Cry of the Watchman

I was encouraged to share this message today. Today is Tuesday Dec. 19, 2017. This writing I sent only to my kids in 2010 and a wee few acquaintances. As I consider the things I felt impressed to pen I can see so much of it has already come to pass and continues to unfold in ever greater measures. I was clueless when I penned its contents. I pass it along for your consideration and reflection. I hope that it will speak to and confirm things in someone’s life. Balaam’s Ass ____________________________________________________________ The following was written in September of 2006 when most of the country was boating around in gravy. All was going very well and lots of folks were living high,..Especially in Michigan I know. At that time there was no mention of mortgage failures and banking fraud, Wall Street fiascos, a new health care system, high unemployment or the complete revelation of a rotten government completely out of control and the magnitude of unfunded Social Security and government and union pension funds. No we had not gotten to the tipping point, to the turning point, to the great season of change, …that is to say 2008 and the ensuing monetizing the debt and plunging into trillions of dollars in unpayable debt. The contents written I received at three different dates. One in 1999, 2005 and 2006. This should be read with this knowledge and within the context of these time periods. Although I feel I have seen much come to pass so much is yet to unfold I believe. This writing comes as the voice of Balaam’s Ass. These are the words that the dumb ass heard while eating his hay and swishing the flies away with his tail. This day the dumb ass will speak. I was living on the south shore of Lake Superior in a small village. We had a house on a hill overlooking the lake. Above and along our south property line was a gravel road that ran and dead-ended in the woods. I would in the mornings walk my giant malamute named Raphiam along the bluff on ridge road. How I loved the bitter wind that would come up off the lake and over the bluff and blast us on cold winter mornings as we tried to gaze out over the expansive lake below. On one particular morning as I was walking along I seemed to get lost in a movie that was playing out inside my head. I was no longer aware of the road or the time or the distance or even the dog as I gazed deep within my spirit mind watching and slowly taking in and trying to interpret the scenes unfolding. I would not call it a vision. I would not call it a dream. I for lack of anything better to call it I would call it a revelation and message. For simple ease I will hence refer to it as a head video. I now retell from the reading of my personal devotional journal dated March 13, 1999. After receiving this video in my head I continued to receive understanding of what I had seen over the next two or few days. Some of what I was seeing I understood at once. I am assuming that I recorded this in my journal within a week time frame from the hour in which I received it. Thus what I have here is a slightly altered version of the video. That is to say that after reflection and consideration from my ponderings - this is the entry I made in my journal. It is here laid down in its entirety with a few 3) comments and insights I received within the week after the initial head video. 3/13/99 While walking this word came to mind: Minion- (definition) servile follower or dependant, /servile- slavish in character; abjectly submissive /abjectly - contemptible. Base. Miserable, wretched /contemptible - deserving contempt, despicable, deserving open disrespect and willful disobedience I saw a large person, maybe 40 or 50 years old, fat, tall, bony red cheekbones, and long thin stringy dull dirty blond hair. A white one-piece garment clothed them. The garment was dirty, smudged and stained when I looked closely. They stood tall and looked straight ahead and could not move. As I looked I saw brightly painted eyes that were almost glazed over. I stared at them and said, “who are you?” Then the eyes began to move around a little bit and I saw a spark of recognition but the person was unable to respond. I thought I saw a longing desperate and distant hopeless look in their eyes. Then I walked around the person. I realized it was a woman. She was placed and standing amid a large busy and dirty city, and I was walking there as well. A breeze came up and whipped open the back of the woman’s garment and I saw as it were the backside of her nakedness. Her body was pot marked, and had discoloration like that of bruises. And there were many sickening dark infected cancers - round holes covering the body. It was also a beehive of activity as many small people - minions were scurrying around. ( Although minion was a word I knew it was never a word I ever used that I recall. Thus I went home to look up the full meaning. I needed to know why I was given the word) They seemed to be as ticks, leaches, buzzards, ravens, and opossums in character and nature, that were feeding off the slowly dying and dead flesh. I knew instinctively without a doubt they were demonic. I could feel the sickening evil spirit that encompassed them. There was a putrid odor. It was a repulsive and frightening sight. -- In the early 1980's I had a dream. It was a very short one, but a very vivid one and one that I have never forgotten and that has come to mind many times over the last two decades or so. It was simply and basically this. I saw myself as a young and very strong and healthy man. I sensed that I was full of strength, passion, vitality, energy, youth, and sense of fearless well being. As I was awaking I saw myself almost naked and covered with what I’ll call leaches. When I was a young boy I would often play in the creek that ran along my grandmother’s property in Peterborough Ontario. It was actually a part of the Trent Canal system. Often after playing with my chums in the water I would get out to find small blood suckers, as we called them, on my legs. They would look at first like small bits of leaves or the small tails of pollywogs. As kids we thought very little of them and simply took a stick or piece of stone and scrapped them off. In my dream this is how all the suckers or leaches appeared to me. There were many covering my body but I was young, strong, and healthy and my attitude was only that they were of very little significance and that I need only to scrap them off and go on. They were of little importance to me, and certainly not of any detriment to my health or well being. I thought the vividness and strength of the dream to be odd at the time but that was all. What could it mean? Then it came to me in my mind or in my spirit mind I suppose. The blood suckers were many small sins covering me. The meaning was “it is the little foxes that spoil the vine”. That is my first vivid recollection of a divine message of warning with interpretation. At that time I gave little thought to the importance of it. Only that I felt it was a dream from God. As I said this was in the early 1980's perhaps 1982 or 83. --- At this time the dream of the bloodsuckers was brought to my mind. I had not thought of the dream in several years. The meaning was given to me at this time. The suckers or leaches that I had seen in the 1980's dream were the little sins/foxes that were not dealt with and repented of, that were allowed to remain. And here all these years later is what had become of the young healthy body that allowed the suckers to remain attached to the body. The dream was a symbol of my life and also the spiritual life of the body of Christ. It was all crystal clear to me in my spirit. I then realized that the city I was seeing was America and this woman was the Church/bride of Christ. There was a great and high wall around the city to protect it. This wall of protection was “the wisdom of God, the mercy of God, the grace of God, and its mortar was the witness and testimony of Christ. (This was the interpretation I was given.) The reason the woman was so tall I began to understand was so she could see over the wall. She was to be a lookout, a watchman so to speak for the city in the case of invading armies. However, her strength was gone, she was immovable, her nerve endings were shot, her mussel control and ligaments shot, her hearing nearly gone and eyes quite dim and glazing over. Her mind was all that seemed to have any functional ability left and it was slow and dull, and the minions were now beginning to reach that area and feed on the brain cells. “ The wall as I began to see it and the city”: I saw an enemy chipping out mortar around bricks to make many windows for passage and quick entry. Aqueducts were full of frogmen under the city and making preparation to enter the many water ways in the city. I saw as it were an internal glimpse and vision into the city – that is to say the government, industry, schools and all manner of commerce – as though through night vision or x-ray glasses. There I saw it riddled with corruption and foreign enemy spies and moles. The word that formed in my head was “Spiritual Espionage” and my understanding was that the city/America was absolutely filled with and riddled with the enemy’s spiritual espionage. I was gripped with sickening fright. The armies were surrounding the city in the woods, behind cliffs and rocks and some were blatantly even standing around the base of the city wall and doing their work. The enemy was made up of many - I think the Moabites, Philistines, Amalikites, Jebusites and so on. It came to mind though that the Sodomites were given the churches, and government. And the Sodomites had many many “plants” in place already and were communicating freely with the outside of the wall. Hardly anyone knew (my understanding of this was the American populace) what was happening because the watch-woman was silent and spoke no alarm and blew no trumpet. The people were drunken, and fat and napping and playing and focusing on themselves and their goods and their desires and their mental philosophies. They were intoxicated with their pride and ease and their own self-esteem. And how they felt about themselves and their comforts. I felt clearly in my understanding in the video this revelation --that they liked the wickedness of the environment around them and so eagerly observed it in the streets, on TV, Video and theaters because it made their own sin seem slight and acceptable under grace by comparison.— Then as it all began to pass away from me I was struck with these facts. That: 1) I could not make any distinction between the church and the others that made up the citizenry. 2) The people of the city were totally clueless of the seriousness of the situation and thus did not seem to care the least. 3) That judgement had already come and was upon almost every single facet of the city but everyone was unaware. It seemed as though there was a protective hand that was holding up and back the judgement that was already sent. The judgement that was already beginning was as if it were seeping over the protective hand over the city, and it would manifest itself fully in a days time once the hand was withdrawn. I felt alarmed, fearful, and compelled to begin to mount the wall, any little wall and sound an alarm. This was the entry from a day in 1999 from my journal that recorded the warning and understanding God gave me about church, America, and myself. I believe to some measure this has come to pass. I do feel however, that it is as current and applicable today as then but it is more urgent and happening in a much greater magnitude now. Since this entry I have seen several short video clips so to speak in my spirit mind. Since that day, 9//11 has taken place, hurricane Katrina, several school shootings, great government and corporate scandals, many wars, rumors of war and many earthquakes around the world on land and sea just to name a few incidents that should serve as wake up alarms. But it appears the country and the church by and large sleep on in spiritual stupor when not drinking deeply from the broken stagnant cisterns of wickedness and excessive self-indulgence. Even now as I write this the national news on the radio and television announces school hostages, bank robbery, and shootings in Montreal, Chicago, and Missouri, and all taking place at this hour. I lay in bed thinking and ponder throughout the days the meaning of the seeming indifference and surely natural and spiritual blindness that has come down upon our nations as the snow flakes of slumber over Dorothy and Toto in the great field outside the Emerald City in the Wizard of Oz. The speed and rapidity of the warning signs, and labor pangs that are all around and upon us now are so very alarming. Who is sounding the alarm to America, Canada, and Great Britain? I ask you today. What are you doing? Are you hearing from God? What is He saying to You? What is your purpose in this hour? Who are you listening to? What are you consuming? How much do you pray and read the Word of God? How much time to you spend watching TV? In what state do you think you, the church and the country is in? I tell you as surely as God made this world. Judgement is coming to our nations for our vile countless almost incomprehensible sins that we have refused to repent of. I tell you a truth. Judgement has already arrived. It is here now already. Let me ask you if it rains and caused a flood how does it start? It starts with a few drops usually. It keeps raining and getting heavier and just keeps coming and coming. That is what is taking place today in our land. And like the Israelites that were laid siege to - before the wall around their city gave way to the hordes of the enemy and they fell - we too are under attack. We are even now losing the battle. The enemy has begun to pour into our city. Our hour is here. It is the hour and valley of decision we are in. Still in the final hours we dance on the wall, drinking, and gorging and feasting, and laughing and mocking and lusting. With bleary eyes, slurred speech, saliva drooling down our faces we grope one last time for another drink another pill, another toke, another deal, another stolen kiss just before we face the full fury of God’s wrath. Our cup is full and overflowing. Life is about to change for us all in this nation. The enemy has arrived and only the Holy Spirit can whisper in our ears,..” go this way and now that way. Do this and thus. Prepare in this way or go there. Speak now and say thus. Be silent and seek me for guidance”. We must hear His voice I for one have a very strong sense of needing personally and nationally to set our house in order. The storm winds are blowing and gusting. The leaves and branches rustle in the tops of the Mulberry trees. The Spirit is stirring up everything that can be stirred. Our enemies, the true church, and our structures. Even now the shaking that will eventually shake everything that can be shaken has begun. Are we being physically and spiritually vigilant, or are we plugging our ears and asking to be told pleasant words of peace? What happens if the grid crashes for 3 months? Did you buy and stock the storm supplies -- or did you spend it on lotto and useless toys? You know what I’m saying don’t you? Are you prayed up and your faith and relationship with God in place and strong? Have you asked Him how and what you need to do to prepare for the uncertain seasons ahead when the cup of God’s wrath begins to go from a little spill to being poured out fully? Read the Old Testament prophets accounts of how God works. When judgement and chastening came on ungodly people the righteous and the prophets experienced the same environment of calamity as the rest of the nation. The righteous had hope, comfort and basic provision; the ungodly were in great despair and without hope. They gnashed their teeth, smote their breast in confusion and fear. They even ate their children when starving. This even now goes on in North Korea in some areas as recorded a few years ago by an undercover news correspondent. A wise man withdraws from all that is fruitless, foolish, ungodly and wasteful when he rightly reads the signs in light of revelation from God’s word. The proud and foolish hold onto the belief that God will spare America simply because there are many hundred of thousands of Christians many of whom do good works and fund missions. However, the truth has been stated that America spends more on dog food then feeding the hungry. We cry bring on the happy words of Jesus. “Love thy neighbor”, “the fulfillment of the whole law is Love”. “Thy mercy endured forever”. “Great is thy faithfulness”. “ Forgive seventy times seven”. “Let those without sin cast the first stone”. Let me tell you the hour has now come and now is. It is time to seek God, to repent, to lay aside foolishness and lies. It is time to rightly divide the word of truth. It is time to take to heart the full council of God. It is time to put our lives in proper perspective and right context. There is a season and time for everything under heaven. Do you know the time and season? When they say peace peace. When they say all is well and good and getting better just around the corner. When they demand only pleasant words. When they teach right is wrong and wrong is right. When they heap up teachers that will tickle their ears and help them feel good about themselves on the job and toward their neighbor yet neglect the weightier matters of righteousness and obedience unto holiness then beware of deceit and half truths. This is the understanding that God has given me about my message. I need to be getting my house in order. This means drawing much more closely to God in my relationship, obeying more completely, warning when He directs of what is soon coming on our lands, and separating myself from the world’s beggarly ways and elements as the day of judgement draws nigh. God is calling not only me but all of his watchman and church to “Prepare Ourselves”. This means both spiritually and physically. We are flesh and blood just like Joseph and God’s people. Because Joseph warned pharaoh and he was able to put a plan of preparation into motion many many people were spared much suffering. These are the “fat years” of plenty when we are to make preparations before the “lean years” of famine come upon us. If you are not familiar with this story you simply must read it. (Genesis 41)We have a window of opportunity now while it is yet day before the night comes. We must prepare our hearts and minds as we seek God and humble ourselves under His mighty loving, just and holy hand. Do not put all your trust in chariots and horses. Do not think that great employment positions, pensions, stocks, savings, religious freedoms, glitch free medical and grid systems and food chains will never miss a beat! If your trust is in these you are going to suffer great loss when the fire of judgement falls on anything that has taken the place of faith that God alone desires. -Do not be deceived, God is not mocked. Whatever a man sows that he will reap.- Don’t think God will forget to fulfil ALL of His word. If He says He is going to shake all that can be shaken then He will do it. If he says that people that sow seeds of sin or sow the wind will reap a harvest of death and a whirlwind then you had better count on it. There are no exemptions for Canada, Britain, or America.......or anyone else for that matter. Consider your relationship with God – The soldier must not be entangled with the things of this world if he is to be prepared to act and do battle. Where your treasures are there is where your heart is found. Will your treasures withstand moth and rust? Will the treasure endure the refining fire that comes to purify for the master? I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of they nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten be zealous therefore, and repent. .......He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. Revelation 4:18, 19, & 22 I will preface my next statements with this. I strongly suspect that we are in a “mercy pause” so to speak at this point in time. And when I say “we” I am generally speaking of America and in a peripheral way Canada and Great Britain. I fear greatly for Great Britain’s near future. I suspect that although birth pangs will continue to be seen increasingly around the world and in our countries, that our nations are yet receiving one last chance to impact to some extent our futures. It is the goodness of God that draws men to repentance. History shows that although this is true, it has in most cases had very limited results in regard to bringing true repentance of a rebellious people. When I refer to a “mercy pause” I mean this. God is and will pour out his mercy on us one last time as a way to get our attention, our repentance, and our minds and hearts. He will do it with great blessings. These blessings could and would encompass many or all of the following just to name a few. Very favorable weather for growing, protection from terrorist and great destruction. Wise and Godly leadership, great productivity and prosperity, high employment and downturn in crime rates, an awakening of the Christian community, and a general state of peace in the land. I must also add to this that I have no idea of God’s timetable. Perhaps the prophets do but I do not. I do not concern myself with such matters. My attention is simply on the message, instructions, and the weight of the urgency that has been placed on me. I am all about you could say, getting my own house in order and obeying the instructions of the Lord. Nothing more. Having said these things and hopefully getting away from the notion that I might be implying that utter destruction would commence next week --I will continue. When I say that I feel that we as Christians might yet have a chance during this window of opportunity or mercy pause to impact the future of our nation I mean this. Although God has I believe already spoken into irrevocable existence the pronouncement of judgement on America for her great sins and export of evil, I feel that we can still move God to make amendments. I believe for an example if our nation under the leadership of a president and national church leaders called for, and had the cooperation of the majority in our land, for the closing of all commerce other that emergency, utility, health care, and military concerns and such, and we had a national week of repentance, prayer and fasting we could see one or two things happen. One could be that God would withhold a portion of His full judgement on our nation and thus the effects less terrible, and/or He might postpone the hour of the outpouring of his judgement on the nation. Of course I am completely aware this sound like the most ridiculous idea a man has ever uttered and the chances of this happening are all but nil. None the less, it has happened before on occasions throughout history. But never when a nation had not a spirit of true repentance and sought God’s mercy. As Ruth Graham has pointed out before, God has no plans to gather the people of Sodom and Gomorrah together and apologize for judging them so harshly and not judging America for her greater sins in a time of greater light and truth. God is no respecter of persons, and He can not abide unrepentant and unforgiven sin. Now, I was about to comment on my impressions and what I have been seeing particularly over the last six months (first part of 2006). It has been as though every time I look in one direction or another a curtain is being drawn back and I am looking into the fabric of the matter, subject, or situation. No matter what it pertains to all I can see is the total decomposition of what I am viewing. It strikes me as so glaringly, starkly and frighteningly apparent. What I see is the last stages of rot and decay, and sometimes it seems even the last stages have pasted, and what I see is what is left after there is nothing left to rot or decompose. I have been impressed that we as Christians and a people generally, have not the slightest clue as to the extent of 1) the process presently that is taking place within the beginning stages of judgement already upon us. 2) That what we see around us in every day life is by and large only a mask or image or resemblance of what was once at one time was actually there. 3) There seems to be a supernatural component or dimension to this overwhelming blindness that has settled over the vast majority of successful, well-educated, and seemingly intelligent people both in and out of the church. This has left me feeling very alone at times and wondering if I am a victim of my imagination. I often wonder if someone has but something into the Vodka people are drinking such as took place in George Orwell’s book “1984". How can the world and church be so blind? I tell you business, most organized churches, governments, courts, law enforcement, schools, media, and politics is being overrun by Satan and his demons. We can see and hear daily reports about the consequences or manifestations of the enemy’s activities and victories that go on every day with very little resistance, but some how it is not registering with us. The every-day people and the church is unorganized, unmotivated, often in denial, ill equipped, with a concern level and interest that is barely on the charts. As long as the dollar is coming our way, and a life of ease, entertainment and momentary gratification is uninterrupted. I must hasten to say that I certainly am aware that there is still much good going on in our countries. God is still moving this is true. There are still pillars of righteousness and truth in place within our societies and countries without a doubt. Yet, we are not winning the battle against evil in our midst. The primary reason is that the church has become seduced and intoxicated with the world’s philosophies and lust of materialism. I see days ahead when what really hit me was that “many longed to work but could not”. “That within our communities great cracks began to appear in what had generally been considered as pillars of the community. This will be seen in long standing landmark business closings, well known, respected, and leading families breaking up”. “I have seen in my head video rural areas of the country cut off from the trucking of goods, fuel, temporary yet extended grid break down, and just some very basic day to day services. There will be pockets of great confusion. I saw issues of water problems concerning municipal water supplies and some of the Great Lakes. Very low levels that will cut asunder the property prices on the lake. Possibly other problems connected with them as well”. There will be great loss within the pensions of teachers, organized church, and several other large corporations. I think we will see a reduction, or a reduced percentage of what is paid out from government in such forms found within social security and some welfare departments”. Canada will not escape this crisis that begins in the United States. She will fall hard on her face as well, but the suffering will not be to the magnitude of the U.S. Canada will suffer the same things as America except with less civil unrest in terms of intensity, and length of time. It will also be less wide spread simply by reason of fewer large population centres. Less areas of congestion, more rural areas. Katrina is an example of how large problems will overwhelm our emergency systems. There will be smaller rural areas that will fall through the cracks. They will receive little or no assistance in bringing the communities back on line to normalcy, some for a very long time. There will be numerous rural settlements - remnants of once vibrant small towns from the past that will be completely abandoned by the residents. There will be great family geographic separation. There will be great social breakdown. There will be a season of what I see to be isolation in terms of the government providing assistance, and on a level of personal relationships. Home Christian fellowships or John Wesley type of societies will be reborn. Organized church out reach is going to do a flip-flop. Local level will dictate to central heads to a much greater extent. Central will serve the local and receive greater direction from the local level. Rolling outages of phone, and hydroelectric will be ongoing and continue for many many months, and be quite spotty. America will no longer be the leading voice or force on the world stage. However, America will not be at the mercy of foreign oil. The events ahead are going to seriously and absolutely deal with the ungodly debt that has been allowed to enslave the body of Christ, and society by and large. This warning should not be taken lightly, casually, but seriously. What is coming ahead is going to be very severe, serious, and long lasting. Readers can not begin to grasp the severity of what is coming. And when it happens the shock will not soon ware off, and shock will reoccur in waves. Weather patterns will be uncooperative with farming: It will seem like something has jumped a cog in the timing chain. Everything will seem to be out of step, out of time. Nothing meshing. There will be a lot of hot dry weather coming. Those in the north will be glad they are in the north. Florida, Texas, Arizona, and the Carolinas will no longer be the place people are going to in droves. The north will however, be very erratic. Record setting cold, heat, and drought will be the swings. So much so that vegetation and animal life not previously not seen in the regions will begin to appear. There is going to be a shuffling and reorganizing not seen before, not even in the 1930's. This is part of the shaking that is coming. Hospitals will no longer be full. I’m not sure why but don’t sense it is because of an improved state of peoples health. There is going to be a general reshaping of the face of American society. The sense of community and neighborly assistance of days gone by will be rediscovered and revived, but not until much civil unrest and great turmoil takes place. Large community population areas will become much more independent of the whole of a city or community. They will be more self-reliant and reliant on those within specific neighborhoods. It will be as a collection of completely separate communities within the geographic whole city. Far more pronounced than we see today. Food co-ops and bartering, and gardening will arise because 1) people are going to have more available time on their hands, and 2) it will be necessary to provide for themselves When I think of America I think of a line from a song Bob Dylan sang over 25 years ago. He was referring to the labor unions and he was implying their days were over and they were dying and fading away -“going down like dinosaurs”. Well how true it is about them. Yes they are still with us after a quarter century, but look at their state. Shrunken, fading, weakened, corrupt, divided, careless, hoping the good times will never end, and wielding only a very small fraction of power and influence they once had. They served their time. Their days are over in their present state. They need to be reborn, restructured and remade. How that parallels America and the church today. We all need a new birth in Christ and a baptism of holy fire. Three final points I want to make. First God has impressed me with this. Christians will find strength and protective covering from God as they obey him in the operating or moving in the gift and calling God has placed on each person individually. The second thing God wants us to know it this. The pressures (trials/tribulations) that we may now and in the future be facing are meant as a “preservative”. This is the illustration I was given. We are like fruit or vegetables God planted. He chooses and picks us in His time. He washes us with His word. He separates us (or puts us in canning gems). Then we are placed in the pressure cooker and hot water. The process places the vegetables under pressure and heat to kill bacteria and get rid of impurities so the food needed to sustain humanity does not spoil. Then the master canner sets us aside for a short season until He wants to use us to feed the hungry, starving, and malnourished physically and spiritually. When in the heat of battles remember that hay and stubble burns, but gold refines. The final thing that God has impressed me with is this. So often I get in a hurry or I do an awful lot of talking to God when I’m praying. So much so it at times become very one sided, and it is more like I’m talking at God. As I was trying to be silent and still before the Lord during my devotional time one morning so I could listen to anything He might want to say, I felt him impress my heart and spirit with this after several moments of silence. He said, “We do not always have to be uttering words, and praying per-Sa to be communicating with each other. I can communicate on many levels to you. There will be times ahead when we will speak very few words or none at all but we will communicate with each other. I communicate through my word, through our prayer time, and through my spirit in ways you do not even understand or realize yet”. “When you care enough to discipline yourself to come before me and be still with the intent of listening for my voice it demonstrates your love for me, and it is a form of worship and respect. I want you to be as comfortable being silent with me as you are with your wife. Because there are going to be times in the future when that is all there is going to be – just the three of us praying, worshiping and fellowshipping together” . It is my prayer that God will stir you to draw nigh unto Him. In Him is where you will find your peace, even joy, provision and power to remain calm and strong in the coming days. May God bless you, keep you, and be thy shield and strength. Balaam’s Ass -- Burwash Landing, Yukon Territory 9/14/06 September 14th. 2006 FOOTNOTE: Why did I mention Jebusites, Amalakites, sodomites, Philistines, & Moabites, in this writing? I did not know. I thought maybe it was supposed to sound “Christian or religious” or something. Actually I have long thought it must be because it represents the characteristic of a people, spirit, an intent or purpose. Thus,….--- Jebusites: Jebus means trodden under foot. Jebus comes from the word meaning to trample down (always destructive). Moabites: Moab is the incestuous son of Lot and the father of Moabites. Sodomites: Sodom is a city of the bottom of the Dead Sea. Sodom means “to burn’. Someone who engages in anal copulation. 36) Amalekites: Amalek means to lap or lick. And to nip but not sever or to wring off. The Amalekites where the first nation to ever attack Israel. They were fringe nomads living on the edge of boundaries and threatening the boundaries of people living within the boarders. They were an only people to be marked for extinction as recorded in I Samuel ch. 15 and came to stand for pure evil and the struggle between good and evil. Deuteronomy 25 records God’s command to the Jewish people t “blot out every remembrance of Amalek from under heaven”, because they had cut down the famished and weary stragglers when God’s people were marching through the wilderness toward the promised land Philistines: Comes from the verb meaning hysterical action induced by grief and involving dust and ash to roll around in. A more fundamental verb meaning is to burrow into bore into. The Philistines were known as the steamrollers of their day. *Perhaps now one can gain insight into the methods and works of our enemies within.