With a fresh understanding of Jesus’ identity as the Aleph & Tav (Alpha & Omega) being hidden in the Bible’s opening sentence, and its first word pointing to salvation, PLUS Father’s name shared with Moses describes His mode of death, now follow Dr Shadrach Meshach’s Lockridge’s renowned deeply stirring exhortation…
First published herein April 2017. Scripture verses courtesy BibleGateway NKJV:
According to Steve Maltz, author of God’s Signature, the only time the sacred, personal Name of God was spoken by the ancient Israelites was during worship in the Temple in Jerusalem, and especially on the Day of Atonement when the High Priest pronounced it ten times.
The Talmud has many warnings about using the Most Holy Name – it is also regarded as having special powers of healing. Apparently knowledge of its pronunciation was lost after the fall of the Temple in AD70 prophesied by Jesus Christ (Matthew 24).
The knock-on effect of that event, together with the Roman Church’s withdrawal in the third Century of financial support for churches in the Holy Land founded by Jesus’ own ‘kith and kin’, or ‘Desposyni’ as recounted herein, was the great loss of a full understanding of the Church’s Hebraic roots.
Hence the confusion and doctrinal disagreements over Jesus claiming, “I am in the Father and the Father is in me!” (John 14:10).
Digging deeper we encounter an astonishing revelation of that double-identity!
From translations of Hebrew, the post-Shakespeare English-speaking world referred to God’s Name as ‘Jehovah’ or ‘LORD’ (letter ‘J’ was then starting to replace ‘i’). However, Jews preferred well-known descriptive titles such as ‘Elohim’ – God, in all the fullness of His attributes; ‘El Shaddai’ – Almighty; ‘El Sabaoth’ – Lord of heavenly hosts; or Adonai’ – Lord, and more often than not the reverent term ‘Ha Shem’ (The Name) sufficed.
Scribes, or sopher, needed to take special care in praying before writing the holy name, which must be done without interruption. Were a mistake made, it must not be corrected but the whole page discarded and the page restarted. Numbering had to be carefully handled too because Hebrew characters represented both letters and numbers. So the logical way of writing 15 is to add a yod (ie 10) to a hey (ie 5) and likewise for 16 (a yod to a vav). But this never happened because, as part of the sacred name, they could accidentally be read as this name. The Holy Name is shown below, but read from right to left:
“Yod-Hey-Vav-Hay” first appears in ‘The Book of Beginnings’ account of “When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens” (Genesis 2:4)
This Name was first revealed when Moses encountered God in the burning bush after he’d asked Him whom should he tell the Israelites had sent him to get them out of their slavery in Egypt.
“This takes the meaning of “I will be”…(which) shares a similar three-consonant root with YHVY in Hey-Vav-Hey and Hey-Yod-Hey…and as they’re related are both ways of describing God”.
Hence my liking of describing God as “Always” and “Now”, the latter being used by Charlie Shamp too.
HOLY FATHER-SON UNION REVEALED & THE CRUCIFIXION FORETOLD
As in those preceding links, literary Hebrew developed out of pictographic forms that represent gestures and their meanings. We logically surmise both original visual and later written forms were known to and, therefore, used by the Lord in communicating with Abraham and his descendants through Issac and Jacob, and used by Moses and his scribes in compiling the first five books of the Bible.
Comparing the literary and pictorial forms of the name Moses heard and recorded as being from the Lord, we have this graphic (credit Heart To Heart):
Hebrew is read right to left, ie ‘hand-look-nail-look’, but if we read as normal left to right we find not only the Name of God describing who He is, the fullness of His character and abilities, but also its exceptional prophetic nature in it foretelling the pivotal point of His action plan for humanity: the crucifixion of His Son Jesus Christ!
BEHOLD – A NAIL – BEHOLD – A HAND
AND THIS ‘WORD’ SHOWS TWO PERSONS!
Could this indicate that Christ was hidden in the Father when Moses encountered them at the burning bush but manifested as ‘The Angel of the Lord’ or pre-incarnate Christ ? It’s worth reading Exodus 3 carefully again and note Who is speaking to Moses…
Moreover, the pictographs graphically portray God as ‘hands up’ in relevant connection with a nail.
Putting all this together into one picture we get a typical image of Jesus on the Cross at Calvary, where long nails or spikes driven through Jesus’ wrists damage the median nerves thus making His hands bend into the ‘claw position’ – as in the later version of letter Yod!!
REPRISE 14th April 2020:
We continue (2020) previous post’s conclusion on Jesus’ knowledge of mathematics, as drawn from Jonathan Hill’s thesis, with this startling discovery:
ALPHA-OMEGA HIDDEN WITHIN GENESIS 1:1 (AS ALEPH-TAV)
In Appendix I (pages 202-203) on the meaning of number 37 and its palindromic partner 73, Jonathan says both form the numerical value for the fundamental Hebrew word ‘wisdom’. He tells how this pair play a role in a multiplication, the result being the precise number of the Hebrew for the creation verse of Genesis 1:1. He goes on to relate this to 666 and a diagrammatic representation, which he interprets as meaning:
‘This transformation represents the dispensational truth that at the second coming of Christ, the dominant spiritual hierarchy of the world changes from 666, the number of the ‘beast’, to 12 – the governmental number of Israel. All this information including this powerful intervention of God is elegantly and visually encoded in the first verse of the Bible.’
This claim continues by divulging this astounding mystery:
Furthermore, this relates to the next post on how the ancient Hebrew characters of God’s name describe Jesus’ crucifixion, and to which previous version my American reader Tim Shey submitted this highly instructive video:
REVELATION 1:8, 11 – 21:6 – 22:13
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” (NKJV, BibleGateway.com)
If you’ve yet to read my overview of Jonathan’s book Unlocking the Sign Miracles of John go to Astonishing Mathematics Within Genesis 1.1 & John 1.1, and continue for more details at Amazing Geometrical Symmetry of Genesis 1:1 & John 1:1.
REPRISE: posted 26th April 2018 and re-published as an introductory connection for subsequent postings Holy Week 2026, but without opening non-applicable paragraph:
Now, where’d I got to a fortnight ago today…my drafting this suddenly interrupted upon spotting that what I was doing had gone public ….Fortunately, I’d got to the end of saying how Hebrew and Greek alphabets can be used numerically. Now let’s continue:
LETTERS = NUMBERS
SENTENCES = SUMS
TOTALS = SHAPES & PATTERNS.
Previously, we learned about the astonishing inclusion of mathematical constants of ‘pi’ and the exponential form ‘e‘ – ratios of circles’ circumference/diameter ratio; the base of natural logarithms and rate of growth shared by all growing processes – each within the first verse of Genesis and John respectively, as revealed when applying the same mathematical operation of multiplication and division to their letters and words, NO MATTER IN WHICH ALPHABET; that is, using this ‘conversion’ ratio:
[(All letter values multiplied together) x (Number of letters)] / [Numerical values of all words multiplied together) x (Number of words)]; or as Dr Paul Bluer in Bible Maths:
Jonathan R Hill writes on page 39 of Unlocking The Sign Miracles of John (1st edn),
‘Apply this ratio to Genesis 1:1 and ‘pi’ is revealed accurate to four decimal places. Apply the same ratio to John 1:1 and ‘e’ is revealed, again accurate to four decimal places. Remember that Genesis and John were penned by two different authors in two different languages, hundreds of years apart (if not over a thousand: RB) These fundamental scientific and mathematical constants are markedly embedded within the two creation verses of scripture.
Not only are they powerful witness to the creation of the heavens and of the earth but also to the One who created. In this way, the Hebrew and Greek texts of the Bible are authenticated as the authoritative media of God’s Word – as God Himself could have placed these mathematical constants there. No other explanation is possible.’ (Emphasis mine)
GEOMETRICAL SYMMETRY
In addition to the above, an exciting geometrical and, therefore, optical relationship exists between those two verses when all their letters have been changed to numbers and added up!
Then, using the principle of number triangles outlined in Post-Resurrection miraculous catch of 153 fish, the totals calculated for Genesis 1:1 and John 1:1 can be regarded as snooker balls, or small squares, and positioned into geometrical shapes. The sum for the value of Greek letters of John 1:1 forms a perfect plinth, or trapezium, which exactly fits the triangular number that can be formed by the sum of the value of Hebrew letters in Genesis 1:1, viz:
The sum of Greek letter values is precisely 3,627 and the sum of Hebrew letter values is 2,701, which forms a perfect equilateral triangle (as erected by the construction of a Vesica Piscis, shown in that post). Each of its sides consists of 73 small squares that represent one unit in the ‘conversion’ value of alphabetical letters. It’s noteworthy that 73 is also the numerical value of the Hebrew word for ‘wisdom’! Furthermore, there are scriptures that assert the world was created upon wisdom, for example:
John 1:1 reveals that Jesus was with God in the beginning and thus He was before all creation, and Paul similarly writes at Colossians 1:17. Given that precedence, then it’s logical that John 1:1 is seen to support Genesis 1:1 in this mathematically visual way!
SUMMARY
So far, we’ve learned the Bible has proven and demonstrable mathematical meanings buried within its text when letters are converted into numerical values. Moreover, many forms of mathematical operations and principles may be discovered, eg.
And that’s only when taking ordinary three-dimensional space into account. Also hidden within Genesis is a descriptive name of God and a direct link to the nature of Time! But that’s for another time…meanwhile, click to read what ‘coincidentally’ appeared today!!
Dr Peter Bluer – A Challenge to Atheists (tap for link)
You may recall from my triple “Wake up!” postings of 12 February the first of two SSS prophetic words from Mark Iles calls us to “STAND UP, STEP UP, SPEAK UP!” and so I’m delighted to read this Pesach message Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Conservative Party, posted this morning (thank you Helen Lineen – emphases below added):
“Why is this year different from all other years?
Because in other years we haven’t seen Jews murdered in a synagogue here in the UK. Because in other years we haven’t seen Hatzola ambulances torched in the middle of Golders Green. And because in no other year have I met so many Jews asking me whether it’s safe for them to stay in the UK.
This year I can’t write the usual sort of Passover message. I am tired of reading platitudes and warm words, expressions of solidarity which ring hollow when we can all see what is happening around us.
I did not learn about Passover from reading the Haggadah or even in church, but from watching The Ten Commandments over and over again. Even as a young child in Nigeria, growing up in a Christian home, the story of liberation from slavery in ancient Egypt – a journey from oppression to freedom, from exile to homeland – was singularly inspiring.
It was only as an adult that I learned the deepest message of Passover: that for Jews, gaining freedom is not a one-off historical event, but is something which Jews have to fight for and guard in every generation.
An acquaintance said recently: “As a black person in the UK, I’ve never experienced the level of racism or intimidation which Jews are facing now. People wouldn’t delve into conspiracy theories about an attack on black people”. This is exactly how I feel.
Too many Jews have lost freedoms in the past year. The freedom to walk the streets of London on a Saturday afternoon. The freedom to go to university wearing a Magen David. The freedom to go to school without security guards, to pray in a building which doesn’t look like a fortress – the freedom to do the sorts of things that all of us should be able to enjoy in a free and democratic country.
The Haggadah also teaches what I know many Jews regard as an eternal truth: “In every generation they rise up against us to destroy us, but the Holy One, blessed be he, saves us from their hands.”
We have seen over the past year how the first part of this teaching is undeniably true. As to the second part – well, we shouldn’t be leaving all of this work to the Almighty or even, as some hope, the government.
To solve a problem requires facing some hard truths. As a Conservative, I have always believed that more government is not the answer to every problem, although it might be part of the solution. But what is government, if not individual politicians and civil servants? As Faith Minister five years ago, what I saw in Whitehall was a significant degree of cultural and religious illiteracy, combined with a reluctance to speak plainly, and a hesitancy to tackle difficult issues for fear of attack, opprobrium, or difficult constituents. Too many politicians are too scared to act without strong leadership. That is the leadership I will provide.
This is a war of attrition fought not only with violence, but with words, insinuation and sustained hostility. We cannot only confront attacks on worshippers at Heaton Park or on ambulances at Hatzola; we must protest sporting boycotts against Maccabi Tel Aviv and vandalism at Gail’s bakery.
Relentless attacks, bizarre articles published by newspapers like the Guardian, the normalisation of rhetoric that would once have been unthinkable. The aim is clear and determined: to erode the moral legitimacy of Jews, leave you less secure, and at the same time give confidence to those who would see Jews diminished or destroyed.
We have allowed the poison of antisemitism to spread for too long, because too many politicians have been too weak or too cowardly to even say what they see, let alone confront it. That must end.
I’ve been very consistent about what I am for and what I am against. Back in 2016, as a London Assembly member, I asked Sadiq Khan why antisemitic flags were being flown at the notorious Al-Quds march.
As Business and Trade Secretary, my department was stormed by hateful mobs protesting my ongoing trade talks with the world’s only Jewish state. They disagreed with my statement in parliament that people in this country use their views on Israel as a cover to display antisemitism at protests on our streets.
Years later, I now lead the Conservative party – and I know where we went wrong. Politics abhors a vacuum and while the party was firmly behind the Jewish community after the October 7 massacre, there was a feebleness when it came to action. Too many were inexperienced and unclear about how to tackle the situation, while others simply did not believe what their eyes were showing them. We placed too much faith in the belief that tolerance, in and of itself, would fix things. That good people would rally round and squeeze out the bad. They did not.
Let me tell you what a Conservative government under my leadership would do. There needs to be a fundamental shift in Britain. We have a radicalisation problem. Currently, we are fighting Labour’s dangerous approach to defining Islamophobia in a way that risks shutting down legitimate discussion about extremism.
We cannot continue to allow hate preachers to operate with impunity. We will have a zero-tolerance approach to extremism of all kinds including Islamism and the influence of groups like the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain.
We will revoke visas for those who come here and peddle antisemitic hatred and we will bar those who seek to bring it into our country in the first place.
And we will ban the kind of marches we have seen on our streets, where people call to “globalise the intifada”, incite violence against Jews and glorify terrorism. Those who celebrate the massacre of Jews should be removed from public life.
Antisemitism is not just an attack on Jewish people. It is an attack on the kind of country we are. Let’s call it what it is – Jew hatred. Let’s stop using softer words for what is happening. But this will not be enough.
There are things government can and must do. But it will never be enough on its own. This is no mere political fight. It is existential. It’s about whether people can live freely and safely as Jews in this country. And that means it requires courage. What is required is a fundamental shift; tackling the moral and political vacuum that has been filled by a hatred of Jews.
Other minority communities have succeeded through hard-fought struggle and a dogged refusal to accept mistreatment. They made it clear that they would not be ignored, dismissed, or pushed aside.
I am not calling for violence. Quite the opposite. There is a silent majority in this country that supports Jews. I am certain of that. But the problem with the silent majority is that silence is not strength.
Jews in Britain have responded to hostility with restraint and dignity. Those are virtues. But sometimes the answer is not quiet endurance but noisy and active defiance. It’s time for change when it comes to Jew hatred.
Do not accept it. Do not normalise it. Stand up for your rights, your identity, and your place in this country in every way you can. Be visible. Be vocal. Use every lawful means at your disposal: your networks, your institutions, your voices. Challenge those who spread hatred. Pursue those who break the law. Know that you have our support, and you are not alone.
Yes, there will be pushback. I’m afraid that is the price of standing firm. Do not pack up your suitcases and leave. Israel cannot be the only sanctuary for Jews. This is your home.
What I can promise you is this: as a party leader, I will do my bit. I will lead from the front, as I always have. I will do my bit to fight against two-tier policing, double standards, sectarian hate, and to make it clear that there is a cost to antisemitism. But Conservatives cannot do this alone. This has to be above politics.
Earlier this month, I gave a speech against separatism and launched a wide-ranging commission on culture and integration. We need one shared identity everyone can buy into – being British. British Jews have shown how it can be done.
Passover reminds us that freedom is never guaranteed. It must be defended, generation after generation. If we fail to confront this now, if we allow the radicalisation, the hatred, the intimidation to continue, then we risk losing the decent and great Britain we grew up with.
The answer to hatred is confidence and resilience. Success is the best response. We can and will defend these values and we will defeat the scourge of antisemitism.
I wish Jewish people in Britain and around the world a peaceful and meaningful festival.”
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/badenoch-message-of-pesach-feels-especially-urgent-this-year/
As mentioned in 6 events over 6 days, Alan messaged me on Friday as follows, and you know from my introductory piece that I can strongly recommend his kind offer :
“Thank you so much, Richard, for endorsing my book. I’ve been following Richard’s Watch since 2016 or so, (before we actually met). Keep up the good work faithful servant.
If any of your readers is a member of a home-group or church that is interested in exploring Revelation and other End-time prophecy, then I am happy to give a 1 hour introduction to help them on their journey (in person if close to home, on Zoom or MS Teams otherwise).
And, subject to availability, timing and the level of interest, I could subsequently deliver a 4 week (1 hour per week) mini-course via Microsoft Teams or Zoom, following the same pattern as in the book. (Or maybe run this a few times a year).
Week 1: from John’s time to the start of the seven-year Tribulation (signalled by a new peace-treaty in the Middle East). Rev. 2 to Rev. 8.
Week 2: First 3½ years of the seven-year Tribulation (which ends when Antichrist reveals his true nature and desecrates the new Jewish Temple). Rev. 8 to Rev. 11. (mid-Tribulation Rev. 14).
Week 3: Last 3½ years of the seven-year Tribulation (i.e. the time of ‘Jacob’s Trouble’ / the (terrible) ‘Day of the Lord’). Rev. 12 to Rev. 13 and Rev. 15 to Rev. 19.
Week 4: Christ’s 1000-year (Millennial) reign on Earth, the final battle and defeat of Satan and his judgement. Judgement Day for all humans (alive or dead). The new heaven & new Earth – including the new Jerusalem. ‘Eden’ restored. Rev. 20 to Rev. 22. ”
If you or friends wish to take up Alan’s offer he can be contacted by email at > askquestionsoffaith@gmail.com (Ask Questions Of Faith)
Chilling out after a demanding few days online, on the first day’s evening of our long weekend we took a friend with us to spend a couple of hours in non-stop Spirit-led worship. Alan Shemwell, author of Trustworthy and True had sent a thank you message but I was intrigued to now hear a new relevance of the Book of Revelation only to be more astonished that the evening began with this full quotation of Rev 1:10-26:
I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet, 11 saying, [g]“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,” and, “What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches[h]which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
12 Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13 and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. 14 His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; 15 His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters; 16 He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength. 17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying [i]to me, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. 18 I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of[j]Hades and of Death.19 [k]Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this.20 The[l]mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the[m]angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands [n]which you saw are the seven churches…”
SO, MY ATTENTION WAS WELL AND TRULY CAUGHT AND I RECALLED HOW OFTEN THESE VERSES HAD FEATURED AND BEEN REPEATED THOUGHOUT THE WEEK – THEREFORE, IT MUST BE WHAT THE LORD IS SAYING TO THE CHURCH > REPETITIONS STRESSING, ‘PAY ATTENTION!’
Therefore, here’s the week’s daily sequence of ‘jigsaw pieces’:
So would there be a 7th event? Had we not been at a friend’s 30th birthday party on Saturday then I may have been able to publish Alan’s message, which is now next post.
Meantime, do listen to this worship song about Jesus’ return…
A riveting scripture-charged exploration and interpretation of the Book of Revelation and study into the fast-approaching End-times – showing how the US, Russia, China and Europe fit into those events to lead into that prophesied global climax.
DESCRIPTION
Acknowledge it or not, we are hurtling towards the End-times. The pre-conditions have never been more complete than today. More so in the past 80 years than in the previous 19 centuries.
Cautious scepticism is healthy but we have a duty to understand the warnings about what’s happening around us and what’s coming, so we can prepare and warn others.
Many prefer to shy away from any attempt to interpret the Book of Revelation, viewing it as unfathomable and bizarre, full of symbolism, metaphors, repetition of earthquakes, fire and hail from the skies, plagues and battles.
Some interpret it is relevant to the first Century only (A.D. 70), when the Jewish revolt against Roman occupation was cruelly crushed. However, given it was written around the same time it would not have been much of a ‘revelation’. It would not have been read by Jewish people, who perceived Christianity as blasphemous. It would also not have been helpful to the early Christian church and the ‘book’ is clearly written to both the Christian church and to the Jewish people.
End-time scripture isn’t so unfathomable when viewed through the lens of the people of Biblical times – their beliefs, practices, experiences and stories; then superimposing understanding of things that are very familiar to us now but were alien to them.
Some important insights also help interpretation – such as the fact that during Old Testament times a year was perceived as 360 days (and this was also adopted as the default for ‘prophetic’ years in the New Testament). Also, Jewish people often referred to themselves as people of the land and the gentiles as people of the sea.
Many expect evil influences to present themselves in obvious ways no one can deny – but the best strategy of these is to convince us all that they do not exist! So, we should not expect to see them for who or what they are until very late on, when it might be too late for the uninformed.
The USA, China, Russia and Europe are all referenced, if you interpret properly, through ‘markers’ that include: global trading status, economic size relative to military might, historical basis of their trading and legal systems, population size, direction of their homeland relative to Israel, the nature of their current leaders, initiatives in international expansion, colour of their battle flags, symbols and statues that they are renowned for, geological characteristics, and, historical names of tribes from which these nations originated. The combination of many markers helps to make the interpretation less tenuous and more convincing.
There will be hard times ahead, even for Christians, but the Book of Revelation is fundamentally a message of HOPE – how to survive without compromising our eternal future, that evil will be dealt with once and for all, and that the world will be reshaped into the perfect paradise it was meant to be.
I invite you on an amazing exploration into the wealth of information that has been freely given to us on what is to come. I can boldly promise you a journey that will have huge consequences for you and your loved ones.
I have spent many years researching, grappling with and meditating on the scriptures – asking for divine inspiration to help interpret these prophecies. I hope and pray that this book is as accurate an interpretation as possible, and that it will spark the reader’s interest in interpreting what’s happening around them in the context of biblical revelation, so that they are forewarned of the dangers, can warn others, and can gain hope about the final outcome.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Louise Petrossian Mokhof who leads and supports many Christian charities including KORPU BUILDING BRIDGES WITH THE WORD, and speaks at Christian conferences around the globe. Louise acted as a key proof-reader:
“This book is a must read and thought provoking for those readers who are keen to know and have a deeper understanding about the End times, divine judgment, the Antichrist, Christ’s second coming and so on. The author’s narrative is direct and focused on global affairs in connection with Biblical facts from the past, present, and future. It is condensed with so much information to wet the reader’s appetite and keep them at the edge.”
Rebecca (Becky) Coulter, (avid ‘bookworm’ and daughter of a renowned newspaper journalist), and her husband Andrew Coulter, who acted as proof-readers, hungry to understand more about what the Bible tells us of the End-times:
“This book is a thorough and comprehensive guide to understanding The Book of Revelation. It is easy to understand – woven together in a way that helps the reader to follow with clarity and understanding. Foundational reading for anyone looking for sound biblical insight and understanding about this crucial book of the Bible.”
Alan writes “The book is also available on the Waterstones.com site. The prices on Amazon.co.uk are currently not correct. I’m told this often happens with Amazon, just before publishing date but will soon correct itself on the Publishing date 26th March. Pricing is correct on Waterstones.com”
Early Tuesday morning I was musing over my WApp to the previous evening’s house group “I submit that the timing is surely of the Lord, for not only myself but others too, I trust” – as well as in recent blogs of current news and changes across Islam delaying my introducing a friend’s new book on the Book of Revelation.
Then came Sunday’s service featuring the mission to Iran of Elam Ministries together with excellent teaching on Revelation 1.
(With gratitude to Chris G Bennett for AI image)
Immediately upon musing “Whyever I should think there may be any significance of timing, am I imagining it, why me?”, this came straight to mind, as though a Holy Spirit ‘drop’:
“It’s triple 47: 47th year (my birth) of 20th Century! 47th year of Iranian regime! 47th US president!”
By the way regarding numerics, the timing of Michael Bennet’s What Was Whispered email at 11:10 yesterday is significant regarding our ‘3-in-1’ God: thus 11 = The Father and Son (“The Father is in me and I in Him” John 10:38) and 10 = Holy Spirit; zero being nothing is ignored and so 10 is 1. AND as told at the close below, we have yet more evidence of the Lord’s hand in the timing of this post and the next post.
Also, in that blogged ‘briefing’ I refer to a very personal experience in 2019 of the Lord’s glory in a Catch The Fire conference in Fleet, Hampshire. Nina and I knew the pastor and wife and a leader of CTF, Alan Shemwell, later led an excellent study of the Book of Revelation, even presenting attendees with certificates. I asked, therefore, about the availability of his notes and diagrams available and the story unfolds below…and I note that 1989 is the re-start of both our lives!!
BIO
‘Alan was always enthralled with ‘End-time’ stories even before becoming a Christian, at age 26 in 1989. Then he was drawn to the books of Revelation and Daniel.
He struggled to make sense of prophecies, especially the number of years mentioned, which simply didn’t add-up. He jumped at the chance to hear any speaker on Revelation. Almost always, their interpretations simply did not sit right with his spirit and seemed too naïve, simplistic, biased, dismissive, worldly – seemingly quick, lazily formed interpretations, not well thought through, and not Holy Spirit inspired.
For 35 years he sought a clearer, more rounded, unified, God-inspired interpretation.
Alan has been happily married to wife Sian for 35 years. They met in school (6th-Form). and have 3 sons, all in their 20s. Alan and Sian became Christians at the same Billy Graham event in Aldershot, a year before they married. They moved from Somerset to Hook, Hampshire and found a lively, Spirit-filled church.
Within months they were leading home-groups, involved in evangelistic outreach, attending international Christian conferences by John Wimber and other notable Christian pioneers. For years they led Christian introduction (Alpha) courses. Their journey of faith was on an exponential trajectory. They are still very active in their walk of faith. Until recently they were part of the core-team for a new Catch-the-Fire church plant in Farnborough. Alan enjoys street evangelism, Healing-on-the-Street (HOTS) and Christian teaching. Sian is gifted in hearing and responding to God’s heart – demonstrating compassion for the lost and broken.’
As for myself, Richard, having been introduced to eschatology and geopolitical history of the Middle-East a few years before becoming born-again in 1989, and 20 years later began emailing on the subject and attending Neil Mackereth’s teaching at Winchester Vineyard and launching this blog in November 2011, I found Alan’s to be an excellent course. He relates The Apocalypse (Greek title) to current events and I’m pleased he’s now been able to find a publisher. And I particularly like his easy-to-read style and typography.
GOD-INCIDENTAL TIMING
Alan posts only occasionally on his Facebook but for once I dropped in this morning and find this of Monday relating to TODAY:
“The book is also available on the Waterstones.com site. The prices on Amazon.co.uk are currently not correct. I’m told this often happens with Amazon, just before publishing date but will soon correct itself on the Publishing date 26th March. Pricing is correct on Waterstones.com”
SO I invite my readers and visitors to read all about Trustworthy and True in the next post in a few hours and seriously consider buying…
Not only the superb teaching and content but also the timing of the guest speaker’s visit to 3Counties Vineyard Church on Sunday was of significance for the congregation, as well as personally and blog-wise.
Events last week delayed my intended blogging on a friend’s new book about the Book of Revelation, but I needed to finish what was in mind about Iran and the eventual fall of Islam with its growing schism between Sunni and Shiite branches – LOL as I type that I saw a picture in front of my monitor of branches falling off a tree!
The delayed timing, nevertheless, must be of the Lord – ‘God-incidental’ – because I had first to hear the Executive Director of Elam Ministries at our church, as in video intro:
‘This morning David Yeghnazar from Elam Ministries is with us as part of our “Mission March” focus on “Shining in the world”. He will be sharing about Elam, which exists to to strengthen and expand the church in the Iran region and beyond, and will also be speaking from Revelation chapter 1.
The video link starts when our church team-leader Dave Wright shows a 5 minute video of the foundation and history of Elam Ministries in Iran and interviews David Yeghnazar for 12 minutes. After their prayer David proceeds to present a superb message from the 42 minutes mark . The transcript, however, is too long and complicated to publish here.
I was astonished at 48:45 minutes when he says the Book of Revelation gives a clue about Christians in Iran – here and elsewhere shining in the darkness – and tells why its first chapter is his favorite. Then at 1 hour 2 minutes he speaks into the dream vision I had of the glory of Jesus during His overnight Visitation on 13-14 September 1989!!
1:01:56 “Then it says, “Behold, he is coming with the clouds.” Verse seven, “And every eye will see him.” Behold, this word behold is so important. 19 times in the book of Revelation you see this word, ‘behold’. What’s it saying? It’s saying, guys, you need to SEE. And you need especially to see Jesus. Behold, HE, Jesus, is coming with the clouds.”
And I note my marginalia scribbled atop that chapter in my small Bible >
‘9/11/19 Vision whilst in ‘Fire’ ministry. J(esus) in brilliant light, me in golden Spirit.’ [Catch The Fire meeting in Fleet with John & Carol Arnott of Toronto.]
Moreover, in describing Jesus as King of Glory, David echoes the penultimate point of my recent Bible Update:
‘The founder himself had engaged in or else planned over four dozen battles and within 50 years of his death another battle between his followers split the movement.
SUCH A DEEP CONTRAST WITH THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH BORN FROM JESUS’ HOLY SPIRIT ANOINTED APOSTLES – IT DEFINES THEIR DIFFERENCE – MOST DEFINITELY NOT THE SAME GOD!’
So at 1:16:41 of our meeting I hear David say:
“And others begin to see it. One of my dearest friends, the one who was in the video, who was in prison for 5 year. While he was in prison one of the other prisoners came up to him was an Islamic cleric, but he was against the government, so he was in prison. And this Islamic man comes to him and says, “Ours is dead. Yours is alive. Ours is dead. Yours is alive!” And he asked him about Jesus Christ. So my friends, that’s my offering to you….”
SO. please carve out 50 minutes to listen to David’s uplifting, enlightening messages.
HOUSE GROUP DISCUSSION
Monday evening’s house group was highly enthused about that teaching and, with his kind permission, leader Clem Burford allows me to share his following notes:
Do You Love Jesus?
Rev. 1:1-20
40 YEARS AGO
Bear with me in returning to the personal pertinence of the morning and remind you my monitoring of Iran began with flicking through a history book on the religions and geopolitics of the Middle-East and seeing simultaneously a rehearsal of the storming and liberation of Jerusalem out of Israel.
Still not a Christian, a couple of years later I was stunned by a foretaste of Jesus’ glorious return on and rapid descent from the clouds.
A couple of years later, being born-again I witnessed in the heavens about the fall of Islam.
20 YEARS AGO
Let’s go back to a memorable evening in mid-2006 and join Lindell Cooley and Kelley Warren somewhere in the Caribbean in the next video, wherein Heidi Baker of Iris Ministries pops up nearby.
Dear Nina was struggling with severe back pain and upon return to UK we learned her lower spine had collapsed and she needed a wheelchair, thus officially registered as being disabled. BUT PRAISE THE LORD, she was healed from that necessity when John Arnott heard the Lord tell him the next year when in Bath City Church to put aside his sermon as He wanted to heal folk. (Click to read about her documented healing)
Ever since then that praise song stirs my spirit, especially this rendition:
12 YEARS AGO > Holy Lightning Beyond ‘The Pond’ Strikes IN THE UK!
It’s time to fire a double-barrelled Holy Spirit ‘shotgun’ at our four nations – and others – because not only did I reprise the word Veronika West brought last October but Lisa Tierney also commented thereupon and reminded me of what she heard at the close of that year. (Readers may recall she received prior to the Pandemic, as here and here.)
Lisa writes:
“Lord foretold so much in this word and its is all happening now..
OIL OIL OIL
KING AND KINGS
STARMER AND HIS REFUSAL TO JOIN WAR CAUSED ISSUES FOR TRUMP.
DESTINY OF GREAT BRITAIN, UNITED KINGDOM
We have the answers of Heaven ahead of time before the Iran war broke out..
Let’s circulate this so people can pray with accuracy and his Spirit
I FEEL THE BODY OF CHRIST MUST SEE THIS AGAIN
SHALOM LOVE IN CHRIST”
Lisa Tierney
The original text is on Facebook which has interlinear embedded coding that needs extensive editing to make reading easier, but I’ve emboldened and coloured the Lord’s words for the UK. The ‘Instructions’ for the nations are particularly interesting in view of events since New Year’s Eve!
KEYS FOR NATIONS – INTERNATIONAL INSTRUCTIONS
Posted Monday 16 March on Veronika’s Ignite Ireland Ministry at 18:55 and I shared at 22:22 on my Facebook, this is as published the next day by His Kingdom Prophecy:
PROPHETIC SIGNS IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ:
The Watchmen must keep Watching and Praying!
I hear The Spirit say, ”Watch, for The Birthing of a Nation(s) in a Day is at hand!
Watch and Pray — for I AM speaking through Signs, to the Times and to the Season ahead, the Season of the Birthing of a New Golden Era —
I say watch! Just as Birth comes through a narrow canal, so the pressures now seen among The Nations are part of a great Shaking, Divine Awakening and the Separation of Nations.
Yes! For Pressure precedes Transition!
Listen! Pay Attention! For My Remnant must not only watch the movements of Armies, Ships and Markets — but they must go up higher to discern the deeper Prophetic Patterns and Mysteries that are now emerging.
See! For I AM revealing the Gates of the Earth — those strategic places where Power, Resources and Influence are now beginning to converge and align with Heaven’s Time.
Watch! As the Gates expose the true dependencies of Nations and the fragility of Systems and Structures built without Justice and Righteousness.
I say — look! Watch, for The Strait of Hormuz surely is a Birthing Canal — a narrow place where War — Travail, great Pressure, and passage that signals what is taking place in the Heavenlies, and to what is now being uprooted, torn down, built and established.
And to that which is about to be Birthed and brought forth into the Earth Realm, Watch!
Again I say — for there are Signs that speak to the Times!
Just as the Strait of Hormuz is a Narrow Gate and a Divine Connection point (VAV) through which the Economic lifeblood of Nations must pass.
So, The Nations are now being driven into a Spiritual Choke-hold where the powers of the prince of Persia and the Ancient Empire Spirits War in the Heavens over the Great Wealth Transfer Coming to the Nations!”
See the Prophetic Parallels and Patterns…
Blessings to you all.
~ by Veronika West
It is important to understand that The Shaking prophecies, either in Hebrews 12 or the prophecies brought by Kim Clement recently posted herein, should NOT be taken as being about End-times and the battle of Armageddon.
In America’s Military Religious Freedom Foundation it’s reported that some US military commanders have been briefing troops that events in the Middle-East indicate we are entering End-times battles – and many servicemen have logged complaints about such zealotry.
However, this may well reflect individuals’ personal preferences and reminds me how our British Commonwealth troops may have been encouraged to face going into combat 112 years ago into what became the massive First World War; eg. “Onward Christian Soldiers” being sung in churches.
This news from America’s military came to my attention in Mark Davidson’s monitoring of events tying in with his ‘The Four Signposts’ thesis, which came to my attention 11 years ago upon reading his very thought-provoking Daniel Revisited, as told in:
So, for your information here’s Mark’s take on those complaints published by the MRFF:
SIGNS INTHE HEAVENS THAT SPEAK INTO THE TIMES
March 3rd 2026 aligns with 14 Adar 5786 on the Hebrew calendar (from sundown March 2nd to sundown March 3rd) the Day of Purim.
We acknowledge this as an Appointed Time recorded in Scripture.
As it is written in the Book of Joel 2,
”I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke….
…. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of The LORD,” Joel 2:30–31.
In Scripture, these heavenly Signs are connected specifically to the Day of The LORD to Divine Intervention and the Judging of Nations, according to God’s Sovereign Timing.
When I saw this picture above, ”Psalms 82” was quickened to me which reveals God Standing in Divine Council to Judge Corrupt Rulers who issue Unjust Decrees.
“God standeth in the congregation of the mighty…. He judgeth among the gods.
…. How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked?
…. Arise, O God, Judge the earth: for Thou shalt inherit all Nations,” Psalm 82:1–2,8.
Psalms 82 is declaring that He will Arise and Judge the Nations of the Earth!
Note: 2026; (10) 82; (10) : Ten (10) is the Number of Divine Order.
This Psalm parallels powerfully to the Book of Esther, where Haman’s wicked decree was issued to destroy the Jews, yet God overturned it through a Counter-Decree written on the 23rd day of the (3) Third Hebrew Month, Sivan. See ; Esther 8:9.
While Purim is celebrated in Adar as the day of Victory. See Esther 9:26–28.
The Legal Authorisation that secured that Deliverance and Victory was established earlier in Sivan.
Here we see a clear Prophetic Pattern.
An Unrighteous Decree is Released — a Lawful Counter-Decree is Written — and Deliverance and Victory manifests at the Appointed Time.
Psalm 82 reveals Divine Judgment confronting corrupt Authority.
The (3) Third Month — Sivan — is also biblically associated with Covenantal Revelation…
Exodus 19:1 — when Israel came to Sinai and received Divine Law, and the (3) March 2026 — which Aligns with 14 Adar 5786 on the Hebrew calendar (from sundown March 2nd to sundown March 3rd) — the Day of Purim demonstrates how God Reverses unjust Rulings.
As I said above, there is a consistent Prophetic Pattern.
God Confronts Unjust Authority. He Arises to Judge, and Righteous Deliverance comes according to His Appointed Times!
Blessings to you all.
~ by Veronika West
This blog’s Prophecy Library 1909-2024 has the following post topping its menu’s sub-page list, and which includes Revd Mike Davis’ prophetic word on Netanyahu as a young man and Wendy Alec on his gaining three terms as Prime Minister of Israel, and is now its longest serving PM!
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OCT 2025
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OCT 2024
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Bible Update: Netanyahu’s visit to UN fulfills Zechariah 12 prophecy on satan’s strategy
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MAR 2015
Netanyahu miraculously surges to 30 seats with 6-seat lead. Obama campaign backfires.
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NEXT, a prophetic word given to Veronika West, which PM Netanyahu uses militarily!!
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Thinking of the few prophecies I’m aware of about Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu – and in this blog’s first month I posted about him starting a Bible home study group, and declaring 2011 Christmas greetings – I was pleased to hear Jonathan Cahn on The Secret Behind the Ayatollah’s Fall describe Bibi’s PIVOTAL ROLE in this year’s Feast of Purim (where the Jewish people were saved from genocide about 2,500 yeas ago; the feast is not merely a celebration of survival but a profound expression of joy, gratitude and divine providence).
In fact, last weekend’s pre-emptive attack against their satanically-inspired foe makes a Biblical replay of Purim. Here’s Jonathan (from 21:46 timestamp):
“Now listen to the news report here of what happened to the modern Haman. Satellite images showed heavy damage to Ayatollah Ali Kamenei’s fortified compound, including buildings believed to house his home and the so-called house of leadership. On the weekend commemorating the execution of the evil Persian leader [Haman – see Esther 7] in his own home, the evil Persian [ie Iranian – RB] leader is executed in his own home. Now, the word, now listen to this, the word that was appointed to be read around the world on that day tells of King Saul’s failure to execute King Agag.
So the the secret here ,mystery, the one who executes the evil Persian leader will be linked to the name Benjamin, of Benjamin. On February 28th, the one who executed the evil Persian leader was linked to the name of Benjamin. Namely, his name was Benjamin Netanyahu. Benjamin. He must be linked to the name Benjamin. And now, because Haman was such an evil man, when he died, there was celebration throughout Persia.
They sing and they dance and they celebrate about being saved by God because of the ending of an evil leader plan and rule in Persia, Iran.
Well, now all of the world and Iran, the people of Persia, are celebrating the ending of the rule of an evil leader of Persia. And they’re celebrating it…at the time of Purim. I don’t know if they realize it, but they were saved through an ancient Jewish holiday that brought them so much joy.
What happened? What happened to the quote supreme leader? He was struck down by the hand of God. That’s what it reveals behind it all. The hand of the holy one. Because the supreme leader of Iran is not THE supreme leader. The Supreme Leader is the holy one of Israel. He’s the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob!!
What happened? What does it tell us? It tells us that God is real. This is real. It’s all real. What the Bible says is real. The God of the Bible is alive and well. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is still on the throne of all. The God of Esther, and Mordecai is still moving through the world in history as much as he moved back then in Bible times. Bible times. We’re in Bible times because God is real. It’s amazing – it’s amazing. You see, we’ve got a faith that can that actually we can talk about this actually coming true in the news. There’s no other faith like this.”
NEXT, we consider some contemporary prophecies about Israel’s Prime Minister…
Further to our brief considering the claims of the Iranian regime’s deceased Supreme Leader about his false religion’s messiah, here are details of the Biblical reality of the Book of Esther being re-played in our day, and the modern Haman being executed by the means he planned for the Jewish nation of Israel.
AN AWESOME TEACHING
0:00 – Intro 02:18 – USA and Israel Strike Iran 02:51 – Ancient Biblical Holiday – Purim in the land of Persia 05:46 – The Battle with Amalek 07:38 – Agag, the king of the Amalekites 08:40 – The Seed of Agag comes to Persia/Iran 11:23 – The death of Supreme Leader of Ayatollah Khamenei & Appointed Hebrew Scriptures 16:55 – Haman, Annihilation of Jewish People & Gallows 21:15 – The Mystery of 70,000 People 22:40 – The Tribe of Benjamin shall execute the son of Agag 24:16 – Iranians celebrate the death of Ayatollah 30:14 – The Word for you.
LOL, on this ‘re-cycling’ of wheels turning, we’re taken full circle back to not only what the Lord showed me 40 years ago, but also to the early days post-launch!
JESUS PROPHESIES ABOUT FALSE PROPHETS
In His Olivet discourse predicting the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and Signs of the Times and End of the Age, as recorded in Matthew 24 (NKJV), Jesus says this about imminent destruction and subsequent events, and He implies momentous times in far distant future:
“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. 10 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. 11 Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. 12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
15 “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), 16 “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. 18 And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. 19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! 20 And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. 21 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the [c]elect’s sake those days will be shortened.
23 “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it. 24 For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25 See, I have told you beforehand.”
Last May we briefly examined the subsequent historical reference to the arrival of The Abomination in the person of Caliph Umar in 637AD, AND Jesus’ warning about FALSE prophets may well be regarded as prophesying about the birth of Islam 600 years later!
NEWS OF ATTACK ON IRANIAN REGIME
Doubtless the weekend news of Israel and US actions against the Iranian regime may have assuaged Neil Mackereth’s concerns expressed in the previous post, as well as answered prayers for Western leaders to be aware of the Shiite leaders’ extremely dangerous ideology.
I was reminded of how the Lord showed me – a ‘not-yet’ believer – about the accuracy of Bible prophecy, as recounted in Bio Info – Grabbed by an ‘Invisible Hand’ (rehearsal of ‘liberation’ of Jerusalem!) and 20 years later my emailing and subsequent blogging on the Middle East.
Also, within months of launching this blog I’d posted a couple of pointed revelations on Jewish and Shiite Muslim ‘End-time’ expectations, viz:
JEWISH RABBI MEETS HA’MASHIACH
Who are the Jewish People Expecting? (31.7.12) refers to one of Israel’s largest websites, Ynet, displaying a banner proclaiming the coming of the Messiah! The report quoting this news states the source of this proclamation is not known:
“The Messiah is in Israel. This will be the last government of Israel.”
‘I have since discussed with a friend based at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and he is of the opinion that this announcement probably came from the American Sid Roth, Christian host of a TV series upon the supernatural and scriptural events. But, he advises, Sid’s method is not the best way of getting the attention of Israelis.
My friend reminded me that one of Israel’s most prominent rabbis, Yitzak Kaduri, is reputed to have met the famous Messiah whom Jews have been expecting for millenia. Shortly before he died in January 2006 aged 108, Kaduri wrote the name of the Messiah by means of a simple acrostic code using the Hebrew alphabet, as do the first letter of each line of Psalm 119. This code was written in a small note, which he requested should stay sealed for a specific period.
This link to Yeshua Ha’Meshiach Ministries provides details of what happened. Also, you may learn about it on this video from evangelistic YouTube PPN News & Ministry (PP Simmons), which is famous for having gone viral upon its launch..”
DECEASED SUPREME LEADER CLAIMS HE MET THE ‘MAHDI’
In Iranian Leader’s End-Times Declaration (20.7.12) as follow-up to previous day’s Iranian Leader: We must Prepare for the ‘End Times’ I cite Joel Rosenberg:
“In July 2010 Ayatollah Al Khamenei, according to one senior cleric, was “telling his inner circle that he was visited by the Hidden Iman and that he promised to appear during his tenure as Supreme Leader”. In supposing that Jesus was merely a prophet, ‘Twelvers’ claim Jesus will return with and be subordinate to this Mahdi! …”
(See my email of 19 Aug 2010 now published herein together with its rapid update.)
According to Joel’s source, a couple of months ago a newspaper which Al-Khamenei controls boasted that the many changes in US policy towards Israel under the Obama administration are tantamount to rejection of its M-East ally, thus bringing an end to the US-Israel alliance. According to this report, the Saudi Royal family is the only ‘obstacle’ and, once it falls, then Israel can be ‘destroyed’.
Also, about the same time as publication of that report, billboards were set up in Iranian cities announcing that “Jesus and the Mahdi will come soon” (see here) – but as we know, it is mistaken.’
AND that ‘Mahdi’ didn’t prevent his assassination! – Also, if he really has post-mortem consciousness this regime’s ‘Supreme Leader’ must realise he’d been duped by satan and is now confined to non-stop torment!! OR more likely > he was demon-possessed.
WOW, WOTTA WEEKEND of ‘God-incidental’ prophecies and worship!
The day after hearing Mark Iles’ reference to triple S (‘Stand-up, Step-up, Speak-up”) and reading Chris G Bennet heard the Lord say “Wake up..!” – another triple-S was delivered in Sunday morning’s service by our long-time visiting preacher from Inverness Vineyard, Pete Gilbert. Play video to watch:
Extracts from the Transcript of Pete’s talk:
Wowee, Wotta Weekend of ‘God-incidental’ prophecies and worship!
You may have seen brief passing references on my Facebook and Telegram to what I ‘God-incidentally’ witnessed last weekend, and then some more confirmation came that reminded me of the open vision of Britain I had 22 years ago – OH, my birthday number turns up yet again (I should have kept count of its occurrences of items popping into my view, either in timings or number of shown likes/comments captured in screenshots).
So my friends, kindly bear with this being a personal journal and I trust you’ll appreciate the content of this mini-series. (For brevity’s sake am omitting a pre-waking dream that I came to understand as the morning progressed.)
During the hour’s journey to Saturday morning’s Prophetic Peoples’ Forum at Waypoint Church, Titchfield Common, Fareham I played a non-stop forty minute spontaneous soaking worship CD – Deeper Still – which focuses around one special song. [Coloured lyrics shown for a particular reason]:
Alberto Rivera plays melodic rhythm and directs his wife Kimberly and Laura Rhinehart in singing to Jesus before the hymn and on into Holy Spirit worship, including tongues.
What’s more, it may have been of help in driving after I took a wrong, early turn off M27 west of Portsmouth. I’d only been once before to this church outside Fareham and don’t use satnav because I don’t like to be distracted from the road ahead.
Having been at ease with maps and navigation since a boy, I first check Google Maps before a journey. So, in not recognising the short dual-carriageway off the M27 I thus followed signs to Southampton and enjoyed exploring a new route. About quarter of an hour later I pass a side-road’s name I recognised – Prelate Way – and did U-turn to take it to its end junction and turn to the nearby church.
PROPHECY FORUM – “WAKE UP!”
Ten minutes after my arrival Mark Iles opened the meeting and, without a worship leader, he read a psalm over us – and repeated it – by way of worship.
I was awestruck, for it echoed and thus continued what I’d heard during my journey!
“Praise the LORD, my soul. LORD my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty.
The LORD wraps Himself in light as with a garment, He stretches out the heavens like a tent and lays the beams of His upper chambers on their waters.
He makes the clouds his chariot and rides on the wings of the wind.
He makes angels his messengers, flames of fire his servants….”
Mark’s message entitled Understanding the Signs of the Times emphasised this is a ‘Wake Up’ call, as in my bullet point notes:
Mark’s inspired talk was followed by prophetic ministry from the front by the team, and then practised by delegates in small groups to hear about our own personal SEASON.
I was excited and pleased to have been so blessed, BUT little did I suspect yet more was to follow as though by way of Deuteronomy 19:15 confirmation and establishment of the truth of a matter.
Continue reading for the 2nd Wake Up!
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