Doves,
I wish to share a few things that have been
on my heart about this season. I wish I could say for sure, but I honestly
dont know what will happen if anything. I have a sense of expectancy
that something will happen, but only God sees exactly. I believe the reason
He does not tell us everything is because there are many pieces in the prophetic
puzzle that must take place, and if we had foreknowledge, we might think
that we must try and fulfill the promises ourselves. Abraham, for
example thought Hagar was how God was going to fulfill the promise of a
son to him. But the promise was through Sarah.
It seems that this Hannakah, there is a sense
of expectancy in the body of Christ of something is about to happen. I
was even forwarded an article on 12/16 of an article put out by Steve Shultz
on the Elijah List about this Christmas Season saying many of the same things.
I wish to share some of the things I have
been sensing and some of the scriptures that have seemed to open up to me.
The almond tree was called the watch
tree in Hebrew because it is the first tree for the flowers to blossom and
the last to loose its leaves.
Jer 1:11-12 Moreover
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And
I said, I see a rod of an almond [ie. watching] tree. (12) Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast
well seen: for I will hasten [watch] my word to perform it.
What we are seeing is the signs that the
rod is about to blossom.
But, as far as 12/22/2006, that is a date
that is tied to Hadassah ie. Esther. She became queen on that date.
The full story of how I arrived at the date
can be found here:
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/dec2006/wadeb1215.htm
In brief, I arrived at that date, because
on the 10/10/2006, I was restless trying to fall asleep and rolled over
and my clock said 12:22am, and I was wondering what Hadassah meant.
After satisfying my curiosity, I went to sleep. The next morning as
I was driving to our mens prayer group, the thought hit my mind to check
my odometer when I arrive at the coffee house after I leave my mens group.
So as I pulled into the parking lot and parked, and not even trying to make
the numbers work out they just did.my odometer read 122.2.
12/22/2006 is exactly 222 days from May 14,
2006 and the anniversary of Israel
becoming a nation.
But curiously, I have been looking at prophecies
concerning Joseph and realizing they are not fulfilled.
Gen 48:20 And he
blessed them that day, saying, In thee
shall Israel
bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim
before Manasseh.
Notice the similarity
Gen 28:14b ....and
in thee and in thy seed shall all the
families of the earth be blessed. (referring to Jesus).
Little did I know of the connection of Joseph
to Hanukkah. But apparently his connection is significant in both Hanukkah
and Purim. When I say I had no idea, I really didnt. I was seeing
the scriptures, and seeing the connections, before I received confirmations
from outside sources. I have found some of the articles on this site very
insightful even from a non-believing Jewish perspective. http://www.torah.org/learning/hamaayan/5760/mikeitz.html
It turns out that Hadassah is a descendant
of Joseph through Rachel. She married into the linage and seed of
Artaxerxes. He was a descendant of Cyrus.
Now I am going to abbreviate these scriptures
and just highlight without much explanation. Please read these passages
in their entirety. There is a lot of insight when you realize that some
of these scriptures have not been fulfilled.
Gen 49:22-26 Joseph
[is] a
fruitful bough, [even]
a fruitful bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall:
(23) The archers have
sorely grieved him, and shot [at him], and hated him: (24) But his bow abode
in strength, and the
arms of his hands were
made strong by the hands of the mighty [God] of Jacob; (from thence [is] the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) (25) [Even] by the God of thy
father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall
bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth
under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: (26) The blessings of thy father have prevailed
above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting
hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head
of him that was separate from his brethren.
Isa 41:10 Fear thou
not; for I [am]
with thee: be not dismayed; for I [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee;
yea, I
will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my
righteousness.
Isa 41:15 Behold,
I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains,
and beat [them] small, and shalt
make the hills as chaff.
Isa 44:28 That saith
of Cyrus,
[He is] my shepherd,
and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy
foundation shall be laid.
Isa 45:1-2 Thus saith
the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden,
to subdue
nations before him; and I will loose the loins of
kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not
be shut; (2)
I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break
in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
Zec 4:6-10 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.
So what I am seeing is a pattern. Zerubbabel
means Seed of Babel.
Deu 33:13-17 And of
Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD [be] his land, for the precious things
of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, (14) And for the precious
fruits [brought
forth] by the sun, and for the precious things put forth
by the moon, (15)
And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious
things of the lasting hills, (16)
And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and [for]
the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let [the blessing] come upon
the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him [that was] separated from
his brethren. (17)
His
glory [is like] the firstling of his bullock,
and his horns [are
like] the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people
together to the ends of the earth: and they [are]
the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they [are] the thousands of
Manasseh.
Psa 81:5-7 This he
ordained in Joseph [for]
a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: [where]
I heard a language [that]
I understood not. (6)
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the
pots. (7)
Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret
place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
Isa 49:6-8 And he
said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up
the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the
Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
(7) Thus saith
the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to
him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of
rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of
the LORD that is faithful, [and] the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
(8) Thus saith
the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation
have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant
of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate
heritages;
Hos 14:6-8 His branches
shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as
Lebanon.
(7) They that
dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive [as] the corn, and grow
as the vine: the scent thereof [shall be] as the wine of Lebanon. (8)
Ephraim [shall say],
What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard [him], and observed him:
I [am]
like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
OkI could go on and on. Some of these
scriptures seem to imply dual meanings referring both to Jesus through David
and another person through Ephraim or Joseph. In other words, God will
unite the stick of Judah
and the stick of Joseph and make them one stick.
Eze
37:16-19 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write
upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then
take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim,
and [for]
all the house of Israel his companions: (17) And join them one to another into one
stick; and they shall become one in thine hand. (18) And when the children of thy people shall
speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou [meanest]
by these? (19)
Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of
Joseph, which [is]
in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel
his fellows, and will put them with him, [even] with the stick of
Judah,
and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
From 5/14/1948 when Israel became a nation to
6/10/1967 when the 6 day war was ended was = 6966 days. Interestingly
H6966
קוּ×
qûm
koom
(Chaldee); corresponding to H6965: - appoint, establish,
make, raise up self, (a-) rise (up), (make to) stand, set (up).
The first occurrence of this word is found
in Ezra.
Ezr 5:2 Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which
[is]
at Jerusalem: and with them [were] the prophets of God helping them.
So what does this have to do with Hadassah?
Thus, the mystery of the second witness.
When God raises a standard against the flood of unrighteousness by gay pride
which the wrath of God is revealed, He will do so with a God-man and God-woman
with unity and oneness that God designed in marriage. Elijah shall
have an El-isha. (God-woman) Aliyah is the word the Jews refer to
coming back to the promised land. Notice that it would be spelled
the same as Elijah in Hebrew except for the vowel marks.
1Ki 19:19 So he departed thence, and found
Elisha the son of Shaphat, who [was] plowing [with] twelve yoke [of oxen]
before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast
his mantle upon him.
H1919
הדסּה
hădassâh
had-as-saw'
Feminine of H1918; Hadassah
(or Esther): - Hadassah.
Besides Noah, the bible says explicitly that
Lot found GRACE, and he escaped the judgment poured out on Sodom and Gomorrah.
Gen
19:19 Behold now,
thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy,
which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to
the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
Jer 31:20-22 [Is] Ephraim
my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child? for since I spake against
him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled
for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD. (21) Set thee up waymarks, make thee high
heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, [even] the way [which]
thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
(22) How long
wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created
a new thing in the earth, A woman shall
compass a man.
I am not sure exactly what that means, but
found it was peculiar when after some personal circumstances, I begin to
question the popular opinion. I believe the second witness may not be a
man, but may fall under the covering and mantle of her husband. Therefore,
the Old Testament does not mention the second witness, or the candlesticks
seem as one in one place in scripture, but two candlesticks in another.
Let me make one thing clear. Everyone has
guessed who the second witness is from, Enoch, Moses, or John, etc. Even
so, I can guess like the best. There is no way that I am going to imply
that I know anything more than anyone else who reads their Bible.
I have no special insight. However, it has become a very interesting
Bible study. Secondly, my personal experiences tend to invoke patterns
of thought that are imaginative and creative, but if I tell you how I got
from thought to an end result well for me it is like taking a trip
from Tulsa to Denver, but you have to fly to Dallas or St Louis first.
It may not make any sense. But, I have found after I have had a series
of detours, then all of a sudden I SEE something I had not seen before,
and if I see it clearly enough, I see it echoed throughout the scripture
as well.
We will see what happens. I dont
think anywhere in scripture does it use any masculine words at least for
the second witness.
What a better picture of a bride and bridegroom
whose match is made in Heaven.
I have no idea how anyone would know who
God has chosen for this unless HE testifies from Heaven. I have seen many
people who have claimed to be Elijah even going as far as wearing
sackcloth to prove it. Personally, I dont think anyone can make
a claim to be THE Elijah until God places the anointing of Elijah on him.
Otherwise, we ALL are witnesses of the coming of the LORD. Like Joshua
and Caleb as witnesses of the promised land, we also have believed the REPORT
of the Lord, which is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and have entered into
our REST ceasing a righteousness based on the WORKS of the law, but rather
of FAITH in the promise. But as far as THE Elijah, when God places the
anointing on him to do the work He has called him to do, it will be obvious.
Zec
4:10 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.
I am not exactly sure what the PLUMMET
will look like, but apparently, it is something seen and causes rejoicing.
We will all hopefully see soon. Hopefully, this has become thought provoking.
I would be interested in seeing if anyone else has also seen the same things,
and have reached the same conclusions. I am open to hearing if I have
not rightly divided the Word of Truth. By all means if I see one scripture
that breaks a theory I may have I will revise or abandon it all together.
Blessings,
Wade
wbalzer@newjerusalem.org