Reminds me of the cross in the sky that Constantine saw.. then went on to conquer the world through Roman CC.
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Baptism by fire
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Shalom, Rayesta!
I read your posts and thought that I might like to answer and would consider it, but then I understood these things to offer as you go about working out in your life what you have been shown in your spirit. I know you don't know me and have no reason to take in what I am writing, except that you did feel led to be here at CF, and I am praying that Elohim will keep what is meant for you clear and blow away anything that is NOT for you.
I agree with the others who have affirmed this is a powerful message.
I think you probably know already, that it is always important to be certain that any experiential things like this need to be balanced and affirmed within the Word? Otherwise, it is far too easy to go off in some strange tangent.
The Hebrew word for trees is etz, from which we get the word for counsel, etzah. One can be either a tall straight tree as an elder, offering wise counsel of YHWH, or one can be a twisted gnarled tree offering unwise, unholy counsel. A tree appearing in any word from Him would always be a pretty important picture in any message.
It sounds akin to me to the reason that YHWH told His people to stay back from Mount Sinai, and Moshe to stay back from the bush.
He is a consuming fire, aish Strong's #784
Yet, if He is calling you and preparing you, that same consuming fire would be of no danger to you as it would to others who are not so specifically called/prepared.
Deuteronomy 4:24 and confirmed again in Hebrews 12:29.
Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou [art] a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way
And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments. For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye [are] a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
Exodus 33:33-35
It is for our protection, not to be unkind, that He doesn't go up in our midst at times...because of the un-holiness in us which His holiness/set apart-ness must consume. Yet when we have allowed Him to do His work in us, any remaining un-holiness is covered through Yeshua.
then there might also be the comparison to Isaiah:
Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, [which] he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:And he laid [it] upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
and possibly a key for you:
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here [am] I; send me. Isaiah 6:5-8, but really the whole portion!
If I were you, I would be praying and reading any portions of Scripture that are related to what you have experienced, asking Him to show you what He wants you to know. I would also be carefully journaling any such experiences with dates and any Scriptures that seem relevant at the time. We always THINK we will recall every detail, but time can blur them, depending how long it might be until Abba brings it all into greater focus for you.
It has often taken me a year or more to come to some kind of understanding as to what I have heard/seen in my spirit, and even then, there can be different layers of meaning that He doesn't make clear to me until His timing is right. I have observed this with others, too.
Also, in regard to your not taking up the first offer, and praying for it to come again, may i say this: I understood in the mid 80's that God was going to be asking something of me that had to do with "end times" which scared me to death and I had what I call my 'Jonah years", trying hard to ignore or avoid whatever it might be. But in the end, I had to be obedient, because He is our strength and our song, He is the One Who will bring us to exactly the correct place He has intended all along.
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Was God asking you to be a witness in the end times in the mid 80's. Have you had dreams where fire proceeded out of your mouth and destroyed those also that had fire proceeding out of their mouths, but your flame was blue and their's was red?
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