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Monday, October 26, 2009, 7:55 a.m. – I woke this morning from a dream.

THE DREAM: Scene one: There were wrecked cars parked on the north side of the street. The bodies of the cars were all torn up with metal sticking up everywhere (like there had been an explosion inside of them). The owners were trying to take the cars away, I assumed to be repaired, but they were meeting with resistance from other people. It didn’t make sense to me why other people would try to keep these owners from taking their wrecked cars to get them fixed. I had the sense that these cars/drivers had possibly collided with each other, and so there was some hostility between them. One owner had another person drive his car away while he rode in the vehicle. The car drove off to the right (east).

Scene Two: I went to see a movie with my two oldest children, David and Jenny. I believe that I left before the movie was over.

Scene Three: I had been at school. I couldn’t remember if I had driven to school or not, so I didn’t know if my car was at school or at home. Yet, I didn’t check to see if it was at school before I accepted an offer from a woman to drive me home. I felt as though this woman was a teacher. There was an affectionate relationship between us (or I had a great affection toward her). I know that I wanted to kiss her on the cheek before I left. She dropped me off at my house, which was an old house that sat up on a hill.

It was dark outside. All the lights were off/out in the house, too. I asked her if she wanted to come inside for a visit, but she declined. I think I felt embarrassment about my house and my invitation for her to come inside to visit was to show her our house in a kind of mockery of our house, I think. We were sitting in her car talking when I asked her if she had seen the movie that I was viewing with my children. I don’t recall her response. Her car was in a driveway or a street just off to the right (east) of the front of my house. And, that is where she dropped me off.

Then, my family showed up. And, it began to snow. I told them how I had left my car at school, because by this time I could see that my car wasn’t at home. I could see that the snow, too, was coming down really hard and I felt as though we were probably going to be snowed in for the weekend. So, I said I would need someone to drive me to school on Monday morning, or at least, I felt it was a Monday.

My family that had arrived consisted of an adult and three young boys. Someone asked me about the three boys’ names, but I couldn’t remember. I said something to the effect that I could remember my children’s names, but it is harder to remember the names of the grandchildren. In my mind, though, I had this feeling that one of the boys, the oldest one, was my son and not a grandson, even though all three boys were close in age. END

Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Jonah 4:

Jonah's Anger at the Lord 's Compassion
1 But Jonah was greatly displeased and became angry. 2 He prayed to the LORD, "O LORD, is this not what I said when I was still at home? That is why I was so quick to flee to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. 3 Now, O LORD, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live."
4 But the LORD replied, "Have you any right to be angry?"

5 Jonah went out and sat down at a place east of the city. There he made himself a shelter, sat in its shade and waited to see what would happen to the city. 6 Then the LORD God provided a vine and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the vine. 7 But at dawn the next day God provided a worm, which chewed the vine so that it withered. 8 When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah's head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die, and said, "It would be better for me to die than to live."

9 But God said to Jonah, "Do you have a right to be angry about the vine?"
"I do," he said. "I am angry enough to die."

10 But the LORD said, "You have been concerned about this vine, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight. 11 But Nineveh has more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well. Should I not be concerned about that great city?"

My Understanding: After I read this passage of scripture, I read the commentary in the bottom margin of my NIV Study Bible and I made some notes. Immediately I began to plug this dream in with this passage of scripture, and I marked where I believed the scriptures and the dream paralleled. Then, I picked up the newspaper to read it, and I read these news articles:

Iraqi searches for brothers in ancient cemetery where thousands of bodies lie unclaimed - Iraqi searches for brothers in ancient cemetery where thousands of bodies lie unclaimed | The Herald - Rock Hill, SC

Massive Baghdad bombing casts doubt on Iraqi security, elections
Massive Baghdad bombing casts doubt on Iraqi security, elections - 10/25/2009 - MiamiHerald.com

And, again, these news articles also began to plug into this dream and also with this passage of scripture. Then I got on the computer and read more articles:

Baghdad steps up security after bombs kill 155
Excite News - Baghdad steps up security after bombs kill 155

Iraqis mourn victims of worst bombing in 2 years
My Way News - Iraqis mourn victims of worst bombing in 2 years

Obama plays golf with a woman - Obama played golf with a woman — chief domestic policy adviser Melody Barnes — for the first time since taking office.
POLITICO CLICK: President Obama ties George W. Bush on golf - Patrick Gavin

From what I am seeing here, I believe that Obama and Jonah are being paralleled to some degree, though not entirely. I’ll get to that in a minute. First of all, I must say that this is moving to me to tears, that it is beyond my ability to comprehend or to put together. I trust the Lord Jesus Christ, my heavenly Father and the Holy Spirit will grant this Lord’s servant understanding of all of this.

The dream began with wrecked cars that were parked and that the bodies of which were all torn up with metal sticking up everywhere. They looked as though they had been exploded from inside. Most of these news articles are about the violence in Iraq and in Afghanistan, especially since the USA invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and in Iraq since 2003. One article (the first listed) talked about the unidentified dead from Sadam Hussein’s Iraq and then it described the unidentified dead since America entered Iraq in 2003.

In the dream, further on down, I could not remember the names of three boys who were part of my family. I believe they symbolize the forgotten; the unidentified and nameless people who have died since the USA took possession in Iraq, and also in Afghanistan. In Iraq, the unidentified number at least 22,000. They lie unclaimed. “The morgue has received nearly 30,000 bodies in the past three years,” according to this AP news article. And, when family members come to try to claim them, they are met with resistance. So, in this case, the car “bodies” represent people’s lives as well as they represent these car bodies. Mainly they represent human beings.

The movie - In the case of this first article, the movie represents a “small viewing room where pictures of bloodied and bloated bodies flash across a large screen in a gruesome slideshow.” This is how families of the dead are able to identify their loved ones who have died.

Then, the next series of articles are about violence that erupted in Iraq on Sunday with two suicide car bombings that killed 155 and wounded another 500 people. And, they are about helicopter crashes in Afghanistan in which US soldiers were killed. There were three American contractors among the wounded in Iraq, according to the AP News article, “Iraqis mourn victims…” To many of us, these numbers are just statistics. The people are nameless. But, to the people of Iraq, these are their loved ones. In Iraq, suicide bombers set off explosions outside Iraqi government buildings. “This was the deadliest day in Iraq since April 2007,” according to the Miami Herald news article. The attacks struck at government buildings that were supposed to be secure. The simultaneous blasts took place around 10:30 a.m. Sunday morning, “the first day of the workweek in Iraq,” according to the article. This would coincide with me mentioning needing a ride to work on Monday morning in the dream.

The Miami Herald article said,
“American and Iraqi officials were hoping for a calm election season that would pave the way for a swift U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, but a political stalemate over election laws and the insurgents’ continued ability to exploit the Iraqi government’s vulnerabilities are potential spoilers. Now the January polls are in jeopardy, along with the Obama administration’s goal of leaving behind a much more stable Iraq than the weak, violence-ridden nation of recent years. ‘The United States will stand with Iraq’s people and government as a close friend and partner…’ said President Barack Obama.”

The movie – “Americans at the scene asked Iraqi security guards for surveillance videos from buildings in the area, and investigators took soil samples and carted off pieces of twisted metal,” stated the Miami Herald article.

To be continued...
 

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Continued...

In Afghanistan, helicopter crashes killed 14 Americans on Monday, according to the excite news article. “The deaths came as President Barack Obama prepared to meet his national security team for a sixth full-scale conference on the future of the troubled war,” according to the article. “In a separate incident in the south, two other U.S. choppers collided while in flight, killing four American troops and wounding two more, the military said.” “US authorities have ruled out hostile fire in the collision but have not given a cause for the other fatal crash in the west.” “The deaths bring to at least 46 the number of U.S. troops who have been killed in October.” Again, to many Americans these are merely statistics, but to these soldiers’ family and friends, these represent the loss of loved ones. I have a son in Afghanistan, so I feel with them.

Ok, so what does all this mean, and how does it connect with the scripture and with the dream? Other than what I have already mentioned above, I believe the picture being painted for me here is that Obama (and his administration) have the same attitude toward our enemies as Jonah had towards his. Jonah didn’t want to answer the call of God to go tell Nineveh the message God had for them, because he was afraid that the people might repent and that God would be gracious to them, because he is a gracious God, and that he might spare them. Jonah didn’t want them to be spared. Only for Obama and his administration, the “enemy” has a much broader meaning to include anyone that is not in line with what Obama and the White House wants to do, and that includes their own people here in the USA, as well.

I believe I am representing Obama, at least in scenes two and three I am. The main thing I am seeing here is that Obama (our government) is the one who left a bomb-laden vehicle in front of those government buildings in Iraq. So, this “school” is the school of hard knocks, obviously. Jonah delivered a message of coming judgment. Obama is a different kind of messenger. He delivers the “judgments.” So, I left my car at “school” and then I accepted a ride from a woman teacher to “drive me home.” That brings me to the news article about Obama’s golf games. Apparently he has played more golf in nine months in office than Bush did in three years in office.

“President Obama, accused of running a fratboy White House by some women's advocates, went golfing Sunday with a woman for the first time since he took the oath of office. Melody Barnes, 45, Obama's chief domestic policy advisor, accompanied the nation's commander in chief to a golf outing at the U.S. Army's Fort Belvoir golf course in Virginia…” Two Obama golfing milestones, one game: Prez plays with woman for first time, ties Bush's total


The thing that is striking about this is that these government offices in Iraq were bombed Sunday morning, 155 dead, 500 wounded, including three Americans (the children whose names I could not recall in my dream), and I, Obama, went golfing. The woman in the car with me in the dream is Obama’s chief domestic policy advisor (the teacher). She was “driving” me “home.” The term “drive” in a game of golf means – “shots hit with a driver, 3-wood or 1-iron or driving iron” and a driver is the golf club itself. Drive - Definition of Drive.

So, I, Obama, left my car at the “school” and then I went and played a game of golf with this woman. I asked her if she had seen the “movie,” i.e. I asked her if she had seen the surveillance videos. I believe the Lord is showing me here that Obama saw what was going on over there and that he didn’t care or he wanted it to happen.

I compared this to the story of Jonah. Jonah did not want God to show mercy to Nineveh, so he sat down at a place east of the city. There he made himself a shelter, sat in its shade and waited to see what would happen to the city. I was sitting in a car east of my house in the dream, which I believe represents either the White House or the Capital Building, i.e. the government of the USA. Philosophically speaking Obama is seated “east” of the USA and the US government, I believe. And, in real life, Obama took his “shade” from a golf game with a beautiful woman. Obama stated that the US would stand with Iraq and their government as a “close friend,” yet the “close friend” he was standing with on Sunday was this woman adviser. And, the Lord is saying, I believe, that this invitation to a golf game (me inviting her inside) was a mockery to the USA or to the US government of the USA and perhaps to his own house, as well.

There may be more to this, since the car was seated to the ‘east’ of the US government and “seat” has to do with rule and authority. I wanted to invite her “inside” the USA government, so she may represent someone else or she may represent another country we are inviting inside our country, like Iraq. Ok, another thing just occurred to me. I had told my husband, and others, many times that the USA did not build that Embassy in Iraq that is the size of the Vatican and is a self-contained city in order for us to leave Iraq. I’ve had many dreams where I felt as though that was built to be the future seat of government for the USA or the NWO, perhaps. So, for Obama and this woman to be seated in the east would seem to indicate that they are ruling from the east, especially in light of the fact that the seat of government here in the USA had all its lights out, i.e. there is no one at home.

As I read through this again, it occurred to me that the “woman” represents Iraq’s government. She has been invited “inside” our government which appears to not be the USA government since no one is at home there (all the lights are out), and since I, as Obama, am now ruling with this woman from the east. So, it appears that Obama is inviting the Iraqi government inside this new form of government, perhaps the NWO, but she declines. I asked her if she has seen the movie, which is a reference to pictures of bloodied and bloated bodies. It appears to me that this is some kind of a threat and that the bombings in Iraq were either part of the threat itself or they were the aftermath of the threat because the woman declined the invitation. This sounds like Chicago mob-style politics at work here.

The bottom line in all of this without going into more massive detail is that the US government or a certain faction within the USA government, namely Obama’s administration, is seen here to be like Jonah in that they want to see bad things happen to their “enemies” as they define “enemies,” and that includes their own people, i.e. their own “family” members who are among the forgotten and who are among the nameless statistics of the dead. In the case of our government, though, they didn’t just deliver messages of coming judgment and then sit under a shade tree and watch to see what happens. They, I believe, delivered the bombs and then they waited to see what happened. And, God will judge them for their actions.

The other thing that stands out to me is the devaluing of human life and the lack of compassion that was seen by Jonah as well as is being seen by the US government, and perhaps is reflected in the people of the USA, as well. How many of us weep when we read these stories about people being slaughtered and blown to pieces in these other countries? How many of us even think about how our presence in these countries is contributing to, if not causing all of this violence and this massive loss of human life? The Lord told Jonah that he was concerned about the hundreds of thousands of people who cannot tell their right hand from their left hand, and the animals, as well. He rebuked Jonah because Jonah was more concerned about a vine than he was about the people of Nineveh. And Barack Obama was more concerned about a golf game than he was about the people dying in Iraq.

And, we, as Americans, are often more concerned about petty things that don’t amount to anything in light of eternity while there are people all around us who are dying and going to hell. And, God rebukes us, too. And, we, as a nation, will be judged. I woke this morning with this song in my mind:

HOW GREAT THOU ART / Carl G. Boberg and R.J. Hughes

O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder,
Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made;
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy power throughout the universe displayed.

When through the woods, and forest glades I wander,
And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees.
When I look down, from lofty mountain grandeur
And see the brook, and feel the gentle breeze.

And when I think, that God, His Son not sparing;
Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in;
That on the Cross, my burden gladly bearing,
He bled and died to take away my sin.

When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation,
And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart.
Then I shall bow, in humble adoration,
And then proclaim: "My God, how great Thou art!"

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!
 
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Awesome. I always enjoy seeing people using their gifts and growing in the grace of Lord and faith in Him.

I, too, could learn a thing or two about the value of a human life. We all need to learn love truly. And we don't need to look any further than Jesus' death and resurrection on our behalf, as this song illustrates.
 
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Awesome. I always enjoy seeing people using their gifts and growing in the grace of Lord and faith in Him.

I, too, could learn a thing or two about the value of a human life. We all need to learn love truly. And we don't need to look any further than Jesus' death and resurrection on our behalf, as this song illustrates.

Thank you for those wonderful words of encouragement!
 
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I wonder and googling I found that this secretive US compound described here www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,476464,00.html is located in Bagdad. Now looking at this from wikipedia...

Babylon was a city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad. All that remains of the original ancient famed city of Babylon today is a mound, or tell, of broken mud-brick buildings and debris in the fertile Mesopotamian plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in Iraq. Although it has been reconstructed, historical resources inform us that Babylon was at first a small town, that had sprung up by the beginning of the third millennium BCE (the dawn of the dynasties). The town flourished and attained prominence and political repute with the rise of the First Babylonian Dynasty. It was the "holy city" of Babylonia by approximately 2300 BCE, and the seat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from 612 BCE. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
The form Babylon is the Greek variant of Akkadian Babilu (bāb-ilû, meaning "Gateway of the god(s)", translating Sumerian Ka.dingir.ra). In the Hebrew Bible, the name appears as [FONT='Lucida Grande', 'SBL Hebrew', David, Narkisim, 'Microsoft Sans Serif', 'Times New Roman']בבל[/font] (Babel), interpreted by Book of Genesis 11:9 to mean "confusion" (of languages), from the verb balbal, "to confuse".

You may be right on that this will be used as form type of headquarters for the NWO in some fashion.
 
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I wonder and googling I found that this secretive US compound described here www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,476464,00.html is located in Bagdad. Now looking at this from wikipedia...

Babylon was a city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad. All that remains of the original ancient famed city of Babylon today is a mound, or tell, of broken mud-brick buildings and debris in the fertile Mesopotamian plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in Iraq. Although it has been reconstructed, historical resources inform us that Babylon was at first a small town, that had sprung up by the beginning of the third millennium BCE (the dawn of the dynasties). The town flourished and attained prominence and political repute with the rise of the First Babylonian Dynasty. It was the "holy city" of Babylonia by approximately 2300 BCE, and the seat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from 612 BCE. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
The form Babylon is the Greek variant of Akkadian Babilu (bāb-ilû, meaning "Gateway of the god(s)", translating Sumerian Ka.dingir.ra). In the Hebrew Bible, the name appears as [FONT='Lucida Grande', 'SBL Hebrew', David, Narkisim, 'Microsoft Sans Serif', 'Times New Roman']בבל[/font] (Babel), interpreted by Book of Genesis 11:9 to mean "confusion" (of languages), from the verb balbal, "to confuse".

You may be right on that this will be used as form type of headquarters for the NWO in some fashion.

Gracechick,

Thank you for sharing all that information. That article about the US Embassy in Iraq was quite interesting and it basically supported what I was sharing here as far as we did not build that compound in order to leave Iraq. We plan to stay. The Lord keeps showing me, too, that we are now operating from the east. I don't know if a lot of our government is physically in Iraq and only a shell is actually still in D.C. or what. I just sense strongly that the move has been made toward the east because America, as we know it, and the USA, as we know it, will soon change. Obama promised "change" and "change" is what we are getting.

Thanks, too, for the reference to Babylon, because the location of this Embassy does hold Biblical and prophetic significance.
 
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