Old Dog IV
Red Flags
Bob Neumann
I was having a very nice day with my wife… furniture shopping…when she suddenly got “ill” and “very tired”. So instead of going to the new restaurant she had been wanting to go to we got take out burgers and went home. She ate and went to bed…. And is still asleep…almost 4 hours later. So with her safe at home and errands backed up I went out again.
I was in Wal-Mart when that “feeling” of “something” behind me began. Up to that point I had had no RED FLAGS whatsoever. But I immediately realized the errands were unnecessary.
If you ever find yourself in an aisle at WAL-MART…singing battle song…sniffing for “enemy”…. pushing an empty shopping cart….from aisle to aisle…don’t feel bad…you ain’t the first. In Miami I could sing in the spirit under my breath and not worry about anyone noticing. In Miami few use american…many are on “pharmaceuticals” that should not be…. And there are many in great need of proper medication. So singing in tongues is no big deal…no one notices, no one cares…
Not so in North Carolina…people notice…and move away…. when I first noticed that “they” noticed…. I was surprised…. I was not sure why I was…middle aged overweight male with long hair singing in foreign language on aisle 13…send security…. It seems like a joke now as I type this…but at the time….
At the time I was quickly moving from observation/ recon mode to “search and destroy” without a target in the crosshairs. It was a definitive “first” time where THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT radar was “lit up” and I was singing in tongues…. All dressed up for battle…and no one shows up to go waltzing matilda…
After over half an hour of walking back and forth and getting farther on the edge than I have ever felt, and there was nothing there.
Now this was between 2:10 and 3:15 today…if anyone sensed anything out there at this time…no one has said anything and it will be 5pm in 3 minutes….
But two things did happen as this 65 minute period “ended”… first was when I realized things were not as I had “discerned” I came to a stop in a main aisle with several promotional displays in the aisle itself. The first was a sale of vegetable oil….large bottles…did not notice the brand. Second was different “easter candy”…. Third were books…. And I got that cold chill up and down my spine…
My first response was “this can’t be “IT” “. And I went over to it…wondering what was there…to say I was again surprised…is an understatement…or maybe not…right now I am only sure of only one thing…HE HAS MY ATTENTION… SCATTERED SHEEP yesterday…. AND….”LEFT BEHIND….” today… the display was of the Tim LeHaye books…the “LEFT BEHIND” series…and the first thing I read was a title… DESECRATION and that cold chill got stronger…. Then I kept reading titles…. SOUL HARVEST APPOLYON NICHOLAE now I read the first one years ago and even rented the video. I regret to say as a writer of fiction, Mr. LeHaye is at best second rate…or he was. I sure felt no desire to buy any today…. And I just stood looking at the titles…. especially the ones that THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT seemed to be pointing to… and then the ones that were not “hitting my buttons”.
ASSASSINS…THE MARK…. TRIBULATION FORCE…. THE INDWELLING All were not catching my spirit man…but that first one was…as were the other three. I started to ask HIM WHY…. And HE STARTED TALKING…. I was listening…. “I DWELL IN THE PLACE PREPARED. EVEN IN THE WILDERNESS I TABERNACLE WITH THOSE WHO ABIDE IN ME. THAT IS WHY THE SHEEP CAN BE SCATTERED AND STILL DWELL SAFELY.” with that I thought immediately of the vision and MAMA and BABY…again answer came before I could ask the question…
“I SENT YOU DIDN’T I? AND THERE WERE EWES LACTATING AND GRASS AND WATER IN THE GLADE? WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?” and I was stumped…. And then I thought of several posts from the WPA…. as if out of nowhere. When I read them I felt no urging to respond…. But there and then they came to mind…. AS DID AN ANSWER. “IS IT NOT WRITTEN THAT THERE WOULD BE PERSECUTION? DO THE FACTS AND STATISTICS BOTHER TOO MANY OF THE VERY ELECT? WHAT MAKES SOME FEEL THAT THEY ARE SPECIAL AND ABOVE THE POSSIBILITIES OF RISK AND INJURY? DOCTRINES OF MEN AND DEMONS CAN SPRING UP IN THE STRANGEST OF PLACES DOG, WHY LOOK FOR THEM WHEN THEY WILL SEEK YOU OUT?”
At this point I was lost…no answers…all questions. And all of a sudden the memory of what ABBA had said shot through my spirit…. About UNDERSTANDING THE PURPOSE…. So I looked up and down at the books and just not sure which one was the trigger… and I remembered that these were all “post-rapture” books. And another question came… “HOW MUCH TRUTH DO YOU NEED TO MIX WITH LIES TO COOK UP A MAJOR DECEPTION?” and I thought of THE LEAVEN and realized HE HAD TURNED IT AROUND ON ME….
“ALL THE TRUTH SPOKEN AND WRITTEN MATTERS LITTLE IF EVEN A LITTLE LIE IS PRESENT. LITTLE SIN IN THE CAMP MEANS BIG TROUBLE FOR ALL WHO GO TO AI. THEY DO NOT KNOW ME AND MY WORD WELL ENOUGH TO TRUST IN THEIR OWN UNDERSTANDING.”
Once again I took a double take…. And I heard HIS LAUGHTER…. “IF THEY KNEW ME, DOG, THE LAST THING THEY WOULD TRUST IS THEIR OWN UNDERSTANDING. HERE IS A GOOD CASE OF MY REAPING WHERE I PLEASE. SO WHY DO THEY TAKE THE LOGOS AND SPIN WEBS OF DECEPTION AS THEY PLEASE?”.
“No fear”….was my answer…. And I remembered that used a lot on T-shirts not long ago… “YOU GOT IT DOG…SO RUN WITH IT”. Now I did not exactly run out of the store…. That was not what HE meant. I had one package of cookies in my shopping cart. After walking around the store as long as I did and not buy something felt like being “conspicuous”. So I went to the express line. And right there was a display of VIDEOS…. And one jumped out at me and I bought it.
I came home and saw that the VCR had finished taping…. I forgot I had set it up early this morning. So I rewound it a bit…. And watched a squad go over the wall and the “kraut” machine guns open up. The house fell and a GI started to talk to himself…(he wrote to his sister and would compose them in his head before on paper…. maybe I should try it)…and he said….”Dear Frances…. It is twelve noon and we just took a farmhouse and blew up a bridge…it was so easy….” and I stopped and rewound and counted the men who “fell”… and I realized something…it is all a matter of perspective. as is persecution… and the movie ends with a song about “A WALK IN THE SUN”…. Oh…the VIDEO I bought…. RED DAWN…. That’s one for you EDITH….
That brings another story…but that will wait till later….
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