RETURN OF THE RAVEN
CONT., page 2
THE BLACK PEARL
To share this, we must first begin by sharing a dream I had during
the incredibly revelatory time when the Spirit of Yahweh came upon me
in June, 1994, and began showing me the Remnant Bride truth.
The dream began with me standing outside of what appeared to be some
type of a glass mall. There were a lot of
people everywhere, busily walking about. I
was aware that there was a riddle, if you would, and no one knew what the
answer was that would lead them to find a black pearl.
But I knew the answer to the riddle and where the black pearl was. I then walked across in front of the mall that was
to my right, climbed up on its roof, which was glass as well (a higher
dimension), and walked back in the direction from where I had come.
But as I approached the location of the pearl, an old man had gotten
there before me and was reaching into the hiding place to get it. At that time, Satan was standing on the ground, pretty
much where I had been standing before, and his arm was elastic like a
rubber band, and he reached up to where the black pearl was and snatched
it right out from before the old man. Then
he began laughing with the most hideous laugh one could imagine, knowing
that he had not allowed either of us to get the pearl.
I then began walking to my left to the back of the mall, and as I
approached it I tripped and fell forward, slid down and off the roof, and
landed on my face in the dirt with a plowing thud, and all the time Satan
was laughing. Then I woke up.
Relating the dream alone is not sufficient, for what took place afterward
is a part of understanding it. The dream
was, as one would expect, very troubling to me.
I was going through an earthquake in my understanding, and this
was one more dramatic event during that time. Troubled,
I got up from where I was sleeping (I was not in our bed), and sat down
on the sunken living room stairs to ponder this. It
was very rare for me to get up at night, for I am a sound sleeper. As I sat there, my wife came out of our side of the
home (it was built for women and children) and was troubled herself. She sat down beside me and told me that she was afraid
she would not be a part of the Remnant Bride. When
she told me this, I understood the purpose of the dream.
I told her I had just had a dream about Satan, and that what she
feared was a lie, and I still believe that today.
My dream was that Satan would prevail, and her fear was that she
would not be a part of the Bride. She was experiencing
the very thing that the dream was revealing – that Satan would prevail and
I would fail and fall on my face in the dirt. I
told her that her fear was a lie, and that she would be a part of the Remnant
Bride. Though she is separated from me at the
time of writing this, and has gone back into Christianity, where Satan is
head, I know in time she will return.
Yahweh gave me the dream to know that Satan would tell me I would
fail, which he has indeed done so; but he is the one who will fail. Anytime in the Scriptures a man fell to his ruin,
he always fell backward (Genesis 49:17, 1 Samuel 4:18, Isaiah 28:13, John
18:6). In contrast, I fell forward in the
dream, and it was Boaz who bent forward and saw Ruth, the Bride, lying
at his feet. I will not fail, but succeed.
Goliath had a like message to David. When
David approached him, Goliath equally declared to him – “Come to me, and
I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the field”
(1 Samuel 17:44). This is what Satan has done
with kingdom man for 2,000 years; but he will not succeed so with the Remnant
Bride. Again, his words are a false lie.
Interestingly, the message of this dream is as false as the message
of Poe’s poem, “The Raven.” His raven indeed
entered through the window, but bore an unrelenting message of equal despair
(which characterized Poe’s life) – “Nevermore.” It
is revealing that the raven’s message was per the fate of the man’s wife,
Lenore. “Lenore” means “light,” and the lying
message of the raven would be the same as that of the dream – no second
Remnant Bride (“Luke” and “Zerah” both mean “light”).
Both the dream and “The Raven” spoke the same false message. Now for the movie and its prophetic riddle/parable.
When Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl came out, you can imagine I immediately thought
about the dream I had. I went to the internet
to see if the movie might be prophetic, and decided that it was not. But recently someone was telling me about it, that
the Black Pearl was a ship that was cursed, that the battle for it and
for the curse to be removed took place in a cave, and that the cursed men
walked on the bottom of the sea, so I had to watch it, and did so three
times. Did it prophesy?
Absolutely! And why?
Because Yahweh sent a raven to feed us!
If you have not seen this movie, you will not be able to understand
all of what is shared here. I will not try
to give the plot of the movie, but to address it prophetically, examining
it from its quality as a parable, a riddle. There
is a great deal to this movie prophetically, and we will only touch on the
major points. And by the way, a raven is getting
ready to feed you.
First, both in the movie and in my dream, what is the black pearl? I did not know the answer to this until I watched
this movie.
Found only in Matthew 13:45-46 we read the account of Yahshua’s answer
as to what the kingdom of heaven is like – “Again, the kingdom of heaven
is like a merchant seeking fine pearls, and upon finding one pearl of
great value, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.” Per his profession, the man had obviously found
many pearls; but upon finding this one pearl, he sold all the others, and
all he had, to acquire it. What pearl had the
highest value in the time of Yahshua? There
was one pearl that excelled them all – the black pearl!
It is said that only one in 15,000 natural pearls is black, affording
the reason for their great value. Narrow is
the way for that pearl, and few are those who find it.
Later in Europe, the black pearl was known as the “Pearl of Queens”
and the “Queen of Pearls.” The Chinese regarded
them as the symbol of wisdom.
Song of Solomon is the highly unique message regarding the Bride,
and in 1:5-6 we read concerning her:
“I am black but lovely,
O daughters of Jerusalem,
Like the tents of Kedar,
Like the curtains of Solomon.
Do not stare at me because I am black,
For the sun has looked on me.”
Thus we see that the Bride is viewed as a black bride, a black pearl. But not only is the Bride a black pearl, she is a
black raven, for the black pearl and the black raven are the same.
Where do we see this shared identity? We
have already seen that Satan is the raven; but did you know that Satan
was the bride of Yahshua? We see this in two
ways. First, Ezekiel 28:12-15 tells us regarding
this:
"You had the seal of perfection,
Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
You were in Eden, the garden of God;
Every precious stone was your covering:
The ruby, the topaz and the diamond;
The beryl, the onyx and the jasper;
The lapis lazuli, the turquoise and the emerald;
And the gold, the workmanship of your settings and sockets,
Was in you.
On the day that you were created
They were prepared.
You were the anointed cherub who covers;
And I placed you there.
You were on the holy mountain of God;
You walked in the midst of the stones of fire.
You were blameless in your ways
From the day you were created,
Until unrighteousness was found in you.”
This is clearly a description of a bride. Who
is it that the Remnant Bride replaces? It
replaces Satan. While Satan is the covering
cherub, he is not a clean, or split (Leviticus 11:1-8), work. He is alone. But on
the other hand, the Remnant Bride is a split two-part work, the first Remnant
and the second Remnant, split by the breach, the two cherubim that cover. So if the Remnant Bride replaces Satan (even as
the twelfth apostle replaces him), then is it not obvious that Satan was
once the bride of Yahshua, a bride replacing a bride?
Indeed so. Where else do we see this?
In the book of Esther, Queen Vashti gave a banquet for the women
in the royal house which belonged to the king. She
was surrounded by feminine misplaced mercy, and when the king called her
to come to him and display her beauty, even the beauty we read of in Ezekiel
28:12-15 (in fact, “Vashti” means “beauty”), she refused to come at the
king’s command. This is precisely what we read
in Ezekiel 28 wherein unrighteousness was found in Satan, His bride. He/she rebelled against Yahweh.
(Remember, in heaven there is neither male nor female, but these are
only facilitating legal and functionality terms.)
Thus indeed the first bride of Yahweh was Satan, and her replacement
is the two-part Remnant Bride. And even as
it was at the time of Esther, this passage continues to prophesy that Satan
must be removed so as to abate “contempt and anger” (1:18), and the Bride
equally deliver Yahweh’s people from the curse of death. And further prophetically, you will notice that
this matter/conflict arose “on the seventh day, when the heart of the
king was merry” (1:10). The “seventh day” speaks
in two ways. First, we have now entered the seventh
day since creation, the Millennial reign when the heart of the King is merry,
and Satan’s time is finished. Second, “seven”
is the number of the mark of the beast that has been on the church, and it
is equally time for that curse to be removed, and Satan removed as well. (The dead boy sneezed seven times and came to life
[2 Kings 4:35], seven demons were cast out of Mary [Mark 16:9], Naaman’s
leprosy was healed after dipping in the Jordan seven times [2 Kings 5:14],
the ark of the covenant came out of Dagon’s temple and from among the
Philistines after seven months [1 Samuel 6:1], Elisha had the Shunamite
woman to leave the land for seven years while a drought and famine prevailed,
and when she returned her rightful possessions were restored [2 Kings
8:1-6], seven sons of Saul were killed to end a drought [2 Samuel 21],
and other like messages.) Let us look at this
more carefully from a legal governmental standpoint.
This is very important to note, and you will have to read this
next paragraph very carefully.
The latter rain twelfth apostle replaces Satan, who has occupied
that place now for almost 2,000 years. But
that apostle is not alone in this transfer, for the one who replaces Satan
is equally the Bride, and the Bride is not one person, but many, a company
of people. Thus, what He does for the one,
makes the way possible for the many. This is the way
of Yahweh as He has carried out His works since the beginning of time.
Therefore we see numerous testimonies that Satan, the raven, has
been Yahweh’s first bride, but is replaced by the Remnant Bride. Furthermore, we see that even as the former bride
reveals the latter, so the black raven affirms a like identity with the
black pearl of great value. And how does all
of this relate to the movie, The Curse of the Black Pearl? First, jumping
all the way to the end of the movie when the curse was finally removed
from the Black Pearl, and Captain Jack Sparrow was pulled from the sea
of death and lit on the deck, who was it who did indeed return the ship
to him? Of all the characters it could have been,
it was a black girl, a black pearl herself!
Why would a writer or director chose a young black girl, in fact
the only female pirate in the entire movie, to be at the helm of a pirate
ship? A woman on a ship was bad luck. The only reason this was evidenced was because, unbeknownst
to them, it clearly prophesied what the Black Pearl really was – the black
pearl Bride of Yahshua. Her name was Anamaria,
which means – “Ann,” or “grace,” and “Mary,” or “bitter.”
“Mary” is a type of the Elijah Bride which brings forth the Messiah. Let us now look at some of the other clear testimonies
regarding this movie. Also, remember that the
movie writer was using his Creative Imagination to see and touch things
regarding the kingdom that he could not understand naturally, but presented
them in a riddle, a parable.
The Black Pearl was cursed, and it had been cursed for ten years. The main drama of the entire movie was that
of removing the curse. What was the cause
of that curse? The same cause of the curse
that has been on the church for almost 2,000 years – money, the love of
which is the root of all evils (1 Timothy 6:10). Any
man who took but a single piece of the Aztec gold placed in a stone chest
by Cortez, was under a curse for eternity. As
Captain Barbossa said, the more they spent the gold, the more they realized
that “drink would not satisfy,” food “turned to ash” in their mouths, and
“all the pleasurable company in the world could not slake” their lusts;
they were “cursed men, compelled by greed,” and were “consumed by it.” Such has been the state of the church.
As noted in He Was Jealous
With My Jealousy, page 2, Christianity is the period of the church that
is in hell, in the grave, in Gehenna; so when the cursed sailor placed
his arm in the jail cell and took hold of Captain Sparrow, and his arm
in the light of the moon revealed rotted flesh and bones, Sparrow responded
– “So, there is a curse. That’s interesting.” Thus the cursed sailor replied – “You know nothing
of hell,” where the church has been for 2,000 years.
Sparrow replied again – “That’s very interesting.” And indeed it is VERY interesting to now see the
curse that has been on the church from its beginning, from the first Remnant
onward.
When Elizabeth fled out onto the deck of the Black Pearl, in the
moonlight she too saw the men for what they really were – dead men walking! Thus Captain Barbossa described them – “The moonlight
shows us for what we really are. We’re not
among the living and so we cannot die; but neither are we dead. For too long I’ve been parched of thirst and unable
to quench it; too long I’ve been starving to death, and haven’t died.” Such is the state of the church – the walking dead,
parched of thirst, and starving to death for want of the word.
There was only one way for that curse to be removed – all the scattered
pieces of gold had to be restored and the blood repaid.
The gold is the debt man owes for his sin, and returning it is actually
attested by Yahshua’s command to sell all and follow Him, and the
consequence for the failure to do so was evidenced in Achan and Ananias
and Sapphira; and what happened to these two examples has happened to the
church from its beginning. The gold must be returned
– it is “under the ban” (Joshua 6:18).
But by whose blood can the curse be removed?
Of course by the blood of Yahshua, who in this movie was pictured
by the honorable Will Turner. Even as he was
willing to become a pirate in order to save Elizabeth, as well as at the
cost of his own life, so Yahshua was willing to become like us and give
up His life, to shed His blood. It is amazing
how the stone chest of Cortez looked like an ark of the covenant, where Will
shed his blood in order to remove the curse. Even
his name spoke of this work – Will, or “will,” and Turner, or the ability
to “turn” or reverse the curse. Thus we see
that Will Turner was in type Yahshua.
So who in type was the deft Captain Jack Sparrow, the former and
then later restored captain of the Black Pearl? To
answer this, let us go to the cave.
Caves prophetically always represent death, the grave. The fact that this conflict and final battle took
place in a cave was obvious testimony that this movie was indeed prophetic. It is the battle to overcome death, the battle Yahshua
waged when He descended (Ephesians 4:8-10). But
that battle is still being waged, clearly evidenced by the fact that kingdom
men still die. The fact that death is the last
enemy to be put away (1 Corinthians 15:26), plainly tells us that the battle
with it still continues.
There were two men battling together in the cave of death against
Captain Barbossa and his men – Will Turner and Jack Sparrow, as well
as the woman, Elizabeth. When the battle was
raging between Sparrow and Captain Barbossa, a most unusual thing took
place. The only blood that could remove the curse
was that of Will Turner; yet just before the curse was removed, Jack,
who had a coin in his left hand that he had stealthily removed from the
stone chest, placed the blade of his sword in the same hand with the coin,
clasped both, and drew the blade out, slicing his hand and placing his blood
on the coin. He then threw the bloody coin to
Will, who then, obviously, sliced his own hand and placed his blood on the
coin that was given to him by his father, held both coins in the one hand,
and dropped the two blood-mingled coins into the chest, removing the curse. This of course meant the death of Captain Barbossa,
who was shot by Jack.
Again, there was no seeming need for Jack’s blood, other than to
prophesy. What then does this say, and who is
Captain Jack Sparrow? He is the second golden
rod (A Lesson From Intercession, page 4), the one who is established as the present-day
twelfth apostle, the one who stands in Yahshua’s place so as to fulfill
the second three-and-a-half year part of the covenant that Yahshua afforded
(Shelah and
Clay of Spittle, pages 4 and 5;
make sure and read page 5 as well). He is the “associate” in Zechariah 13:7 where we read
– “Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against the man,
My associate.” He represents the one
who, as Yahshua’s associate, stands in His place, and like a David and
Jonathan, there is a covenant between them. Thus
you see this joint work by the two blood-mingled coins removing the curse.
Most tellingly, what is Jack wearing and what is he holding in his
hand when he comes out of the cave and returns to the ship? He is wearing a golden crown and holding a golden
chalice in his hand. And where is the rightful
place of this man of whom Jack prophesies? He
is to sit around the throne of Yahshua with the other apostles, wearing
a golden crown (Revelation 4:4, 10). But also,
he is the cupbearer who escapes death and is restored to the King on the
third day (the Millennial reign), and is not the baker, Christianity,
which has to die on the third day and loses its place next to the King
(Genesis 40). Once again, it is incredible
how this movie prophesies, and the writers had absolutely no idea what
they were in fact saying. Certainly, if one
has eyes to see, they will get more truth by watching Pirates of the
Caribbean, than by darkening the door
of any church.
And what does the name “Jack Sparrow” tell us?
Remember, the Bride is a replacement of Satan.
Only in first Remnant Matthew 10:29-31 and second Remnant Luke 12:6-7
do we see Yahshua’s statement regarding the sparrows and His followers. In Luke 12:24, Yahshua further states – “Consider
the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; and they have no storeroom
nor barn; and yet God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than
the birds!” Of what are birds prophetic? They are demons. They
make nests in the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 13:31-32) and steal away
the word (Matthew 13:4, 19). And here Yahweh
is saying that if He takes care of the demons (His Vashti), then He will
certainly take care of us. But equally true,
insomuch that the twelfth apostle and the Remnant Bride replace Satan
and Christianity (the comparison is an accurate governmental testimony),
why should the Bride be concerned that He will not take care of us? Thus, the type of the twelfth apostle bears the
name “Sparrow.” He is a redeemed replacement
of the sparrows, even the raven. “Jack” is the
familiar form of John, and “John” is the restored kingdom of God. John is also the one who placed his head on Yahshua’s
bosom and was thereby able to know who it was who betrays the Son of God
(John 13:21-26) – Christianity (Lay Your
Head On the Stone).
And you will notice that when the black girl gave the Black Pearl
over to Jack, she did so while placing a mantle upon him, even as Elijah
did so on Elisha when he was plowing with the twelfth oxen – “Captain Sparrow,
the Black Pearl is yours.”
And you will notice that Jack escaped hanging on the gallows (he
stood on the sword “of the Spirit,” the word of God), much like Mordecai
did so. And, Mordecai is a type of the second
golden rod (A
Lesson From Intercession, page 10).
But as we have noted here, there was a third person in that cave/grave
who was battling – Elizabeth. Of course her
name prophesies of the one who brought forth the Elijah.
One might suspect that Elizabeth is the Bride, but she is not. Remember, the Bride is the Black Pearl. She is not the Bride any more than Elizabeth, the
mother of John, was the Elijah, which is equally the Bride. Who then is Elizabeth? She
is Jerusalem above, or you could even say she is the Holy Spirit. At the beginning of the movie when the lad, Will,
was brought on deck, Elizabeth’s father told her – “He will be in your
charge; take good care of him.” Elizabeth told
Will at that time – “I’m watching over you, Will.”
Even so the Holy Spirit watched over Yahshua, and battles with the
forces of death. “Elizabeth” means “God of the
oath,” and Yahweh will fulfill His word and not only preserve alive the
Son of God, but bring forth the Elijah work.
In fact, there are three who shed their blood/life on the coins –
first Elizabeth, then Jack and Will. This reveals
a most interesting three-stranded cord here for defeating evil and removing
the curse – Yahshua, the one who stands in His place, and the Holy Spirit.
Interestingly, in a most unusual way, Elizabeth was shown ascending
and descending (being thrown up into the air and coming down, and repeated). Is this not the power of the Spirit; and this power
of chewing the cud is given to the Bride.
And as we have said, obviously Captain Barbossa is Satan, the evil
one who leads others into mutiny and the curse, and must be defeated.
There were so many testimonies in this movie, they cannot all be
covered here; for example, when Elizabeth asked the question to Will
– “What sort of a man trades a man’s life for a ship?”
This is a most encouraging and amazing question! Yes, there is a man, in fact there are two men,
who are willing to do so for the Bride, the black pearl – Yahshua and
the one who stands in His place.
Another wonderful truth is when Jack Sparrow relates to Elizabeth
regarding his ship – “What the Black Pearl really is, is freedom.” Then they toast: “To
freedom,” says Elizabeth; “To the Black Pearl,” responds Jack. Such is the Bride, the second bird that is released
alive, the truth that sets one free.
Of all the food that would be available to Captain Barbossa after
the removal of the curse, his greatest desire and even his proclaimed
reward was the apple. And when he died, the
apple he held in his hand spilled out and rolled away from him. Quite obviously, the writer was consciously depicting
the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, always depicted
by men as the apple, though in truth a grape. But
even so, Satan does lose the rights to that work, which is actually Christianity. (The fact that the writer used the apple as he did,
as well as the gold, and the curse, and repeatedly referred to law, tells
us that he was indeed searching for a spiritual truth, a spiritual message,
exercising his Creative Imagination. And you
will also note that even as Jack took to himself a coin, also effecting
upon himself the curse, he likewise beforehand ate from the apple.)
And finally, though there is indeed more, as Jack was about to be
hung on the gallows, Elizabeth (Jerusalem above, who is more righteous
than Judah), declared – “This is wrong.” Her
father replied – “Commodore Orrington is bound by the law, as are we all.” So it is true with Yahweh’s Law; but as they did
indeed learn in the end, it is the will and the plan of the Father that we
each have to embrace that which we really are and have had to endure – pirates! We are evil, and
we practice evil, no matter how much we clean up the cup on the outside
(Matthew 23:25). The fact is that some show
more uncleanness on the outside of the cup than others, but we are all the
same on the inside, and much of life comes our way to show us who and what
we really are – cursed pirates of the Caribbean! Thus,
Yahweh must have mercy on us, for by the law we are indeed all guilty,
every last one of us.
Call me foolish concerning these things we see attested here in a
riddle; I once so despised them myself. But
remember, Yahweh uses the foolish to shame the wise.
And who is this man who is writing these “foolish” things to you? Once I told George, my endeared raven, that I wished
I was like her. Little did I know how true
that would be, for I am now indeed just that – a raven feeding the Elijah
Bride. (Interestingly, my neighbor gave me a
pickup, which I have driven for several years. It
was certainly not a color I would have ever chosen, for it seemed to speak
of evil. Yes, I was given and have driven a black
pickup!) I have identified with Satan, and become
a pirate like him. I too have had to take
the Aztec coin from the stone chest as did Jack (particularly regarding
my family) and am thereby equally cursed. But
Yahweh must have mercy on us and remove the curse so as to deliver us.
This brings up a most important matter that should be added. The one subject about which Yahweh has given the
most writings, is that of selling all (six writings
at this time), the instruction Yahshua taught regarding becoming His disciple
(Luke 14:33). We will not repeat the necessity
for this, but will instead see how this works governmentally.
In this movie, we see Jack becoming cursed by the coin. This is precisely what we saw with the original twelfth
apostle, Judas. We read in John 12:6 and 13:29
that Judas carried the money box. What about
the rest of the disciples? They had left everything,
even as we read in Peter’s statement in Matthew 19:27-29. Thus it was Judas who took the blow for continuing
to gather money. He was therefore, in a sense,
the scapegoat for continuing in finances.
Today, when the Bride is led of Yahweh to equally sell all, there
is actually only one office that can touch that money without paying the
price that Judas paid – the office he vacated. By
Yahweh placing a man in that office today, he stands in the place of a
dead man, is thus legally dead himself, comes under the covering of that
office, and is thus immune from death due to the curse of money. Legally, he is the only one who can be immune from
the consequences of bearing money; therefore, Yahweh has provided a legal
way of escape for the Bride who must give up everything.
This is another vital and critical truth regarding the twelfth apostle.
Furthermore, and this is well worth our examination here, Judas’
right to the money box set up an incredible scenario for the future. How so? In Proverbs 13:22
we read that “the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.” This raises a very important question – How can this
transfer be legally carried out?
Yahweh is Law, and Satan uses the Law to his own gain and purposes;
and in order to transfer the wealth from one party to another, from the
sinner to the righteous, that transfer, of necessity, must be done legally. Can you offer how this legal transfer can take place? Watch and you will see. This
is quite amazing!
According to Yahweh’s divine order, Judas held the money box of the
Son of God. But he relinquished his office
to Satan, to whom it rightfully belonged (John 6:70).
Therefore when Satan received that office, he received the moneybox
that went with it. So how much did Satan have that he would now add
to that box? When Yahshua was being tempted
by Satan in the wilderness, we read that he offered Him “all the kingdoms
of the world, and their glory” (Matthew 4:8). While
Yahshua turned this down, the fact is that it will indeed be turned over
to the righteous. How? Legally,
by once again transferring that office to another – the latter rain twelfth
apostle.
By giving Satan the office of Judas, the treasurer, all that he possessed
went into that treasury via the office; so in order to give the wealth
of this world to the righteous, all Yahweh had to then do was transfer
that office to another, to the twelfth apostle, and all the wealth possessed
by that office was then legally transferred. It’s
the trail of the money box, and in the end it leads to the second Remnant. Satan thought he was gaining a great deal by occupying
that place; but in reality he was being set up for legally transferring
all he had to the righteous Remnant.
Let us look at one other amazing testimony
regarding this twelfth apostle. How many ribs
do you have? You have twenty-four, as you see
in the following graphic.
And how many elders are there around the throne?
Is it just by happenstance that there are likewise twenty-four?
And where do the twenty-four elders sit? Do
they not encompass the throne? Yes indeed
(Revelation 4:4-5). And who sits on that throne? Is it not Yahshua? Yes
it is, along with the testimony of the Holy Spirit – “seven lamps of
fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.” Thus we have in this heavenly scene – Yahshua and
the Holy Spirit, encompassed about by the twenty-four elders.
Now, is this not the testimony that Yahweh sets forth in the human
body – the heart (Yahshua) and the lungs (the Holy Spirit), encompassed
about by the twenty-four ribs (elders)? Indeed!
By establishing this heavenly work here on earth, Yahweh fulfills
on one level that which is written in Jeremiah 31:22 – “For Yahweh has
created a new thing in the earth – a woman (ribs) will encompass a man
(Yahshua).” In reality the new thing He creates
is a soul work (the soul has twelve areas), a redeemed man work, on the
earth. This is what He began 2,000 years ago,
and what He will now complete. (And might
we also simply point out here, this is the soul work revealed in Revelation
12 where we see the woman with a crown of twelve stars and the moon,
the lesser light, under her feet [kingdom rights].)
Now that you see this incredible and clearly undeniable testimony,
let us ask another MOST revealing and important question. Knowing that the twenty-four ribs represent the twenty-four
elders around the throne, what then was the significance when Yahweh took
one rib from Adam and fashioned the woman, the bride?
What did Yahweh in fact take? Clearly,
He took one of the twenty-four elders and made a bride! Do you see the
truth of what Yahweh was saying by taking a rib to form a bride? He was foreshadowing that He would take
one of the twenty four elders, the twelfth apostle, and form the Bride, precisely what we have been seeing and revealing
here since 2002. Could anything be clearer,
or more exciting?
And briefly added for the informed, for we cannot but mention this,
you will recall that when Rizpah sat on the rock with sackcloth from
barley harvest until Yahweh poured out water from heaven on her, David
saw her and thereby went and got the bones of Saul and Jonathan and buried
them in Zela (2 Samuel 21). Bones represent
government/authority, and as we have seen many times, Saul clearly represents
Christianity. So where did the governmental authority
of Christianity go when David transferred these bones per the intercession
of Rizpah? The name “Zela” means “rib”! Thus we see clearly attested here that the governmental
authority of Christianity is given to the “rib,” the twelfth apostle that
is taken out to form the Bride.
Who then is this man, this twelfth apostle?
He is equally Louie, who by a sovereign miracle finds the window
of the Bride and calls out to her, thereby identifying her as the Bride. My purpose as Louie, even as the “sharp spear” (the
meaning of “Gary”), is to reveal the Bride, even to form the Bride. (Quite interestingly, the name “Cain,” the father
of the Kenites, including the Rechabites, Moses’ wife, and Jael, equally
means “spear.”) I am the raven possessing
the three-and-a-half year ministry period of the second golden rod, but
have been in captivity/bondage in Christianity and have had dung on me
and my feathers tattered; but I pass through the window of your understanding
and you receive me, thereby equally becoming like me.
I am the raven, the captain of the Black Pearl, and those whose heart
is as mine will join me and become that pearl of great value.
What then is Yahweh’s timing for the work of the raven? The answer is found in the Genesis 8 account, along
with an important evidence of the ministry of the raven. First, you will notice that the raven was sent
out before the dove was sent out. Does that
sound familiar? Is that not precisely what
the Elijah ministry is? John the Baptist was
the raven that was sent out to prepare the way for the Son of God, whose
identity was confirmed by the dove being released upon Him. Once again, here we see that the raven is the Elijah
that prepares the way for the dove. This was
also evidenced in the highly prophetic movie, Unbreakable. Not only was the
prophetic pattern evidenced wherein the Elijah reveals the Son of God,
but the man who represented the Elijah actually bore the name – Elijah! And the one who represented Yahshua in type,
the one who had the power of an indestructible life, the one who broke
the neck of the strong man who took a man’s house, actually bore the
name – David! Furthermore, if this is not already
incredibly revealing, the man who was Elijah was a black man; if you would,
a raven!
Thus we see that the reason the raven was sent out before the dove
was sent out, was because the raven was a type of Elijah that has to
prepare the way. And what do we find in this
account that gives any indication as to when the true Elijah will be
sent out? In Genesis 8:6 we read – “Then it came
about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark
which he had made; and he sent out a raven ….” Is
not the number “forty” prophetic of the period of Christianity? Indeed it is. The sons
of Israel were forty years in the wilderness, and then entered into the
promised land. Yahshua was equally in the wilderness
forty days, and then the angels came and ministered to Him (Matthew 4:11)
and He returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit (Luke 4:14). Moses was on Mount Sinai for forty days, and then
came down with the glory of Yahweh on his face. Elijah
came out of the cleft of the rock, a cave, the grave, after forty days of
fasting, and went to place his mantle on Elisha, equally the raven, the
double portion raven, as he plowed with the twelfth oxen. As we see evidenced in numerous testimonies, something
effectual and remarkable happens at the end of the period of Christianity. And quite significantly, forty Jubilees from Pentecost
came to an end in 1993, marking the close of the wilderness period of
the church, and in 1994 Yahweh’s Spirit came upon me and began revealing
the Remnant Bride truth.
So what is to happen next? According
to the testimony we see regarding the ark, it is time for the Elijah,
the raven, to be sent out and fly here and there until the water is dried
up. This is what this man, at this writing, hopes
is about to take place in his own life. I am
leaving my home and all I have, and look to Yahweh to open the way to do
what the raven did upon being released – to fly here and there until the
water is dried up from the earth. While we look
to Yahweh to send His latter rain that will cover the earth, keep in mind
that that forty day flood effected judgment and death.
The raven flew here and there until the remnants of that wrath were
dried up – the Elijah work. This is what this
man hopes will be the effect of going out.
Furthermore, the Hebrew word for “dried up,” as used here, is more
frequently translated – “withered.” Where
is it we see something withered in the New Testament?
Yahshua cursed the fig tree (Christianity), and it too withered
(Mark 11:20-21). Thus we equally see the withering
of Christianity per the “withering” of the flood waters of wrath and judgment
that have been on the earth for forty Jubilees. This
is obviously a very significant and relevant testimony.
Even as George flew about for three-and-a-half days, by Yahweh’s
grace this man will fly about for the three-and-a-half year ministry period.
Of course the “here and there” course of the raven sounds quite
similar to what we read in Daniel 12:4 – “But as for you, Daniel, conceal
these words and seal up the book until the end of time; many will go back
and forth, and knowledge will increase.” Certainly
it is indeed the end of time for Christianity (it will wither), as well
as the end of the 6,000 years of man since creation.
And, based on what Yahweh is now opening our eyes to see, He has
indeed removed His hand from us and is showing us His back (Exodus 33:21-23),
and knowledge of Him is dramatically increasing per the Bride teachings.
There is something else in this man’s life regarding a raven that
encourages me. Briefly, Yahweh had our family
go on a vacation once where He showed me beforehand that we were to just
head out and He would show us where to go. He
led us to a place in the Colorado mountains where I had gone as a child and
had great memories of it – San Juan, or Saint John.
He equally led us to a wonderful cabin that was available only because
someone had canceled their reservation, and we got it for half price. At the headwaters of the Rio Grande we caught more
fish on that trip than any other time, catching our limit each day within
an hour or so, totaling 68-69 trout.
That vacation was indeed the most memorable and enjoyable vacation
we ever had as a family. But what encourages
me about it now as I make plans to travel are two things. First, He told us to trust Him in where we were
to go, and therein blessed us at Saint John beyond all we could ask or
think. Second, on our first fishing excursion
away from the cabin, as I walked along, a raven was on a rock about the
height of a man no more than 25 feet from me, which is exceptionally close
to getting near a wild raven. But what it did
I had never before seen, even though I had raised ravens for twenty-four
years. While Rizpah sat on a rock with sackcloth
on it, that raven literally danced on that rock! It
jumped up and down from one foot to another and spun around in what I would
call a gleeful jig. It was the strangest thing
you could ever see!
Today, as I see the significance of the raven being sent out, I take
hope that this journey wherein I am equally going out and trusting totally
in Him, will find the same wonderful results. And
in this regard, I equally take great hope that the raven will rejoice
and dance a jig!
Once Yahweh told me to ask for the wealth of a man who was a multi-millionaire. First, I carefully confirmed with Him that that was
indeed what I was to pray. After praying
that prayer, that man lost everything he had, including his home. Somewhere out there is a large provision that is
mine. But what is most interesting at this time
is that that man’s wealth was acquired as a working board member of a company
called Trammell Crow!
The Crow hopefully speaks
of the time into which this man is preparing to launch, and will receive
that for which Yahweh told me to ask, and will indeed be a time in which
to rejoice and dance. The Trammell speaks per this most successful fishing trip
I have ever had, for a trammel is a three-layered fishing net. I trust I will receive equal success as a fisher of
men, even the 153 that were caught on the right side of the boat after fishing
all night and catching nothing (Christianity; John 21).
How can it be mere happenstance that a man raised ravens for twenty-four
years, asked once to be a raven, twice his raven testified to the three-and-half
year ministry period, his bride was miraculously identified by his raven,
had a raven to dance on a rock at the most meaningful vacation ever at
Saint John, was told by Yahweh to ask for the wealth of a man who was
a working board member of Trammell Crow, was given a black pickup to drive,
and M. Night Shyamalan’s movies reveal the Elijah ministry via a black
Elijah and Dr. Crowe? And why does this man
share this? Simply to express my hope and the
wonder and ways of Yahweh, and to give affirmation of the testimony of
the raven.
But I am also quite aware of who else this man is.
I am a Nebuchadnezzar, who by writing these things appears to be mad,
while my hair is like eagle’s feathers (as was Jack Sparrow’s) and my nails
like bird’s claws (Daniel 4:33). I am a mad
David who continues to scribble on the gate (the Bill Gate), and my beard
is filled with drool (1 Samuel 21:10-15). If
I must be mad to gain truth, let me be mad (The Scribblings of A Madman!). It is thus appropriate
we close this section with the conversation of Will and Jack as they
walked out to a ship while underwater with an overturned boat over them
like a giant diving bell:
Will Turner: This is either madness... or brilliance.
Jack Sparrow: It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide.
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