Jean Stepnoski (18
Jan 2012)
"Our Times: Luke 23:
29-31: When the Tree is Dry"
Dear Redeemed,
There is a mysterious passage in
The Scriptures said by Messiah/Christ to the women of Jerusalem
as He traveled to Golgotha to be executed. The following is a
translation from the English Standard Version. "Then they will
begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us,' and to the hills,
Cover us.' For if they do these things when the wood is green,
what will they do when it is dry?" The period concerns the end
times, not when Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D.
because there would not be mountains or hills nearby to collapse
on the residents of Jerusalem, women or children or men. Rather,
we can look to a time when the rich and powerful will be buried
alive in caves. As of early 2012, this has not happened. See
Hosea 10:8 and Revelation 6: 15-17 about the events of the
opening of the sixth seal. Barren women, childless women will be
blessed as the rich and powerful yearn for death. The barren
women being blessed in a world when "the tree is dry" will have
had no children who will die in terror. None of their children
will exist, to be murdered or have dreadful deaths from the
powers of natural disasters, plagues, pestilences, famine, and
so on.
Christ lived in a time when The
Torah, was like a Living Green Tree of Life, in the
understanding and acceptance of the commandments (mitzvoh) in
the Torah. The Torah Tree of Life was not dry, it was not dead
or dying. The greatest ethical imperatives were the Ten
Commandments, part of the total of 613 commandments. It was well
understood what murder meant. Murder was prohibited, a "Thou
Shall Not" and grave sin. We are told in Revelation that a
murderer without repentance will not inherit the kingdom. Are
there women today who are considered blessed for being
childless? Will there be in the few years ahead after The
Blessed Hope and before The Second Coming? Yes. There will be
barren women blessed for being childless. What are some reasons
for being barren childless? It can mean a woman has never
conceived, given birth, and nursed. It can mean a woman who has
had a miscarriage or a stillbirth. It can mean a woman who has
had an abortion or several of them. It does not imply a woman
who has had her child or children die some time after their
births. How strange to think of abortion as being considered a
cause of the" blessed" state of a woman being barren childless
in the few years ahead. What if the years ahead will be a period
of enforced global abortions, mandatory, unless one is on an
approved shot list? This would be more than what has happened in
China, one child per mother only, one child per family. Since
Roe v. Wade was decided and declared on 1-22-1973, women in
America and then all over the world, have been able to CHOOSE
for abortion or birth. Can a period be imagined when all choices
for birth are gone, except for the rare few on the approved
short list? We may have some clues we have never considered from
Matthew 24:38 and Luke 17:28 about the days of Noah and the days
of Lot which will seem to be revisited, be relived. What are the
people doing? There is mention of eating and drinking, marrying
and giving in marriage, buying and selling, planting and
building. There is one thing conspicuous in its absence. It is
the presence, the birth of children! No mention is made of the
BIRTHS and PRESENCE of CHILDREN. Were the times of Noah and Lot
when the nephrites and other adults murdered off their children
through abortion, or burnt offerings, or slaying at birth? In
normal heterosexual families it is not just marrying and giving
in marriage which matter. It has been customary for brides and
grooms, the wives and husbands, look forward to the conceptions
and births of their children of the next generation! Were the
husbands and wives of the times of Noah and Lot deficient in
these expectations? Would they have blessed the barren childless
women?
I believe that the next
anniversary of the decision of Roe versus Wade on 1-22-2012,
anniversary year forty beginning, is very important to Abba
Father, Messiah, Christ, and the Spirit of Truth. Is it
spiritually momentous? It may be a final and vital symbolic clue
for humankind before The Day of The Blessed Hope! The date of
1-22-2012 shall be a Solemn Day to Remember Those Absent and
Gone From Us. The Defenseless. The Green Tree or the Dry Tree.
Come quickly, Lord...
With Love and Shalom,
Jean