Ellen Gonzalez (22 Dec 2006)
"Lisa's dream"


   Lisa, when I read about your dream several personal things jumped out at me, especially in light of Kay's request about the people in Monterrey, Mexico. See this link:
 
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/dec2006/kay1221.htm
 
 
   Lisa mentioned a man named Cornelius Hidalgo and by rearranging the letters came up with the following words: Enoch, Gloria, Lid and Us.
 
    I am wondering if the Lord wants to use me and my husband Lico, whose given name is ELIDio, the masucline form of the name Lydia, the seller of purple in the Bible. His mother calls him LIDio. His father's name is also Elidio, but the oldest son was not given that name, and Lico is the seventh child, so it is a mystery why he was given this name. Anyone who knows me well knows that purple is my favorite color, and I am passionate about it. It is funny that I married a man whose name has a direct connection with that color, which is symbolic of royalty. In ancient times purple dye was extracted from a shellfish, but was very expensive, so only nobility were allowed to wear clothing colored with this expensive dye, which came primarily from the region of Tyre, which was inhabited by the Phoenicians. The color was known as Tyrian purple, or royal purple. Lydia was a Hittite kingdom in the area of modern day western Turkey, whose capital city was Sardis. Revelation 3:1 is addressed to the church at Sardis, and was told that there were a few there whose garments were not defiled, and walked with the Lord because they were worthy.
    Lico is one of ten children, and two of his brothers have wives named GLORIA. The brothers are all in the construction business. One brother is named Jose Angel, he is in Durango now, and Lico's sister ANGELES lives in MONTERREY with her husband and kids. HIDALGO is a state in Mexico, which is just south of the state of Nuevo Leon, where Monterrey is. Hidalgo is also the surname of  Father Miguel Hidalgo, who led the fight for Mexican independence from Spain in the 1800s, and for whom the state is named. Over the past several years I have employed several workers in our construction business who are from Hidalgo, and several of them are now back home in Hidalgo. In fact, one of the young ladies whom you all helped me to help two years ago at Christmas is the sister of two of my best workers, and they are all from Hidalgo. Fidelina is now living back home in Hidalgo with her young child.
    I do not know if any of this applies to the dream Lisa had but to me it is more than coincidence that is speaks to me and my husband, or US. Is it coincidence that I am in the US planning a trip to Mexico, at the very time that Kay is wanting help for her friends in Monterrey, in the very business we are in, building houses? There is no work for the majority of  Mexicans, which is why they come here to work, and a vast number of them are in the construction business, building houses here in the US, when so many of them are lacking even the most basic of houses in their homeland. There is a song written by a popular Mexican composer called "Casas de carton", literally meaning "houses of cardboard". I have seen pictures of them and it is heartbreaking. We take so much for granted here in the US, and compared to our neighbors south of the border we live like kings here. The average worker in Mexico earns less than $5 a day. When Lico works a 14 hour day of hard physical labor at home in Durango he gets paid $8 -10 for that day's work, so I guess he is considered rich.
   I don't know what the Enoch connection is other than he was raptured, and as we believe the rapture will happen very soon, perhaps these things are all meant to signify the immediacy of the coming events, which to me, are so personally connected to both these posts on Five Doves today, December 21. There is also a connection between Lisa and Kay's posts regarding Cornelius. Cornelius was a Gentile believer mentioned in Acts 10 and 11, and evidently he was a wealthy centurion, meaning he was a commander of 100 men, and he gave much alms to the people and had servants. An angel appeared unto him in a vision from the Lord, and Kay's post mentions a pastor named Jose Angel who is helping the poor people of his town. Cornelius sent his servants to another town to meet Peter, who also had been given a vision from the Lord regarding what was clean and unclean. The vision Peter had was to show that the Lord Jesus Christ was also Lord to the Gentiles. Peter travelled from Joppa to Caesarea, a distance of about 50 miles, or in other words, he left his country and went to a foreign country on a mission trip, explaining the Gospel to the foreigners. It seems that Kay's request is for foreigners to go help the poor in another country, on a mission trip of giving alms to those poor people.
    Oh, I almost forgot. Lisa mentioned that since her dream took place on a large boat, with the connection to Noah and the ark, I had to say this. Many foreigners take American names when they come here if their own names are hard for us to pronounce, and Mexicans are no exception. Long story, but my family still calls my husband by his "American name". Guess what it is? NOAH.