The Grandpa Tree and the Coming Annapolis Summit
Sunday, November 18th @ 7:58 AM
Not to get off topic, but our true evidence to offer those in darkness is that Jesus Christ is Who He said He is. The truest and best evidence for this (imho) is to point people to past prophecies that only Jesus fulfilled concerning the foretold Messiah, and the prophecy being fulfilled today. When people begin to understand that His Word is true and see evidence daily in current events, it will bring them to the end of all self preservation and show them that He alone is able to save.
I titled this post "The Grandpa Tree" and the Coming Annapolis Summit for a reason.
In January of this year (2007) , former Jerusalem Mayor, Teddy Kollek died. Read about it here.
I felt in my heart of hearts that 2007 was no ordinary year, but a "watershed" year in the fulfilling of bible prophecy.
On June 2, Ray and I took a drive up to Shell Canyon and Shell Falls in the Big Horn mountains of Wyoming. It is so beautiful up there in Spring, and I love nature. While there we were looking at some of the unique gifts in the gift shop. I will share what I wrote on my June 6, 2007 entry from my journal.
June 6, 2007
"I've been thinking alot recently about a children's book I read while browsing the gift shop at Shell Falls last Saturday. It is called "The Grandpa Tree".
"The Grandpa Tree" is a children's story about the life cycle of a tree in the forest. Written by a Colorado elementary school teacher whose husband spent time in the National Forest Service.
I didn't buy the book, but I later found one used on Amazon for much cheaper that I may buy. I thought I would read it to our grandchildren some day should the Lord tarry.
In the story,a bird carries a seed, drops it for another food source, and the seed becomes a seedling. It follows the tree's life all the way through until one day the "Grandpa Tree" falls to the ground to begin the decaying process and become a new home for rabbits, squirrels, etc. in the forest.
I liked it because it talked about how in the tree's "younger" years, it becomes a home for birds which build their nests in it andhow it shades the young seedlings.
It was interesting that I felt drawn to read this little children's book as I mentioned to Dad how I used to be silly and comment about the different size trees as we drove through the mountains on family outings.
I told him that I hoped our children would never be able to take future rides without remembering Mom's "baby" trees [the seedlings alongside the highway], the "toddler" trees, the "kindergartners", and the "teenager" trees.
Now here I was reading about the "Grandpa" tree. The story conveyed that every "tree" (or life) has its role to play.
But as we drove down that mountain to Sheridan, I commented to Dad that "some tree seeds" can only be spread by violent acts of nature.
There are some pine cones that cannot open up unless they go through the heat of a forest fire.
The fiery trials produce fruit (Heb. 12:11) in our lives..just like the floodds (i.e. the Inundation) prepare the "ground" (i.e. the heart) for the growing season and the future harvest. I shared this in more detail in Vol. 2 of this journal."
As I reflected last week on the "seasons" of life, so prophecy points to "seasons".
I am writing this on June 6, the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War. The "Grandpa Tree" represents the "generation which shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled."!! (The children of Israel wandered in the wilderness 40 years....a "type" of the nation of Israel. They were not considered to be of age until they reached 20 years old and upward. Israel became a nation in 1948 and was 19 years old in 1967 at the time of the Six Day War).
You see , there are indeed "spiritual cycles, seasons, and tides" in the lives of God's people.
I sent an email to Pastor Gary on June 4, 2007 asking him if he felt that there are seasons in the life of God's people of mourning and rejoicing that follow patterns, due to all the "anniversary anomalies" of significant events in our lives. He didn't know, but God answered my question of him for me!!
What happened on June 6? Well it is the anniversary of the Six Day war, but also on June 6, 2001, I read a prophetic interpretation of a wedding hall collapse in Jerusalem. What was significant about this, is that it was the exact same Scriptures God had given me just a couple of weeks earler in the privacy of my own home. This event was the greatest civil disaster in the history of Israel. ( And I record the Scripture given and confirmed in Volume 1 of this journal)
That prophetic warning of 2001, just three months prior to 9/11 had to do with building our lives on the proper foundation of God's Word.
And now, God is teaching me that this 40th anniversary is starting a new "season" for God's chosen people.
First, the "Grandpa Tree" has to die. And out of the stem of Jesse, a rod shall come forth, an a Branch shall grow out of its roots. Is. 11:1
"For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground: he hath no form or comliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him." Is. 53:2
No, it is not now the time for peace....but for war and my Father is a man of war: the Lord of hosts is His name." Ex. 15:3
It seems no matter how much Israel wants peace, her enemies are confederate for her destruction. There is more I want to say...but I must first put an history timeline of the 1967 Six Day war. Surely God is shaking her (and our) foundation to see what it is built upon.
More to come later.
Mary
Why I think 2007 marks a "watershed" year.
Sunday, November 18th @ 5:16 PMpost viewed 19 times
wa-ter-shed n.
1. A ridge of high land dividing two areas that are drained by different river systems. Also called water parting.
2. The region draining into a river, river system, or other body of water.
3. A critical point that marks a division or a change of course; a turning point: "a watershed in modern American history, a time that...forever changed American social attitudes" (Robert Reinhold).
In my earlier post, I recount the death of former Jerusalem Mayor, Teddy Kollek just after the new year. (2007)
"The legendary former mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek, who presided over the reunification of the capital and went on to head the city for over a quarter-century as Jerusalem became a modern day metropolis, died Tuesday. He was 95."
But is there another example of "that generation (that Jesus referred to) that would not pass away untill all these things be fulfilled"?
June 5,1957- June 10,1967 marks the Six Day war. A Wyoming Senior Senator Craig Thomas (R) passed away June 4,2007 from complications of leukemia, and was laid to rest on June 9,2007.I thought this a lot to be "coincidence". So I researched online to find out if Sen. Thomas had a connection with Israel. Boy was I surprised to find out that not ONLY did he have a connection with Israel, but JERUSALEM herself!
http://www.ontheissues.org/International/Craig_Thomas_War_+_Peace.htm
Move the US Embassy to Jerusalem. Thomas sponsored the Jerusalem Embassy Act
Declares it to be U.S. policy that:
- Jerusalem remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic religious group are protected;
- Jerusalem be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel;
- the U.S. Embassy in Israel be established in Jerusalem no later than May 31, 1999.
- Makes specified amounts of such funds available until expended in FY 1996 and 1997 only for construction and other costs associated with relocating the U.S. Embassy Jerusalem.
Corresponding House bill is H.R.1595. Became Public Law No: 104-45.
Jerusalem Embassy Act From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, searchThe United States Jerusalem Embassy Act, passed by Congress on October 23, 1995 , states that "Jerusalem should be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel; and the United States Embassy in Israel should be established in Jerusalem no later than May 31, 1999".
The act asserts that every country has a right to designate the capital of its choice, and that Israel has designated Jerusalem. Jerusalem is defined as the spiritual center of Judaism. Furthermore, it stipulates that since the reunification of Jerusalem in 1967, religious freedom has been guaranteed to all.
The Act was adopted by the Senate (93-5) and the House (374-37).
The Senate and House votes preceded visits by then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert to Washington to celebrate the 3000th anniversary of King David's declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jews. [1]
Since 1995, the relocation of the embassy from Tel Aviv has been suspended by the President semi-annually, each time stating that "[the] Administration remains committed to beginning the process of moving our embassy to Jerusalem". As a result of the Embassy Act, official U.S. documents and web sites refer to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Section 214 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 2003 states:
"The Congress maintains its commitment to relocating the United States Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and urges the President [...] to immediately begin the process of relocating the United States Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem". [2]However, U.S. presidents, including George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, have argued that Congressional resolutions regarding the status of Jerusalem are merely "advisory", stating that it "impermissibly interferes with the President's constitutional authority". [3] The U.S. Constitution reserves the conduct of foreign policy to the President and resolutions of Congress which make foreign policy are arguably invalid for that reason. The U.S. Congress, however, has the "power of the purse", and could prohibit the expenditure of funds on any embassy located outside Jerusalem. The U.S. Congress has not taken this step.
The site for the future US Embassy has been demarcated by Israel and the US, and is maintained in the neighborhood of Talpiot. Currently, the United States is consolidating its consulates in Jerusalem by shutting down the two East and West Jerusalem locations and are in the process of building a new consulate in a West Jerusalem neighborhood.
What was significant about Talpiot?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TalpiotVersailles wedding hall Main article: Versailles wedding hall
On May 24, 2001, the Versailles wedding hall in Talpiot collapsed during a wedding, killing 23 and injuring more than 200. The collapse was blamed on poor construction, using a system called Pal-Kal which was deemed unfit for public buildings. The disaster is considered Israel's worst civil disaster.[2] [3]
So there were two connections to Jerusalem signalling the end of "The Grandpa Tree" generation. [i.e. giants who built up Jerusalem].
Amazing, That's All I can say
Monday, December 10th @ 5:35 PMpost viewed 20 times
The Grandpa Tree, by Mike Donahue.
One day a bird was flying through the sky with a seed in its mouth, when a moth flew by. The bird dropped the seed and caught the moth.
The seed fell to the ground, rains came, and the seed soon began to grow. Tiny green branches stretched toward the sun. The sun was good to the new tree. His tiny branches became bigger and stronger and stretched even further toward the sun.
Soon summer was over and fall came. Fall was a fun time for the tree. All day long a breeze would toss dry leaves onto the little tree's branches. The little tree would shake until the leaves would once again fall into the wind.
Play ended as snows came. Snow fell and fell, and got deeper and deeper until the little tree was completely covered.
Seasons came and went. Years went by, and the little tree grew into a big tree. Squirrels played in his branches, birds built their nests, and baby birds sang their first songs.
Pine cones grew and fell from the big tree. Soon around him new baby trees were stretching their tiny green branches toward the sun.
The big tree grew until he was the BIGGEST TREE IN ALL THE FOREST. His strong branches wrestled with the fierce winter winds, slowing them down and making them play gently with the baby trees below.
Armloads of snow piled high on his boughs, while little handfuls rested gently on the small young branches.
During the hot summer suns, the big tree's long branches reached out with shade for the tender young trees.
As the big tree grew OLD, the baby trees grew up. Squirrels played in their branches, birds built their nests, and baby birds sang their first songs. Pine cones grew and fell from the new trees. Soon, their baby trees were stretching their tiny green branches toward the sun.
The branches of the OLD GRANDPA TREE were no longer needed by the younger trees. What they needed now was room to grow.
One at a time, he OLD GRANDPA dropped his great branches to the ground, making room for the younger trees. The younger trees grew until they were the greatest trees in all the forest.
ONE WINTER DAY, the OLD, OLD GRANDPA TREE began to rock and creak in the WIND. He called to all of the younger trees and he said:
"Once I was the GREATEST tree in all the forest, just as you are now. My branches were big and strong. They could wrestle with the fiercest of the winter winds, hold up under the heaviest snow, and block the hottest sun. You were the baby trees then, and I watched you grow. As your branches grew strong and needed more room, mine dropped to the ground."Now, I am needed on the ground, to be a home for rabbits, and food for flowers. So, my children, remember the youth. As they need room to grow, leave them a world where their branches can spread as freely and greatly as yours do now."
At that moment a GREAT WIND swept through the forest. CRASH -- the grandpa tree fell to the ground.
Soon a mother rabbit was building a home under the grandpa tree, and baby rabbits were playing on his trunk. Ants were building their home also, biting little bits fo sawdust, and dropping them from their doorstep.
The sawdust mixed with dirt, and became food for flowers. Soon the old tree was surrounded by beautiful colors.
More rabbits played on his trunk and more ants dropped sawdust from their doorsteps.
The Old grandpa tree became just a brown streak on the ground.
One day, a bird flew through the sky with a seed in its mouth. A moth flew by and the bird dropped the seed and caught the moth.
The seed landed right beside the old grandpa tree. Rains came. And soon little green branches were stretching toward the sun.
This is the story that God led me to read in a gift shop at Shell, Wyoming, while my husband and I visited Shell Falls the weekend before the 40th Anniversary of the Six Day War back in June of this year.
I have also said that I believe the 700 + year old Sitka Spruce in Oregon is a SIGN that 2007 is a "watershed year" in prophecy being fulfilled.
From http://blog.oregonlive.com/kympokorny/2007/12/sitka_spruce_succumbs_to_storm/print.html
I t breaks my heart to see Oregon's champion Sitka spruce give up the ghost. It was inevitable, I suppose. After all, everything dies. I just wish it had died after me.
The massive, 750-year-old tree was hit by lightning 40 years ago and damaged again in a storm last December. Instead of taking it down then, officials decided to let the 200-foot-tall tree live out its life. Yesterday that life ended when the winds toppled the weakened tree.
In a state of big trees, the Sitka spruce at Klootchy Creek County Park is the granddaddy of them all.
And from:
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/december032007/sitka_comesdown_12307.php
Media reports indicate that the tree split apart early Sunday morning at approximately 75 feet above the ground. This event had been expected since a December 2006 windstorm opened up an old lightning scar running from 40 to 80 feet above the ground. It was along this scar that the tree ultimately failed on Sunday.
The next chapter of the story of this tree is waiting to unfold and be told – perhaps allowing the old giant to give life as a “nurse log” to new Sitkas.
and just what happened in the same week as this OLD GRANDPA TREE CAME DOWN?
Well, Annapolis Middle East peace summit "happened", but more importantly, on the VERY DAY, this story was reported, the NIE came out with a report that they were wrong about IRAN"S NUCLEAR WEAPONS, thus betraying Israel.
http://fulfilledprophecy.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=34360
"Iran and United States in bed together"
http://www.prophecyheadlines.com/?p=1358
Looks like the Old Sitka Tree IS a message to Believers. I think it is a message to our nation.
Mary
The Grandpa Tree (700 year old Sitka Spruce) DIES!
Wednesday, December 5th @ 11:20 AMpost viewed 8 times
OH MY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The GRANDPA TREE DIES!! It HAS to be a SIGN!!!!
I read today about the recent storms in Washington and Oregon. For those of you who have been following how God has drawn us since our son's graduation in 2005 to the West Coast, you will find this INTERESTING!!!
We usually like to go to the area around the Columbia River bar at Astoria, Oregon. That is where we went in 2005 and again with our daughter and son-in-law in 2007. We stopped at the tallest Sitka Spruce tree in the nation while we were there.
In the above blog entry, I speak about the GRANDPA TREE and how this was revealed to me on JUNE 6, 2007, the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War. The Jews wandered 40 years in the wilderness [a "type"] before that generation could die out and the new one enter into the Promised land. The generation that saw the Re-unification of Jerusalem is "the" generation that would not pass until all these things be fulfilled that JESUS spoke of.
Well, you are NOT going to BELIEVE This!!!! The Nation's Tallest Sitka Spruce Tree [the one we visited last June] was badly damaged in this last weekend's storm, and will now DIE.Check these articles out.....Also notice when it was first hit by lightening --- 40 years ago!!!!!
All I can say is "OH MY!"
http://www.capitalpress.info/main.asp?SectionID=94&SubSectionID=801&ArticleID=37338&TM= 35136.81
The high winds snapped the Sitka spruce that shared honors for the nation's largest.
KATU-TV showed video of the 206-foot tree in Klootchy Creek County Park that had attracted 100,000 visitors a year.
Forester Paul Ries of the Oregon Department of Forestry said the 700-year-old spruce had been damaged a year ago and appears to have snapped about 75 feet from the ground, about as he and his colleagues expected, and had lost much of its foliage.
"The tree will now die," he said. "It's a sad event, but not unexpected. It's part of the natural cycle of the tree."
The tree shared co-champion status with a tree in Olympic National Park in Washington as the nation's largest Sitka spruce, based on height, trunk circumference and crown spread.http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2007/12/nations_tallest_sitka_spruce_f.html#comments< /a>
Nation's tallest Sitka spruce snapped by storm Posted by The Oregonian December 02, 2007 21:06PM
Clatsop County's giant 700-year-old Seaside Sitka spruce reportedly was damaged by the storm on Sunday.
The 200-foot tall Sitka, damaged last winter by high winds, sustained more damage from Sunday's high winds, according to a report from KATU-TV.
The tree has been a pouplar tourist stop along U.S. 26 just east of Seaside. At one point, it had shared co-champion status with a tree in Olympic National Park in Washington as the nation's largest Sitka spruce based on height, trunk circumference and crown spread. The tree was split by lightning 40 years ago, officials reported, and has been ailing since then.
-- Ryan Frank
ryanfrank@news.oregonian.comAll this "coincidently" took place within one week after the Annapolis Summit.
JESUS IS COMING, FRIENDS!! TIME TO GET EXCITED!