Saturday, November 29, 2008, 8:32 p.m. – I was reading and praying through the Psalms, and I was crying out my heart to God concerning the spiritual condition of our nation and of His church. I got as far as Psalm 7:11 when I put my hands over my eyes and just wept and called on God to do something about the complacency of the church in America.
As soon as I closed my eyes, the Lord gave me A VISION: I saw Hugo Chavez. Then I saw dark skinned children. I assumed they were from Venezuela. Then I heard “India.” Then, in the upper right-hand corner of my brain I saw what looked like a statue of a bulldog. To the left of the statue, I saw people riding on something that looked like a subway car (train). A person was sitting in one of the seats reading a newspaper with his pants dropped all the way down to his ankles.
Then, I heard this song: God and God Alone / Steve Green
God and God alone created all these things we call our own
From the mighty to the small the Glory in them all is God's and God's alone
God and God alone is fit to take the universe's throne
Let everything that lives reserve its truest praise for God and God alone
God and God alone reveals the truth of all we call unknown
and the best and worst of man won’t change the Master's plan
It's God's and God's alone
God and God alone will be the joy of our eternal home
He will be our one desire, our hearts will never tire of God's and God's alone
Then, I heard this song: My Jesus, My Savior / Michael W. Smith
My Jesus, My Saviour,
Lord there is no one like you,
All of my days, I want to praise
The wonders of Your mighty love.
My comfort, my shelter,
Tower of refuge and strength
Let every breath, all that I am
Never cease to worship You.
Chorus:
Shout to the Lord, all the earth let us sing,
Power and majesty, praise to the King!
Mountains bow down and the seas will roar,
At the sound of your name!
I sing for joy at the work of your hands,
Forever I'll love you, forever I'll stand
Nothing compares to the promise I have in You…
I inquired of the Lord if there was more, then I saw the face of G. Gordon Liddy.
Then, I heard a reprise of “God and God Alone.”
God and God alone reveals the truth of all we call unknown
and the best and worst of man won’t change the Master's plan,
It's God's and God's alone
Wow! Thank you, Jesus! END
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Psalm 1-7 and the Lord stopped me at chapter 7, verse 11 (in context):
O LORD my God, I take refuge in you;
save and deliver me from all who pursue me,
2 or they will tear me like a lion
and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
3 O LORD my God, if I have done this
and there is guilt on my hands-
4 if I have done evil to him who is at peace with me
or without cause have robbed my foe-
5 then let my enemy pursue and overtake me;
let him trample my life to the ground
and make me sleep in the dust.
Selah
6 Arise, O LORD, in your anger;
rise up against the rage of my enemies.
Awake, my God; decree justice.
7 Let the assembled peoples gather around you.
Rule over them from on high;
8 let the LORD judge the peoples.
Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness,
according to my integrity, O Most High.
9 O righteous God,
who searches minds and hearts,
bring to an end the violence of the wicked
and make the righteous secure.
10 My shield is God Most High,
who saves the upright in heart.
11 God is a righteous judge,
a God who expresses his wrath every day.
12 If he does not relent,
he will sharpen his sword;
he will bend and string his bow.
13 He has prepared his deadly weapons;
he makes ready his flaming arrows.
14 He who is pregnant with evil
and conceives trouble gives birth to disillusionment.
15 He who digs a hole and scoops it out
falls into the pit he has made.
16 The trouble he causes recoils on himself;
his violence comes down on his own head.
17 I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness
and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.
My Understanding: The focus of this is verse 11 which states:
God is a righteous judge,
a God who expresses his wrath every day.
And, the Lord gave me examples of his righteous judgment and how he expresses his wrath every day:
India: Mumbai attacks: 300 feared dead as full horror of the terrorist attacks emerges - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/353...-horror-of-the-terrorist-attacks-emerges.html
Hugo Chavez: Venezuela, Russia to start naval exercises Monday – “The Russian squadron arrived in Venezuela on Tuesday, led by the nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great — the first deployment of its kind since the Cold War…” http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081129/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_russia_navy
Bulldog: This led me to the sports team “Georgia Bulldogs” which then led me to an article that stated that they got their nickname from a Yale man. Yale is located in New Haven, Connecticut, which is NE (upper right) from me. Georgia (the country) was also mentioned in this article about Venezuela and Russia (also NE of me) which implied that this combined military exercises are a move by Russia as a demonstration of power and in anger to the aid the US gave to the country Georgia during the Georgia/Russia conflict a few months back.
G. Gordon Liddy: “George Gordon Battle Liddy (born November 30, 1930) was the chief operative for the White House Plumbers unit that existed during several years of Richard Nixon's Presidency. Along with E. Howard Hunt, Liddy masterminded the first break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building in 1972. The subsequent cover-up of the Watergate scandal led to Nixon's resignation in 1974; Liddy served four and a half years in prison for his role in the burglary…” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Gordon_Liddy
The man reading the newspaper in the subway car: This is related to vv 11-16 and in particular vv. 15-16 which says:
He who digs a hole and scoops it out
falls into the pit he has made.
The trouble he causes recoils on himself;
his violence comes down on his own head.
This covers many news stories, thus the reference to a newspaper. The obvious symbolism is that of a man sitting on a toilet (the hole he digs and scoops out), and the obvious result is that he is going to fall into the pit (the toilet) he has made for himself. Psalms 1-7 describe this “man” who is a symbol of the ungodly; the violence of the wicked (v.9); and he who is pregnant with evil and who conceives trouble (v.14). The trouble he causes; his violence comes down on his own head.
