Smith Wigglesworth was once asked why his daughter was not
healed of her hearing problem. He responded by saying, “I will answer
your question when you can tell me why Elisha was bald.”
His critic was silenced.
On 12/27/2007, I had the opportunity to go to Silver Dollar
City with church family, and just had a great time. While there, we saw a
couple that had identical twins, and began a conversation with them. We found
that they were a Christian family and had lots of children, and the wife told
us that her children were born after both she and her husband had had reversals.
Come to find out, her husband worked for the Samson Investment Company in Tulsa.
This morning, I found that also on 12/27/2007 at 11:23pm, that
I received an email from a girl who uses the alias of Repunzl1, in her profile.
Isn’t that interesting, that both Samson and Repunzel
have something in common?
What is interesting is that on around Memorial Day, I had
noticed that Kristy Chenoweth, a girl I went to school with in Broken Arrow,
was playing a lead role in Walt Disney’s animated feature, Rapunzel, which is set to release in June 2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapunzel_%28film%29
Also noticed, Disney is also releasing The Princess and the Frog on Dec 18, 2009.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_and_the_Frog
I have also noticed that the fictional Character, Doc Samson, from the Marvel Comics is said to have
been born in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Samson
It seems to me that every time something is heaped together,
God is trying to get me to take notice. Like when two people who don’t know
each other give you the very same obscure book to read in a short time period,
you take notice that it is extremely unusual. Then within a week, you happen
to be all in the same restaurant, now it is blowing your mind.
As I have pondered this in the past, and I felt there was a
reason Samson’s strength was found
in his Hair. At the same time, I have
curiously pondered the significance the Bible mentions that Elisha was bald.
Just like Samson’s strength was found in his hair, so is the posterity of a man found in his heir.
The connection is easy to see when the English language uses
words that sound alike. But in Hebrew, even though the words do not sound
alike, the symbolism is still used as if the hairs of the head were a similitude
of the descendants. You can this in Ezek 5.
Today, I happened to come across this scripture:
Mic 1:15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of
Israel.
Mic 1:16 Make thee bald,
and poll {sheer} thee for thy delicate children;
enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
I know I have read that scripture because I have read
through the bible, but I certainly did not remember it. But that scripture clearly
draws the connection between the children and the hair.
But put this all together, I can see that if the heir were
cut off, the birthright still must be passed because it is given by promise.
1Ch 5:2 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of
him [came] the chief ruler; but the birthright [was]
Joseph's:)
Thus it is written:
Isa 49:20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou
hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place [is] too strait
for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
Isa 49:21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath
begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive,
and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left
alone; these, where [had] they [been]?
Isa 54:1 ¶ Sing, O barren, thou [that] didst not bear; break
forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou [that] didst not travail with child:
for more [are] the children of the desolate than the children of the married
wife, saith the LORD.
Psa 45:16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children,
whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
Blessings,
Wade Balzer
wbalzer@newjerusalem.org