Len DeForge (11 Jan 2008)
"Musings on sheep and mystery babylon."


First let me tell you Samson that when I saw your post this morning I gave out a Hoorah!. It is a blessing to have you back safe and sound.
Thank you John Tng and all of you Doves. As the song says; You light up my day.
 
Some months ago thinking about the rapture I began to have a vision in my mind's eye of green pastures and hills. Sheep were coming through a gated fence, and into a corral or pen. There were not too many of them. It seemed to me that those were stragglers. It seemed they were anxious and in a bit of a hurry. Watching the sheep from a distance was a wolf with teeth bared.
Yesterday while walking a path aside a road I Ihad that same vision in my mind only now for the last week or so I have been seeing just one sheep hurrying in and the gate about to close as in the last sheep is about to enter. Suddenly I looked and thought a deer had been hit by a car and landed aside the path. As I approached I was startled to see that it was a large coyote laying there. For those of you not familiar with coyotes, they are related to wolves but  do not travel in packs. The first thing I noticed was its teeth. They were bared. It was a beautiful animal. It's pelt was perfect. It was muscular. It seemed it was alive It did not have a mark on it. The thought that we are so very close to the rapture struck me immediately. To me, it seems the last of the saints is about to enter the pen( our rature and salvation) and that they need not fear the wolf anylonger. What is particularly significant ,as coincidence, is that you almost never see a coyote and when you do they are never as impressive as this one was and it was directly related to my vision.
 
Unrelated but a point of interest to me was Isaac Jordan's post where he quoted Revelation 18:23, “And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.”
It  prompted me to revisit the ongoing debate about mystery babylon possibly being the USA rather than a last days literal babylon. I noted that our Soveriegn says that the voice of the "Bridegroom" (JESUS) and the voice of the "Bride" (his beleivers) will no longer be "heard" in thee. This seems to me to be a direct reference to the rapture. Many have stated a belief that that the USA has a very large percentage of believers. If that is the case then does this verse not give some credence to the USA being mystery babylon?
 
I am not very good at these things and they may have no meaning or relevance at all. I apologize if I have wasted your time. I just felt a need to post this.
God bless and keep all of you,
Len DeForge