Prophetic word for today - In God's country

Yesterday (October 18, 2008), as I asked the Lord what He wanted us to write on next, He began to strongly impress something that He had spoken into my heart ever since some months ago. That is when I understood that the time had come to share that word with others.

Some time ago, the song "In God's country" by the Irish group U2 began to sound in my heart over and over again. These are the song's lyrics:

As we have shared before, this song is a prophetic word on the green-horse remnant's plight as they go through the despair and uncertainty of their 5th-seal hibernation. Every line in this song made complete spiritual sense to me, and it fit perfectly with the spiritual picture portrayed in Scripture regarding the remnant's struggle. Yet, the second-to-last line would intrigue me, and it was some months ago when the Lord began to stir my heart's curiosity as to that line's exact meaning.

Earlier this year, as the Republican nomination race in America intensified, I asked the Lord whom He had set His eyes on, and, one Saturday morning, he made me listen to a brief speech by John McCain. After hearing that speech, I was left with a strong impression of "quiet genuineness". I then understood that he was the, shall we say, "least worst" of all the candidates and that there was something about him that was pleasing to the Lord. Shortly after that, the phrase "sons of Cain" in U2's song began to resonate in my mind, and that is when I finally understood that this song's second-to-last line pointed to John McCain. As indicated on searchforancestors.com, the prefix "Mc" that appears in many Irish surnames literally means "son of". Thus, the surname "McCain" literally means "son of Cain". Therefore, since the song is sung by Irishmen, the second-to-last line could be changed to "I stand with the McCain's".

According to messages posted by various visitors on songmeanings.net, the song was inspired by U2's visit to the Arizona desert during their "Joshua tree" tour (they started and ended their tour in Arizona). The Arizona desert is sometimes referred to as "God's country", and the "crooked crosses" referred to in the song could be interpreted as being the cactus trees that anyone would see as he or she would gaze into the desert. All of this correlates with John McCain, since McCain is a senator from Arizona. The largest city in Arizona is Phoenix, which points to the believers who go through green-horse death and who allow themselves to be sent to the 5th-seal desert as Azazel goats in order to fulfil God's purposes on Earth.

As is also indicated on songmeanings.net, the phrase "sons of Cain" is also a reference to the descendants of Cain mentioned in Scripture:

"¹⁶And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. ¹⁷And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. ¹⁸And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech. ¹⁹And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. ²⁰And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. ²¹And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. ²²And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. ²³And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. ²⁴If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold. ²⁵And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. ²⁶And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD." (Genesis 4:16-26)

A close study of this passage reveals that the descendants of Cain listed here lay out an intricate "restoration" process, a process that "Cain" goes through to make up for what he had done. After killing Abel, Cain had in a sense "cut off" the line of descent from which the One promised by God in Genesis 3:15 would come, so Cain and his descendants were forced to carry out an invisible spiritual work that allowed the cut-off line of descent to be restored. That is the reason why, after detailing Cain's descendants, the Spirit of God suddenly turns back to Adam and his wife in verse 25, explaining that Adam's wife had a son called Seth. As is indicated in verse 25, Adam's wife understood that Seth (whose name means "compensation") was a "replacement" for Abel's spiritual seed. As indicated in Luke 3:38, Jesus descended from Seth.

The spiritual process delineated by Cain's descendants in the passage above also portrays the spiritual process that the Church must go through, a process that destroys the domination of the matriarchal soul and allows for God's spirit-centred remnant to be manifested. Just like Cain, the matriarchal Church has "killed" God's remnant, and she must endure a painful spiritual process to make up for her sin. That is the reason why verse 26 above declares that Seth had a son called "Enos" (meaning "mankind") and that, after he was born, "began men to call upon the name of the Lord". Once the remnant are finally manifested, the human race as a whole will be transformed, and mankind in general will begin to "call upon the name of the Lord", which means that mankind will "call upon the Spirit nature of God so that He may be manifested in and through us".

Event	Meaning of name	Spiritual significance	Apocalypse seal
Birth of Enoch	"Enoch" means "dedicated"	This is when it dawns on the believer that he/she has been "dedicated" or "consecrated" unto God, thus becoming aware of his/her spiritual priesthood (1 Peter 2:9). This happens in the depths of the believer's heart.	White horse (seal 1)
Building of the city of Enoch		This is the beginnings of the external manifestation of the priesthood word that has been planted in the believer's heart. This word turns the believer into a source of contention, of internal conflict within the Church's Old-Covenant priesthood structures.	Red horse (seal 2)
Birth of Irad	According to abarim-publications.com, "Irad" may mean "to go away, escape through sprightliness" and may be translated as "fugitive". According to Strong's concordance, the word "Irad" is derived from a word meaning "to sequester itself".	This is when a physical separation occurs between the faithful believer and the Old-Covenant followers. The believer flees the structures of Cain, "sequestering" or "isolating" him or herself in the lonely wilderness of scarcity, leaving the followers of Cain behind.	Black horse (seal 3)
Birth of Mehujael	Mehujael means "obliterated by God"	This is when the believer becomes a living "burnt offering" unto God, allowing God to shackle him/her and to have his/her life taken down to the depths of Death and Sheol.	Green horse (seal 4)
Birth of Methusael	According to abarim-publications.com, "Methusael" can be translated to mean several things. One is "man of God", in the sense of a male who is old enough to fight and die in battle. Another possible translation is "I'm mortal; where's God?". Another possibility is "The man we wanted". Interestingly enough, the suffix "sael" can also be traced back to the word "Sheol" meaning "hell, grave, pit".	This is when the believer is forced to hibernate in a 5th-seal "Paradise" in Sheol after their sacrificial death in green-horse battle. This is a period of utter weakness and "powerlessness", a period during which the remnant are forced to wait inside their narrow but relatively-safe bunkers as the drama outside plays itself out and their vindication is eventually manifested. During this difficult time, they become aware of their "mortality" and are at times compelled to ask God, "Where are you? Why hasn't our vindication been fully manifested yet?" Just as the Lord Jesus was killed by the Jews who awaited the Messiah, the remnant are killed by the very people who were awaiting their anointing's manifestation. God then waits for the people who either ignored or killed the remnant to realise that they needed the very remnant they let die. In other words, God deals with the non-remnant believers until they are willing to admit that the remnant they killed were "the man we wanted".	Temporary stay in Sheol's Paradise (seal 5)
Birth of Lamech	"Lamech" means "powerful"	This is when the power of God's vindicating vengeance is released. As this power is released, His remnant are finally manifested and justified before those who had judged them wrong.	The vindicating vengeance of God (seal 6)
Marriage of Lamech to Adah and Zillah	"Adah" means "ornament"	As we have studied before, the ministry most directly related to impartation of spiritual gifts (charismas) is the teacher ministry. Since spiritual charismas are like ornaments that embellish the believer, we can safely say that wife Adah represents a restored teacher ministry.	The time when the soul finally sits silently at the feet of the Spirit (seal 7)
		Adah gave birth to Jabal, the father of those who dwell in tents and have cattle. This means that the teacher endowment will no longer degrade into the Girgashite spirit, which, as we have studied before, compels people to act as if the natural flesh were our permanent residence instead of a temporal tent. Therefore, the birth of Jabal symbolises a restored teacher endowment that will make believers aware that we are dwelling in temporary tents that must be transformed into houses for the green Eternity of God. The word "cattle" in Genesis 4:20 was translated from the Hebrew word miqneh, which is derived from the word qanah meaning "to buy, acquire, possess". Thus, the birth of Jabal also speaks of material possessions (which the Girgashite spirit can become obsessed about) becoming subservient to God's Eternity. Being "tent dwellers" first, Jabal believers will see material prosperity as a means to further eternal ends, for it makes no sense to obsess about accumulating material goods in a place you are staying at temporarily.
		Adah also gave birth to Jabal's brother Jubal, the father of all who handle the harp and the flute, i.e.- the father of "musicians" (the harp represents stringed instruments, and the flute, translated as "organ" in the King James Version, represents wind instruments). As music students surely know, there is a "methodical" element to music, but that methodical element must not be allowed to constrain musical creativity. As we have studied before, teachers are methodical by nature. Therefore, Jubal's birth represents a latter-day teacher endowment whose methodical nature enables (as opposed to constraining) prophetic flow and random creativity. This is the reason why both the name Jabal and Jubal have meanings related to "flow" (Jabal means "stream of water" and Jubal means "stream"). As we have studied before, teachers are perfected when they become prophets, meaning that Adah and her offspring represent a latter-day teacher endowment that has been perfected in the Spirit.
	Zillah means "shadow"	As we have studied before, the ministry with the most direct calling to remain in the shadows of anonymity is the pastoral ministry (which is the opposite of what man has done, for soulish man has turned the pastoral ministry into the most visible and preeminent ministry). Therefore, Zillah represents a restored pastoral ministry.
		Zillah gave birth to Tubal-Cain, the forger of all instruments of bronze and iron. As we have said before, "bronze" represents formation judgements and "iron" represents judgements of correction. As we have also said before, pastors who stray from God's will turn into judgement-abhorring Canaanites. Therefore, the birth of Tubal-Cain speaks of a restored pastoral endowment that operates in God's apostolic judgements without hindering them. In Hebrew, the name "Tubal" has the connotation of someone being dragged; thus, the name "Tubal-Cain" speaks of pastors dragging the unrepentant to judgement tribunals rather than shielding them from God's restoring judgements. Just as Tubal was a forger of metal, the latter-day pastoral endowment will forge righteousness by allowing God's sledgehammer to mould His people into His likeness. As we have said before, pastors are perfected when they become apostles, and, as we have also said before, the ministry most related to judgements is the apostolic ministry. This means that Zillah and her offspring represent a latter-day pastoral endowment that has been perfected in God.
		Zillah also gave birth to a daughter called Naamah. It is interesting to consider that she is the only woman mentioned amongst Cain's descendants, which correlates with the fact that both the pastoral and teacher ministries are "female" (with the pastoral ministry being the more "dominant" of the two). The name "Naamah" means loveliness, and is derived from the word naem meaning "to be pleasant, beautiful, sweet, delightful". This means that the latter-day pastoral ministry will forge "female" souls that are pleasant, beautiful, and delightful to God's eyes, for they will have a grace founded on righteousness forged through judgements. They will be yielded souls, souls that stand silent before the Spirit without trying to domineer over Him.