Old Dog IV
Don’t You See?
November 21, 2000:
Last night I had an ”interesting” experience. Or at least that is a description of what took place that is ”safe”, at least for a season. It all started in the FIELD OF VISION where I stood on top of a great stone spire. The kind you see in old movies about the ”cowboys and Indians. There is a place ”out west” called ”MONUMENT VALLEY” where mountains and rock predominate. Frankly it is a desolate wasteland…..but a great backdrop to the stories that needed to be told. And I guess that is why THE KING OF KINGS used it.
I found myself standing on this platform of rock lifted supernaturally above the surrounding terrain. In the far distance on the ground I ”saw” specks moving across the valley floor traveling slowly from the right to the left. After awhile as their slow progress continued I ”saw” another group come from the upper left of my ”field of vision”. This second group was moving very fast in the direction of the first slower group. My immediate ”reaction” was that ”an attack” was coming. In my ”mind” I ”saw” countless Hollywood creations of epic proportions where the ”good guys” are attacked by ”the bad guys” and eventually win. Then I heard HIS VOICE ask ”ARE YOU SURE?”
At that point I ”stepped back” and looked at THE LAMB OF GOD. HE was dressed in the same bib overhauls HE WORE when I saw HIM last. A vision I chose not to write down and send out in the early morning two weeks ago right now. It was a vision more momentous than any I had ever seen, now evaluated in hindsight. It is because of that ”sin” I am to write what took place now.
Seeing HIM dressed that way I was brought back to the reality that I had willfully disobeyed. Again HE ASKED, “ARE YOU SURE?” I had no answer. I really don’t know, which makes all my ”interpretations” and ”evaluations” valueless. Like I said in the past, HE can out wait anyone and everyone, so I answered “no, LORD”.
With that HE pointed back at the converging ”specks” on the valley floor. “WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?”, HE ASKED. And suddenly in my mind I saw a collage of ”images” and ”characters. Things from my memories. John Wayne, Errol Flynn, and many others valiantly ”in battle”. VIVID, yes…..but all ”make-believe” from TV and the ‘SILVER SCREEN’. Inside me was the answer I wanted to give, yet I knew something was wrong. At that point I felt HIS HAND on my shoulder and I began to cry. “WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO, DOG?” HE ASKED in that quiet VOICE I have heard in times of pain and fear. I looked into HIS FACE and realized I was ‘safe’, and I answered. “I want to warn them, LORD”, I replied. “WHO WOULD YOU WARN?”, HE ASKED. “the people about to be attacked”………. “BUT HAVEN’T YOU DONE THAT OVER AND OVER?” I looked back at HIM and had nothing to say. What could I say?
“DON’T TAKE IT SO HARD, DOG. YOUR NATURE IS TO WARN AND PROTECT. I KNOW BECAUSE I MADE YOU AND PLACED YOU. IT IS REALLY QUITE SIMPLE. THERE ARE MANY WHO DO WHAT YOU HAVE JUST DONE. THEY ‘SAW’ SOMETHING IN THE FAR DISTANCE AND REACTED OUT OF THEIR EMOTIONS. THEN THERE ARE MANY WHO ‘HEARD’ SOMETHING AND ACTED OUT OF THEIR AGENDAS.” When HE SAID ‘HEARD’ I realized I could ”hear” ”stuff” coming from the VALLEY, but nothing was distinct or clear….but I was ”hearing” and ”seeing”. I ”watched” as the two groups continued to get closer.
”IT WOULD SEEM INEVITABLE FOR THOSE TWO GROUPS TO COLLIDE IN THE VALLEY.” HE REMARKED. ”BUT WHAT ‘SEEMS’ TO MAN IS OFTEN SO MUCH MORE FROM MAN THAN FROM GOD”. I understood because it was how I have felt about much that is labeled ”prophetic” of late. ”BUT APPEARANCES ARE OFTEN MADE IN ORDER TO DECEIVE”. Now that caught my attention, and I turned back to HIM as HE watched the two distant groups on the VALLEY floor.
“THINK ON THIS, DOG, IS IT NOT WRITTEN THAT JERUSALEM WOULD BE A ”BURDENSOME STONE” AND A ”CUP OF TREMBLING” TO THE NATIONS?”
As usual all I could say is “yes, LORD”. ”YOU HAVE TO WONDER IF I REALLY MEANT PALM BEACH, IF YOU LISTEN TO THE SO CALLED PROPHETS OUT THERE. LAST NIGHT A SCHOOL BUS WAS BOMBED AND PEOPLE DIED. AMERICA WATCHED THE FLORIDA CHIEF JUSTICE ASK HOW MUCH TIME THEY COULD SPEND COUNTING BALLOTS BEFORE FLORIDA WAS DROPPED FROM THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. THROUGHOUT THE WORLD THE SAINTS ARE BEING MURDERED AND RAPED AND ABUSED BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE ME AND CHOOSE TO FOLLOW ME”.
With that HE turned to me and asked. “WHEN DO YOU THINK THEY WILL REALIZE THEY HAVE TAKEN THEIR EYES OFF OF ME?” But before I could say anything I watched HIM shake his head and smile……
“YOU CAN’T ANSWER THAT BECAUSE IT IS A LOADED QUESTION, DOG. MOST HAVE NOT ”TAKEN THEIR EYES OFF ME” BECAUSE THEY NEVER HAD SEEN ME. LIKEWISE THEY HAVE NEVER HEARD ANY WORDS I HAVE SAID. SOME HAVE INDEED HEARD MY VOICE. SOME EVEN HAVE REPENTED. BUT SALVATION IS MORE THAN A MOMENT OF ACCEPTANCE OF ONES SINS. IT IS ”WORKED” OUT WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING. INDEED IT IS A RACE WITH A BEGINNING AND AN END. BUT SO FEW HAVE EVER CHOSEN TO RUN”.
“TO THE CHURCH OF AMERICA TELL THEM THIS FOR ME, DOG. DID YOU EVER LEARN THAT I AM THE WORD AND YOU LIVE ACCORDING TO EVERY WORD THAT COMES FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD? NOT ON YOUR OWN RATIONALIZATIONS AND IMAGINATIONS. SO MANY OF YOU DWELL IN EPHESUS, YOU GOT LOTS OF ”GOOD WORKS” AT THE SAME TIME HAVE FORSAKEN YOUR FIRST LOVE. THEN THERE ARE VAST NUMBERS OF YOU WHO CHOOSE TO LIVE IN SARDIS AND THYATIRA AND PERGAMUS FOR THE SIMPLE REASON IS THAT YOU ENJOY THE POWER YOU HOLD AS YOU RULE OVER YOUR PEOPLE. YOU HAVE FOUND THAT YOU CAN BLESS AND CURSE LIKE BALAAM AND THEY THINK IT IS ME. YOU MANIPULATE AND SEDUCE LIKE JEZEBEL AND JUSTIFY IT BY USING MY NAME. AND NOW YOU ARE DIVIDED AT WHICH MAN YOU WILL LOOK TO INSTEAD OF ME, ALL OF YOU†LAODICEANS. ALL YOU WHO DO WHAT IS RIGHT IN YOUR OWN EYES. SO PROUD AND ARROGANT BECAUSE IN AMERICA THE PEOPLE RULE. THERE IS NO KING IN YOUR LAND, YOUR CHURCHES AND YOUR HEARTS.”
HE STOPPED and I waited for HIM to continue. instead HE just smiled and slowly shook HIS HEAD. The two groups in the VALLEY suddenly vanished and I watched the barren and ‘silent’ landscape. Still there were things to see and there was the sound of the wind blowing through the ROCK and the MOUNTAIN, but THE KING STOOD SILENT. It was then I realized what HE was trying to show me. So many were ”prophesying” to the ”wind” and from the ”wind”, and I remembered EZEKIEL who was told to ”prophesy” to the bones and the wind. Only old ZEKE did so when GOD told him to do so. These ”prophets” were ”seeing” and ”hearing” the ”events” in the VALLEY and are speaking as they lead themselves. They speak from hearing themselves and others like them when THE LAMB was not speaking.
I felt sick “I’M NOT BLAMING YOU, DOG, FOR WHAT OTHERS ARE DOING IN MY NAME. THE SAME HAPPENED TO ALL MY SERVANTS, SO DON’T TAKE IT TO YOURSELF. THOSE PEOPLE CHOSE THEIR OWN WATCHMEN AND THE FALSE SHEPHERDS AND FALSE TEACHERS SAID IT WAS ALL OF AND FROM AND BY ME.”
“IT’S ALL WRITTEN, DOG. JUST BECAUSE MEN CHOOSE THE EASY WAY AND THE SMOOTH ROAD DOES NOT MEAN I HAVE NOT TRIED. NOR THOSE WHO CHOSE TO FOLLOW AND SERVE ME. I AM STILL FAITHFUL AND TRUE. IF THE HYPOCRITES, PHARISEES, SADUCEES, AND FOOLS PREFER WEALTH AND POWER OVER MY GRACE AND MERCY IT IS THEIR CHOICE; ALWAYS HAS BEEN.”
“EVERYONE WHO ”SEES” AND ”HEARS” CAN ONLY DO SO BY MY WILL AND BY THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD. YET IT IS WRITTEN THAT ”MY SERVANT IS BLIND AND DEAF”. SERVANTS DO NOT SPEAK UP FOR ”THEIR RIGHTS”. AND DEAD MEN HAVE NONE.” ”I CAN DO A LOT WITH DEAD BONES, DOG. BUT I CAN DO NOTHING FOR THE ONES WHO REFUSE TO OVERCOME.”
“DON’T YOU SEE, DOG?”. I replied, ”I am trying LORD”….. ”GOOD ANSWER, DOG.” HE LAUGHED and I was back in reality….
it isn’t easy….but I have written and now send.