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| After every storm there's always rainbow. |
Before I go any further, I want to say that despite whatever storms we may go through, even if we don't see it visually, God has promised us a rainbow. Sometimes they are above the clouds, like this one, so that we have to see it with our spiritual eyes, but it's always there.
Having prefaced this article with that thought, it is still with some reluctance that I
write to tell you of a dream I had. This is not the kind of things I'm prone to
think up or be preoccupied with. I have tried not to share it, but at this
point, even if there’s no validity to the dream I’m about to tell you, I feel
it would be irresponsible not to - just in case. I apologize for this being so long
(I thought of making it two articles but wanted to be sure both parts are
read). The second part of the article is very real. And that part is, I believe,
indeed a warning even if it doesn’t apply to everyone.
Part 1: Sometime
in 2010 I had the dream. I almost never remember my dreams but this one has
stayed with me repeatedly. It troubled me when I had it and I had the
sense that it was not for me personally but was possibly a warning for others
to be made aware of as well, if indeed it proves to come about as I had dreamed. I shared it with a few wise and godly men who
agreed it might be a warning from God. One
of them, knowing I’m a writer, suggested I write a book, somewhat like Joel
Rosenberg writes, a kind of prophetic fiction (Rosenberg writes his fiction books and then they tend to come
true). But I don’t write fiction and it would take a tremendous amount of
research to write such a book. So I did
nothing with it till now.
For about the last two months the
dream seems to be on my mind more often.
It kept going through my mind to put it on my blog. Still I have been
reluctant to do so – after all, it was
just a dream, and, frankly, I didn’t really want to add to the cacophony of alarmist
suppositions out there, not that there aren’t some real issues gnawing at our
attention. This week there have been initial cases of Ebola now in the United States. It seems to be time to share the dream. I
will also share some of what I seemed to be given to understand as the dream
unfolded though I do not know what the
first part (the next paragraph) represented except that somehow we survived something
very threatening.
As the
dream began, I was in a room with two other
women who were terrified of what was taking place outside the room. Somehow it was surrounded by, or in the midst of a great storm, perhaps a social storm,
a war or police action. The room was
being blown as if in a hurricane, and I
could see things going past the
windows as we hurled along though we were pretty shut in. I was trying to keep their
focus on the Lord, though it was
hard for all of us. Somehow we made it through and were surprised to have
survived it, but things were different after it than before.
What happened next took place in
the basement of the Seminary which I attended which told me that it was somehow
connected with spiritual issues and/or with the cooperation of the organized church
somehow. It was at night. I was trying to get to my room on an upper level
where I “dwelt.” I expected the classrooms
to be empty at night, but I found there
were classes going on, as if it was a regular seminary or college taking place.
I knew that the seminary had rented the space to these
people to have a whole other
school on the same premises so
both occupied it during one full day.
Interpretation: That this took place in the basement was that
it was hidden or of a lower spiritual nature.
I sensed both. My seminary did have apartments on the upper level. This
told me I was attempting to ‘dwell’ in a higher place (spiritually) than all
that was going on, as in “dwelling in the Lord.” That it took place at night indicates
spiritual darkness. The seminary, which is, of course, a graduate school for
training pastors, seemed to be unaware that these people had a whole other
school of thought than what is biblical.
Nor were the seminarians who were supposedly Christians at all discerning
of the spiritual condition of these other people so as to be wise enough or
spiritually strong enough to disassociate from them.
The people there were all dark,
as in almost black, (this was not racial but spiritual) and had no expressions
on their faces, as if they had no spiritual life in them, though they were all
alive physically. One young man, big and somewhat
unappealing looked out at me from his classroom (I was not in the classroom but
in the hallway) with no expression on his face. He appeared to be entirely dull
of countenance. These people didn’t
seem to have any light of the Lord
or otherwise in them, though they
were not evil.
I then understood this
was really not a school but they were involved with the making of a vaccine
that was supposed to protect everyone from a lethal flu or virus, but somehow I
knew the epidemic wasn't real. It was a way of controlling the
population.
At this point I do not remember
the dream exactly but what has stayed with me is that I was made aware that
this was setting the stage for future mandatory “health” measures, specifically
a vaccine that would be given to the entire population of America for the
“well-being” of all against some perceived (engineered or contrived) threat.
When you took the vaccine you would be given a mark on your hand or wrist.
Those who refused the vaccine would be considered a threat to the well being of
the society and would, among other things, not be permitted in stores or public
places as they would be potential contaminators of the disease. My sense was
that those without the mark would suffer being treated as traitors to society and
rendered as outcasts.
Interpretation: It appears those without indication of having
had the vaccine would not be permitted to “buy or sell.” (See Revelation 13:17).
I then came to understand that
because of side effects from the vaccine which apparently affected everyone
quite negatively, drugs would be administered to the population en masse in order that people could continue
to function after the vaccines did their damage. Only they would not be
functioning normally and would be controlled by the drugs which would make them
dependent on the drugs and would have the effect of changing personalities, and
subduing most otherwise active people. So then we would have an entirely drug
dependent and controlled national population. It reminds one of “Big Brother” [i]
watching over the people.
Need I say that this should be avoided at all costs, should it ever actually happen, by those of us who are the Lord's as it is all a sign of the anti-Christ in his attempt to control the world. We are of those about whom the bible says will we not succumb to those controls because they are viewed as worship of the anti-Christ. We can see from the meaning of pharmakeia that it would be a form of false religion which is relying on and putting your trust in someone or something other than God Himself to provide a (false) sense of peace, joy or well-being. Those who will "worship the beast" (the anti-Christ and/or his ways) are ",...
all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world....This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God’s people" (Revelation 13:8, 10b). It would be a time to remember that there is always a rainbow after a storm, in this case, an eternal rainbow!
Part 2: As I
have pondered this dream before the Lord, I keep asking is there really a warning in this dream? I have seen other things that could possibly have to do with the dream. We are being programmed through the media to thinking we are a
disease-infested society for which only drugs are the answer. Many of life’s normal
problems are being considered as diseases – now even heartburn is a disease. Drugs are
the only cure, which don’t really cure, they manage the disease, meaning that
continuing to take the drug is often built in.
I have observed that even on family-type channels, at times every third
or so commercial is for drugs. Even with the sometimes life threatening contra-indications
mentioned, people are so used to taking potentially lethal drugs that the
warnings mean little. We are being brainwashed into thinking that drugs are the
way to health, peace, joy and well-being, all of which Yeshua promised us, by the way.
There are precedents of vaccines
causing serious mental problems as well as physical. Our own army has used vaccines on our troops
that have led to serious mental issues including suicides. See Endnote [ii]
below for more on this.
Are you aware of Iatrogenic
diseases? This means physician or medically induced consequences to treatment
or advice. See Endnote [iii]
for more in-depth info but here are some specifics:
Deaths from accidental poisoning by drugs and
other medicines climbed from 851 to nearly 2,100. Of those, outpatient deaths
increased from under 200 to just under 1,500. This was in 1993. Since, it has continued
to increased.
CNN
reported that: Drug Reactions Kill an
Estimated 100,000 a Year.
Adverse reactions to prescription
and over-the-counter medicines kill more than 100,000 Americans and seriously
injure an additional 2.1 million each year, researchers say.
Such reactions -- which do not include
prescribing errors or drug abuse -- rank at least
sixth among causes of death in the United States, behind heart disease,
cancer, lung disease, strokes and accidents, according to a report published in
the Journal of the American Medical Association. The report was based on an
analysis of existing studies. "Serious adverse drug reactions are
frequent ... more so than generally recognized," the researchers said.
Drug overdose was
the leading cause of injury death in 2011. Among
people 25 to 64 years old, drug overdose caused more deaths than motor vehicle
traffic crashes.
Drug overdose death rates have
been rising steadily since 1992 with a 118%
increase from 1999 to 2011 alone.
In 2011, drug misuse and abuse
caused about 2.5 million Emergency Department (ED) visits. Of these, more than 1.4 million ED visits were related to
pharmaceuticals (medicines).
Between 2004 and 2005, an estimated 71,000
children (18 or younger) were seen in EDs each year because of
medication overdose (excluding self-harm, abuse and recreational drug use).
Among children under age 6, pharmaceuticals account for about 40% of all
exposures reported to poison centers.
In 2011, 33,071 (80%) of the 41,340 drug overdose deaths in the United States were
unintentional,
Are we programmed to accept drugs
as a way of life, as a means of solutions to problems, physical, mental and
otherwise? It would appear that drugs
are even a form of entertainment among certain groups of
people. It may be that the dream is a
warning of the drug use which is clearly a national threat. Even if some Big
Brother or social intent is not deliberately programming us to control us, the
devil is.
To go back to my often mentioned belief
that God will have a people who are wholly dependent upon Him only for whom Yeshua will
return, keep in mind that drugs and medicine are pharmaceuticals, in Greek pharmakeÃa . The word appears in the Bible in numerous
places. According to Strong’s Bible Concordance, the word means, “to administer
drugs… It is drug-related sorcery, like the practice of magical-arts, and often
found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it.” (See Exodus 7:11 & 22; 8:18; Isaiah 47:9; Galatians
5:20; and Rev. 18:23.)
Yes, there are times when
medicines are helpful to us, but we must use them with discernment, wisdom and
only when necessary, if at all. One report stated that doctors have written
enough pain medications in one year for every house in America to have a bottle
of prescription pain meds. Are we really in that much pain? People have always endured pain. I wonder,
are we really missing some endurance in our character that we dive for the
pills the minute there’s the hint of a headache. I realize there are some with significant
ongoing pain and thank God there is relief. But the statistics above tell us there’s
more going on than just avoiding endurable pain.
I’ll sneak in a personal
testimony here. I recently fell and broke my hip – oh my, was that ever painful
beyond anything I’ve ever experienced. When I first arrived in the hospital – in a
great deal of pain, mind you, they gave me morphine – oh, gosh, I hated it. It
may have taken an edge off but wow, did I hate the feeling that came with it. I
refused to take it after that. I asked for an Ibuprofen and endured the pain,
with God’s help. They couldn’t believe I’d make that choice.
After the surgery they gave me Oxycontin
for the post-op pain which I can tell you was considerable. Aside from burns,
bone pain is the worst kind of pain, I’m told. I believe it. I took what they
gave me, still groggy from anesthesia. That was just as bad. I can’t believe people
take these things for fun. I can see why the bible calls them pharmakeia. They are kind of mind altering and do interfere
with one’s consciousness. An old Yiddish
expression my mother often said comes to mind: Nisht fah mere: Not for
me! I confess that I did rely on a good
number of Ibuprofens, but not the hard stuff. I apparently was a minority of one in the rehab where I lived for a month as I recuperated. Drugs were a way of life there.
I tell you this only to say that
what I’m telling you about the drugs isn’t a piece of idealistic advice I’m giving without
having suffered somewhat without them. But I can tell you that God
will enable us to get through most of whatever we need to without them. [There are exceptions and I am not saying by any means to stop your meds without wise medical counsel where necessary. Diabetics and those with blood pressure and other serious issues, for instance, should not just stop taking their meds. You are not who I'm speaking to.]
Even so, should we not rather put our
dependence upon our God who is “the same yesterday,
today and forever” (Hebrews 13:8) who told Israel “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord
your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and
keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have
brought on the Egyptians. For I am
the Lord who heals you” (Exodus
15:26).
Are we not Yeshua’s whom “God anointed…with the Holy Spirit and with
power, who went about doing good and healing all who were
oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him” (Acts 10:38)? There we have the Lord’s healing in the Tenach and in the Brit Hadashah (the OT and the NT). I could quote so many more
examples of God’s healing His people. I’m sure you could too.
I find it
interesting that we call ourselves “Believers”
- well then, is it not time that we actually believe what we
believe?! Yeshua left His followers
with these words: “And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will
cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up
serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they
will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” (Mark 16:17, 18).
We can pray
for one another to be healed! Let’s
begin to pray that God will anoint and empower His people so that we can be
fully dependent upon Him and no longer subscribe to the devil’s alternative to
God’s healing power. I have the feeling God will be more than happy to meet us
there. Amen?
[i] Big Brother is a fictional character in
George Orwell’s novel Nineteen
Eighty-Four. He is the enigmatic dictator of a totalitarian
state wherein the ruling Party wields total power for its own sake over the
inhabitants.
