love into action and thereby practicing God’s commandments.  Their living example proves the Holy Spirit’s words are true that God would not leave me orphaned.

Johnny Enlow (15 May 20): I don’t think anyone who has NEVER operated in the supernatural has ANY right to warn of “lying signs and wonders.” Let that be the new standard. If you are warning of the false, you better be able to demonstrate the real. If not, at a minimum, you should be able to point to someone that you believe exhibits the “real” as some kind of proof you aren’t just a supernatural-power-of-God denier.

Gene Russo (16 May 20): False prophets and false teachers are being exposed AND true sons of God are rising from the shadows.

Journal (16 May 20 at 11:11 am): It seems to me that this is redemption in action.  Forever it has been where the military has destroyed and conquered civilizations, and now after all these millennia, the military is building bridges, making connections, and supporting where the Church could not (and would not.)  Where the Church could only stand far off like the Merchant Marines (cf Rev 18), the real soldiers humbly knew the holy God they serve and took orders only from Him.  They put their love into action with the least of these.  They didn’t have to love; they chose to love.  Lord, honor them as I include their loving-kindness in our legacy, so that a permanent record is on file of their righteous acts.  Their faithfulness not only answered my prayers but Your prayers as well.

John 14:20 On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

Johnny Enlow (15 May 20): Even in the Old Testament “waiting” preceded power/strength. In this 2020 historical reset of the world there has been a lot of waiting. At any time—beginning Thursday evening, May 28, through Pentecost Sunday, May 31—we can expect a sound from Heaven like a mighty rushing wind that brings us the greatest baptism in the Holy Spirit since Acts 2.

Gene Russo (16 May 20): This is for His church and for the world leaders. The false are being exposed and His punishment will be swift.

Journal (16 May 20 at 11:11 am): The leaders in my orbit did all they could in this world to grind me into oblivion and block my legacy from fruition, but I am here to say that the Team who gathered for Dave, Dad, and me are truly the ones who love Jesus and God has revealed Himself to them.

Gene Russo (16 May 20): Watch the glory of the Lord rise up upon His new leaders and those who are faithful to Him. Ask Holy Spirit to show you.

John 14:21 They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”

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[1] Anne Ballard (16 May 20): https://www.elijahlist.com/words/textonly.html?ID=23678

[2] Lana Vawser (11 May 20): https://lanavawser.com/2020/05/12/i-heard-the-lord-say-i-am-going-to-shock-my-people-into-alignment/

[3] Rabbi YY Jacobson (14 May 20): https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/7524

[4] Johnny Enlow (15 May 20): https://www.elijahlist.com/words/textonly.html?ID=23682

[5] Anna Blake (15 May 20): https://annablake.com/2020/05/15/affirmative-training-and-corrections-you-regret/

[6] Nathan Shaw (16 May 20): https://www.elijahlist.com/words/textonly.html?ID=23679

Spiritual Restraining Order 15 May 20

Friday, May 15, 2020

[5 pages]

1 Peter 3:13 Now who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good?

Lana Vawser: I had a vision recently and I saw intense winds blowing against God’s people. Many were in this cycle of being “knocked down” and then to get up again, only to be knocked down harder again. This cycle has been going on, over and over and over. There is a deep cry that has been rising to the ears of the Father from many in the body of Christ “God, WHEN is this ever going to break? Lord, what do I need to do?”

1 Peter 3:14 But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated,

Anna Blake (15 May 20): What is our crime? It’s bad timing usually. We’re distracted, don’t watch spacing, and let ourselves get into a bad spot. Then we see potential danger and react with a bit of panic. We are caught unprepared and then must make a harsher ask than we wish we had. Most of us were taught to threaten with ropes and pull on faces. It was easy to learn aggression because those responses dovetailed with our instincts and falling back on the old ways is easy. We are intimidated by the horse’s fear, so we get aggressive as a lion-tamer waving a chair. We have sports to prove our “manhood” dominating fearful horses. It’s a cultural holdover from a time it was crazy to think horses had feelings. [1]

Lana Vawser: The Lord showed me that the enemy has come so hard against many of you to try and kill and abort the ministry that the Lord has assigned you to, it has been so difficult for so many lately, but I heard the Lord say “The ministry is not dead, what the enemy has attempted to use to kill your ministry and take you out, I am turning by My mighty hand and you and the ministry I have assigned you to are now being increased. There is a new birthing taking place in the ministry I have given you where you shall see mighty demonstrations of My power like you have never seen. EVERYTHING is going to change, things will not look the same, the way My power shall manifest and My Glory revealed will leave all in awe and wonder. ”

1 Peter 3:15 but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you;

Brat: I did and received more Silence.

Thomas Griffin (in “Shocking” 12 May 20): You are an arrow for a specific target. Who’s your target today? Go be love to them in the name of Jesus, giving Him all the glory knowing that you are good enough to be used for His purpose because He is good enough and you are hidden in Him.

Ana Werner (14 May 20): God is propelling many of us toward the direct target of what He has assigned us to do, but it’s out of the place of our intimate prayer time, behind closed doors, that we are able to attain that target.

Anna Blake (15 May 20): People tell me that when they’re with their horses, they aren’t always perfect. They sound apologetic, you’d think I wore a clergy collar. Whatever they say after that is drowned out by my ghost herd nickering and snorting, bucking and farting, and rolling around in the mud. The equine afterlife has perfectly placed mud baths between those meadows we hear about, and especially there, horses have a sense of humor. Okay, the ghost herd is all in my head, but the part about people feeling guilty when they miss the mark with their horses is true. We want to do our best for our horses. That’s an understatement.

Ella Onakoya (14 May 20): This is a time where the whole world seems to have been forced into a season of quietness and inactivity, as it were, to hear what the Spirit has to say. It is a time for intimacy and reading the Word like never before; a time to learn and receive what the Father wants to teach for the times we are in, and the times ahead. Although it is a time of quietness, it is not a time of complacency, as what is taught will require obedience.[2]

Brat to Ella Onakoya (14 May 20 at 6:21 am): You said that “what is taught will require obedience.”  In “Shocking” I had said: “speech has not been translated into action among those who can deliver me from this Silent Evil and have so far chosen to do nothing, despite my outreach …”

Ella Onakoya (14 May 20 at 6:26 am): Hello Kathryn,

Can you explain more about [what] you mean in your email.

1 Peter 3:16 yet do it with gentleness and reverence. Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who abuse you for your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame.

Brat to Ella Onakoya (14 May 20 at 7:45 am): Hello Ella,

God gave me a mandate with my calling to 1) worship God and 2) share the journey.  I share the journey as the Holy Spirit leads.  He mostly sends me to the religious leaders.  I share and get Silence back, which morphs into stonewalling, which deteriorates into trying to crush my ministry by pretending I don’t exist (and this has been going on for thirteen years), even though God’s own words cannot be muffled or muzzled.  The dialogues I write are anchored in Scripture passages.  An Episcopal priest said it himself in “Shocking”:

The Rev. Jason Cox: In the unlikely event that he survives — survives the act of telling the truth. Insisting upon the truth is a good way to get yourself killed. Because the people at the top don’t really want to hear the truth.

As long as they can pretend that they see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil, (but hijack the message through my words anyway and then Arc Speak over the stonewall), then they can perpetuate the lie even while they preach on it from the power of their pulpits.  It is the ultimate snuff job.  And in the power structure (without divine intervention) there is no way to hold anyone accountable. ~kh

[Received still more SILENCE.]

[Sigh.]

Brat: Even C.S. Lewis had a pen pal to bounce ideas off of and share from the heart.

Rabbi YY Jacobson (14 May 20): What is this wall—which looks not like a wall but which is really the only eternal and timeless wall?[3]

[WTF?]

1 Peter 3:17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil.

Ana Werner (14 May 20): The other day, while praying, I heard: “What you’re praying for in the secret place today, behind closed doors – just between you and Jesus – IS VERY IMPORTANT!” The “VERY IMPORTANT” caught my attention as the Lord really emphasized it. Guard your time right now in the secret place with the Lord, like your life depends on it![4]

1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,

Private Journal (13 May 20): God, do YOU want me to complete my mission?  Do You care?  There’s only so much a human can take.  What do You want?  I have nothing left to give.  They just hijack my journals anyway and nothing is private.  All Linda could say was that I am “LOST, LOST, LOST!!”

Norton LifeLOCK: This network has a weak encryption, and your browsing and personal information may be visible to others.

Donald J. Trump (14 May 20): ILLEGAL SPYING

Lana Vawser: THE ENEMY HAS BROUGHT CONFUSION UPON MANY AND TRIED TO MUFFLE MY VOICE, BUT I AM CLEARING THE CONFUSION AND MAKING MY VOICE AND WORD CLEAR

1 Peter 3:19 in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison,

Private Journal (13 May 20): Lord!  Put a spiritual restraining order on all those who would wish to harm or twist or use or abuse from my journal!  This is holy ground and no one may touch Your anointed in Jesus’ name.  I am your anointed!  Muzzle the wolves and bring in compassionate and merciful people into my bloodline, as I am sealed in Your blood.  I may be lost from the world, but I am not lost to You!!

Eric Ledermann (14 May 20): What Are We Learning?[5]

Rabbi YY Jacobson (14 May 20): Parents and educators ought to reflect what it is that we are giving to our children and our loved ones which can stay with them for life. Are we giving them merely “walls”—modes of protection—which might one day prove to be skin-deep and temporary, or are we giving them fortresses which will never be destroyed? Are you giving your children something which no circumstances will ever be able to obliterate?

Anna Blake (15 May 20): Think of the horse as being on a continuum between a restive state and a flight/fear state. Curiosity and learning happen when he feels safe. Living with constant anxiety negatively impacts his mental and physical health. Always know that a loud cue will shut them down or frighten your horse. There will be consequences, some horses will shake it off and some will be left with a bruise. But the problem isn’t the overt cue now and then, horses will forgive a mistake out of the context of your relationship. It’s the overall intention that matters, the wave of affirmative tendency. Does your horse expect you to be perfect or does he long for consistency?

Lana Vawser: I heard the Lord say “I am laughing at the enemy. The way that He has tried to come against My people, the way He has tried to abort what I am doing, I am laughing in victory because what the enemy meant for harm, I have turned for good and what he has used to try and steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10) I am now establishing My people for the greatest demonstrations of My power, deliverance, provision and breakthrough that they have known. My people have stepped into My divine reset and are coming back stronger than before.”

Brat to Ana Werner (14 May 20 at 6:07 am): In “Shocking” I talked about stonewalling and leaving a legacy.  Without direct communication there is no way to get the legacy to the people who really do care and see the value in it.

Rabbi Shaul Leiter (14 May 20): We have to understand the Jewish perspective on humility. Humility is often mistakenly associated with feelings of nothingness, self-negation and inferiority. These feelings could lead a person to sadness, emptiness and insecurity, feelings the Torah actually forbids. Even worse, false humility could lead to feelings of arrogance. (“Wow, I am just so humble…”). True humility means that a person knows that they have strengths and abilities but these were given to him or her by G-d. Since G-d gives each person the strengths unique for them, this does not make me better than anyone else. I can’t take pride in these qualities. I do have an obligation to use these skills in a positive and confident way that G-d will approve of, like any gift we are given by someone superior to us.

1 Peter 3:20 who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.

John Edgerton (15 May 20): As those first 40 days and nights came to a close and the rain stopped, Noah and his family must have felt thrilled. With the worst of the danger passed, they must have been itching to end their confinement.

Rabbi YY Jacobson (14 May 20): Are we investing only in a “Berlin-Wall,” or do we have our eyes and our hearts fixed on walls that after 3333 years have still not been breached?

Anna Blake (15 May 20): “We show strength by the actions we don’t take.”

John Edgerton (15 May 20): But that’s not what happened. It dragged on and on.

Lana Vawser: The Lord showed me there are many ministries that are being rebirthed right now and new birthings taking place that are KEY for the end time harvest and carrying the Glory of God like never before.

John Edgerton (15 May 20): The story of humanity’s deliverance from global devastation is a story of counting days and losing track of days. It is a story of thinking the worst is over, only to find it’s just begun.

Lana Vawser: Many of you reading this right now feel like you are at your weakest place. You feel like you have been broken like never before. Many of you have lost hope, you have lost joy and you are still in that place of weariness.

Anna Blake (15 May 20): The purpose of having an imaginary ghost herd is to remind you that you’ve lacked grace in the past and you will lack grace again. Horses know that; we’re the ones who seem surprised. They keep us honest and then kick us out of our pacing thoughts and into the real world where change is hard, and consequences happen. Ghost herd are just other words for having a conscience. A reminder of what has gone before, they intend to be an inspiration for a better future.

1 Peter 3:21 And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you–not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Lana Vawser: Friends, TRULY, encounters with Jesus are upon you and His power that are going to establish you in breakthrough, healing, new vision, freedom and strength that you have that is going to leave you in awe and wonder. Many of you are going to experience encounters with His power bringing transformation that will forever change you, mark you forever and be the moments in you life where you look back and say “from that encounter with Jesus I was never the same, everything changed.”

Eric Ledermann (14 May 20): … In fact, Jesus heals the blind. He doesn’t go around trying to make people blind.

1 Peter 3:22 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him.

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[1] Anna Blake (15 May 20): https://annablake.com/2020/05/15/affirmative-training-and-corrections-you-regret/

[2] Ella Onakoya: https://www.elijahlist.com/words/textonly.html?ID=23669

[3] Rabbi YY Jacobson (14 May 20): https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/7524

[4] Ana Werner: https://www.elijahlist.com/words/textonly.html?ID=23670

[5] Eric Ledermann (14 May 20): http://www.faithandcoffee.com/2020/05/what-are-we-learning.html