Israel.

What’s up with Israel?

She is hidden, for one.

Yep, hidden, from most of the world, even from herself.  She knows not who she is.  This is by design.  I won’t prep and primp you all with history lessons, just follow quickly.  Revelation 2:9 and 3:9 indicate that there are fakes calling themselves Semites (the KJV uses the term ‘Jews’) but that they are actually of the synagogue of satan.  You can read it for yourself, right there, in black and white.

Fake Israelites (not Israelis, there is a distinction I am purposed to make here) are established the world over with the moniker of being actual Semites, descendants of Shem.  Study these things out enough and you will find these are not actually descendants of Shem, but of Japhet, ancestor of Ashkenaz.  Most ‘Jews’ are Ashkenazi Jews.  To be called a Semite you must be descended from Shem.  These fake ones are not.

So, who are these fake Semites?  And just who and where are real Semites?

The heart of the matter:

Psalms 83
(1) A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
(2) For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
(3) They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
(4) They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from [being] a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
(5) For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
(6) The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
(7) Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
(8) Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
(9) Do unto them as [unto] the Midianites; as [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
(10) [Which] perished at Endor: they became [as] dung for the earth.
(11) Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
(12) Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
(13) O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
(14) As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
(15) So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
(16) Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
(17) Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
(18) That [men] may know that thou, whose name alone [is] JEHOVAH, [art] the most high over all the earth.

How could this happen to God’s chosen people?

The heart of the matter:

Deuteronomy 28:15
(15) But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

From that verse to verse 68, the end of that chapter, is a list of the curses that would befall Israel should they break the covenant with God.  As it turns out, they broke the covenant – many, many times.. and often in heinous ways.  God simply had no choice.  He had to fulfill His promise.  He had to let the curses come upon His chosen people.

Cut to the chase.  Who is Israel?  Who fits these curse sufferers right now? Yes, we are now on the other side of The Resurrection, but the original Covenant is an everlasting one – perfectly fulfilled and completed by The Messiah.  In The Messiah, we perfectly fulfill that Covenant, and via the Law of Love, we fulfill all the law and the prophets, so the Blessing is still active.  On the flip side, outside of Messiah, those chosen people of God who have broken the Covenant with Him are still under those curses.  I actually have pondered the notion of whether or not those in  The Messiah still suffer some of the residuals of the curses from what their ancestors did.  Regardless, all Scripture and prophecies of God must be fulfilled.  The heart of the matter:

Deuteronomy 28:68
(68) And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy [you].

Egypt – Mizraim (Hebrew or Aramaic) – land of bondage.  What other people have ever been enslaved via transport via ships.  Yep, black people.  The Holocaust was real.  So was the holocaust of The Middle Passage.  Yep, the world’s most recent eras of global, open, above-ground and legalized enslavement trafficked black Semites whose ancestors broke their Covenant with The Most High God.  Authentic Israel.

Now, to be fair, black Africans were also among the enslaved.  This, too, is mentioned in Scripture.  I won’t get into a thorough breakdown into all of this right now, but we may later.  Suffice it to say that we have no natural way of knowing biological Israel at this point, all we can go by is God – His Word, His Spirit, His Revelation.

Moreover, genealogies and biological inheritance mean nothing now on the other side of The Resurrection.  The heart of the matter:

Galatians 3:26-29
(26) For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
(27) For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
(28) There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
(29) And if ye [be] Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Scripture says, however, that Israel will awaken to who she is.  I believe that includes both biological and spiritual Israel.

We will continue to probe into the heart of the matter.  We must.  I mean, who are those folks the world believes is Israel right now?

~cat~

I recently heard somebody (a Christian, no less) say something like: ‘the devil can do almost anything God can do except create’.

Huh?

This is how leaven is snuck into doctrine.

Can we just conclude the matter and say that there is just NO CONTEST? Even before the Birth, Death and Resurrection of The Messiah, there was no contest to be had. Come, now, let us reason together. ‘The devil can do almost anything God can do except one thing, create’? I’m not buying it. Let’s make a quick and dirty list just on the fly, shall we?

Can the devil:

1-know the end from the beginning? Nope
2-be everywhere at once? Nope
3-know all things, including the heart and thoughts of mankind? Nope
4-have all power? Nope
5-be LOVE? Nope
6-and, of course, create ANYTHING? Nope

I’m sure there are many more things I could list ad nauseum, but that is a good enough start. Its just no contest. Moreover, these poor Christians believe that the devil used to be an archangel. Not true. The devil used to be the anointed cherub. A cherub is not an archangel. Some wonky luciferianist doctrine crept into these peoples’ doctrines and it is likely being passed around in their denominations.

That is how the mixture starts. A little bending of truth here, a little tweaking there, a few philosophies thrown in to taste. Its just bit by bit, measure by measure, term by term.. Enough of that over time and after a while you’d hardly be able to tell the difference between God and satan, what with all their ‘similarities’.

Huh?

Don’t get it twisted: there is only one God. God is God alone. There is no other like God. Not even close. To even suggest that the devil is ‘so similar’ to God is beyond blasphemous.

Its downright ‘stoopid’.

~cat~

Moreover, why is this so very important to you?  Why is this such a point of ‘religious’ contention?  Did you get the memo that I had moved on, or no?  Besides that, how are you judging?  Are you judging righteously when you judge against me?  If I am wrong, surely God will correct me, but I am not under your charge, did you know that?  Consider with wisdom the words you speak; the rest of Psalm 58 is not a happy message, don’t let it be addressed to you.  Yes, that is a warning, to you.

And with what measure are you meting? Mankind’s version of things and God’s version of things are two different sorts of measures. Fruit to mankind is different than fruit according to God. Work to mankind is different than work according to God.

Maturity in Christ looks like immaturity to the world. God’s Wisdom looks like foolishness to the world. Childlike Faith looks like irresponsible spiritualistic-hedonism to the world. Temperance in Christ looks like self-righteousness to the world. The Love-walk in Christ looks like wimpy cowardice to the world. Death-to-self in Christ looks like religious self-suppression to the world. Forsaking all else, even acceptance, for Christ looks like self-justification to the world.

The day you measure your spiritual success by somebody else’s reaction (or lack thereof) is the day you have lost focus. Consult no longer with flesh and blood. You have the Word, read it. If you are in The Messiah, The Holy Spirit is in you.

Paul spoke harshly, too.

Elegant speech this is not. Its just truth. And truth separates:

Some people can see it NOW.
Some can, but NOT YET.
Some WILL not see it.
Some see, but DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE.
Some REFUSE to see it.
Some, sadly, literally CANNOT see it,

Some see, acknowledge it.. AND YET STILL REFUSE TO BELIEVE.

Seeing is not believing, y’all.

Yes, you can see, too. Have you confirmed with the Source? Did you attempt to verify? Do you consult with The Holy One about it? God may not open all of someone’s mail for a person just because they inquire therein, so we just have to believe.

Believe that God is our Avenger, He is our Justifier. He is the One Who is the uplifter of our heads. He is the One Who sets us up upon a rock and prepares a table before us IN THE PRESENCE OF OUR ENEMIES to the point that our cups runneth over. God is the One Who keeps us, maintains us, our rights, our lots and our causes. He is the One Who reminds us that the boundary lines for us have fallen among pleasant places. He leads us beside the still waters AND INTO ALL TRUTH.

If there are some things that we don’t know, then we just don’t know those things, at least not yet. It like the story of Sue Ford/Brice Taylor. All of the unthinkable things she did – yes, she did them – but she was not herself, she was under extreme mind control. God considers her to be guiltless of those atrocities.

You have to keep your mind stayed on the Lord, Who will then keep you in perfect peace. All in good time, saith the Lord. It will come out.

I intend to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living, I expect to see it so. I believe to.

~cat~

p.s. – thinking about moving ascension bleu over here.  will keep you posted.

Check the pattern. Inspect the fruit. Connect the dots. Is it consistent? Does it line up with the Word? Has there been any wavering? Is there pride? Repentance? Forgiveness? Is there promotion of self, or a crucifying of self? Is Messiah exalted, or is mankind? Consult Holy Spirit, does He witness with yours, or give you a ‘check’ or irritation? Somebody reading this understands. This, apparently, is written to you.

“And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;” – Philippians 3:9-10

“For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of [His] resurrection:” – Romans 6:5

A seed must die in the ground into which it is planted. If it does not die, it cannot bud and spring forth and grow and branch out and produce fruit.

To partake of The Resurrection, we have to die. If we do not die, we cannot rise in Newness of Life. We must die to the world, die to ourselves, our own agendas, our own priorities. We cannot go by our own reasoning or understanding. We cannot take counsel of ourselves, nor of other people.

We must die.

Crucifying the flesh, I painfully have been learning, includes occasionally, if not often, crucifying the counsel of self and other mankind. We don’t hate on them, it could very well be that they are not at the same point you are in their walk, or they are at different, though parallel points, or that they just don’t yet know what you know.

And adding to that list, horrifyingly, is the possibility of either deception, manipulation, coercion, subversion or, dare I say it, mind control. It seems at times I am one of the only ones who does not forget the possibility of mind-control.

Bullying
Gas-Lighting
Mis-Information
Mis-Direction
Subliminal Brain-Washing
Campaigns of Destruction
Lies

It almost seems at times that people either forget, choose to forget or conclude that you have some sort of ‘chip’ on your shoulder, or unforgiveness in your heart. As if you are holding onto the past, or you are prideful, or childish, or who knows what ever else..

Its the same thing, over and over and over again. The same thing.

Repetition. That’s how you brainwash people, folks. Just keeping saying the same thing over and over and over again. Even if it is a blatant untruth, a bald-faced lie.. as long as you keep repeating it over and over and over again.. eventually, the ‘sheeple’ (weak-minded, in the perpetrators’ eyes) will accept it as the truth. Keep telling the lies, and tell them to enough people, over and over and over, and it will be established as downright canon. It MUST be true, right? Otherwise, why would all of these people be saying the exact same thing time and time again?

All I can do is trust in the God of Truth. He is the One Who Avenges. He is the One Who causes His Truth to emerge from darkness and makes it to shine as the noonday sun.

Once again, the same lies circulate, lies concerning people I don’t even know, lies about unforgiveness, about the past, about who knows what.

They must have missed the memo about I ALREADY FORGAVE EVERYBODY WHO WRONGED ME when it was sent out those years ago. I still walk in that forgiveness. No, this is not about some perceived unforgiveness that they believe I still harbor in my heart toward ‘them’, whoever ‘they’ are. Nope.

THIS is about COMPLIANCE.
Make no mistake about it.

See, this is to get me to CAPITULATE, to COMPLY with them. They think that my DISOBEDIENCE to THEM is due to some strangely conceived belief that I have UNFORGIVENESS toward them. They could not be further from the truth.

But, I know they don’t really believe that. I know that they understand completely what the real deal is. Their campaign is only to get me to believe that they really do believe I hold some sort of grudge against them. Its a lie. Its all a ruse.

ITS A LIE.

Get it right. This is a campaign, pure and simple. I am being lied on.. AGAIN. Nothing new under the sun. Nothing has changed. I spoke correctly on it the other night: its the same crap, spun a little bit differently, different ‘team gato’, different ‘recruits’, same crap.

I have not budged: The reason I don’t comply is because The Most High has ordered me not to comply. If I obey THEM, then I would DISOBEY The Most High.

That’s all there is to it.

Like I said the other day, if you all have a problem with that, you’ll have to take it up with The Most High. My hands are clean, my spirit is convinced, and refreshed, my conscience is clear. If this is to the death, so be it. It will be theirs and not mine, per the Word of God, but even if not, I have been ready to go since 2006. Martyrdom for the Most High and His Kingdom is a major promotion for me. Frankly, it would almost be a relief, but I will only be going when The Most High decides it is time for me to go, not a moment before.

Whatever.

Keep it up. God + me is a majority over all. I know my God is with me. No bother from my end. He promised me Psalm 46, among many other promises. Patience, have your perfect work. Grace, abound so much more abundantly in the presence of the abundance of such abominable sin.

God has called the prophets to do things like He had Elijah and Elisha and Jeremiah do things: to confront, to uproot, tear down, collapse and build anew..

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“Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.” – Jeremiah 1:9-10
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If this is self-promotion, God will correct me, but for me to say anything different than what God puts in my mouth to say is sin unto me. The height of pridefulness is public self-denigration when God tells you to say the opposite. Its like the Pharisee and Scribes. I said it that day, and I will say it again now: you cannot successfully tell a mouthpiece to keep silent.

Yes, there is a time and a season for everything, per Ecclesiastes 3, but if God, Who fashioned you into a trumpet, touches your mouth, that fire in the bones that Jeremiah spoke about really begins to burn. Let it out at the proper time, or else..

~cat~

• I settled a lawsuit (long story) for a small amount allowing me to keep alive and stay here during school (at least for now).
• O, and I started grad school (yay!)!! OK, so its not law school, its information assurance, but, hey, a girl can always change her mind, right?
• Speaking of which, I was engaged for a hot minute (long story – and I think it was best that we did not marry – which is a nice way of saying, I think I/we dodged a bullet). Still love him, though. We still attend the same Holy Bible study.
• I started a new ‘career’, or ‘careers’, or ‘ventures’.. still not sure what to call this. Despise not the day of small things and beginnings, right?
• I reconnected with some wonderful friends I had not seen in ages (and delighted that so many of them are in Christ now!)
• I’m writing a book with a friend (!) – OK, technically, its on hold from my end for right now, and I totally won’t blame them if they forge ahead without me, but it is on a difficult subject and it is hard for me to unfold onto the page (weird for me, huh?). Moreover, grad school is really kicking my you-know-what lo these 18 years after my college graduation.
• I disconnected from some people I held as very dear to me, per unction of The Most High. He had to be insistent with me in some cases, but I finally did, and the ‘blockages’, as it were, loosed in a great many areas of my life, primarily spiritual, but also financial.
• The revelations are just flying at me (us!) about this hour, the false Jews, the nwo, and so very many more things..
• I have much more clarity about God and His Word than I believe I ever have before, and it keeps improving, thanks to Him.

Very recently, I think I may have perceived from Holy Spirit that I have an Iago in my life. You recall Othello, right? Iago was his best friend and confidante, his right hand man. He was jealous of Othello, set him up, betrayed him, lied on him and premeditated to watch him die.

Yep, that Iago.
I think I might have one.

I won’t dwell on it, God will alert me to anything, and I purpose to keep in touch with Holy Spirit anyway, but yeah, that’s not a happy somebody to have around:

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“..For [it was] not an enemy [that] reproached me; then I could have borne [it]: neither [was it] he that hated me [that] did magnify [himself] against me; then I would have hid myself from him: But [it was] thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, [and] walked unto the house of God in company..” – Psalms 55:12-14
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Interesting to note that Othello is a leader in the army of the king, and he had just won a great victory at the beginning of the play.. and he had just gotten a sweet promotion following that victory.. and he had just gotten married to a beautiful woman (of another race, incidentally) who adored him.. and he had just celebrated his roaring success with an abundant feast and after party.

So, if that really is a figure type person in my life somewhere, I need to watch out for that, and watch out for the circumstances surrounding that person’s emergence.

Anyhoo, there is a lot on my plate right now, so I will have to holler back at you later. Perhaps closer to Thanksgiving break?

TTYL

~cat~

(Yeah, its been about two years since my ‘wilderness’ sabbatical time with the Lord..)

We had a one-year anniversary party that was wild and full of people and loads of fun, and we had another semi-wild party this time for our two-year, but with not as many people, and not quite as rambunctious as the first. I remember seeing gray twill clothing and his face. I remember being so tired during the party that I laid on the couch and began to doze off to sleep.

I remember hearing my husband ushering people out of our house (this time it was at our house, the last one was at a club or restaurant or pub or something) early, like in the middle of the celebration. I remember sleepily asking him what happened, did he send people out? He said yes, he did. I asked him, why? Why so early, is something wrong? He said, no, I just needed to spend some time alone with you. I remember saying, oh, ok, and thinking to myself, isn’t that the absolute sweetest, most adorable, most romantic thing he’s ever done for me? And I remember my heart swelling and getting that butterflies/funny-bone feeling in my chest and stomach.. ’cause my honey wants to spend time alone with little ole me..

When I woke up, I heard/saw/felt the name Shealtiel. I heard/saw/felt that name at least two or three times. Finally, I looked it up. Shealtiel is the father of Zerubbabel. Father had me to read about Zerubbabel in Zechariah 4. He placed it on my heart to travel through every building and to place oil on the doors, and to pray over each and every floor. I blessed some oil and walked the halls one night (actually, I think I did this over two nights) and prayed over every floor and every door. He had me to place the oil on every door on the first floor, including the entrance/exit doors in front and in back. It was then after that the He led me to Zechariah:

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Zechariah 4:6-10

(6) Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

(7) Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.

(8) Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

(9) The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.

(10) For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

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These verses about Zerubbabel came to me after God gave me the verses in Jeremiah 42:10-17 and Jeremiah 15:15-21. This was about the apartment building, my job, my location and the work I was to do. He’s still revealing those things to me, in their full light and understanding, but the picture is getting much clearer to me as time goes on.

Today, He led me to Haggai, especially chapter 2. The son of Shealtiel. The verses highlighted make three references: Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah; Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and the remnant of the people who are left in the land:

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Haggai 2:3-9

(3) “Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?

(4) Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:

(5) According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.

(6) For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

(7) And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.

(8) The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.

(9) The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.”
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This message is to all three referred people(s), some distinctly to the individual, some to the collective. It makes sense to me, now. This relates to cleansing, anti-viral, anti-microbial, disinfection, detoxification.. extracting the precious from the vile. God is the One Who shows us what to throw away, and what to keep.

This is like personal hacking, in a way. The package, as delivered to you, is chock-full of filth, lies and half-truth.. and some pure truth, to lend it some street-cred. Hackers glean the truth from among the filth. This is a cleansing process. Its like pirating software, but its akin to pirating doctrine to get at the real truth.

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“Avast! Your Virus Definitions have been updated.”
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This explains the whole ‘Suite 2600′/’Performance of the Lord’ dream, the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’-themed dream, and other pirate/hacker references. I’m sure there’s MUCH more revelation to be had as yet, just wait.

Anyhoo, I sense a pure work for me coming from the Lord. The pure work, or works, He will have me do will put those negative prognosticators to shame – not to my glory, but to the Glory of the LORD. There is simply nothing that can compare to the Glory that will be revealed, nothing comes close. Not even a little bit.

See what His Word says? The glory of the latter house will be greater than that of the former. There are so many layers and levels of meaning and reference of this Word (don’t you DARE doubt GOD). This is not just about me and any former opulence I once had which is now nothing but will be outshone by the latter glory that God will bestow upon me personally, but this is also about His House. His People. His Opulence. His Glory.

IN THIS EARTH. IN THIS DISPENSATION OF TIME.

AND in the ages to come.

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O, Israel

I sense so much that this has so very much to do with Israel. The above Scriptural reference has lots of dual symbolic meanings. Three groups of people, especially, interested me. Zerubbabel, Joshua and the remaining people.

I have explained my personal interest in Zerubbabel (verses 4b and 5). The remnant of the people seems to have meanings related to the people in my apartment building, as well as the people of God who are on the earth, especially Israel (verses 8 and 9).

That middle group, though, Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high priest, sort of had me perplexed a wee bit. Who could that be. And who in the universe could God be referring to when He had Haggai say ‘the desire of all nations’?

One meaning seems rather obvious to me – the desire of all nations, meaning the people, would seem to be freedom. True Freedom, not the illusion of freedom spoon-fed to us by the world and its systems, but true autonomy, true franchisement, true privacy, true empowerment, true finances, true health, true provision, true energies.. True Freedom.

Another refers to a more spiritual aspect. Check the Word description here:
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Haggai 2:6-7

(6) For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

(7) And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.
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To me, and I could be wrong, or not have the full meaning of this yet, certainly, but it would seem to me that, this is referring to Israel – both physical descendants of Shem and spiritual children of Abraham – Israel. The desire of all nations could refer to the desire also for the true temple to be rebuilt – to usher the return of the Lord Most High.

In addition, this could also refer to that ‘Script-Flippin’ performance-of-the-Lord action that’s been taking place. O, its already sort of begun, but its just warming up. The big actions are to take place very soon.. real soon. A Whale will be removed from the sea, yanked out by the Lord. That’s one of His forthcoming moves. That was the pirate dream I had, I posted about it earlier. Notice what He said in Haggai 2: “..I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; (7) And I will shake all nations”.

This will not just be physical shakings, and not just the light political and economic shakings taking place in spots and spurts and sputters here and there right now. This will be a collection of colossal moves of God, such that not even the plans of ‘ill-umination’ had known, nor could plan.

I think we’ll have to suffer through some of the ill-uminists crud, to be sure. But God has been given enough of us dreams and revelation and visions to see and hear and discern that we will be fine, if we just keep our focus on Him and only Him through those times. Put all of our trust in Him. He’s been giving a whole lot of us that same message:

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Isaiah 43

(1) But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

(2) When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

(3) For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.

(4) Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.

(5) Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;

(6) I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;

(7) Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

(8) Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.

(9) Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.

(10) Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

(11) I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.

(12) I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.

(13) Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?

(14) Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.

(15) I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.

(16) Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

(17) Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.

(18) Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

(19) Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

(20) The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

(21) This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.

(22) But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.

(23) Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.

(24) Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.

(25) I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

(26) Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

(27) Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

(28) Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
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The death of false teachings. The demise of sinful, pagan ways. The deliverance of the nations from babylon and all her wonky, ‘harlot-mystery’ ways. I may have a part to play in that, and many of us may as well.. as soon as we ourselves get delivered of her.

We need cleansing. We need correcting. We need anti-viral definition updates. We need deliverance from her. We need to no longer let her ways be our ways.

God, deliver us.

Some of this pure work, however, will be like on-the-job training. I mean, let’s face it, if it took perfect people, nothing would have gotten done but what Jesus did, and would we have ever even made to the birth of Jesus?

I don’t think so. Praise God for His Mercy and His Grace.

~cat~

(12) If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

(13) Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.

(14) Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

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If your work is holy, you may brush up against (ie, have an effect upon) other associated works, but that does not also make those works holy.

If your work is NOT holy, but is instead UNCLEAN – then every associated work (and every affected work) is likewise rendered UNCLEAN. No exceptions.

If every work is unclean, then every offering is unclean, because it is sourced from the labour of unclean hands.

I dreamed recently about a mailbox assigned to me..
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The Mailbox

I was at a school, like high school. I had a mail box and a key. The key I had went to my regular mailbox. I routinely picked up my regular mail. I continually noticed that I had a second mailbox. It was directly on the right side of my regular mailbox.

There was a cluster of five mailboxes built-in to this wall. They were low on the wall, almost to the floor. They were like traditional apartment building style mailboxes, brushed/grooved brass finish and all. Three were on the top row, two were on the bottom row. The bottom two belonged to me.

The bottom two.

The one on the left side was my regular mailbox, to which I had the key and regularly received my daily mail. It had no particularly distinctive marks, other than an identifying unit number sticker or something.

The one on the right side was plain, classic, unmarked.. but beside it, in the wall (which was a pretty, multi-earth-toned marble) was engraved a message, then my name, then the word “warrioress”, all in CAPS. I did not catch on until about the thrid or fourth time I went to check for my mail that I had a dedicated mailbox carved into the wall of this school building.

It then hit me that this was something prophetic and I should make note of it. Duh.
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The Funeral

Soon after that, in the dream, we, the students and instructors, were preparing for graduation and were informed that an instructor had died during the school year. I don’t recall if I knew the instructor at all, it seems likely that I had him as a teacher for a class(es) some years before, but had not associated with him for a long while, not even seeing him that often in the hallways. The security supervisor (?) assigned me to carry him to the funeral. I’ll explain in a bit.

It seemed odd that I was assigned to carry this man to his memorial service, seeing that the man’s son was right there. The son was not to carry his father, however, and it seemed he was little affected by the slight as well. In fact, he hardly seemed affected by his own father’s death at all. I found that beyond odd, but I did not show any reaction to it.

After our ‘meeting’, we all got ready for the funeral. We were suddenly donned in uniforms (burgundy, black and, I think, white) and were in a sort of school auditorium. The ceremony was like our graduation, we were given our ‘deceased’, which, oddly enough, were open memorial bibles. Each person carried one, two or three open memorial bibles. Each bible was the person who had just died (there were several people being memorialized that day). I carried two people, one in my left hand I did not know, the other in my right was this now-deceased school teacher who was well beloved by the school. I was walking right in front of the man’s son, who was also in my graduating class, and was also carrying two or three open memorial bibles.

We walked single-file out of the solemn graduation ceremony (which was our graduation ceremony) carrying the bibles out of the auditorium, through the hall and into the second meeting space, which looked, and was arranged just like, a church. We all had to place our bibles on a back table to be prepared for the funeral ceremony. As I approached, I remember this security supervisor yelling at me “Catrise Paige! Move!”. I thought to myself, I’m walking at the exact same pace as the person in front of me, does he want me to overtake the person in front of me and break formation before the crowd?

I got a little anxious to get out of line at that point, but I placed both books down on the table, the one in my right hand, the bible of the deceased school teacher, I placed down a wee bit more hastily and casually than the other one. I deeply regretted having done that, seeing that the man’s son was right behind me and would have seen everything, but I had no time to be gentle or delicate, nor to slow down, because I had to hurry and get in position to be an usher in the church for the funeral service in the sanctuary, which was slowly filling with patrons.

I walked to the front of the aisle on my left and got a program from a seated usher. I then proceeded to get in position to usher from the front, and the usher who handed me my program whispered to me “you have to put on the white gloves”. I had no idea that this was a requirement, nobody had told me I needed to have these gloves. The seated usher woman told me to go back to the table to get them. I then went back to the back table and found a lone pair of white gloves, never before worn, still in plastic. They were made of white cotton and trimmed in white leather. I put them on and immediately realized I would need to go to the rest room soon and contemplated going now or later.

I decided now would be the better time, so I took the gloves off, placed them in my pocket, went out into the hall to the ladies room, hoping to make a quick work of relieving myself.
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The Bathroom

Much to my dismay, the restroom was filthy, to the point that I contemplated just waiting until after the day’s events when I could go home, but I was desperate at that point. I entered a stall, the cleanest one I could find, and automatic flushing took place until I felt comfortable enough to do my business. I took off my uniform, careful to not let it touch the floor or anything (although the hem of one pant leg did brush the floor, but I thought that was negligible).

Among the things flushed: clumps of blood, a feather, and a floating brown dot. They were clearly not mine, but seemed to be left for me, to either disgust me, discourage me, or force me to withhold relieving myself in order to wait for a cleaner environment. I awakened before I began the process.

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There’s a lot to this dream. I have not really dug into it yet, with all its symbols, but I want to say that part of it is the teaching of man vs. the Word of God. It would also seem to refer to traditional church vs. the Word of God.

Gloves refer to works, and white refers to purity = pure work. We’ll get to that in a bit.

The restroom bit refers to cleansing and purification, getting clean. Toilet refers to mischief, as in ill-intended plans. Its best to have a clean place wherein to get clean. If the place you are is not clean, then you cannot get truly clean, as the things you touch would also be unclean. Cleansing would happen up to a certain leverl, and it may be the most necessary levels of clean for the time-being under the circumstances, but true cleansing would have to take place at a truly clean place. I think I’m getting that now. I need a truly clean place. It could be that God is preparing me for that place in having me carry the dead instructor to his final resting place on the day of my own graduation.

Time and time again, throughout these recent years, I have had different people, not every person, but select people, seem to try to encourage some sort of work, or ministry, or talent, or career or whatever to come forth out of me – all when I knew that I knew in my knower that it was not time, or just not for me.

You know that you know that you know when God does NOT want you to do something, even if you know you’d be GREAT at it. Obedience is greater than sacrifice.

And these were good people, many of them. They seemed to be men and women of The Book, devout followers of Christ. They saw something in me, they encouraged it, they promoted it, they believed they were doing the right thing, many of them, I believe.

I just knew that I knew that I knew in my knower that it was NOT God.

It was good, but it was not God, not what HE had said directly to ME to do.

And I agonized over these things, I mean, I did NOT want to miss God on something, no way. If GOD wanted me to pursue something or other, then by all means, I MUST do it, with my all!

But, nope, nada, nothing, it would always fall flat. It was not meant to be.

I realized back then, and I must acknowledge it for very recently, even right now, there is a spirit behind this seemingly incessant pushing and prodding and almost downright instigating of a “gift” or a “calling” or an “office appointment” I may have. (There is scriptural reference to this type of spirit, too, in I don’t know how many times I have been before the Lord about somebody else’s insistence that I start a ministry, or go on youtube and do videos, or write a book or screenplay, or start a business, or launch a new company/build an empire, or pursue stardom in tinsel-town, or… fill-in-the-blank.

Endeavouring to be faithful to God, I take these before Him all the time. I ask Him over and over again, sometimes, just so I can be sure I have not missed Him. He doesn’t miss anything, so it must be me, right? “God, show me if I have missed something here in being led by You, Almighty God!”

The continual answer (and others like it): “Nope, you’re fine. Stay with Me.”

OK, God. And then He opens some other door for me to grow, some other pearls of wise-revelation. And then He shows me more and more aspects of His Faithfulness to perform what He promised to perform for me. And then He shows me how I may have jsut narrowly missed disaster.. because I obeyed His Voice, and not my own, and not any other’s voice..

So that brings me back to the gloves.
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The White Gloves

Pure works. Hmm.

Considering that the Word in Haggai admonishes that all works of that nation were unclean, referring to both spiritual and natural works, it would appear that there is purity in letting something die, putting something to rest, especially if it represents traditional teachings of mankind or false religious ways/doctrines.

My role as usher in the dream seems to say to me that God is having me usher out mankind’s false ways and usher in God’s Truth and Light. Biblically, the prophet has performed as a sort of usher or sorts. God’w Word says that He does nothing except He first reveals it to His prophets. Have you noticed God declares the end of a thing from the beginning? He puts His plans into the mouth (or pen, or hands) of His prophets, so they may declare, decree, perform a foreshadowing of, inscribe, proclaim and establish what God will do. (They also offer insight into what God has done previously, but that is another show.)

Ushers assist the people, they show them, welcome them, caution them, inform them, provide information, halt/pause and watch over the people gathered together. This is true of an usher at church or at the movies or at a concert. Ushers keep us in order and keep us secured. Ushers comfort us with their presence, but also warn us if we begin to cross the line for the event or facility.
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The Wind of The LORD

I just felt the wind of the Lord at the word “comfort”. Here is what just came to me:

Isaiah 40
(1) Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

(2) Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins.

(3) The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

(4) Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

(5) And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

(6) The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

(7) The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

(8) The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

(9) O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

(10) Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

(11) He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

(12) Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

(13) Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?

(14) With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?

(15) Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

(16) And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

(17) All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

(18) To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

(19) The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

(20) He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.

(21) Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

(22) It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

(23) That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

(24) Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

(25) To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.

(26) Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

(27) Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

(28) Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

(29) He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

(30) Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

(31) But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
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This is the desire of all nations.. (to be continued).

~cat~

having insight, discernment and revelatory acuity into a thing enabling one to break it down, examine it and explain it.. then to re-package it and re-present it to you, which, in turn, makes you see it in a whole new light or new level or understanding and intimacy with the Most High.

That’s an Office call.. one as equally vital as Prophet, Apostle, Evangelist or Pastor.. Teacher.

I owe my very life, many times over, to a great many teachers.. scholastic, artistic, scriptural (you know who you are).
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~cat~

from: http://www.biblestudy.org/basicart/what-is-true-origin-of-valentines-day.html

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What is the TRUE Origin of Valentine’s Day?

The Silence of Educators

Teachers are all too often silent about the origin of the customs they are forced to teach in today’s schools! If they were to speak out, many would lose their jobs!

Isn’t it time we examined why we encourage our children to celebrate St. Valentine’s Day – when it is never mentioned in the Bible as a practice of the New Testament Church?

Today, candy makers unload tons of heart-shaped red boxes for February 14, while millions of the younger set are annually exchanging valentines. Florists consider February 14 – St. Valentine’s Day – as one of their best business days. And young lovers pair off – at least for a dance or two – at St. Valentine’s balls. WHY? Where did these customs originate? Where do we find any such practices in the Bible? How did we come to inherit these customs?

A Christian Custom?

Did you know that centuries before Christ, the pagan Romans celebrated February 15 and the evening of February 14 as an idolatrous and sensuous festival in honor of Lupercus, the “hunter of wolves”?

The Romans called the festival the Lupercalia. The custom of exchanging valentines and all the other traditions in honor of Lupercus – the deified hero-hunter of Rome – was also linked anciently with the pagan practice of teenagers “going steady.” It usually led to fornication. Today, the custom of teenagers dating only one person on a regular basis is thought very modern. It isn’t. It is merely a rebirth of an old custom “handed down from the Roman festival of the Lupercalia, celebrated in the month of February, when names of young women were put into a box and drawn out by men as chance directed.” That’s the admission of the Encyclopedia Americana article entitled St. Valentine’s Day.

When Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire there was some talk in church circles of discarding this pagan free-for-all. But the Roman citizens wouldn’t hear of it! So it was agreed that the holiday would continue as it was, except for the more grossly sensual observances.

It was not until the reign of Pope Gelasius that the holiday became a Christian custom:

“As far back as 496 A.D., Pope Gelasius changed Lupercalia on February 15 to St. Valentine’s Day on February 14.” (page 172 of Customs and Holidays Around the World by Lavinia Dobler).

But how did this pagan festival acquire the name of St. Valentine’s Day? And why is the little naked Cupid of pagan Rome so often associated today with February 14? And why do little children and young people still cut out hearts and send them on a day in honor of Lupercus, the hunter of wolves? Why have we supposed these pagan customs in honor of a false god are Christian?

Who was the original St. Valentine?

Valentine was a common Roman name. Roman parents often gave the name of their children in honor of the famous man who was first called Valentine in antiquity. That famous man was Lupercus, the hunter. But who was Lupercus? And why should he have also borne the name Valentine among the heathen Romans?

The Greeks called Lupercus by the name of Pan. The Semites called Pan Baul, according to the Classical Dictionaries. Baal – mentioned so often in the Bible – was merely another name for Nimrod, “the mighty hunter” (Genesis 10:9). It was a common proverb of ancient time that Nimrod was “the MIGHTY hunter before the Lord.” Nimrod was their hero – their strong man – their VALENTINE!

How plain that the original Valentine was Nimrod, the mighty hunter of wolves. Yet another of Nimrod’s names was Sanctuc or Santa, meaning Saint. It was a common title of any hero-god. No wonder that the Roman Lupercalia is called “St. Valentine’s Day”!

But why do we associate HEARTS on a day in honor of Nimrod – the Baal of the Phoenicians and Semites?

The surprising answer is that the pagan Romans acquired the symbol of the heart from the Babylonians. In the Babylonian tongue the word for heart was bal (Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible #H1168). The heart – bal – was merely a symbol of Nimrod – the Baal or Lord of the Babylonians!

Executed at Rome

Nimrod – the original St. Valentine – was also known as Saturn, the Roman-Babylonian god who hid from his pursuers in a secret place. The Latin word Saturn is derived from the Semitic-speaking Babylonians. It means “be hid,” “hide self,” “secret,” “conceal.” The original Semitic (Hebrew) word, from which the Latin Saturn is derived, is used eighty-three times in the Old Testament (see Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Bible under “Sathar,” also “sether”).

According to ancient tradition, Saturn (Nimrod) fled from his pursuers to Italy. The Apenine mountains of Italy were anciently named the mountains of Nembrod or Nimrod. Nimrod briefly hid out at the site where Rome was later built. The ancient name of Rome, before it was rebuilt in 753 B.C. was Saturnia – the site of Saturn’s (Nimrod’s) hiding. There he was found and slain for his crimes. Later, professing Christians in Constantine’s day made Nimrod – the St. Valentine of the heathen – a Saint of the Church and continued to honor him under the name of a Christian martyr.

Why February 14?

But why should the Romans have chosen February 15 and the evening of February 14 to honor Lupercus – the Nimrod of the Bible? (Remember that day in ancient times began at sunset the evening before.)

Nimrod – Baal or sun god of the ancient pagans – was said to have been born at the winter solstice. In ancient time the solstice occurred on January 6 and his birthday therefore was celebrated on December 25 and now called Christmas. It was the custom of antiquity for, the mother of a male child to present herself for purification on the fortieth day after January 6 – Nimrod’s original birth date – takes us to February 15, the celebration of which began on the evening of February 14 – the Lupercalia or St. Valentine’s Day.

On this day in February, Semiramis, the mother of Nimrod, was said to have been purified and to have appeared for the first time in public with her son as the original “mother and child.”

The Roman month February, in fact, derives its name from the februa which the Roman priests used in the rites celebrated on St. Valentine’s Day. The febru were thongs from the skins of sacrificial animals used in rites of purification on the evening of February 14.
Cupid Makes His Appearance

Another name for the child Nimrod was “Cupid” – meaning “desire.” It is said that when Nimrod’s mother saw him, she lusted after him – she desired him. Nimrod became her Cupid – her desired one – and later her Valentine! So evil was Nimrod’s mother that it is said she married her own son! Inscribed on the monuments of ancient Egypt are inscriptions that Nimrod (the Egyptians called him Osiris) was “the husband of his mother.”

As Nimrod grew up, he became the child-hero of many women who desired him. He was their Cupid! In the Book of Daniel he is called the “desire of women” (Daniel 11:37). Moffatt translates the word as Tammuz – a Babylonian name of Nimrod. He provoked so many women to jealousy that an idol of him was often called the “image of jealousy” (Ezekiel 8:5). Nimrod, the hunter, was also their Valentine – their strong or mighty her! No wonder the pagans commemorated their hero-hunter Nimrod, or Baal, by sending heart shaped love tokens to one another on the evening of February 14 as a symbol of him.

Nimrod, the son of Cush the Ethiopian, was later a source of embarrassment to the pagans of Europe. They didn’t want an African to worship. Consequently, they substituted a supposed son of Nimrod, a child named Horus, born after the death of Nimrod. This child then became a “fair Cupid” of European tradition.

It is about time we examined these customs of the pagans now falsely labeled Christian. It is time we quit this Roman and Babylonian foolishness – this idolatry – and get back to the faith of Christ delivered once for all time. Let’s stop teaching our children these pagan customs in memory of Baal the sun god – the original St. Valentine – and teach them instead what the Bible really says!
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from: http://www.biblestudy.org/basicart/what-is-true-origin-of-valentines-day.html

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Isaiah 52

1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.

6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.

7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.

9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.

12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear-ward.

13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.

14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
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“..that bear the vessels of the LORD..”
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