Thursday, October 30, 2008, 3:30 a.m. – I woke with this song again:
How You Live / Point of Grace
… Oh wherever you are and wherever you've been
Now is the time to begin
So give to the needy
And pray for the grieving
E'en when you don't think that you can
'Cause all that you do is bound to come back to you
So think of your fellow man
Make peace with God and make peace with yourself
'Cause in the end there's nobody else
Turn up the music
Turn it up loud
Take a few chances
Let it all out
'Cause you won't regret it
Lookin' back from where you have been
'Cause it's not who you knew
And it's not what you did
It's how you live
I also woke from A DREAM: Someone had what looked like a dollar bill but what felt like a bug (like an insect) in a room. I think we were supposed to go through this room in order to get somewhere, but we were able to bypass it. There was some kind of a battle. I think we won, much to the surprise of the person who was trying to keep us from winning. We won because we overcame the obstacle, represented by this room with a dollar bill in it.
I closed my eyes and asked the Lord if there was more and then I heard, “because we pitched them a…” and then I heard, “Joe the Plumber.” END
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Ezekiel 32:
A Lament for Pharaoh
1 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month on the first day, the word of the LORD came to me: 2 "Son of man, take up a lament concerning Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:
" 'You are like a lion among the nations;
you are like a monster in the seas
thrashing about in your streams,
churning the water with your feet
and muddying the streams.
3 " 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
" 'With a great throng of people
I will cast my net over you,
and they will haul you up in my net.
4 I will throw you on the land
and hurl you on the open field.
I will let all the birds of the air settle on you
and all the beasts of the earth gorge themselves on you.
5 I will spread your flesh on the mountains
and fill the valleys with your remains.
6 I will drench the land with your flowing blood
all the way to the mountains,
and the ravines will be filled with your flesh.
7 When I snuff you out, I will cover the heavens
and darken their stars;
I will cover the sun with a cloud,
and the moon will not give its light.
8 All the shining lights in the heavens
I will darken over you;
I will bring darkness over your land,
declares the Sovereign LORD.
9 I will trouble the hearts of many peoples
when I bring about your destruction among the nations,
among lands you have not known.
10 I will cause many peoples to be appalled at you,
and their kings will shudder with horror because of you
when I brandish my sword before them.
On the day of your downfall
each of them will tremble
every moment for his life.
11 " 'For this is what the Sovereign LORD says:
" 'The sword of the king of Babylon
will come against you.
12 I will cause your hordes to fall
by the swords of mighty men—
the most ruthless of all nations.
They will shatter the pride of Egypt,
and all her hordes will be overthrown…
16 "This is the lament they will chant for her. The daughters of the nations will chant it; for Egypt and all her hordes they will chant it, declares the Sovereign LORD."
17 In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me: 18 "Son of man, wail for the hordes of Egypt and consign to the earth below both her and the daughters of mighty nations, with those who go down to the pit. 19 Say to them, 'Are you more favored than others? Go down and be laid among the uncircumcised.' 20 They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; let her be dragged off with all her hordes. 21 From within the grave the mighty leaders will say of Egypt and her allies, 'They have come down and they lie with the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword.'
… "You too, O Pharaoh, will be broken and will lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword…
My Understanding: The battle is the political race to the White House. The “King of Egypt” in this scripture is again describing Barack Obama. He thinks he is more favored than all the others. He has the most campaign money to spend, which I believe is the obstacle for the McCain/Palin campaign, i.e. the dollar in the room that was a “bug,” i.e. an annoyance to them. Yet, they were able to overcome this.
The “sword of the King of Babylon” in the case of this dream seems to be “Joe the Plumber” who the McCain/Palin campaign has “pitched” in hopes of a win. Yet, if they win over Barack Obama, it is because God intervened and he drew the sword:
Although I had him spread terror in the land of the living, Pharaoh and all his hordes will be laid among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword, declares the Sovereign LORD."
How You Live / Point of Grace
… Oh wherever you are and wherever you've been
Now is the time to begin
So give to the needy
And pray for the grieving
E'en when you don't think that you can
'Cause all that you do is bound to come back to you
So think of your fellow man
Make peace with God and make peace with yourself
'Cause in the end there's nobody else
Turn up the music
Turn it up loud
Take a few chances
Let it all out
'Cause you won't regret it
Lookin' back from where you have been
'Cause it's not who you knew
And it's not what you did
It's how you live
I also woke from A DREAM: Someone had what looked like a dollar bill but what felt like a bug (like an insect) in a room. I think we were supposed to go through this room in order to get somewhere, but we were able to bypass it. There was some kind of a battle. I think we won, much to the surprise of the person who was trying to keep us from winning. We won because we overcame the obstacle, represented by this room with a dollar bill in it.
I closed my eyes and asked the Lord if there was more and then I heard, “because we pitched them a…” and then I heard, “Joe the Plumber.” END
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Ezekiel 32:
A Lament for Pharaoh
1 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month on the first day, the word of the LORD came to me: 2 "Son of man, take up a lament concerning Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:
" 'You are like a lion among the nations;
you are like a monster in the seas
thrashing about in your streams,
churning the water with your feet
and muddying the streams.
3 " 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
" 'With a great throng of people
I will cast my net over you,
and they will haul you up in my net.
4 I will throw you on the land
and hurl you on the open field.
I will let all the birds of the air settle on you
and all the beasts of the earth gorge themselves on you.
5 I will spread your flesh on the mountains
and fill the valleys with your remains.
6 I will drench the land with your flowing blood
all the way to the mountains,
and the ravines will be filled with your flesh.
7 When I snuff you out, I will cover the heavens
and darken their stars;
I will cover the sun with a cloud,
and the moon will not give its light.
8 All the shining lights in the heavens
I will darken over you;
I will bring darkness over your land,
declares the Sovereign LORD.
9 I will trouble the hearts of many peoples
when I bring about your destruction among the nations,
among lands you have not known.
10 I will cause many peoples to be appalled at you,
and their kings will shudder with horror because of you
when I brandish my sword before them.
On the day of your downfall
each of them will tremble
every moment for his life.
11 " 'For this is what the Sovereign LORD says:
" 'The sword of the king of Babylon
will come against you.
12 I will cause your hordes to fall
by the swords of mighty men—
the most ruthless of all nations.
They will shatter the pride of Egypt,
and all her hordes will be overthrown…
16 "This is the lament they will chant for her. The daughters of the nations will chant it; for Egypt and all her hordes they will chant it, declares the Sovereign LORD."
17 In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me: 18 "Son of man, wail for the hordes of Egypt and consign to the earth below both her and the daughters of mighty nations, with those who go down to the pit. 19 Say to them, 'Are you more favored than others? Go down and be laid among the uncircumcised.' 20 They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; let her be dragged off with all her hordes. 21 From within the grave the mighty leaders will say of Egypt and her allies, 'They have come down and they lie with the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword.'
… "You too, O Pharaoh, will be broken and will lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword…
My Understanding: The battle is the political race to the White House. The “King of Egypt” in this scripture is again describing Barack Obama. He thinks he is more favored than all the others. He has the most campaign money to spend, which I believe is the obstacle for the McCain/Palin campaign, i.e. the dollar in the room that was a “bug,” i.e. an annoyance to them. Yet, they were able to overcome this.
The “sword of the King of Babylon” in the case of this dream seems to be “Joe the Plumber” who the McCain/Palin campaign has “pitched” in hopes of a win. Yet, if they win over Barack Obama, it is because God intervened and he drew the sword:
Although I had him spread terror in the land of the living, Pharaoh and all his hordes will be laid among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword, declares the Sovereign LORD."