Sun, June 13, 2010 1:08:55 PM
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EXTREME ALERT --- Steve Quayle website -
Sunday 13 June 2K10
EXTREME ALERT — Gulf Coast
Evacuation Contingency Plans Soon to
Go Operational: The
operational name for the Gulf Coast
Evacuation is "Swift Fox". Yesterday
morning at around 8:30 Mountain
time, I received information that
specific towns, in Tennessee,
Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi,
Texas and Georgia were having hotel
rooms rented in mass by different
named "Societies" using Federal
government credit cards. The block
hotel room rentals are for half the
available rooms in hotels with a
minimum of 120 rooms. Specific
conversations were "overheard" that
would indicate that the planned Gulf
Coast evacuation is soon to be
implemented. The only scenario I
hear that may force the government
to evacuate the coast is a multiple
plume situation. Apparently, the
unmitigated oil spilling has caused
a pressure flux which, ironically,
has caused a spider web network of
Gulf seabed fissures, which has
caused at least one other confirmed
oil plume. NOAA is searching for two
more suspected ones". This quote is
from an insider who is really
concerned as he should be. Here's
additional info he provided. His
comments in the following quote: "I
know FEMA has already scoped out
FEMA camp locations, i.e. vacant
lots and swaths of land that can be
leased temporarily in Texas and
Georgia".
The inside guy said it is up to the
President to give the go-signal.
There is an evacuation plan drafted
and in place, ready for execution
only *if* the administration deems
it necessary. That can happen two
ways. FEMA makes an emergency
declaration with recommendation to
POTUS (President of the US) for an
evacuation or 2/3 of the Gulf States
request federal help for an evac.
States can individually declare an
evacuation of their Gulf residents,
but that would be a state action
only, not FEMA/Federal".
One week ago I was given a "vision
of bread" while praying for wisdom.
I saw a piece of bread being ripped
apart as you would tear apart a
sandwich from the bottom up. Imagine
holding a sandwich in both hands and
pressing your thumbs through the
center of the bread and then tearing
the bread, ripping it apart into two
sections!
I wondered why the Lord would give
me the Bread Vision, and then it
became apparent. FAMINE is going to
explode through the land as a result
of the Gulf of Mexico's sea floor
rupturing! Yesterday, as I pondered
all that's going on, I received an
image of a jig saw puzzle with all
the interrelated pieces being broken
apart, and being tied to this event
taking place in the Gulf. The famine
that is coming to the US is
heartbreaking in it's ramifications.
The slaughter and devastation is
unimaginable. As the Great Quake
literally tears apart the US
mainland, all America's external
enemies including those "enemies
within" will seek to destroy and
devour that which is left and flee,
but they will not succeed. THEY
WILL BE STOPPED BY ALMIGHTY GOD
HIMSELF. THE DESTRUCTION THEY HAVE
PLANNED FOR THE INNOCENT WILL BE
SUPERNATURALLY TURNED AGAINST THEM!
I will be publishing the prophecy
that the Lord has given me at His
appointed time. I want to personally
thank all of the Lord's intercessors
who pray for me daily that I might
warn and help prepare those who have
eyes to see and ears to hear. I
urge every one who understands the
lateness of the hour to get their
hearts right before the Living God,
as the time comes when only the
power of an individual's
relationship with God and the power
of prayer will get us through the
most perilous time period in ALL
HISTORY! —Stephen Quayle
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6-1-10 - DREAM - I was feeling quite tired and was laying on
the couch after Joe left for work. I could hear a lot of noise in the
neighborhood, so I made myself get up and looked out the west window and a large
orange machine and truck of some kind like construction was going on next door
past the trees.
I went and lay on the couch again, too tired to do anything
else, and I heard a truck or something pull up in front of the house. I
wasn't expecting visitors, so I just ignored it, until a man with a big beard
came to the window and peeked inside at me. Perhaps he thought I'd get up
and come to the door, or he was just curious, he came to another window and
again peeked inside at me, and that scared me because I didn't know what he
wanted.
So, I went to the door, and when he saw me, he made motions
with his hands that he didn't want to bother me and backed away and got into his
truck and left.
I hadn't even lain down yet, and another knock came at the
door, so I reluctantly went to the door to see who it was. I opened the
door to see a tall, thin woman who may have been selling something, but as soon
as she saw me, she made the same hand motions with both hands that she didn't
want to bother me and backed away back to her vehicle and left.
Now, I was beginning to wonder what was wrong with me that
nobody wanted to talk to me.
I looked down at myself to see what I was wearing, in case I
looked scary. I was wearing a silk robe, with long sleeves, and it was
black with red roses on it. I didn't see anything wrong with
what I was wearing, unless they thought I was in mourning or something.
Just then, John McBain (from One Life to Live TV show came up
the driveway with a couple other guys and I asked them if there was something
wrong with the way I looked or something wrong with the front of the house that
people were being scared off. I told him, "Five people came to the door
and all of them backed away from me like something was really wrong!"
John said he didn't see anything wrong at all.
As we were walking through the house, John was ahead of me and
as we walked through the kitchen door, there were like bread wrappers hanging in
the doorway, each one taped to the other like a fly curtain or something.
I started pulling them out of the doorway, one by one, and
noticed that each bread wrapper was from a different type of bread, but they
were all the same size.
I tossed them aside as John started telling me that T.J.
wanted to take Sabrina down to Florida to do some pornography to bring in a
little money.
That was a little distressing to hear, and John went on to say
that there would be monologues in the film that Sabrina would have to say and
wondered if she was capable of remembering her lines.
I said I thought she could, but I was still wondering why she
would do that. Were they that desperate for money?
We walked into the next room, and it was a child's bedroom
attached to the house on the east side. (there is no room like that).
It was decorated really pretty in pastel yellows and flowers, and decorated for
a little girl. The room hadn't yet been straightened up for the day so
while the men sat and chatted, I straightened up the pillow and saw that there
was a cute little yellow teddy bear on the pillow case, and roses on the yellow
and white bedspread. I noted there was a picture hanging on the wall
between the windows and everything was bright and sunny outside, and woke up.
It was 7.06.. a.m.
Dee, your dream was on 6-1. I saw the same empty bread
wrappers on 6-10. In my dream, my neighbor was in Oregon at a
cardiologist and I was worried about him because he didn't come home and
I kept looking out my window to see if his car
was there in real life. Then I dreamd I was in his kitchen and he was
looking through some empty bread wrappers. He did return a few hours
later. In the dream I thought his daughter and her baby [a girl] had
broken in while he was gone and ate all his food. Maybe it means a
food shortage. Sheila
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6-13-10 - DREAM - I was living in the country
somewhere in a small house. My husband was apparently away on
business and I was afraid to stay alone for a protracted period of time,
so my cousin Judy came to stay with me and keep me company. (She
was my Dad's brother's daughter)
She and I got along fine, but she tended to stay in
her room a lot, and finally she came out and said she was lonely for her
family and wanted to go home to her mother.
I was very disappointed about that, and wondered how I
could send her home to her mother since I couldn't drive that far alone
- if I could drive at all.
So, I called her mother on the phone and she had a
similar voice to my deceased mother-in-law from my second marriage.
She was sad that her daughter couldn't stay longer, but said that I
could put her on the bus as the bus stopped right at her farm.
The mode of transportation being settled, I told Judy
she could go home on the bus, and that was okay with her as long as she
could go.
Before she went out the door, she signed her name on
the bulletin board in the kitchen. She wrote, "Mrs. Wilke".
That stunned me that she wrote that name down, and
puzzled me greatly, as I wonderred how she could sign that name, when it
really wasn't her name.
My brother John was there and his last name is Wilke,
and my name used to be Wilke before I got married, so I had to guess
that perhaps she was signing Wilke as her maiden name, and putting Mrs.
in front of it to show that she was also married. Doesn't
make sense, but it showed that she was family nevertheless.
So, John and I took Judy to the bus station, and after
the bus left, I saw that Judy had left behind a whole stack of notebooks
and papers on a small table by the wall of the bus station. I
picked them up to save them and then send them to her, but I couldn't
help but read one of the papers I thought was perhaps a dream she had
had while she was staying with me.
I started reading the paper, and it was no dream, it
was religious sermon of some kind, and I didn't un derstand the
commplexity of the words she used except that she said her experience
was that of the barley seed.
I put the paper down to take care of some other
paperwork. Apparently my husband had not been away on business -
he had been in jail, and they were letting him go because he was
innocent.
I had all those papers with me as well, and went up to
the window of the bus station that doubled as the check out window of
the jail.
When it was my turn, the word 'case' came up on a
little box, and the clerk at the window told me to sit down with the
paperwork and read it thoroughly so I understood it all while they
processed my husband out, and when he said that, he got a small smile on
his face - that at least one man was innocent of what he was accused of.
Whatever that was - I don't know.
NOTE: Since all of our parents are long
deceased, I don't know if that is implicated by this dream or not, since
I don't communicate with my cousin Judy all that often. She is
Mormon and lives in Utah, and I live in California. I haven't seen
Judy's parents since I was a kid when we all lived in Milwaukee.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES IN ALMA CHAPTER 11:
The Weights, measures, and monetary systems of
the Nephites are unusual. Are they just arbitrary imagined systems or do
they have historical reality? It will be interesting to compare those
systems with those of Elephantine, the Jews, some eight Semitic
civilizations, and elsewhere. The system as recorded in the Book of
Mormon is not a continuation of the system known in the Old Testament.
The Book of Mormon makes it clear that their systems, particularly the
monetary systems were different from that of Jerusalem. (Alma 11:4) One
might also note that the word for "coin" is absent from the Book of
Mormon. There must be an important underlining reason for the
inclusion on the gold plates by Mormon of the detail found in the first
half of Chapter 11 of Alma. We learn from the Book of Alma:
"Now these are the names of the different pieces of
their gold, and of their silver, according to their value. And the names
are given by the Nephites, for they did not
reckon after
the manner
of the Jews
who were at Jerusalem;
neither did they measure
after the manner of the Jew; but they
altered their
reckoning
and their measure,
according to the minds and the circumstances of the people, in every
generation, until the reign of the Judges, they have been established by
King Mosiah. Now the reckoning is thus - a
senine of
gold, a seon
of gold, a shum
of gold, and a limnah
of gold. A senum
of silver, an amnor
of silver, an ezrom
of silver, and an onti
of silver. A senum
of silver was equal to a sinine
of gold, and either for a measure
of barley." (Alma 11:4-7) Note the emphasis on "either
for a measure
of barley." What is a measure of barley?
Gold and silver, the universal precious metals
are linked here with barely, just as they are in ancient systems. "The
Nephite system of weights and measures at the time of Mosiah is
specifically outlined in Alma 11:5-19, presumably to underscore the
moderate value of a bribe that Zeezrom offered to Amulek while Amulek
was preaching in Ammonihah. Zeezrom offered six
onties of
silver, equal to one limnah
of gold, or the equivalent of 42
measures
of grain [also equal to 42 days of pay for a Nephite judge]; (Alma 11:3,
13), to Amulek if he would deny the existence of a Supreme Being. (Alma
11:22, Largey p. 609). A pretty cheap offer; needless to say,
Amulek declined the bribe.
Thus in Alma we find a number of important
points for discussion. First,
since the Nephites did not reckon after Jerusalem or any other known
Mesopotamian Semitic system, can one make a limited comparison with
actual monetary equivalents and weights and measures with known
post-exilic or pre-Diaspora Jewish systems, or any ancient Near or
Middle Eastern system? One possible comparison can be made between an
Egyptian system and the Nephite system, and this has been discussed in
an interesting paper by Paul Richard Jesclard in 1973; published by the
Society for Early Historic Archaeology (S.E.H.A.).
See:
http://www.einarerickson.com/content/view/67/39/ for more.
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Do not harm the oil and the wine
( From Forerunner Commentary)
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After describing the black horse and its rider, John
hears "a voice in the midst of the four living creatures
saying, 'A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts
of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the
wine'" (Revelation
6:6). Among the Four Horseman, this is an unusual
departure; nothing else is said to or about them save in
this verse. Being so set apart, the words are doubly
significant.
Who speaks these words? John simply says "a voice."
Literally, the Greek is "like a voice," which can be stated
as "what seemed to be a voice." The only clue we have is
that it comes from "in the midst of the four living
creatures."
Revelation 4:6 provides the answer: "And in the midst of
the throne, and around the throne, were four living
creatures. . . ." (see
Ezekiel 1:4-28). The language suggests that the
creatures were situated around the throne, one creature in
the middle of each of the four sides. The voice coming from
the midst of these creatures must have come from the one
sitting on the throne! God Himself utters these words!
What He says is a common marketplace call of a merchant
shouting out the price of his wares. He is setting relative
values for both wheat and barley, with wheat being three
times as valuable as barley. However, His price is highly
inflated! The "quart" here is choinix in Greek, which
is roughly equivalent to our quart, the amount of grain that
a normal man needs each day to survive. In ancient times,
though, a denarius would buy eight to ten quarts of wheat,
not one! Obviously, these are disaster prices.
The "denarius" was equal to an ordinary worker's daily
wage, as
Jesus illustrates in His Parable of the Laborers (Matthew
20:1-16). These prices, then, give a person an
unenviable choice. If he is single, he can buy the more
expensive, more nutritious wheat, yet have nothing left
over, or he can buy the cheaper, less nutritious barley and
save the remainder for the next day or so. However, if he is
married and has children, he can choose only the barley
because he needs more than one quart of grain for his
family's subsistence. None of these choices really allows
the person either to get ahead or to stay healthy,
especially if he has dependents.
God also commands, "Do not harm the oil and the wine,"
which is a puzzler to scholars. To whom is God speaking—to
the horseman or to people in general? It seems to be
directed at the horseman, as he is the direct cause of the
scarcity. Thus, the staff of life will be in such short
supply as to need to be rationed or sold at extortionate
prices, but oil and wine will be relatively untouched. Why?
Many commentators consider oil and wine to be luxury
items, but this is false. In ancient times, olive oil and
wine were staples of the Mediterranean diet along with
grain, as
Deuteronomy 7:13 and 11:14 indicate (see also
II Chronicles 31:5;
32:28;
Nehemiah 5:11;
Hosea 2:8, 22;
Joel 1:10;
Haggai 1:11). A person, though, cannot live on oil and
wine as he can on grain, yet, as science is just now
discovering, they do provide additional and necessary
nutrition. These items are available during the third
horseman's rampage, but the average man will not have the
means to purchase them, since all his money is being spent
on flour for bread!
What is God picturing then? The key is to remember that
this "famine" is ongoing just as the wars and rumors of wars
of the second horseman and the deceptions of the first
horseman are. There are occasional lulls of plenty, but the
experience of history is that most of the time, the ordinary
individual is just getting by. Just as God predicted in
Genesis 3:17-19, he labors and toils to eke out a
miserable living only to die, worn out and broken in a few,
short years. The third horseman's job is to follow his red
brother's devastating wars with oppression, corruption, and
scarcity so that men stay weak and poor and many die.
Richard T. Ritenbaugh
The Four Horsemen (Part Four): The Black Horse
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Why Study Metrology?
[Excerpt]
One of the central ideas of ancient metrology is
explained by the much read and little understood Fifth Book of
Aristotle's Ethics, in which the idea of justice is explained by
referring to money and to the price structure.
This book explains why money is called by the same name
that applies to civil law and to natural law (nomos) and why this term
is synonymous with arithmos; metrology first developed as an attempt to
assure justice in the contract of sale by mathematizing the relation.
The origins of the art of legislation and of legal
science are to be found in lists that state how many measures of a given
commodity would correspond to a measure of another commodity.
Once one takes this practical outlook, one can see how,
in the Bible, the idea of Divine Providence is linked with the methods
used in the rationing of food, of which Greek inscriptions provide the
most abundant evidence.
Once one keeps in mind the metrological aspects of the
idea of Providence, one can see the meaning of the word epiousios in the
Lord's Prayer, a word on the interpretation of which an entire library
has been written.
One must keep in mind the ethical aspects of metrology
to see in the Gospels the metrological reasons for the two miracles of
the multiplication of the bread, the Feeding of the Four Thousand and
the Feeding of the Five Thousand.
In metrology, one must steadily shift from metaphysical
and ethical presuppositions to practical aspects. This has been the
concern of Greaves and Bernard, who came to metrology from the study of
cosmogony but at the same time travelled extensively in the Orient and
saw the ancient system of metrology still used by the Arabs.
6-13-10 - MEDITATION: I asked my spirit guides
to give me another vision or dream to advise me of the meaning of the
empty bread wrappers from th edream I had on 6-1-10.
I then saw what looked like a magazine cover - it was
in brilliant color. The entire cover was a wreath of flowers
against a blue sky. One third of the flowers from about the 11
o'clock point through the 3 o'clock point were dark blue, the flowers
from the 3 o'clock point to the 7 o'clock point were bright red, and
from the 7 o'clock point to the 11 o'clock point were pure white,
rather like the colors of the American flag. Then all the flowers
turned white, including all the center portion of the wreath, and the
whole thing became a fully blooming bouquet of flowers - like
crysanthemums.
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Third Seal: Black Horse
This rider represents hunger
and famine. We can see this from the symbols accompanying him. The horse
he rides is black, a color that describes a famine-racked body.
The black horse has a rider
with "a pair of scales in his hand" (6:5). A scale would be used to
measure and carefully dole out food. It could refer to bread being
rationed by weight in a famine, or grain being measured by volume. We
see this being done in the Old Testament. In the siege of Jerusalem, the
people would "eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in
despair" (Ezekiel 4:16). God told the Israelites they would suffer
famine if they sinned and they would be forced to "dole out the bread by
weight" (Leviticus 26:26).
A voice accompanies the
vision of the black horse and its rider. It announces: "A quart of wheat
for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages." (6:6).
The
expression "a day's
wages" is a translation of the Greek word denarius. The denarius was
a Roman silver coin equal in value to the daily wage of a working man
(Matthew 20:2).
Bible scholar
Robert H. Mounce says the price of the wheat and barley as described in
the vision appears to be ten to twelve times their normal cost in
ancient times (The New International Commentary on the New Testament,
"The Book of Revelation," p. 155). Revelation describes a condition
where basic goods are sold at greatly inflated prices. Thus, the black
horse rider depicts times of deep scarcity or famine but not of
starvation.
The English word
"quart" translates choinix. Apparently, a choinix of wheat was the
daily ration of one adult. Thus, in the conditions pictured by
Revelation 6 the normal income for a working-class family would buy
enough food for only one person. The less costly barley would feed three
people for one day's wages.
The voice also says, "Do not
damage the oil and the wine!" (6:6). People are told to be careful not
to harm precious foodstuffs. We should note that the warning sets limits
to the destruction the black horse rider can cause.
Anciently, oil and wine were
not luxuries. They were basic commodities or necessities of life.
"Grain, new wine and oil" was a standard threesome describing the
staples of life (Deuteronomy 7:13; 11:14; Hosea 2:8, 22; Haggai 1:11).
Once again we see that the black horse describes dire want but not total
famine.
There is an interesting case
regarding the destruction of vineyards in Asia from emperor Domitian's
reign that may have formed the background to this verse. During his
reign a shortage of grain and surplus of wine upset the economic
equilibrium of Rome.
Domitian
first ruled that no new vineyard should be planted. Then, he commanded
that half the vineyards in Asia be cut down. This created a near revolt
because the vineyards were a major source of income to the people of
Asia. Domitian was forced to reverse himself. In fact, he later
prosecuted those who had allowed their vineyards to go out of
cultivation because of the fall in wine prices.
Fourth Seal: Pale Horse
The pale horse has a rider called "Death,"
and "Hades was following close behind him" (6:8). The Greek word for
"pale," chloros, elsewhere in Revelation describes the
yellow-green of vegetation (8:7; 9:4). The word is the root for the
English "chlorine." It is here used for the tell-tale and sickly look of
death due to a virulent pestilence. The hue or tint in view here is
probably to be understood as the color of a corpse—of death.
The rider is Death, and his companion is
Hades or the grave—for Hades is the place of the dead. We should here
picture death and Hades gathering up the victims of man's
civilization—the casualties of war, starvation and plague.
Only Christ can unlock the dead from the
grave and give them eternal life (1:18). Both Death and Hades will
ultimately be thrown into the lake of fire (20:14). That is, they will
be destroyed—swallowed up in the eternal life granted to their victims.
The four horsemen bring immense suffering
to the human race. John writes: "They were given power over a fourth of
the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of
the earth" (6:8). Once again we see that power is given to the horsemen.
They can cause only the damage God allows. The evils they represent are
not caused by God, of course. In his wisdom and patience God acts to
fulfil his covenant purpose even in the midst of humanity's evil
opposition.
There are some common elements between the
four horsemen and God's judgments described in the Old Testament. God's
"four dreadful Judgments" sent against Jerusalem—sword and famine and
wild beasts and plague"—are similar to the effects of the four horsemen
(Ezekiel 14:21). The combination of "sword, famine, and plague" is also
found in various places in Jeremiah (14:12; 15:2; 21:7; 24:10; 29:17-18;
42:17; 43:11).
We have done many pages about the Book of Revelation.
Those below are strictly about the verse about - do not harm oil or
wine.
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