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Yahweh Spoke From A Whirlwind
YAHWEH, HAVE MERCY!
When Ivan started his trek towards the southern states, it began to
appear that he would strike New Orleans. Since New Orleans lies in
a basin much like a saucer, people began to fear that massive devastation
and death could occur there, killing thousands of people. In the writings,
Cursed Time and Blessed Time, 1920
and 1996 and The Garden of God – Today, we discover that the Curse of 1920 has its
legal roots going all the way back to when Abraham married a cursed Canaanite
woman, Keturah, and brought forth six sons. We will not give their
names here, but the meanings of their names begin with “music,” then “adversary,”
followed by “contention” and “contention” or double contention, and concluded
by “forsaking” and finally “sinking down into the mud”!
You will notice that the curse had its origin in music, and as presented
in those two writings, so America came under the Curse of 1920 in part
via Jazz music that began in New Orleans. As Ivan approached, knowing
that it was a testimony of the second Remnant, I began to take hope that
the testimony and intercession of this storm could well be that it would
strike at the root of this curse, which must take place, and thus strike
New Orleans.
But that testimony did not happen. Instead, what we saw was Ivan,
in an eleventh hour, change course from that extremely vulnerable city,
skirt east of New Orleans, and wholly spare Sin City. So what was
Yahweh telling us? He was revealing an immensely relevant and hope-filled
message. Indeed, Yahweh must strike at the root of the Curse of
1920, but in so doing, He will have mercy on those who are affected by the
curse. As we have seen, that curse has a root that extends beyond New
Orleans.
We find that the curse that is rooted in music actually has an origin
that goes back to voodoo. In The Garden of God – Today, page 3, we read the following quote:
Voodoo's roots can be traced in part back to the African Yoruba religion, which incorporates the worship of several
different spiritual forces that include a supreme being, deities, and the
spirits of ancestors. When Africans were kidnapped, enslaved, and brought
to Brazil--and, ultimately, Haiti--beginning in the 1500s, they brought
their religion with them.
By the 1700s, 30,000 slaves a year were brought to Haiti. Voodoo began
to emerge at this time as different African religions met and melded.
(The word "voodoo" comes from an African word meaning "god" or "spirit.")
Slaves were forced to convert to Catholicism, but they found it easy to
practice both religions. Voodoo gods were given saints' names, and voodoo
worship more or less continued, appropriating certain Catholic rituals
and beliefs. Rituals involved participants dancing in a frenzy to increasingly
wild drumbeats and eventually falling into a trancelike state, during which
a loa (a spirit and/or lower-level
deity intermediary between humans and gods) would take possession of them.
Voodoo didn't immediately take root in New Orleans, thanks to repressive
slaveholders and an edict banning its practice. But the edict was repealed
after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, and in 1804, when slaves in Haiti
revolted and overthrew the government, free blacks came to New Orleans in
great numbers, as did fleeing plantation owners with their own slaves, all
bringing a fresh infusion of voodoo.
Napoleonic law forced slave owners to give their slaves Sundays off
and to provide them with a gathering place. Congo Square on Rampart Street, part of what is now Louis Armstrong
Park, became the place for slaves to gather for voodoo or drumming rituals.
Voodoo then was a way for slaves to have their own community and a certain
amount of freedom. The religion emphasized knowledge of family and gave
power to ancestors. Further, women were usually the powerful forces in
voodoo--priestesses ran matters more often than priests--and this appealed
to women in a time when women simply didn't have that kind of authority
and power.
These gatherings naturally attracted white onlookers, as did the rituals
held (often by free people of color) along St. John's Bayou. The local
papers of the 1800s are full of lurid accounts of voodoo "orgies" and
of whites possessed by spirits, otherwise losing control, or arrested after
being caught in a naked pose. Thanks to the white scrutiny, the Congo Square
gatherings became more like performance pieces, emphasizing drumming and
music rather than religious rituals. Because of the square's proximity
to what became Storyville, legend has it that madams from the houses would
come down to the Sunday gatherings and hire some of the performers to entertain
at their houses.
It was during the 1800s that the famous voodoo priestesses came to
some prominence. Mostly free women of color, they were devout religious
practitioners and very good businesswomen who had a steady clientele
of whites secretly coming to them for help in love or money matters. During
the 1900s, voodoo largely went back underground. (Today it remains
about 15% of the population of New Orleans.)
Haitian voodoo afforded the spirit that is in New Orleans jazz, which
gave us rock and roll and most of our contemporary music. As a mosquito
is the carrying agent of malaria, so this music is the carrying agent
of the curse that has its origins in voodoo. It is this curse that
has been inflicting and destroying, and will continue to destroy, this
nation through its ongoing course of “adversary,” double “contentiousness,”
“forsaking” what is right, and finally “sinking down into the mud.”
If you want to see what the outcome of this curse will be for America,
all you have to do is look at what that curse has effected on the nation
from which it came – Haiti!
Do not take this lightly! Haiti is a nation that thrives on contention.
It has suffered thirty coups d’état, and its numerous conflicts
are fed by greed. Its people barely survive at poverty level.
You may reply and say that America is not suffering material poverty.
There is a poverty that is more than just material, and the Curse of 1920
with its voodoo origins has within it the will to destroy this nation, even
as it has destroyed Haiti. It is the same curse! It is a virus. And it has entered
this nation in part through music (also, the Women’s Rights Movement).
Clearly, from these whirlwinds from which Yahweh is speaking, both
Ivan’s and Jeanne’s testimonies before they arrived at Florida tell important
stories. Ivan provided the testimony of the second Remnant that comes
out of mystery Babylon Christianity. As the remnant of Judah came
out of Babylon following 70 years of captivity and rebuilt the temple, Ivan
came to Florida following 70 people being killed in the Caribbean.
The number “70” represents the period of Christianity. But Jeanne’s
testimony is even more dramatic.
As Jeanne approached the Dominican Republic on Trumpets, September
16, it increased to hurricane strength for one day and then unusually stalled
between Haiti and the Bahamas and dumped torrents of rain on Haiti for
30 hours. Look once again at the following course and you will see
this most unusual behavior per Haiti.
When Jeanne struck Haiti, it ravaged that nation, killing over 2,000
people, the number of years in Christianity in which kingdom men have been
cut off and died. But what was the main cause for these immense fatalities?
The answer lies in the Curse of 1920. What is the outcome of that curse
as revealed in the meaning of the names of the six mixed sons of Abraham
and Keturah? Following “music,” “adversary,” double “contention,”
and “forsaking,” there is the final end of “sinking down into the mud.”
Thus, fueled by massive deforestation, when Jeanne unleashed its storm
over Haiti for some thirty hours, the people were drowned and literally
buried in mud.
But this concluding testimony of mud is not new to Haitian Voodoo.
From this article by Nick Caistor from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, titled “Voodoo’s
Spell Over Haiti,” we read:
Voodoo is deeply rooted in this country of eight million people.
The drumming and chanting goes on hour after hour. A goat and a small
black pig have their throats cut, and the blood is sprinkled over the worshippers.
The animals are thrown into a pool of brown, bubbling mud.
Many of the blue and red-robed believers jump into the pond as well.
This is the climax of the voodoo ceremony at the Plaine du Nord, some
300 kilometres north of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. (Notice, it is the “climax,” the conclusion.)
Thousands of Haitian voodoo believers make the trek to the Plaine du
Nord each year - some of them from as far afield as the United States and
Canada.
But do not make the mistake to dismiss this “sinking down into the mud”
curse to Haiti alone. This is the determined fate of the Curse
of 1920 that is on America!
That which they practice ritually determined their fate, and it impacts
and determines in part the fate of this nation as well; that is unless Yahweh
strikes it at its root and destroys it. And as we see testified here
regarding Haiti, and in stark contrast in New Orleans, this is precisely
what Yahweh will do. As we read in Zechariah 13:9, He will take the
third part of the church through the fire so as to purify it.
While He will have mercy on those who are afflicted by the curse, He
will strike at the root of the curse. He will have mercy on America,
but he will strike at the source of the curse that afflicts America.
He will have mercy on the church which has been under a curse for 2,000
years, but He will strike the source of the root of that curse.
He will have mercy on men who have been under the curse for 6,000
years, but He will strike at the root of that curse. Each of these
are testified as Yahweh speaks from the whirlwinds. For we see that
while Yahweh indeed demonstrated His mercy toward New Orleans, the source
of cursed music in America, He struck the origin of the curse – Haiti!
And when will He effect the striking of the root? Clearly in the
third part of the church, the third-part-representing category-3 hurricane
period. This is the third-part Shelah period that we are in right
now.
And while we are addressing Jeanne and her most unusual course, we
note that when she started moving north from Haiti and heading into the
Atlantic, it looked like she would fade away. But quite uniquely
once again, she made an unexpected clockwise loop, gained strength, became
a hurricane again on September 20, and began her course towards the rod.
This has been much like the Remnant Bride. While it has looked
like we would fail and even die, Yahweh has strengthened us and kept us alive.
We know our extreme weakness. We are Philadelphia, the ones who have
“a little strength,” and for this reason He has opened a door which no man
can close (Revelation 3:8). But once again, this is a work that He
will perform by His own hand, and in our weakness we are made strong.
When the four of us men had completed the signing of the contract transferring
the twelfth apostleship over to this man, we left to go break bread together
in Seattle. As we were going south on I-5, I passed a U-Haul truck.
When I did, my spirit leapt and I wanted to know what was on the side of
that truck. Two other times in my life Yahweh has used a U-Haul
truck to prophesy. As the truck approached, the state advertised
on its side was New Hampshire!
For two or three days before this, Yahweh had been dealing with me
regarding the vision He had shown Peter at Joppa. After showing
Peter all manner of unclean animals on a great sheet, Yahweh told him
– “What God has cleansed, no longer consider unclean” (Acts 10:10-16).
I wondered after seeing that truck what New Hampshire prophetically
meant. As a former FFA boy in high school, I knew that Hampshires
were a breed of swine, and uniquely the word even has the word “ham” in
it. Based on that which Yahweh had been dealing with me about in the
previous few days, the message became exceedingly clear – Yahweh was going
to have mercy on the “ham” period of the church that has gone to the sea
of death for 2,000 years, the period marked by unclean flesh! In fact,
He will call it clean and it will be a new Hampshire. Yahweh will not be angry
with the church any more, but will have mercy on it (Hosea 6:1-3).
The outcome of Peter’s vision was that he was led to the house of Cornelius,
who was a Gentile centurion. Quite significantly, “Cornelius” means
“horn-bearing”! This is the very problem associated with Christianity
– they are horn-bearers. Just look at their steeples. They
have followed the ways and teachings of Satan and they too bear the little
horn that so clearly marks his identity (The Signs That Cause Belief, page 4). But Yahweh is going to call them clean,
is going to call US clean (for we are all horn-bearers in this earthly
flesh), and will equally pour out upon us the Spirit just as it was on the
day of Pentecost (Acts 10:47, 11:17, 15:8). He will cause Satan to
fall (Luke 10:18), even as we see prophesied per this church in Cocoa Beach
when Frances hit. Satan’s horn will fall!
Thus, the message that Yahweh gave us immediately following the signing
of the contract was that of imputed mercy, calling clean that which has been
unclean, making us new Hampshires.
(Uniquely, Hampshire is also a breed of black-faced sheep, which are clean).
Let us talk governmentally again before we close. In He Was Jealous With My Jealousy, page 5, we noted that Paul rejected the foundation
which Yahshua laid and struck the rock, Peter, twice, preventing both him
and Christianity from entering into their promised land. In Galatians
2, Paul, in an effort to elevate himself, falsely compared himself with
Peter. In this chapter we find a litany of errors that Paul made,
including the following boast – “But from those who were of some repute (what
they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality [this
is Paul’s false Miriam claim]) – well,
those who were reputed contributed nothing to me (boastful pride!). But on the contrary, seeing that
I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter
with the circumcised (for He who effectually worked for Peter
in his apostleship to the circumcised effectually worked for me also to the
Gentiles), and recognizing the grace that had been given to me, James and
Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas
the right hand of fellowship, that we might go to the Gentiles, and they
to the circumcised” (2:6-9).
As said in He Was Jealous With My Jealousy, anointing is fearful,
for it is erroneously equated as approval, and Paul was deceptively dead
wrong in his assessment here.
Just because Yahweh gives someone something does not make them right.
Look at Saul. He was chosen by Yahweh, but was rejected. Look
at Jeroboam. A prophet of Yahweh may have given the divided kingdom
over to him, but Abijah declared the reality of the “covenant of salt”
that prevailed (read The Issue
- II, page 20). Let us look closer at this matter.
Paul made a presumptuous assumption that he was entrusted with the
gospel to the uncircumcised. But was he really? Paul was so
grossly in error as he rebuked the rock, Peter, and later boasted in it,
and even denigrated the apostles as “reputed,” that it would be highly
probable that he was in error with this as well; and he was!
To whom did Yahweh really first entrust the gospel to the Gentiles?
The answer is clearly not Paul. And the answer is quite obvious.
Beyond any shadow of doubt, the gospel to the Gentiles was entrusted to
Peter. When Yahweh gave Peter the vision of the unclean animals and
told him to not call unclean what He had made clean, and then sent him to
the house of Cornelius where the Spirit fell on them as on the day of Pentecost,
Peter received the gospel to the Gentiles. So what happened? The answer lies
in where Peter had the vision.
We read in Acts 9:36f that Paul had gone to a place called Joppa where
he raised Dorcas from the dead. It was here that Peter had the vision
and was called to go to the house of Cornelius where the Spirit was poured
out on the Gentiles. But what happened to Peter’s work? How
did it get cut short? We find two times that Peter related the subject
account – Acts 11:1-18, 15:6-11 – but somehow that work appeared to have
gotten sidetracked and went to Paul instead?
The reason Peter had the vision in Joppa, was because what was to follow
had already taken place once before in Joppa; it would be a déjà
vu all over again. “That which has been is that which will be, and
that which has been done is that which will be done. So, there is
nothing new under the sun”(Ecclesiastes 1:9). And there was nothing
new taking place here with Peter and Joppa as well.
What happened once before in Joppa that was so telling? Jonah
was told to go to the Gentiles in Nineveh and cry against “the great city.”
(Read The Issue - II, page
16, and All's Well That Ends
Well, page 2, for more on “the great city.”) But Jonah did not
like the Assyrians and knew that Yahweh would have mercy on them and repent
of His actions (Jonah 4:1-2), so he went down to Joppa and found a ship
that was going to “Tarshish” (Jonah 1:1-3). You know the rest of the
story. The great fish swallowed Jonah. As a picture of Yahshua
in His death, he was in its belly for three days and three nights, he came
out, and he went to Nineveh where he preached and Yahweh had mercy.
So what does this have to do with Peter and Paul?
There are several clear and revealing associations. First, both
events had essentially the same purpose – Yahweh going to the Gentiles.
Second, both Peter and Jonah went to the same place – Joppa. Third,
the highly reputable historian, Josephus, tells us that Tarshish and Tarsus
were the same place. While this is debated today, what we will see
now tells us that Josephus was very much so correct.
What is the significance of Tarsus? This is where our subject
man, Paul, was from (Acts 21:39). Thus we find a third clear and
revealing association – Tarsus!
- Jonah went to Joppa/Peter went to Joppa.
- Yahweh sent Jonah to the Gentiles to repent/Peter was sent to the Gentiles to repent.
- To escape Yahweh’s command, Jonah went on a ship to Tarsus/Peter failed to carry out Yahweh’s calling and went to Paul of Tarsus.
- The sea became troubled and Jonah was cast into it by the efforts of others/the breach of Christianity began in the church and death (the sea) began to rage, and the work given to Peter was cast into the sea by the efforts of others. Neither Jonah nor Peter could jump into the sea; they had to be thrown in by others.
- Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days, a picture of Yahshua in the grave/the gospel Peter was entrusted with went into the belly of Christianity for the cut short two “days,” the period in which the body of Christ has been in the grave.
- Yahweh commanded the great fish and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land/the gospel entrusted to Peter comes out of Christianity and is restored to the Remnant and fulfilled.
- Jonah’s preaching led the Ninevites to repentance and Yahweh had mercy/the Remnant will preach repentance and Yahweh will have mercy.
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