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What’s up with the weather?
Taken in case of need, this holiday photo is now serving its purpose – to remind me what wall-to-wall, cloud-less sky is like! And it’s not hard, but not easy, to recall what lies beneath this azure zenith! But 8.30am today I walked in warm sunshine, yet a bank of cloud soon rolled over like a gray blanket – but at least it’s not raining and occasionally getting a bit brighter as cloud thins now and then.
Regarded as the wettest April to June (see report and video) since full detailed records for temperatures and rainfall across the UK began in 1910 – they’re forecasting over a month’s rain in 24hrs! (In the night we heard it like never ever before – it fell so heavily and quickly it sounded like one long roar!) Even now in July it’s unwise to stow away one’s winter wear! There have been ‘exceptional’ torrential rains, stormforce winds, at least one small tornado and widespread flooding, sadly with loss of life – all as was anticipated in my dream reported in What’s prophetical about weather? )
But there’s a blessing, nationally and personally – although much earlier than usual, our holiday took place during a fine fortnight with cool winds, and only one wet day. Two winters of abnormally low rainfall left reservoirs and underground aquifers very dry but they’ve been replenished. Also, plans to ban the use hose-pipes have been scrapped. So thank you Lord – let the river of Your Holy Spirit flow…
Over the ‘pond’
On this side of the Atlantic we’ve got away with things very lightly! Over in the States it’s been a very bad month indeed, as I’ve noted from a couple of blogs. My older cousin south of Tucson, Arizona, is hoping for the ‘monsoon’ as it’s hot and dry (temperatures over 100 degrees F daily) with only a trace of rain this year. The extreme heat then headed eastwards, to affect 25 states and 45 million people, for example:
- massive floods along Gulf coast and in Florida in wake of tropical storm Debby.
- ‘unprecendented’ Colorado wildfires, towering inferno doubled in size overnight.
- 100-120F from the Gulf to Great Lakes, from Kansas eastwards to Atlantic coast.
- ‘Heat wave smashes all-time records’ – ‘Death Valley’ heat (118F) in Kansas
- ‘super derecho slams US’ (very violent thunderstorms): ‘lightning gone wild in DC’.
- inland hurricanes, loss of life and massive power outages affects 3 million.
- and there’s the consequential drought effect upon crops and harvests!!
Now, it’s an interesting and pertinent fact that President Obama had declared June as being devoted to ‘gay pride’, as well as having declared shortly beforehand his personal interest in changing the laws to allow ‘marriage’ for such folk. Many black pastors have challenged and registered strong objections to his actions.
Now, it’s been noted that Obama signed off his official declaration as follows,
“IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand twelve, and of the Indepen-dence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-sixth.” (emphasis added)
Now, is it not an extraordinarily contrary thing to mix this matter with a reference to the life of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour? Can we not sense where His heart is in this matter and what His response is? This president has surely put himself in an invidious position and I would not like to be in his shoes. After all, isn’t it written that Sodom and Gomorrah suffered from intense fire? (Genesis 19:23) Jesus indicated that those cities would, however, have repented had they witnessed His mighty works. Furthermore, His statement implies that there is hope for all who do not reject Him (Matthew 11).
Could this be why the United States has been suffering such stupendously atrocious storms, and continues to reap the whirlwind of darker days? (For fuller discussion see Dr John MrTernan’s Insights blog with journal of events: Defend & Proclaim the Faith.)
I criticised the content of President Obama’s speech in Cairo Speech and expressed reservations about the nature of his faith. After recent ‘clarifications’ on that issue and his address during the National Prayer Breakfast, I have reviewed my reservations – especially the claim that he may be ‘born again’. However, I’ve yet to be convinced.
The fact remains, that whomsoever President Obama is acountable to as his spiritual mentor or pastor seems to have ignored Jesus’ instruction to His Apostles, and hence to all those in spiritual authority, about how to make disciples of believers:
“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:18-20)
This is New King James text, but New International Version renders verse 20 as,
“…teaching them to obey everything I have commanded…”
So just what did Jesus command?
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Back to the blue sky…aaahhh. And what was beneath it? A favourite beach….
Paws-4-thought: what’s prophetical about weather?
They’re saying it’s unusual weather. A couple of weeks ago water supply companies announced intentions to ban the use of garden hosepipes in order to save water. Two extremely dry winters have left supplies at low levels. As I’ve not followed weather developments I’ve not been thinking about it, but an unusual and lucid dream left me wide-awake a week ago today.
That dream featured very dark stormy clouds with very heavy rain and stormy winds – which has since been increasingly so! (Friday’s Telegraph photo is uncannily similar!)
I recalled a prophetic word that Lance Lambert gave last August and which reported the Lord as saying, “I will change her (Britain’s) climate, even her weather…”. Then last night I re-read Jarrod Cooper’s blog 10 Clouds in the Sky dated 5 January and noticed that he opens, “It’s 2012 and I hear the “sound of a heavy rain” (my emphasis)….”!!
The well-known Bible verse on rain is from the early prophet Joel, as at verse 2:23:
“He has given you the former rain faithfully, and He will cause the rain to come down for you – the former rain and the latter rain in the first month”
My NKJV Study Bible’s note on this is interesting: ‘The latter rain is the spring rain that occurs just before harvest. This outpouring of refreshing rain which renews the fertility of the parched ground prefigures the outpour-ing of the Spirit, which will bring spiritual renewal (as in vv 28-32).’ Those later verses are quoted in Acts 2:17-21.
Also, I recall Dr Stone’s reference to unusually strong winds during New Year and which signifies, she suggested, an unexpected and strong move of the Holy Spirit, or breath of God. So, perhaps my dream about weather may have some significance, especially as it strongly hints at the Lord’s plan:
The Dream
Cannot recall the full scenario, but am with my wife and a couple of believers in a public building that’s been badly damaged by strong wind and heavy rain. Someone comes to tell me of their concern over what’s happening all around and I sense a deep fearfulness.
So to my very great surprise, I hear myself replying, “It’s all to do with the two words received this week!” That is, with the prophetic words I’d emailed and posted as, “Get ready!”
At that moment my mind is very lucid and clear, as though knowing in my spirit that what I was saying was of Holy Spirit. [The deep certainty was identical to my response when dreaming last 3rd Sept about angelic preparations for setting up the Kingdom.]
Afterwards, the weather gets worse as a tempestuous wind flattens almost everything before it, but we remain safe…
Upon waking, I was atremble with excitement over perceiving the deep truth behind ‘get ready’. Also because of this, I sensed the Lord wanted me to insert a reference in my just reworked outline of the purpose of this blog. Then on putting my hand to my NKJV study Bible, ‘Jeremiah 10’ sprang to mind and to which I immediately turned. The opening three verses read:
Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel. Thus says the LORD,
“Do not learn the ways of the Gentiles [unbelievers?]; do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, for the Gentiles are dismayed at them, for the customs of the people are futile;…”
The chapter is headed ‘Idols and the True God’ and those opening verses describe well what I dreamed. Then I noted verse 10 and 11 read:
But the LORD is the true God, He is the everlasting King At His wrath the earth will tremble, and the nations will not be able to endure His indignation.
Thus you shall say to them: “The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens”…
Could what had been unfolding in my sleeping and waking mind indicate that the Lord really is up to something very powerful, something that may shake and remove all that is not of Him?
Have we not a little food for thought??
Points to ponder: 2011-2012 and Biblical historical/financial cycles
A few ‘snapshots’ and an extraordinary financial analyst’s uncanny predictions point into this new year.
If the ‘holistic’ appeals to you then you may appreciate both the spiritual/supernatural and the analytical/natural aspects of this posting – I like to indulge my scientific bent now and then! So let me ‘tee-off’ using that ‘iron’ first:
Watcher in The White House
In his weekly updates of March to May 2010, accredited White House correspondent William Koenig reported in depth upon the work of leading financial markets technical analyst Eric Hadik. After four years of having closely followed Hadik’s application of theories of cycles to natural and human events, William wrote that he “found his calculations extremely accurate”. (For more on Eric Hadik see Inside Track.)
A lot of Hadik’s understanding comes from WD Gann’s work on market cycle theories based upon his discoveries in the Bible (!!), and which could be applied to mathematical and geometrical principles! A great deal is related to sunspot activity. In 2006 scientists were estimating the next cycle would be 30-50% more powerful, peaking in 2012 (see link). Thus, Hadik makes very reliable ‘cycle predictions’ no matter whether they be of geological (as earthquakes and volcanoes), scientific (including nuclear), financial markets, political, diplomatic or military matters!
[Aside: From my grounding in physical sciences I know all forms of harmonic motion can be described not only in static and moving images but also mathematically. For example, ‘simple harmonic motion’ of a circle can be drawn on a graph mapping position x time as a basic
What amazes me is the fact that waves in water are not formed by water molecules travelling horizontally like a car down a road. The molecules remain more or less in place about the centre of their up and down bobbing motion, eg. as at the surface. I was taught that the wave is actually a force travelling through the body, like when a held rope is shaken and a wave travels along it. The way waves in water interact as they converge and thus reinforce/cancel one another, makes water’s surface so attractive.]
Hadik’s Predictions:
Koenig’s 2010 reports are fascinating and compelling. Historical records were used in supporting Hadik’s claim that,
“There are dozens of cycles that initially culminate in 2011-13 and then again in 2017-2018’, but the initial phase was in late 2007 to late 2008, when global events began to set the stage for a major ‘battle for Jerusalem’ (whether that be a diplomatic or a military one) in 2011“. (RB emphasis, source Koenig’s Eye View, March 19, 2010)
Hadik shows how major Christian, Jewish and Islamic cycles coincided last year!
So I have just finished checking those and many other claims for 2011 and found most to be correct, especially over Egypt, the Middle East, and the issue of Jerusalem. Readers who’ve followed last year’s events will be well aware of those developments. But in fact, Hadik had arrived at his conclusions upon the international communities’ attempts to force Israel to make huge concessions over Jerusalem and the West Bank in 2005 as the culmination of over ten years analysis (Focus 5768).
Hence, William Koenig could state in his mid-December 2011 news alert:
“There have never been so many biblically significant events in play at the same time, and the developments have been breath-taking in both speed and magnitude.
“In my final Koenig’s Eye View from the White House in December 2010, I wrote that 2011 would be like no other year that we have experienced, and that has certainly proven to be true. We have had numerous weeks that have had a year’s worth of news packed into one week.
“As 2011 closes, many potential events are coming into alignment that will make 2012 an even more remarkable and pivotal year….” (my emphasis)
NB: back in December 2009 Hadik predicted:
“2012??
“…there are Middle East and/or global war cycles that do converge in 2012…including the 11 year cycle of Middle East conflict…(my emphasis)
“It has timed conflicts in 1945, 1956, 1967, 1979, 1990 & 2001 (and actually goes back to the Palestine Mandate of 1922 and Hitler’s ascension in 1933). The next phase is in 2012.
“This also comes during the next phase of a 50/100 cycle of war (for USA)…The next phase is in 2012.” (Source Earth in Transition 3+3II p 5)
Today, Saudi Arabia and Gulf states are on war alert waiting for USA to stand up to Iranian threats to close the Strait of Hormuz and block oil tankers from the Persian Gulf.
Continued in Points to Ponder: Update 1 >>>
UPDATE: See Cycles & the Bible for links to Hadik’s latest pages (June 2015).
By the way – Hampshire, 2011
2011 – a year in which three Christian men living within 25 miles of one another were so concerned about current events that, independently, they felt led to express their concerns.
From his coastal town, JP started blogging on what the scriptures have to say about events today. Yours truly also extended privately circulated emails into a public blog. Also, NM convened classes on the End-Times over two terms in his church in England’s ancient capital, Winchester, thereby attracting several dozen attendees. Additionally, a Baptist pastor in the county’s north-eastern corner is revisiting his understanding of eschatology.
As all that’s happening in rural eastern Hampshire, then how much more is taking place similarly in the major conurbations?
Is an increasing number of Christians in Britain waking up to the fact that…
He’s On His Way
On 23rd December we were very moved upon my opening the large broadsheet Daily Telegraph at its Market Reports page:
Such an interesting place to put this announcement – right in the middle of stocks and shares prices. But why shouldn’t Jesus be central there too? Yet the really strange thing is that we each saw the advert’s image as an hourglass, suggestive of the Lord’s return!
Later, friends were also deeply affected and recognised its prophetic aspect. Our wives both sensed the Holy Spirit fire up within them! AND, L said only a few weeks earlier she’d been walking in town when the Lord burst into her thoughts to say that he’s getting ready to return soon!
Also, in his December letter Mike Evans writes that whilst walking and praying near where Jesus will come when he returns (Mount of Olives in Jerusalem) he was,
“…struck with a new sense of urgency that His coming is to be very soon”.
Not that anyone’s thinking ‘the end is nigh’, but the indications are that heavenly preparations are most definitely in hand – so stay alert!
Let’s keep looking up…
Open doors of opportunity and of revelation
COPY of pre-blog email (as in ‘About’).:
Dear Friends,
Kindly consider Paul Keith Davis’ August e-newsletter as being of value for deep reflection and which may be found on this link.
Therein, Paul Keith covers the distinct possibilities of previous prophetic perspectives coming into fruition. He is most encouraging in discussing our direction for magnifying the Kingdom’s manifestation.
May I further encourage your visiting his ministry’s website to sign up for his E-newsletters? You may be able to receive his special report Affirmations of the Open Door, issued only two days ago. This report’s importance lies in the revelation a month ago of last weekend’s unprecedented tropical storm that swept the US eastern seaboard as far as New England. The word from the Lord was to watch for a physical storm that would come upon Washington DC – “It will be a sign that cannot be prevented” of the commencement of heavenly intervention against the evil one’s plans therein. This could be truly awesome!
In my humble opinion, watchers of the wickedness happening within that leading Christian nation, as well as those familiar with Chuck Pierce’s insights into the spiritual divisions across the USA, will see the relevance of this information.
May the Lord bless you mightily,
More validations of the recent prophetic word
Dear Reader – further to my previous, yet more events seem to indicate the prophetic word to Lance Lambert on 18 April as being from the Lord.
£/Euro/US Finances
Immersed in the deluge of Polling Day’s reports one’s attention could easily miss mention of a massive dip on US stock market, which ‘baffled Wall Street’, and the White House even suspected sabotage (see attached from in-house Christian correspondent Bill Koenig)! And last weekend all European leaders’ attention was firmly fixed upon our dire financial situation.
Interesting to note that Greece, the foundational state of western civilization, is being hammered – could this be connected to the European and American rejection of the God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob? ALSO, seven weeks ago America’s foundational states in New England had exceptionally severe storms with parts of Rhode Island & Massachusetts declared as disaster areas whilst the latter’s senator was talking to Israel’s enemy, Syria. AND in Washington, president Obama had not only insulted PM Netanyahu during his visit but also refused to recognise Israel’s claim to Jerusalem as its capital – contrary to the Lord’s foundational choice!
Gulf of Mexico Oil-Spill
In his latest weekly report Bill Koenig makes most intriguing comments upon BP’s historic role, viz:
- “The Anglo-Persian oil company that became British Petroleum in 1954 pressured the League of Nations and the British government to back off on their commitment to the Balfour agreement; thus, Israel received a small percent of the land intended for it.
- At the time of the Balfour Agreement (1917), the saying was “the sun never set on the British empire” because they had so much land worldwide. Today, the British have lost control of the same percentage of land that they had reneged on with Israel in the Balfour agreement.
- The Exxon Valdez accident happened less than 48 hours after George H.W. Bush and James Baker opened talks with the Palestinians on March 22, 1989. The Valdez accident began late the night of March 23 with the first spill at 12:05 a.m. on March 24.
- The Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20 at the very time Obama’s team was pressuring Israel to restart talks.
- The two largest oil spills in U.S. history corresponded to U.S. actions on Israel’s covenant land. They have also caused America to forego more offshore exploration and become even more reliant on rogue nations for oil.
…Barack Obama may have to answer for the millions in campaign contributions he’s taken from the oil and gas giant [BP] over the years ”
Peace in Middle East?
‘Co-incidentally’ to Lance Lambert hearing from the Lord, on 18 April Iran’s president again voiced his implicit intentions of completing Hitler’s ‘final solution’:
“The Zionist regime is on its way to collapse. This regime is the main instigator of sedition and conflict in the region,” the Iranian president added. “This is the will of the regional nations that after 60 odd years, the root of this corrupt microbe and the main reason for insecurity in the region be pulled out Its supporters and creators ought to stop backing it and allow the regional nations and the Palestinians to settle things with them…”
It’s worth noting, therefore, that the Icelandic volcano spread ashes over northern Europe during Holocaust Remembrance Week 11-18 April !!
Lastly, some brief astute thoughts of a secular expert on ‘peace’ talks – http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2010/05/israeli-palestinian-proximity-talks
Such Biblically relevant times! May the Lord bless you and keep you and yours…
‘Test’ results of the recent prophetic word
Dear Friends,
Further to the word recv’d by Lance Lambert on 18th April, do you know some of the prophesied events are already unfolding as though to prove it true?
His following paras refer:
opening para – collapse of Greek economy and its very possible default on loans; Portuguese and Spanish credit rating deteriorating.
penultimate – USA’s increasing rejection of Christian ethics as now evident by its military’s increasing alignment with the Adminstration’s hard-left ideology and submission to islamist agenda. Three sources report in detail upon:
1. an army strategy document against Christian millennial belief (and displaying an anti-Israel stance) as reported and updated upon in John nMcTernan’s Insights Wed 28th posting (quotes 1st scripture Lord ever gave me direct – re. the New Agers I’d followed!).
2. Pentagon action against Billy Graham’s evangelist son Franklin
3. muslim activists’ barring Franklin’s attendance at National Day of Prayer
I’m saddened to watch that nation’s demise as its president spurns the faith of its founding fathers and encourages unrighteousness. It could lead to disintegration of the Union as Our Father’s hand of blessing and protection is withdrawn, and the USA may not only lose its superpower status but also run the risk of becoming a ‘goat nation’.
Most interesting times…
Richard
Coincidences, or real acts of God?
Friends – does the sudden burst from an Icelandic volcano that’s been bubbling quietly for some weeks indicate God is trying to get our attention?
Why just happen when an area of high pressure is conveniently placed south of that island so that winds get circulated directly to our island 1000 miles away?
Could the following facts point to divine intention?
Headline 6pm BBC News Wed 14 April – UK scientists create embryos formed from man and TWO women! I realised that directly breaks one of God’s ordinances; so will He respond? [Details at link 1 below – and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship provides incisive comments, his blog’s penultimate para is especially pertinent; see 2.]
Another 6pm headline – UK Watchdog bans Israel’s tourism advert showing the Wailing Wall, ‘because the ad implied the part of East Jerusalem featured in the image was part of the state of Israel’ [3]. In other words, the ASA is following the European and American dictats of denying the city to the descendents of its ancient Jewish citizens [4].
The VERY NEXT day all airports in Britain and northern Europe are closed down, 150,000 of our tourists stranded abroad and hundreds of thousands stuck here or overseas unable to travel through Europe!! Days of upheaval and consequential huge financial losses were to follow – a foretaste of the Tribulation? Perhaps the Lord is applying the Isaiah 25 prophetic scenario (see espec v5)?
(Recent posts on John McTernan’s Insights blog refer to this teacher’s carefully chronicled analysis over two decades of natural upheavals and associated political events that may indicate a Biblically significant connection.)
May the Lord open up His scriptures to our minds…
Richard
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A serious phase of judgement and shaking of Superpowers
1st of 4 pre-blog emails (as in ‘About’).:
From: Richard Barker
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 6:29 PM
To: Undisclosed Recipients
Subject: PROPHETIC WORD THROUGH LANCE LAMBERT
Dear Friends – may I urge you to read and weigh the attached (click this link) from one of our leading Bible teachers?
[Permit me an aside: maybe you too have been considering this month’s ‘coincidental’ occurrences of geophysical activities and events concerning Jerusalem? Early this morning I contemplated the implications of Jesus’ post-Resurrection instruction upon the Kingdom, especially His comments upon timing, as in Luke’s tantalising introduction to the Acts of The Apostles – and now alluded to in the close of the attachment received this afternoon.]
May the Lord bless you and keep you in these times…
Richard
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