FORTY DAY INITIATIVE FOR TURTLE ISLAND GATEKEEPERS
June 10-July 20, 2011
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it is conquered from within.”
~Will Durant
Day Five~Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Yesterday, I was going outside to get some air and work on the blog and as I sat down a bee started buzzing me. It was aggressive and would not leave me alone. Many times I have sat in the backyard, made a phone call, wrote in my commonplace, read the Word. Sometimes sister bee has come up to me, buzzed hello and raced off to work the clover and other flowers nearby, but not yesterday. The message was very urgent. No sting, just urgency. I kept walking away and she wouldn’t stop herding me.
Some of my First Nations brothers have said that YHWH has given us brother and sister bee to bless us. At times, bees have been sent to actually prevent them from walking over a rattlesnake or warn them of some lurking danger. They’ve learned to listen to YHWH’s Creation. In Scripture, we are taught to observe HIS Creation, to study the ants that have no ruler and watch how they work (Proverbs 30:25). In Job, to listen to the beasts and let them teach you, listen to the birds, they’ll tell you. (Job 12:7). To observe the fig tree, the times, the seasons, that the heavens declare the glory of YHWH and the firmaments show forth His handiwork (Psalm 19:1).
THE SPRING SWARM. Over the years I have observed swarms of bees in various places. One summer, I was driving and while stopped at a traffic light a swarm of bees surrounded the car. Fortunately, I had the air conditioner on. Summer swarms are not known by farmers to be very profitable. However, there is another type of swarm that forms in the spring when a hive comes to a point where it needs to divide and move. That’s known as a spring swarm and is composed of many young bees and a few old bees who know the hives code. The swarm guided by forerunner bees may move to several different locations before it settles down and creates a new hive with the new queen, but in the process it pollinates a great variety of flowers. Vegetable gardens and fruit orchards depend on them and that’s why it’s known as a very productive “spring swarm.”
The LORD impressed upon me over the last couple of years that a youth movement would arise of young bees in a spontaneous spring swarm. As I anticipated it, I was interested to see spontaneous youth movements spreading across the Middle East. But those were not what I believe He was pointing to. I think He was speaking of a radical reformation arising among Christian youth who had grown tired of lukewarm Christianity who would spontaneously form new cells that would spread the Gospel like wildfire. It is clear, the LORD is up to something, we have work to do and it’s going to involve many individual swarms of young bees and the wise guidance of a few old bees in each of those swarms.
Sister Bee was saying to this old bee, “Get to the point!”
Twenty days before the Kalachakra Ceremony in Washington, DC. We’ve got work to do!
“When an old dog howls, other dogs run after him without knowing why.”
A Thousand Tibetan Proverbs and Wise Sayings
by Rev. J. Gergan, A Tibetan Moravian Christian pastor
On March 11, 2011 a young Japanese schoolgirl stood on the seashore in Sendai, Japan with her family and told them immediately after the earthquake, “I learned in class about what the ocean looks like just before a tsunami. It looks like that… RUN.” And they ran, and others followed them to high ground. Many were saved by what that one little girl understood.
The RED ALERT Initiative for Turtle Island Gatekeepers has arisen because of our understanding of the dangerous spiritual nature of the Kalachakra Tantra Ceremonies that will be held in Washington, DC at the Verizon Center that will occur from July 6-18, 2011. Francis Wayland, who was President of Brown University from 1827-1855 made two profound statements that I feel are most appropriate in our present initiative. First, that “The innate affections of the heart teach us to shield those whom we love from the contaminations of vice.”
Our knowledge of the demonic Kalachakra event that is about to transpire is of grave concern not just to us as Christians, but also to the nation as a whole. We have posted a twelve lesson briefing that may be accessed on http://www.worldviews101.com. We are constrained to warn the Church and those citizens on Turtle Island. We are concerned for what this will mean for our children and the next generation and for the judgments which will come because we have broken our covenant with YHWH.
Her second statement encourages us to realize that, “A lie has not power to change the ordinances of God.” For us, the battle has been already won through Yeshua’s death on the cross and His resurrection. But for millions of Buddhists, the eternal destiny of their soul hangs in the balance, be they from any of the five great continents.
We have observed the increasing intensity of judgment of America over the last fourteen years and of late, the news has reported storms in terms that include, “epic, biblical proportions, worst in recorded history, floods not seen in a hundred years. Some demographers say that the deaths from storms have increased because of the population explosion. Scientists say it’s all a result of global warming. The other night I had dinner with an old Buddhist friend of mine and he said that the schism in their Buddhist sect resulted in the great Kobe earthquake which killed many Buddhists who had burned their objects of worship in Buddhist center the day before. I think that Yeshua’s answer to His disciples after the collapse of the Tower is the most wise (Luke 13:1-5).
“And some were present at that time, reporting to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their offerings. And Yeshua answering, said to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans, because they have suffered like this? “I say to you, no! But unless you repent you shall all perish in the same way.
“Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Shiloah fell and killed them, do you think that they were greater offenders than all other men who dwelt in Yerushalayim? “I say to you, no! But unless you repent you shall all perish in the same way.”
John Owen, the great English theologian and dissenter wrote, “When warnings for instruction are not received, they are tokens of destruction. This is a truth none almost deny, and none almost believe. Had it been believed, many desolating judgments in former ages had been prevented; nations and cities should have abode in prosperity, which are now sunk into ruin, yea, into Hell” (“Sermon to the Nation,” by John Owen (1616-1683).
Early this morning, Dewey one of my First Nations brothers from Virginia called me and asked, “What do you think the LORD’s saying?”
I said, “I think He’s concerned about His covenant community. While we’re focusing on addressing the Tibetan Buddhist issues in Washington, DC, I’m getting that He’s concerned about His people and their relationships with one another. How did we fall this far? We’ve broken our covenant’s with YHWH and we’re not right with one another. I think He wants us to enter into a period of prayerful repentance and confession before we address the blatant idolatry of Tibetan Buddhism.
Repentance, forgiveness, reconciliation, restitution, renewal of covenants & fellowship, joy, praise, and then mission.
When I used the term ‘covenant community’ Dewey recalled a story he’d read about the Pilgrims in The Light and the Glory by Peter Marshall, a former chaplain in the US Senate. It was the same group that was assisted by one brave named Squanto, the sole surviving member of the Patuxet tribe which had been wiped out by a mysterious plague and through a series of Joseph type events Squanto was captured, sold as a slave and came to the LORD and was instrumental in the survival of the Pilgrims settlement.
‘During the summer of 1623 they were suffering from a 12 week drought which threatened their entire corn crop. What they heard from the LORD was that He had withheld the rain because of all the hard feelings the community had towards one another. After nine hours of prayer and fasting, and confessing their sins to one another, they were joyfully reconciled. Before they departed, they noticed that the sky had become overcast and soon clouds gathered on all sides. The next morning, rain began to fall very softly and it continued raining softly for fourteen days. That year they had a surplus and freely shared it with their First Nations neighbors.’
After he told me the story, I recalled a dream I’d had in the night of Robby Butler and Rick Wood who I’d known from the US Center for World Mission. They were just about to go into a meeting and invited me in. I was not interested because of how our family had been so seriously hurt by them in 1997 and because the LORD had me deliver a message to them in 2007 and did not want me to set foot on the campus until there was repentance. For some reason, in the dream, the LORD was drawing us in because there was about to be a visitation of the Holy Spirit.
WHAT TO PRAY
“With all prayer and supplication praying at all seasons, and watching thereunto in all perseverance and supplications for all saints” (Ephesians 6:8).
Every member of a body is interested in the welfare of the whole, and exists to help and complete the other. Believers are one body, and ought to pray, not so much for the welfare of their own church or society, but first of all, for all saints. This large, unselfish love is the proof that Christ’s Spirit and Love is teaching them to pray. Pray first for all and then for the believers around you.” Andrew Murray in The Ministry of Intercession.
HOW TO PRAY—IN THE LOVE OF THE SPIRIT
“By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another” (John 13:35).
“I pray that they all may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send Me” (John 17:21).
“I beseech you, brethren, by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me” (Romans 15:30).
“Above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves” (I Peter 4:8).
“If we are to pray we must love. Let us say to God we do love all His saints; let us say we love specially every child of His we know. Let us pray with fervent love, in the love of the Spirit.” ~Andrew Murray.
SPECIAL PETITIONS
“Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts” (Psalm 119:23).
“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves; know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except you be reprobates? (2 Corinthians 8:5).
“Those who entertain the opinion and hope of themselves, that they are godly, should take great care to see that their foundation be right. Those that are in doubt should not give themselves rest till the matter be resolved” (Jonathan Edwards’ “Christian Cautions or The Necessity of Self-Examination”).
For YHWH’s love to infill us for the body of Yeshua, the Bride of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
Reconciliation in the covenant community of believers.
“If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:6-7).
“If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in is” (1 John 1:8)
“If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us” (1 John 1:10).
“The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him” (1 John 2:4).
“And now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming.
If you now that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him.
See how great a love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that, when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as he is.
And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure” (1 John 2:28-3:3).
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“When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the YHWH had made with you, then I remained on the mountain forty days and nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.” Deuteronomy 9:9
“For YHWH your Elohim is Elohim of mighty ones and Master of masters, the great El, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe.” Debarim 10:17 (Deut.) ISR Version.
“You shall have no other gods before Me.
“You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.
‘You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments” (Deuternomy 5:6-10).
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