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The Year Of The Dragon (The Third Aspect)

Bob Neumann, 10/1999

THE THIRD ASPECT

When YOM KIPPUR was completed I was inundated with what I had been shown.

STRONG IMAGES, HARD IMAGES. And no real eagerness to write anything down. Unlike previous years, what was to be said was slightly one sided and less than compassionate than the typical ”prophetic word”. But how do you make a compassionate plea out of the indictment of a RIGHTEOUS and HOLY GOD against those who mock HIS NAME. Most of the ”so-called-brethren” will not receive a ”word” that they can deem as ”harsh” or ”unloving”. In the past I have sinned against my ABBA, my KING, and THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT because I was concerned at how ”people” will respond to what I write….or worse….how I write it. It is stupid to fear man more than you love GOD. In time I have come to realize that obedience wins in all situations. Period.

So how do you deal with ”hard words”…..so I asked THE WORD and got Matthew 22:1-14:

¹ And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,

² The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,

³ And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.

⁴ Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.

⁵ But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:

⁶ And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.

⁷ But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

⁸ Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.

⁹ Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

¹⁰ So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

¹¹ And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:

¹² And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.

¹³ Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

¹⁴ For many are called, but few are chosen. (KJV)

Like it or not the message of YOM KIPPUR was to go out. But then again this whole season was not following the previous laid pattern. I should have picked up on it but did not. So when THE FEAST OF SUKKOT came as it always does I should have been anticipating more. There were images left hanging and the ”third day” and the ”third level” Bill Burns had spoken of not yet done. Like in the parable there are more than one party involved with the story. The ”church” is like the people who insulted the hospitality of the KING. Yet the KING felt it was within HIS “RIGHTS” to destroy them and then burn their city. is the world the city? Or just apostate Christianity? Don’t seem to matter does it. Like it or not ABBA HAS SPOKEN and IN RIGHTEOUSNESS does THE LAMB JUDGE and MAKE WAR. What is interesting is the 14th verse….and the few who are chosen.

So SUCCOTH came and so did THE LAMB……and we stood in HIS MISHKON as it was at the end of the SEVENTH THUNDER. HE WORE GOLDEN ARMOR AND MANY CROWNS. I seemed to have been Dressing down because I once again wore dirty cavalry blue. Under my arm I carried the scrolls. I felt my tunic pocket and the letter to THE DAUGHTER OF ZION was there. HE stood at the great table where maps were laid out and around it were men in uniform listening intensely and studying the maps. all were solid images easy to describe….better yet easy to place scripture to….for instance….

Proverbs 11:14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. (KJV)

Proverbs 15:22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established. (KJV)

Proverbs 24:6 For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety. (KJV)

Then again is the vision and the images necessary. We are all intelligent people. If GOD would speak to us face to face would it not make enough of an impression that we would immediately comprehend and be in agreement. Logical extrapolation….except it does not seem to work…..like in ADAM and EVE. Abram went to EGYPT…..Paul complained quite clearly….

¹⁹ For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

So maybe the visual images in all this are necessary to get it into HIS PEOPLE. so I was not surprised when my train of thought was punctuated by that STILL SWEET VOICE with one familiar scripture verse.

Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

So I had my answer as THE KING CONFERRED. Of course as I watched I did wonder whether these were real men….”angels” on detached duty….. or just something to make me think of certain scriptures. After a few minutes of this mental stirrings THE KING slowly looked up and delivered a quite effective glare.

“WHAT AM I TO DO WITH YOU?”, HE ASKED with what I hoped was a rhetorical question. “THE BATTLE IS ABOUT TO BEGIN AND THE SHEEP SLEEP IN THEIR PEWS UNAWARE THAT THE WOLVES GUARD A MAJORITY OF THE FOLDS. AND YOU ARE WONDERING WHETHER THERE ARE ANGELS AT MY TABLE.”

With that HE turned and we sort of went through a ”veil” I had not seen and were standing in the ‘chuppah’….the BRIDAL CHAMBER. “THIS IS THE PLACE I PREPARED. YOU LIKE MY SUKKAH?”. Now I had walked around this place many times a few thunders in the past. I would not have called it a ”booth”. tabernacle, maybe…..

“THAT’S YOUR PROBLEM, SHEMUEL, YOU KNOW MUCH, BUT NOT ALL. ALL THE IMAGES ARE BUT THREADS TO A COMMON CORD. WHETHER THIS IS A CHUPPAH FOR THE BRIDE, OR A CLOSET FOR PRAYER IT IS ALL THE SAME. TO THOSE WHO I HAVE ”TABERNACLED” WITH IT IS BOTH A PLACE OF INTIMACY AND A PLACE OF SAFETY. AS THE DAYS EXTEND INTO WEEKS MANY WILL COME FORTH WITH IMAGES AND INTERPRETATIONS FOR THE TIME AHEAD. AND LIKE BEFORE MANY ARE PREPARING PROGRAMS AND AGENDAS FOR THE MILLENNIAL YEAR. ESTABLISHING RHYMING PHRASES BASED ON THEIR EXPECTATIONS AND NOT ON MY WORD.”

”IT ALL COMES DOWN TO LABELS AND PREPLANNED LEVELS OF HYPE. WHAT MANY CALL THE YEAR 2000 WILL BE REALLY THE YEAR ZERO FOR ALL THAT WAS HAS BEEN WIPED CLEAN. THE LEVELS OF DECEPTION, DISILLUSIONMENT, DEBAUCHERY, AND DEFILEMENT WILL INCREASE IN INTENSITY AND SCOPE FOR THE ACCUSER HAS BEEN CAST DOWN AND MAKES WAR WITH THE SAINTS. THAT IS WHY COVENANT IS SO IMPORTANT, SHEMUEL. FOR WITHOUT COVENANT THERE IS NO PROTECTION FOR THE SIMPLE MORTALS WHO BATTLE DAILY TO SURVIVE. WITHOUT COVENANT WITH ME THERE IS NONE WHO WILL PROTECT AND DEFEND THE INNOCENT. IT IS COVENANT THROUGH WHICH THE ANOINTING COMMISSIONS YOU AND YOUR BROTHERS TO ENFORCE MY PEACE IN THE MIDST OF THE DARKNESS.”

”IN CHINA THIS IS NOW THE YEAR OF THE RABBIT. THE ENEMY USES THE PAGAN CALENDAR TO DECLARE HIS INTENTIONS. THROUGHOUT THE WORLD MY COVENANT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TARGETED AND BEEN PERSECUTED. IT WILL GET WORSE FOR THE NEXT YEAR IN THE ACCUSER’S CALENDAR IS THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON. PRIDE HAS ALWAYS BEEN HIS DOWNFALL AND HIS WEAKNESS. LONG HAS HE STOOD OPENLY CHALLENGING THE CHURCH JUST AS GOLIATH CHALLENGED ISRAEL. THE CHURCH LIKE ISRAEL STOOD IN FEAR LED BY LEADERSHIP THAT HAD BROKEN COVENANT WITH ME AND PERVERTED THEIR ANOINTING. SAUL REFUSED TO FACE GOLIATH BECAUSE IT WOULD NOT SERVE WELL THE DEMON THAT HELD HIM IN BONDAGE. LIKEWISE THE NICOLAITANS THAT INFEST MY BODY WILL NEVER STAND AND DO BATTLE IN MY NAME AGAINST THEIR VESTED INTERESTS.”

“LIKE I SAID BEFORE ALL THAT NOW HAPPENS IS BUT A REPEAT OF WHAT HAS ALREADY OCCURRED.”

I sat across from HIM among the pillows of the wedding bedroom. I held the two scrolls that were rolled together and wondered how they fitted into all this. But what was once before will be again. How does that fit with the WRITS OF DIVORCE?

”SHEMUEL, I TOLD YOU THAT YOU WOULD BE MY ELIEZAR. THAT WAS ONE IMAGE. NOW I GIVE YOU ANOTHER. THE TIME HAS COME TO REPLACE VASHTI WITH ESTHER. A REBELLIOUS WOMAN WHO REFUSED TO SUBMIT WITH A VIRGIN BORN FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS.”

Now we were again back at images from the FOURTH THUNDER. ESTHER and her attendants. It was amazing how well things just seemed to flow together. As I thought on this THE KING STOOD UP and walked toward a wall. I hurried to follow and once again we passed through the wall as it where mist. from the outside the great walls of THE TOWER OF THE LORD stood high over head.

“MANY WILL SPEAK OF WHAT IS TO COME. ALL WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO ADD TO BRING ALL TO FULLNESS. TELL MY BELOVED THAT SHE MUST DISCERN AND JUDGE ALL THINGS. MANY WILL SPEAK OF MOUNTAINS AND STORMS, PERSECUTION AND HARVEST. MANY WILL CONTINUE TO PREACH PROSPERITY AND BLESSINGS WHILE THE WORLD AROUND THEM CONTINUES TO SINK IN THE SANDS OF THEIR DOCTRINES.”

”TEACH THEM OF THE ROCK, ””T’ZUR Y’SRAEL””. TEACH THEM OF MY COVENANTS AND MY PROMISES THAT ARE THEIRS ALONE.” With that I remembered the scrolls in my hand. And I suddenly thought of RUTH and ESTHER and I felt a gentle touch on my arm. THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT had joined us and I knew where that ”thought” had come from.

“TEACH THEM, SHEMUEL,” HE CONTINUED, ”WHAT IS EXPECTED FROM SERVANTS IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE.” on that HE TURNED and entered the TOWER. THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT slowly began to walk away with me in tow. We just walked casually with no apparent direction. I was wondering if everything was fitting together as easily as I had begun to think. we came to a stop facing a blank horizon with nothing to see. “THAT IS BECAUSE THERE REALLY IS NOTHING WORTH SEEING FOR MOST IN THE DAYS AHEAD. ALREADY PESTILENCE AND STORM RAVAGES YOUR LAND. THROUGHOUT THE WORLD SWORD, FAMINE, AND POVERTY DEVOURS HOPE OF MANY WHO KNOW NOT THE TRUTH. MILLIONS DIE IN SQUALOR AND MISERY NEVER KNOWING THE TRUTH FOR THE NATION THAT WAS ONCE BLESSED AND EMPOWERED TO BRING THE GOOD NEWS HAS FORGOTTEN IT’S HERITAGE AND SOLD IT’S BIRTHRIGHT FOR VAIN PLEASURES.”

”SUFFERING WILL INCREASE AS DECEPTION DEEPENS AND DELUSIONS ARISE. THEIR IS NO PLACE TO HIDE EXCEPT UNDER MY WINGS DEAR FRIEND. DO NOT FORGET THE LETTER YOU CARRY CLOSE TO YOUR HEART AND THE ROD IN YOUR HAND.”

With those words I felt the scrolls in my hand they seem to have gained weight and mass. Felt very familiar but still looked the same.

“YOU ARE A STEWARD OF THE HOUSE….A PRIEST UNDER BOTH COVENANTS. IT IS TIME FOR BOTH HOUSES AND COVENANTS TO BECOME FULLY ONE. IT CAN ONLY HAPPEN WHEN YOU AND THOSE COMMISSIONED GO OUT AND ESCORT THE BRIDE TO HIS CHAMBERS. MANY HEAR THE TRUMPET AND MANY HEAR THE SHOUT. BUT ALL MUST STAND AND COME TO THE BANQUET.”

With that I was back in my home trying to catch my breath. So that is what is to come.

Selah

SHEMUEL

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