Sunday, November 02, 2008, 9:44 p.m. – The Lord gave me A VISION: This is how it appeared to me, in this order (includes what I’ve learned so far about them):
- Sidney Poitier - divorced
- Ralph Waite – twice divorced
- A close relative – twice divorced; drug abuse; child abuse victim
- Jennifer Griffin (Fox News)
- Sammy Sosa – Amphetamine use
- Andy Griffith – twice divorced; on third wife
- Women models or high class hookers? Answer: A woman with a skeleton face
- Mandy Moore – possible drug abuse; dresses like a stripper (so sad)
- Orgies - shudder
- Men dressed in drag
- Karl Rove – gay; cross dresser
- Ralph Waite (again)
- A friend
- Peggy Sue (played by Kathleen Turner) – is about fornication, adultery, and divorce
- Ronald and Nancy Reagan – Ronald Reagan divorced first wife, then married Nancy Davis (Reagan)
- I saw a baby being held out in someone’s arms and being rocked and then I saw Todd Palin
- Martha Stewart – husband left her for another woman – divorce
- Young girls as movie stars being sensual
- Young girls in tight fitting outfits dancing
- Michelle Obama – a voice for victims of child sexual abuse
- Dick Van Dyke - divorced
- Sexual Promiscuity
Daniel's Training in Babylon
1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God. These he carried off to the temple of his god in Babylonia and put in the treasure house of his god.
3 Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring in some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility- 4 young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king's palace. He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians. 5 The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the king's table. They were to be trained for three years, and after that they were to enter the king's service.
6 Among these were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. 7 The chief official gave them new names: to Daniel, the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.
8 But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way. 9 Now God had caused the official to show favor and sympathy to Daniel, 10 but the official told Daniel, "I am afraid of my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. Why should he see you looking worse than the other young men your age? The king would then have my head because of you."
11 Daniel then said to the guard whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, 12 "Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. 13 Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see." 14 So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days.
15 At the end of the ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. 16 So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead.
17 To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds.
18 At the end of the time set by the king to bring them in, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar. 19 The king talked with them, and he found none equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; so they entered the king's service. 20 In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom.
21 And Daniel remained there until the first year of King Cyrus.
My Understanding: The Lord is giving a picture here of people who have either been defiled (victims), are presently defiling their bodies in some way or have in the past, or they are people who help others who were/are victims of being defiled by someone (rape, incest, child sexual abuse). He is showing, too, the many ways in which our bodies can be defiled:
- Divorce – when we marry someone, we become “one flesh” so when we divorce, we are defiling that “one flesh” by breaking it in two
- Substance abuse
- Victims of child abuse; child sexual abuse; victims of adulterous relationship of spouse; child victims of divorced parents, etc.
- Sexual promiscuity
- Gay/Lesbian lifestyle
- Adultery
- Fornication
- Orgies
- Cross dressing
- Eating Disorder (sure someone on this list has or had this)
- Young girls being dressed sensually, tight clothes, dressed to look like hookers
- Abuser; perpetrator (maybe some on the list fit here)
Listen to the song here: http://club.brightpod.com/kickapps/_Only-Hope-Mandy-Moore/audio/120007/27587.html
"Only Hope" / Written by Switchfoot
There's a song that's inside of my soul
It's the one that I've tried to write over and over again
I'm awake in the infinite cold
But You sing to me over and over and over again
So I lay my head back down
And I lift my hands
and pray to be only Yours
I pray to be only Yours
I know now you're my only hope
Sing to me the song of the stars
Of Your galaxy dancing and laughing
and laughing again
When it feels like my dreams are so far
Sing to me of the plans that You have for me over again
So I lay my head back down
And I lift my hands and pray
To be only yours
I pray to be only yours
I know now you're my only hope
I give You my destiny
I'm giving You all of me
I want Your symphony
Singing in all that I am
At the top of my lungs I'm giving it back
So I lay my head back down
And I lift my hands and pray
To be only yours
I pray to be only yours
I pray to be only yours
I know now you're my only hope
Yes, Jesus! You are my (our) ONLY hope!
But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way.