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Pandemic Changes "A View From Heavenly Places" By James R. Therrell – 08/23/2011 When standing on a pedestal somewhere in the Heavenly Realms, far above our limited Earthly reasoning, we are enabled to see that all of the societal entities of Earth are experiencing dramatic, dynamic changes! On Earth people of every home, village, town, state or Nation sense this change in their hearts. These people of every strata of the social ladder, from paupers to kings, are experiencing an earth quaking change of their very beings, confidences and their foundations! Some would say that this sounds like the perplexity of Nations. Others would say that it seems as if the whole Earth is groaning while waiting for manifestations from the Sons of God. Still others who have waited and observed say we are adrift in a parched desert wilderness where there still stands a Rock that has not been spoken to or struck. It is Rock Time, folks! All living creatures as well as the Earth itself are going through a Metamorphic Change. There is shaking of Earth as it erupts in reformation and change of its very shape and appearance. Every Nation we can name is experiencing change of leadership and the brilliance upon the people is showing new vibrant colors. As surely as the worm of the cocoon miraculously becomes the butterfly covered with numberless magnificent colors, so is the New Monarch among the people that are set into Liberty on the Earth by the Hand of God in the Miracle of Metamorphosis. This is undeniable Change! The New Monarch rules and reigns in His Glory! The God of Glory continues to change unsightly worms, creeping things and caterpillars. Their cocoons crumble into oblivion never ever to be seen again. Meanwhile the Lord God Almighty continues Restoration and Change! But let us bring this Metamorphic Change to the Home of American People, The United States of America! Right now, in this present time, our "cocoon" is divinely attached to the Highest Branch in a place of protection until the Day of Breakout into Glory reserved for its future days. God forbid that this fragile creation should be cast away to the ground and be trodden upon to it’s mortal destruction! The moment of Breakout to new life is very near. While in the cocoon there was ample provision until this Day. Now at the appointed time, this Day appears and so do all the provisions, Providence of God if you will, that befits the Monarch and his days in Glory here on Earth! When the Monarch arises in its first flight there is not an eye in all the "jungle" that does not give pause to its beauty and rise to Glory! That, my friends, is what God has in mind (have the mind of Christ) for the rise of America in new Glory! Our United States are much more than just a series blocks, shapes, boundaries of geography on maps and incidental governments held together by some colorless mystical Federal Organization. We as a Nation are like the Biblical coat of many colors whereof the Father has carefully and lovingly stitched all of the colorful patches together to cover and uniquely honor us even as a precious Son! There is none other like it that so identifies US as His favorite. As you may follow along the story of Joseph (Genesis 37:3-33), who was only 17 years old at the time, it is plain to see that he was hated, envied and highly resented by his brethren. Joseph had two dreams that revealed prophetic future events for this favorite Son. Yet, Jacob his Son, was hated even more by his brethren. His father Jacob was greatly incensed to rebuke Joseph for such thoughts that even he and Joseph’s mother would come to bow down to Joseph. Jacob did not have the revelation of the two dreams. However, we are told that Jacob kept and pondered the words of Joseph. But, these brethren were not the immediate family blood brothers of Joseph. They were of the generations of his uncle Esau through his children by Aholibamah, even Duke Aholibamah of the Edomites (Genesis 36). Do you remember the often mentioned struggles between Jacob and Esau? At their birth there began a continuing conflict between two Nations that has now evolved into present day history as current events. It is interesting to note the syllable by syllable breakdown of: A-holi-bam-ah (A Holy Bamah) literally meaning, "A Holy Thing for all the world!" But such thing is a lie! There can be no Holy thing produced in a perverted demonic religion! In the first dream of Joseph, God used an analogy of sheaves to give a prophetic message. Not one of the family understood the true meaning of the dream that in fact gave the prophetic revelation of the approaching famine of corn or grain. How could they possibly understand that Joseph would be the person who provided food for them as drought and famine plagued the land? Never was the intent of God in this first dream to set a ruler over the brethren. The hatred against Joseph due by his brethren’s fear of dominance over them was without merit. They did not understand that God was revealing His plan for their continued preservation of abundant life when in a short future time their sheaves would fail to produce grain and famine would come to their land. The Providence of God was to open the stored up wealth of the wicked (sinners) by the administration of Joseph as Governor of Egypt and Prime Minister to Pharaoh to give abundant supply to all of the Family! Eventually in this story of restoration and preservation, all of the family of Joseph did bow down their faces to the earth in obeisance to the Governor of Egypt of whom they did not know then that it was their brother Joseph. All of this could not be summed up more succinctly than by the words of Joseph himself: Gen 45:6-8 "For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing (gathering corn) nor harvest (of wheat). 7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt." KJV God had a Plan for man revealed in those years. He manifested His plan through a special Son of the Family to again supply and protect His People. The Monarch, Joseph in all the Glory of God had again risen from a dead cocoon to a vibrancy of New Life in this Glory of God! Has God now left us, his Special Nation, without recourse in our present times of need? Has the Providence of God ceased to reveal its presence in these modern times when our Nation struggles with uncertainty and severe famine of economic prosperity or ample provision? Have the manifestations of provisions for abundant life in the family, in the home or within our Nation ceased? Not at all, not on your life, fellow Americans! We continue to have a most sure Word of Divine Promise: Heb 13:7-8 "Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their conduct, continue in their faith. that Jesus Christ is the same as He was yesterday, He is the same today and He shall remain the same forever!" (NASJ) ************ Just as it was in the days of Joseph as he was the Administrator for all of the stored up riches of the wicked wrought up in the Kingdom of Pharaoh, so it is with our Nation in these modern days. Then, the most desired stored up riches of the wicked was the abundance of corn, wheat and other food stuffs necessary to sustain life. Yes, there was much gold in the land at that time but that too was a wealth stored or reserved mostly unto Pharaoh. A sack of gold had no value to buy a morsel of food in the famine. The food stores were in the possession of wicked! The Nation of Egypt was in a depression. The food and the gold were in the bank of the wicked. There were no jobs. The building programs for governmental purposes such as palaces, courts, baths, meeting halls, roads, bridges and tombs were complete. The public works of many slaves came to an end as the Pyramid tombs for the Kings of Egypt were completed where the treasures of their life would be entombed with them. The people of the Nation were hungry, desperate and distressed. BUT, Joseph was there and God told him what to do! Again, new life began as the Monarch rose in splendor of the Glory of God! It was all within the same week that I began to write these herein contained words. The price of gold in the world markets reached an all time high of $1,920 per troy ounce. The region from Virginia through New York was struck by a monstrous unusually strong earthquake that even rattled the financial district of Wall Street. In August 2011, a very large and powerful hurricane swept across the East coast states with winds and rains that left destruction in the billions of dollars and continued with some of the worst floods ever to hit the areas from the Carolinas through Washington D. C., New York, Pennsylvania and most of New England! It seemed as if God was punctuating and emphasizing a message that He wanted to give to this Nation in a most straight forward, direct and understanding manner to show the Way that should be taken so that the Monarch could again rise to life in the Glory of God for this great Nation. Perhaps the "Rock" had at least been struck and the Life Giving Water was beginning to flow! The plight of the United States of America is not unlike that of Egypt in Joseph’s time. There is not really a shortage of money or gold. This Nation has the ability and resources to produce more food than any country in the World. We have some of the best transportation facilities with highways, waterways, railways and airways. There are more automobiles in the USA than in any other country. Our technical abilities are mostly unmatched and reach around the world. Our industrial might overwhelms the ability of other nations. THEN WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? Let us look at another scripture: Prov 13:22 "A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just." KJV For thus the Lord says, "Have I not said that the Good Man leaves an inheritance to his children and to his grand children? Is this not the written record of my Word for my People? Where have I said that a Good Man leaves the bondage and yoke of debt upon My Children of the Nation that I have planted to be my special Heritaptge? Have I not already broken the shackles of Bondage and freed you from the Yoke of Egypt?" AND, thus the Lord would say further, "Have I not confirmed to you my written Word that there is Abundant Life and Providence for my children? Does not my Word say unto you that I have stored up the wealth of the wicked sinners so that I may pour it out for you as I open the Windows of Heaven to pour you out a blessing that you cannot contain? For I am the Lord that calls unto you, ‘Come unto me all ye that are heavy laden and I will give you even the heavenly rest for your souls and yet deliver you from the Bondages of Egypt that try, but fail, to ensnare you’! I am the Lord that calleth thee again unto my side and remain as your Rock even as My People wander as though they are in a wilderness land instead of knowing they are My Land of Promise!" Since the days of Moses when God sent him as a prophet to His people in Egypt, God has been sending His Prophets to His people because He has compassion for them in their times of need. Often the People have cried out to God to again send them a man with His word upon his lips. Almost as often have the men that God has sent been rejected, hated and despised, even killed, yet we read that for His great love of His Family, His beloved children He has kept sending His Prophets with His Word upon their lips. Often times the prophets faced the governmental leaders to not only point out the errors of their ways, but also to point out the way that they should go and the actions to take. Take a look at this confirming Scripture: 2 Chron 36:15-16 "And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy." Jer 7:25-26 "Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: 26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. KJV Has God changed the way that He brings help and correction to His children, the Family and the Nation (Kingdom) that He has birthed? Has he gone deaf so that He cannot hear the cries of His people? Has His arm been shortened or the Providence of Heaven been exhausted? Has His infinite love, mercy and patience ceased so that He has no more Hope of Glory (the Monarch) for His People? These are absurd rhetorical questions! One of the most important questions that we should consider for this age in which we live is: Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might inquire of him? (1 Kings 22:7, 2 Kings 3:11, 2 Chronicles 18:6 KJV) These Scriptures speak of a time when the rulers and Kings of the people were seeking divine guidance. In each case, the answer was an unqualified, YES! Immediately the rulers sent for these men of God so that they may hear the thing they must do and the way they should go! We leave the history as recorded about Micaiah being called by the rulers to speak the Word of the Lord and the outcome of the following battle to your individual private reading of 1 Ki 22:7. As you also read 2 Ki 3:11 privately about God’s plan to subdue the Moabites, you will also see that the Lord gave His miraculous Word to Elisha the prophet about how the Lord would give them abundant water in the time of drought. As you also read 2 Chron 18:6, you will see that this is a confirmation of the same as in 1 Ki 22:7. The important thing to remember here is that God could not act until the Leaders were willing to seek the Word of the Lord from the Prophets! Were the hearts of the rulers prepared to receive and obey the Word of the Lord as spoken by the Prophets? What is man to defy God? So much the better to receive the engrafted Word, to obey it and receive the abundant supply of the Providence of God!t Now let us learn a lesson from the History of God’s People when they lived in the land of Egypt. The children of the family of God continued to prosper and multiply greatly in the land of Egypt after the death of Isaac their father. They lived contentedly in the Land of Goshen, tended their flocks and continued to make bricks for all the king’s projects. Joseph lived to see children of the third generation and then after prophesying to all the people that they would be going into the promised land of Canaan as God had made promise to them, Joseph died at the ripe old age of 110 years. His bones were simply put into a coffin to be later transported to the Promised land. But changes were taking place in that the Pharaoh who had installed Joseph as Governor and entrusted him will all of his house had died also. Then a there arose a new king over Egypt which Joseph knew not! Administration of the government changed so that there were now task masters placed over all the people to see that the work of Pharaoh’s kingdom was carried out to completion. The children of Israel were made to serve Egypt with rigour, with bitter and hard bondage in much brick and mortar as well as in all manner of service to the new Pharaoh! Mid wives of the Israelites were told by Pharaoh to kill all the male children at birth. However, the mid wives feared God and knew the penalties for shedding innocent blood. They disobeyed the order of Pharaoh! All of the killings (infanticide) were a design of Pharaoh to control the enormous population growth of the Children of Israel. But the design was a failure! Then Pharaoh implemented another genocide order. He ordered that the mid wives were to cast every son that was born unto the People of God to be thrown into the river, the Nile, to be drowned as an infant there. Pharaoh had not the slightest thought that he had sealed his own doom by this shedding of innocent blood! This end of Pharaoh is recorded: Ex 2:23-25 "During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. 24 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. 25 So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them." NIV During this long period of time, God was preparing His Prophet Moses to be sent unto Pharaoh. AND the beginning good news began to be heard abroad throughout the Heavenlies: Ex 3:8-10 "And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt." NIV Not long in the process of time as Moses was returning to Egypt from Midian with his wife Zipporah, the Lord spoke to Aaron to go out into the wilderness and meet Moses. This he did and met Moses in the mount of God. There may be a little mystery in this meeting. These two men had never met before and were unknown to one another, so how was the Prophet of God to know that a friend of God had come to meet him? It was kissing time! Great love was shown and demonstrated to the Prophet. How different this was from the stoning and killing of the Prophets that God had been sending before Moses met Aaron! Would to God that the same love and affection were shown in this present day for the Prophets of the Lord! But because love prevailed, the Good News of God was about to be revealed to the second person to know the plan of God for Man as given to Moses. Ex 4:28 "And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him." What a tremendous sharing session this must have been! Immediate fellowship was established in love as Moses told everything that the Lord had said and revealed to him! There must have been an atmosphere of ultimate seriousness and also of tremendous, abounding joy! God was moving hearts to change the status of His people. God was on the move to reveal all of His Plan of deliverance for His people! The Scriptures are most adequate to tell of the next actions
of these men of Ex 4:29-31 "And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel: 30 And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. 31 And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped." KJV It is plain to see that God had given from His Providence. He gave a man, Moses, to carry His special anointing. He gave His Word to Moses that He had heard the cry of the people. He gave His Word that changes were to be made. He gave a Priest to proclaim His Word. He gave love into hearts of his servants! And now faith was rising in the hearts of the elders as well as all the people and New Hope in God was manifest to such extent that they then bowed their heads in Worship! Revival had come to the People of God! Now let’s reach for more confirming Scripture: Rom 10:17 "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Eph 2:8-9 "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast." KJV After this meeting, it was called the meeting with The God of the Hebrews, Moses and Aaron went to make the first demand upon Pharaoh. They were only met with strong adamant resistance and resentment by Pharaoh and turned away. In retribution and abstinence to again show his power, Pharaoh again changed the law that controlled the work of the people. He increased their burden and the "tale" (the count of the bricks) that the people were to make for Egypt and for the use of Pharaoh. He also required the people to produce their own straw to make the bricks! His extremse demands were an unbearable threat to life itself and even the plundering of the fields that provided pastures and food for the people of the Family of God. Pharaoh had caused great depression, anguish and crying again among the people for deliverance from these yokes of bondage which had by now grown in to tortures to try to break the will of the people. Pharaoh’s greed in extracting greater "tale" from the people would prove to be just the opposite of what he wanted! As the taskmasters tried to enforce the demands of Pharaoh by beating the officers of the people of God, relations further rotted or declined to such a low point that the officers again met up with Moses and Aaron who were yet in the Way (understanding) of God. In this time of meeting the officers began to accuse Moses and Aaron for bringing them trouble. In a like manner, Moses went before the Lord with questions of why the people were being further entreated with evil since the Lord had sent him and still there was no deliverance! This first season of added afflictions had come after Moses and Aaron simply pleaded and respectfully asked Pharaoh to let the people go into the wilderness for three days to pray and seek God while no demands were made upon Pharaoh. Now, things were different and God spoke unto Moses and said unto him: (Ex 6:2) "I am the LORD!": Ex 6:3-8 "And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. 4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers. 5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. 6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: 7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage": "I am the LORD!" KJVThe cocoon (bondages) was about to be broken again and the Great Monarch of the Glory God was about to fly again! But, there were concerns. Even though Moses again went before the people to tell them the Good News, there was reluctance to believe Moses because they had great anguish and wounding of the spirit and had suffered great and cruel bondage since Moses spoke to them the first time. Their trust and faith had suffered greatly so that they were now skeptical, perhaps even suspicious of Moses and Aaron! But, God had a plan. His hand was not shortened, nor His Plan defeated nor was his promise to be broken! He had spoken His Word and God does not lie! God was careful to name all of the families that were to be delivered from the bondages of Egypt. Then he sent Moses again, as a God unto Pharaoh, and Aaron to be the prophet for Moses. This time when Moses was before Pharaoh it was with great authority and even spoken by his prophet that Pharaoh would send the children of Israel out of Egypt. The results are best summed up in these verses: Ex 7:4-5 "But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them." KJV I call your attention to the phrase, "bring forth mine armies" for your remembrance. Once again we can clearly see that God does have an army. Perhaps in the near future we may write about the Great Army of God. But for now, it is beyond the scope of this writing. I should think that by now most of you who are believers and even many of those who are, as yet, not believers know the story of God bringing His People out of Egypt accompanied with many signs and wonders to show the power of God vs the power of Pharaoh. Colossal Hollywood movies have been made to show the parting of the Red Sea to allow the children to cross over on dry land while afterward the Sea closed again to drown all the pursuing army of Pharaoh. These are superlative stories of the tremendous love and power of God to save His People that many of us began to hear when we were just children perhaps in early grade school or a beginning Sunday School Class. Fascinating aren’t they? How ever exciting these stories have been, there is also more wisdom of God passed down to us, as I have so written, as a few such morsels of Heavenly Bread. We all can apply this revealed wisdom to our benefit. Allow me to bring forward a particular portion of this story of deliverance and salvation in the time when Pharaoh was resisting the move of God. Pharaoh was like the cocoon that we have seen that contains the Monarch that in due time would be delivered or set free to fly away in it’s beautiful Glory. The cocoon was in the beginning for the nourishment and protection of the Monarch. So it was with Pharaoh as he placed Joseph, the wearer of the coat of many colors, to be the Governor of Egypt and thus provision was made for the nurture of the children of Israel. But then this first Pharaoh who knew Joseph died and a new Pharaoh arose in power that knew not Joseph. There was a new administration in place. This new Pharaoh was advised to lift or lighten the burdens of the children of Israel so as to gain their favor. But he chose to do just the opposite when he ordered an increase of the "tale" (the amount or count) of the bricks to be made for the governmental and burial projects of Pharaoh. Added to this, he also required that the children provide their own straw to make the bricks. And, added to all this, he forbade the children to go into the wilderness to worship and celebrate their God. Pharaoh had transformed the cocoon of protection into a cocoon of bondage and suffering. Pharaoh desired absolute authority, even as God, over the lives of the children. Any resistance to these desires was met by the beating of the officers of the children of God by the taskmasters (agencies, bureaus or services) of Pharaoh. The "cocoon" was snuffing the life from the Monarch and physically despoiling the growing Monarch so much so that the people again cried out to God for His help! The people were at a point of total rebellion to Pharaoh. The conditions of their "cocoon" were intolerable, even life threatening! However, God heard their cries and their prayers and sent His Prophet and Deliverer. Instead of over taxing the resources and abilities of the people with increased "tale" requirements, what would have happened if Pharaoh had agreed with his advisors to reduce the "tale" that was going to the government monument and burial programs? Allegorically, the life of the Monarch would not have been put in jeopardy! The cocoon would remain as a preserver of life and provision until it was God’s time for the Monarch to rise in freedom in all of it’s Glory! Pharaoh failed to see or understand that his over taxing of the people would ultimately bring about his destruction! He could not understand that by lowering his taxes upon the people that it would bring prosperity to his Egypt. He was so blinded by his power that he could not see that removal of the heavy, taxing burdens would bring great joy and happiness in their work, so much so, that there would be an increase in productivity! Pharaoh also failed to see that by his allowing of the "Monarch" to rise in Glory, in the wilderness of praise and worship, would also greatly bless his Egypt and the production of goods and services as well as bring the protection of God’s Army rather than his army! Dear friends, we have sought to bring you salt and light in the understanding of God’s purpose when we stand upon a pedestal and view from Heavenly Places. Could history have been changed had Pharaoh taken the advice of his counselors? Perhaps! But let us not forget that God raised up Pharaoh to show the power of God and not that of Pharaoh. In this day and this age we do not need the power of another "pharaoh" to show us the mighty power of God. The greatest power of God has already been shown to us when God so loved all the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever should believe on him should never perish but have Eternal Life, to be crucified upon a tree, then to be dead and buried for three days and then to be resurrected by this same power of Christ, the Eternal One! As we all are passing through this metamorphic change, literally all around the whole world, we ask our Lord Jesus Christ to be with you in your cocoon, that he grant unto you His Divine protection and nourishment of the cocoon and that He cause you to break forth as His "Monarch" to fly away in full Liberty of the Heavenlies and to rise here and eternally in the beautiful Glory of God! Amen!
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