RHEMA 3/15/13  THE WARNING OF THE OLD STUMP

VISION:  I saw a large mansized backpack and someone was putting it on his back.

HEARD:  Do you want to wash it?  Do you want to watch it?

[I understood this was related to ensnaring weight (Heb 12:1) in what someone was watching on TV.  Those who fellowship with darkness are not walking in the fear of the Lord and they will be washed.]

Rev 7:14

And I said to him, " Sir, you know." So he said to me, " These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

VISION: I saw someone say, "That's not my choice." The person came up to a massive tree trunk and leaned up against it as though to yearn over and lean against it for assurance and stability.  I have never seen a tree trunk so massive and old and it was such an unusual shape and appearance.  This scripture came to me as I saw the stump, and I wondered if this tree stump was 2000 years old and it represented Jesus' life cut off, and His sons will be His branches that bring forth branches.

Job 14:7-9

"For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease.  Though its root may grow old in the earth, and its stump may die in the ground, Yet at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant.

Isa 11:1

There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots.

UPDATE CONFIRMATION 3/18/13  - I am very careful about what I allow myself to watch on TV.  I often find animal documentaries that are really good.  I was watching a documentary and was shocked to see the exact tree!  I had no idea there were trees like it, and so I was very interested to hear what was to be said.

The tree is called a Boabab tree and sometimes it has the nickname of “the tree of life” due to its longevity.  They grow to over 1,000 – 2,000 years old, and there is one with the carbon dating of 6000 years old that is 72 feet tall  and a 155 foot circumference.  They store a massive amount of water inside them, which can be tapped.  They are drought tolerant to a severe level and that is one of the reasons they live so long.

In the documentary there was a region in Africa where all these old, old trees were dying.  It was so sad to see them because it was barren dust everywhere with no water.  The thirsty elephants would bore their husks into the trunks and drink from them.

The investigators did not want to cut into a live tree to find out what was wrong, but once a tree fell over, it was a few short days and all of the wood changed into fiber threads so they were not able to test them.  They were notified of another tree that had just fallen, and so they rushed to find the tree and cut through the trunk.  They were able to investigate all the rings and go backward in time.  It was very obvious that when the trees were planted in ages past, the earth was very, very moist and has been gradually drying throughout the ages. 

I was left with the sobering impact that these old giants proved that the earth has been going through stages of increasing famine for generations. 

INCREASING LEVELS OF JUDGMENT LISTED

[Famine is level 7.  I could not help but shudder as I read this list of increasing judgment, when in view of the unfolding book of Revelation.]

Lev 26:12-39

I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people.  13 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; I have broken the bands of your yoke and made you walk upright. 

14 "But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments, 15 and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant, 16 I also will do this to you:

1.  I will even appoint terror over you

2.  wasting disease and fever

3.  you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it

4.  you shall be defeated by your enemies.  Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you. 

18 "And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. 

5.  I will break the pride of your power;

6.  I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 

7.  And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit. 

21 "Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me,

8.  seven times more plagues, according to your sins. 

9.  I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be desolate. 

23 "And if by these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me, 24 then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins. 

10.  I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;

11.  I will send pestilence among you;

12.  you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 

13.  cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied. 

27 "And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me, 28 then I also will walk contrary to you in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. 

14.  You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

15.  I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols; and My soul shall abhor you. 

16.  I will lay your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the fragrance of your sweet aromas. 

17.  I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it. 

18.  I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you;

19. your land shall be desolate and your cities waste. 

34 Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies ' land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.  35 As long as it lies desolate it shall rest — for the time it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it.  36 "And as for those of you who are left,

20.  I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee; they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.  37 They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues; and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 

21.  You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.  22. And those of you who are left shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies ' lands; also in their fathers ' iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.

PARABLE 3/18/13:  Today I complained to a software company about an injustice to what I had paid for, and the CEO listened and the Lord answered my prayer!  When the CEO wrote back, he sent me a photo of a huge elephant with a banner that said, “Even the elephant complained.” I was shocked since I have so much rhema about elephants being intercessors, the burden bearers… and I immediately remembered the documentary of seeing those poor elephants banging into the Boabab trees to find water.

HEARD 3/19/13:  Climate.  Documentary.  It’s a sign.  Drought. 

PRAYER:  Lord we as Your righteous remnant see the signs in the earth - that it is groaning under the weight of sin!  How we groan along with it to be redeemed from the bondage of corruption!  Forgive us for lawlessness, murder, sexual sin, idolatry and disobedience to scripture. Forgive us for voting for leaders who stand for such wickedness.  Forgive us Lord for fellowshipping with the world’s values and supping at their table via entertainment.  Forgive us for pushing You out of our schools, government, society and not honoring Your Word.  Lord we sigh and grieve over the decline of morality.

Although we are not worthy, we ask for Your mercy, that You will turn us again.  We ask that You will liberally pour Your salt out upon all Your people and that we will in turn salt the earth.  Father send forth Your rain!  Without the rain of our Spirit, we perish!  We are groaning Lord for Your promised rain.  Come Holy Spirit, You are welcome among us! Give us Your power to overcome and power to stand in loving obedience and say no to the world and no to sin.  In Jesus Name.