Wade Balzer (30 May 2007)
"Hidden Gates of Zion"

 

Doves,

 

I opened up my bible to this scripture on Memorial Day:

 

Psa 87:2  The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

 

Tony mentioned that the Golden Gate Bridge signifies something, perhaps a bridge to Heaven.

 

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/may2007/tonye528-1.htm

 

I am not sure if he meant this but noticed that his subject was of “ Wales and the Rapture”.

 

There was a Prince and a Princess of Wales that were pretty famous.  Their wedding attracted 750 million viewers.

 

Psalms 87 is a psalm that when you read it, you are left with a confusing “huh?” which means it is good digging ground.  There is something to be found there.

 

Psa 87:5  And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.

Psa 87:6  The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, [that] this [man] was born there. Selah.

 

Today, as I looked up Rio Vista, the place where the two whales breached the surface, and passed under the Rio Vista Bridge on Pentecost, it seemed interesting that last week, I was looking at the term, “Through the Looking Glass”.

 

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/may2007/wadeb518.htm

 

 

Rio Vista means “River View”.

 

Vista also being the name of the new version of Windows.

 

Seeing that Wikipedia had an entry for “Rio Vista, California”, I wondered what it might have for “ Broken Arrow ”.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Arrow

 

Wow.  Several entries.

 

In the section, Noteworthy residents, I saw one for Kristin Chenoweth, who was a Senior when I was a Junior in High School at Broken Arrow .

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Chenoweth

 

She is 4’11” tall.  Interesting because I have seen many things occur with a 4-11 pattern.  I can tell more about the 4:11 or 11:4 pattern later.

 

Then in the upcoming roles section was:

 

 

 

Samson could certainly use Rapunzel’s hair.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapunzel_%28film%29

 

Rapunzel was a story based on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

 

The Brothers Grimm were Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, German professors who were best known for publishing collections of folk tales and fairy tales,[1] and for their work in linguistics, relating to how the sounds in words shift over time (Grimm's Law).

 

They basically studied the laws of the separation of languages, hence Babel .

 

I saw the image of Rapunzel at the bottom and gasped:  That is the hair!!!

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rapunzelunbraidedconcept1.JPG

 

Also noticed the other story that Disney will release in the same time frame is The Princess and the Frog.

 

Perhaps a “kiss” will free the frog to become a Prince???

 

Another “ Broken Arrow ” was a song:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Arrow_%28song%29

 

http://human-highway.com/lyrics/lyrics-01.html#007

 

3rd Verse:

 

The streets were lined for the wedding parade,

The Queen wore the white gloves, the county of song,

The black covered caisson her horses had drawn

Protected her King from the sun rays of dawn.

They married for peace and were gone.

Did you see them, did you see them?

Did you see them in the river? [Rio Vista ]

They were there to wave to you.

Could you tell that the empty quivered,

Brown skinned Indian on the banks

That were crowded and narrow,

Held a broken arrow?

 

What caught my attention was it seemed again to capture the words of Isa 49:20-21 and Jer 31:22.

 

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 [crowded and narrow]: 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 [empty quiver], and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro [vagabond]? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where [had] they [been]?

 

Also Broken Arrow is a song on the Album Vagabond Heart.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagabond_Heart

 

Jer 31:22  How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.

 

I see a picture of a woman that somehow is like the hair of Samson.  She has Elisha’s hair.  (Elisha was bald). Apparently the fact he didn’t have any hair was a sore spot to him.

 

I went to lunch at the mall and seen a license plate I felt I should look up the number.

 

3735h = Grieved (from 3738h with the idea of piercing)

3735g = Mountain

 

Part of a phone number on a billboard about hearing with a sign below saying “smile”.

 

7975h = Shiloah (a fountain in Jerusalem )

 

Also another license plate:

2532g = And (a word that joins words or thoughts together)

2532h = pleasant, precious, desire

 

The other day saw this:

3997g = Mourning

3997h = entry, or gate

 

Considering the relatedness of the words, it would appear that one must come to a place of mourning to enter the gate for the fountain of the Lord to flow from the mountain.  Through grieving, pierce the veil to the place where God can turn our mourning into dancing, and our sorrow to joy.

 

It looks like the gathering at Armageddon is not for a battle, but to bring Israel to the only place that they mourned the death of a precious King (Josiah).  In their mourning, they will discover their Messiah because they will see the similitude and in essence brought to the cross.

 

Lots to ponder.

 

Blessings,

 

Wade