Laurie,

I'm watching the "World" Match Play Championships".......and they just showed, on camera, what they refer to as a "dust-devil" (or, a whirlwind) in that part of the country, and it is just now swirling around, right near the golf course where they are playing this week in Arizona. The announcer just said,...........

"Well Nick, don't look now, but we have a little "tornadic" activity in the area,( Laurie, it is a real "whirlwind" ....mini tornado, in the desert just outside of Tucson, Arizona where they are playing the tournament this week) ....You ever seen one of these?....It's called a dust-devil, but you don't want to get caught up in one of those,....it could make for a very long shower."

Laurie, it made me think of that Scripture in Romans again because of all the things He has been showing us in the natural, but wait until you see what else is mentioned in those verses in Romans that He just quickened to me about the "creation," (natural realm) after just now seeing the "whirlwind" on the golf telecast....Romans 8:19-- Amplified " 19 For [even the whole] creation (all nature) waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God's sons to be made known [waits for the revealing, the disclosing of their sonship]........V. 22) We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23) Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the "firstfruits" of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

Here is the Amplified's version.... 23) And not only the creation, but we ourselves too, who have and enjoy the firstfruits of the [Holy] Spirit [a foretaste of the blissful things to come] groan inwardly as we wait for the redemption of our bodies [from sensuality and the grave, which will reveal] our adoption (our manifestation as God's sons).

Now, if that wasn't enough confirmation, I then heard the Lord say to check the name of the course where they are playing this week, ( it is a "brand new" venue for this tournament and part of the all new "world tour" format that the PGA tour has instituted for the first time ever in 2007)....and the name of the golf course where they are playing, is named ............................ "The Gallery At Dove Mountain".......are you kidding me......"Dove" Mountain!!!.. Guess where we see the dove mentioned in Scripture for the first time...it's in Genesis 8.....when we read about our friend, Noah, sending a dove out to look for dry land. What I believe I found that was even more prophetic in these verses than just the dove, and "Dove Mountain"..... was that when the dove returned to Noah on the Ark the last time in Genesis, it was grasping an olive branch, the olive tree/branch, we know, is symbolic / prophetic for Israel. It would seem from this picture we see in Genesis 8, that after the judgment of the tribulation, that the Holy Spirit (the Dove) will successfully bring the nation of Israel back to the safety of the "Ark",.....Jesus Himself, being the Ark.

8) Then he sent forth a dove to see if the waters had decreased from the surface of the ground.

9) But the dove found no resting-place on which to roost, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were [yet] on the face of the whole land. So he put forth his hand and drew her to him into the ark.

10) He waited another seven days (7 years of the tribulation that Israel will go through before she will be brought back to the "Ark"....Jesus) and again sent forth the dove out of the ark.

11) And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a newly sprouted and freshly plucked olive branch! So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the land. (The Holy Spirit will be successful in returning Israel (the "olive branch") to her Messiah, just as the dove that Noah sent out from the Ark had returned to him with the olive branch in it's mouth).

12) Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, but she did not return to him any more.

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Then, I just remembered I had written a letter to a woman (Gina) from "5 Doves" a little over a week ago in response to her letter entitled; "Phoenix Lights Return",.....but I never finished, or sent it to her......However, there was something quickened in my spirit about Tucson when I read her post on the 13th of this month. Here is the unfinished letter,...and now, I'll need to go back and find her letter and read it again. Does anyone from the "Doves" site remember what day Gina submitted her letter about the "Phoenix Lights?"

I hope you can follow all this,.....?

Blessings,

Jim

PS...Here's the letter......

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February 13, 2007

Hello Gina,.....Re: "Phoenix Lights Return"

My name is Jim, I post under "James S" on this letter forum, and I just wanted to share with you what I believe the Lord has been impressing upon me about Tucson, Arizona. I'm not exactly sure how far Phoenix is from Tucson, but I don't think it is a great distance if I remember correctly?

Just in the last two days, the Lord has quickened in my spirit, the city of Tucson, and I didn't know why. When I was in college, a hundred years ago,...... : o)......one of my favorite musical artists was a singer/song writer by the name of Dan Fogelberg. He was, and I think still is, a secular artist, but he sang very moving ballads and I was quite fond of his music in the late 70's and very early 80's.

Now, I hadn't listened to any secular music whatsoever from about 1993, up until a little over a year ago, not any at all!.....He must have been making sure my soul was cleansed from all the worldly messages I had allowed to enter into my soul from about 1970 through 1993, when I came back to the Lord after about a 14 year classic "Prodigal" son experience.

Anyway, about a year ago, I sensed somewhat of a release from the Lord to be able to listen to small amounts of some secular artist's music again. This was a stretch for me at first, because I hadn't listened to, and didn't want to listen to, any secular music for 14 years. I won't go into great detail here and now, as to why I felt He released me from my secular music "fast"......but needless to say, He did allow me to begin to listen to a minimal amount of a few artist's music without any concern that it would re-contaminate me.

I shared that, to say this, last year downloaded a dozen or so songs onto my computer that I had enjoyed during my "backslidden" years from 1979 thru 1993. I really hadn't listened to them very much at all over the past 12 months since I had first recorded them, but then two days ago I was listening to some praise and worship songs and happened to notice two songs by D. Fogelberg as well. One of the songs is called "Tucson, Arizona."

The song's lyrics don't quite tell a happy or uplifting story, rather a very sad story, that I think may have been based on real events that took place in the writer's life, although I'm not positive about this. It is however a beautiful ballad and sung very gracefully by this artist, even evoking a great degree of emotion if you are inclined to being moved by this sort of story being put to music?

After noticing the song that I had downloaded over a year ago, I felt compelled to listen to it, even though it had been nearly a year that I had done so. Then, over the last couple of days, there have been things I've witnessed in the natural realm regarding Tucson which, I believe He quickened to my spirit that there was prophetic significance about the city of Tucson, or at the very least, the region around Tucson.