Old Dog IV
The Gunfight at the Okay Corral
June 29, 2000:
I was suddenly in the “VALLEY OF VISION” with a melody playing in the wind. The wind was blowing a lot of dust. I was walking down a “western” street just like in many old cowboy films. I passed many wooden buildings and hitching posts. Eventually I came to the “edge of town” and came to the corral. Like in the movies it was a simple ”fence” made of wooden rails. It was dark and eerie. Then I realized the “music” was similar to the Italian spaghetti westerns from the 60’s. I wondered how many times I had watched the confrontation between “GOOD” and “EVIL” on either the “silver screen” or the “boob tube,” but now I found myself “walking it out” in a surreal and timeless place.
Unlike the gunfight at the OKAY CORRAL, I had walked in alone. Instead of seeing the Clantons on one side and the Earps and Doc Holiday on the other, the “antagonists” were standing in a circle facing the center…and all the others.
There was a place in the circle, and I new it was ”left for me”. So there I was, trigger finger itchin, and the reality hit me…who am I shooting at? Whose side am I on? And, we all stood waiting….watching. I thought a lot of fast and useless thoughts waiting “TO HEAR” something….anything…from THE THRONE.
After waiting awhile I finally heard THE CAPTAIN speak, “WHO ARE THE GOOD GUYS?”
And I realized it was impossible to tell…who were who?
I was baffled; then I remembered the problems I have had this last year concerning many “dreams”, “visions”, and “prophetic words” that I had come across on the Internet. I also remembered the images from a year ago after a conference in Kremmling, Colorado, that THE LORD gave to me concerning the lack of TRUE HEROES in the eyes of the apostate church; that anything that was heroic in any way was denigrated and attacked. And then I began to look at the faces of the “hombres” in the circle. I began to recognize old ”actors”….Gary Cooper…Alan Ladd…Henry Fonda…Jimmy Stewart…a young John Wayne…..Harry Carey Jr ….Ben Johnson….and many others….depending on their roles they could wear either black hats…or white hats…situations changed….so did they. Just like the “modern” idea of “situational ethics” within both the world and the church seem to prefer over THE WORD OF GOD.
Recently my friend and brother Bill Burns, an anointed servant of my LORD wrote about “DOCTRINE DEFINED” and the concept that THE DOCTRINE OF THE
KINGDOM will come forth to oppose the Doctrines of Men and Demons that hold forth today. Already many ”prophets” and ”apostles” are rising up to the attack. Many who are doing so have long preached and prophesied about a coming ”unity” of THE SPIRIT in the bond of peace. That is Ephesians 4:3, yet here is Bill Burns calling for Ephesians 4:13 and the attacks are from all directions.
13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
There are many voices talking about unity and gatherings, yet when you hear with your spiritual ear it is not THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT speaking; it is man. So when THE CAPTAIN AGAIN SPOKE I again pondered.
For then I heard THE CAPTAIN say, “BUT YOU ALWAYS KNOW WHICH SIDE THE CAVALRY IS ON…OR DO YOU?” It was another question that had no answer. I remembered DANCES WITH WOLVES….LITTLE BIG MAN….other movies where THE TRUTH….to a degree….did not fit the accepted “reality,” and suddenly the reality I was in abruptly changed and I was watching MEL GIBSON ride up to a line of motley looking men in kilts. I was ”watching again” the first battle scene in BRAVEHEART, where one man dared to stand and to speak the TRUTH. Only that man did not look like our PRECONCEPTION of a hero.†
For this hero wore a kilt, had long flying hair, and said the word “arse” with humor. with his face “painted” blue he stood and kept the “motley rabble” from running from the battle. Across from him was the line of shiny armored knights…. banners waving….banners with crosses on them, shields and breastplates with crosses emblazoned for the world to see exactly whose side GOD WAS ON.
But if that were TRUE….then GOD was on the side of the invaders…the side of THE TYRANT….the side that stole, raped, murdered….brother Christians….
So….who are the GOOD GUYS……who is THE ENEMY?
Do we know who serves THE MOST HIGH GOD….or who comes to lie, steal, and kill.
old dog