I saw what I though was a dream at first, but it was no dream, I wake up Feb/7/06. I was going to get up when I saw a vision of a tree from top to bottom. It was like you were looking at a tree in a picture where you could see the top of the tree as well as the roots. The tree on top of the ground was about 12-feet tall; the leaves came all the way to the ground, and they were wide leaves, like [the ones] you would see on a banana tree. The roots were deep, and there were a lot of them underground.

All at once, I saw a child's face in the roots of the tree, but, just a fast as I saw it, it disappeared to my right. And then, from my right, I saw what I thought was a big snake, but it wasn't. I was looking for its head, when I realized it was a root. It was about 2 inches around, and it had what looked like thorns all over it, but they were not sharp. This root was going at a fast pace like a snake. It was going through the roots of the tree like it was weaving something together.

Then, from my left, I saw a tube about 3 inches around moving toward the root about the same speed. What came to me was, "It is going to swallow the root and be a covering for the root". The tube looked like a woven net made out of plastic. It came to me that this has something to do with the Body of Christ and that something is getting ready to take place at the foundation of God's Church.
 

Our brief comments

Vision gone bananas

Bananas are known for their high potassium content, which immediately points to the Terri Schiavo situation. As indicated on wikipedia.org (and in various media reports at the time), it is widely believed that Terri Schiavo's collapse was caused by a potassium imbalance that caused a cardiac arrest, which, in turn, led to the brain damage her body sustained. As the Lord had me thinking about this, He kept repeating the word "Resurrection" in my heart, and He said the following to me:

"Terri Schiavo's vegetative body represents the things that must be let go of, not to be raised up again; her body represents the things that die without being resurrected by Me. The Church's efforts to keep her alive represent her arrogant and stubborn efforts to preserve the life of those things whose death I have decreed. The Church is like a stubborn mule that keeps rebelling against Me, angering Me even more when she uses My Name to justify her rebellion against Me!!!"

Therefore, I was surprised to read on wikipedia.org that Michael Schiavo had entered what is technically called a "Do Not Resuscitate" (DNR) order after Terri contracted a urinary tract infection in 1994, more than 3 years into Terri's vegetative state. Thus, the "potassium-laden" banana tree in the vision speaks of the "things" (i.e.- believers) whom the Lord wants to resuscitate. These are the believers who go through voluntary death in green-horse sacrifice in order to resurrect into a "Phoenix" newness of life, paving the way for the spiritual resurrection of the Church in general.

Out of nowhere, the Lord placed a train of thought in my mind that prompted me to perform a search on Yahoo! of the words "banana growth united states". The first result (on www.newton.dep.anl.gov) had a simple page that listed a couple of Web addresses, the first one being an address to a page on www.desert-tropicals.com, a website which, to my surprise, was based in Phoenix, Arizona (US); this site provides free information on plants. Interestingly enough, this site's home page specifically mentions 3 places where their information CDs are available: Phoenix, Great Britain, and a place in Mexico called "San Jose del Cabo". None of this is coincidental. As you may know, "Jose" is the Spanish form of the name "Joseph", and, as we have said before, Joseph was a green-horse rider who gave his life in green-horse sacrifice in order to pave the way for others to escape certain demise (Genesis 50:20-21). As we have also studied before, the Lord established an unbreakable, trans-Atlantic green-horse link with Great Britain in January 2006, some 18 days before sister Catha's vision.

Roots

The roots in the vision speak of a prophetic remnant who are working on the spiritual root issues that no one else is interested or courageous enough to deal with. They are laying a foundation of righteousness that is wearing away the shaky foundation laid by the pastoral matriarchy. As green-horse riders, God's remnant are completing the spiritual work that is sealing the obliteration of the soul matriarchy, which is the basic root underneath the conflict between the Spirit of God and man. This is a "dirty" and "unpleasant" work that no one else is interested in, but the remnant press on until God's Glory is manifested on Earth through the sons and daughters that He has begotten.

"And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire" (Matthew 3:10)

The child's face from the right

The child's face also points to the green horse of the Apocalypse. As we have shared before, God's green-horse riders are believers who are meek towards God, meek to the point of allowing Him to take them to their deaths. They are children willing to "tithe" with their very lives, which allows them to behold the Face of God (Matthew 18:10). These believers are willing to allow God to utterly destroy all their paradigms and preconceptions so that His paradigms and concepts may rise up from the ashes.

Wherever child-face believers are manifested, Jacob's ladder is soon to follow. Angelic visitations come over places with child faces staring up into the sky. As we have shared before, God's angels are fearsome agents of judgment; they are not the "cuddly" creatures portrayed by natural man. Thus, innocent child faces in the land attract intense judgments, and those intense judgments work purity and innocence in the land.

At times, "children" are portrayed in Scripture in a positive sense, and at other times in a negative sense, as shown by the following verse:

"Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men" (1 Corinthians 14:20)

Therefore, the Lord wants us to be children in our "yieldedness" to His righteousness, not in our lack of spiritual growth. God abhors immature, bratty children who only care about what they can get from "Grandpa God". Those are children from the "left", since they only care about "left-handed" grace. By contrast, God dearly loves obedient children who are constantly longing to grow in His judgments, children who seek after His right-handed righteousness. Those are the children from the "right". Those are the children who find an imperishable left-handed grace in the righteous eyes of God.

The headless snakes

There is a prophetic reason why the headless root seemed like a snake at first. Because of their "buccaneer" nature, green-horse riders appear to the religious as "rebellious" and "untameable". Yet, a closer look in the Spirit reveals that their rebellion is actually submission taken to the hilt. Just like Balaam's ass, these believers have a propensity for obedience (Luke 2:51-52), but they are willing to disobey man when obeying man implies betraying God (Numbers 22:21-35, Luke 2:41-50, Luke 4:16-30, Galatians 1:10).

The key to distinguishing between carnal rebellion and Godly rebellion lies in discerning the motivation. During her vision, sister Catha initially thought that the root was a snake, but she realised it was actually a root when she saw that it had no head. This is a figure of how God's remnant are not out to become "heads" over their brethren, because they know that the One Head is Christ. They are not out to lord it over their brethren. Instead, they are out to fully unite their brethren to the Head so that their brethren can be all that they are called to be (Ephesians 4:14-16, Colossians 2:18-19). Therefore, God's remnant are "loveable children" in the eyes of God because they are out to please Papa and exalt their brethren, rather than exalt themselves in pride of "superiority" over their brethren.

In a spiritual sense, God's remnant are like "snakes". They are the lowly judging "Dan" serpents sent by God to bite the Egyptian and Assyrian horses' heels, thus leading to the downfall of haughty man (Genesis 49:16-18). Sister Catha saw the child's face disappear to the right, from which the headless snake then appeared. This certifies the fact that the "headless snakes" are righteous in nature. Their judgments are righteous because they do not seek their own agenda but rather the will of God.

"³⁰I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. ³¹If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. ³²There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true." (John 5:30-32)

Thorny issues

The root looked as if it had "thorns" all over it, but they were not sharp. This is a figure of how the remnant may at times seem like vitriolic, "insensitive", and "resentful" people because of the sword-sharp judgments they pronounce. They at times seem to the natural eye like people with a carnal "chip on their shoulders". However, upon closer review, that carnal "chip" is actually a zeal of God that abides in a deep love for others, a sacrificial, judgment-based love that transcends the superficial "love" produced by the soul matriarchy; the remnant's love is a love that does not settle for 50 or 75% but which instead wants their brethren to fulfil 100% of their calling in life. Because of this, they get "worked up" over things that others see as "insignificant" and "of little consequence".

God's remnant may seem like infertile souls, gruesome monsters who come to destroy all the pre-established protocols. They may seem "thorny" and "inhumane". Yet, upon closer observation, it becomes evident that their "thorns" are actually "buds". These buds are the "sons and daughters" of God that the remnant are pregnant with. The pregnant remnant come to reproduce the nature of God in a great multitude of people. They are pregnant with the offshoots of God on Earth.

"¹And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: ²And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; ³And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: ⁴But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. ⁵And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins." (Isaiah 11:1-5)

[Notice that God's offshoots are judgment-oriented. The Lord declares that they shall "smite the Earth with the rod of their mouths", "slaying the wicked with the breath of their lips" (v4). Notice that this passage does not say, "they shall shower the Earth with tender, gooey love, forgiving the wicked even when they continue to defiantly shake their fists at God, oppressing the meek and silencing the poor."]

Weaving the dream of God

The root seemed as if it was busy "weaving" something underground. This weaving speaks of an "intricate web of complexity". As we have studied before, God's truth is inherently complex, and we have been given the mind of Christ, which enables all believers to operate in that complexity (1 Corinthians 2:15-16). Those who shy away from God's fractal complexity shall be unable to retake the Earth unto God because simpletons are too self-satisfied to "fill all in all" (Ephesians 1:17-23).

"But wisdom is justified of all her children" (Luke 7:35)

[The root was pregnant with sons and daughters because it was weaving in the wisdom of God]

The "weaving" in the vision points to the following passage:

"²²And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue. ²³And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend." (Exodus 39:22-23)

The fact that the woven work is blue (v22) points to the "blue prayer shawl" that green-horse riders wrap themselves in. The word "hole" that appears three times in verse 23 was translated from the Hebrew word peh, which literally means "mouth" (and is translated as such throughout the King James Version). The word "habergeon" in verse 23 was translated from the word tachara, which is derived from the word charah meaning "to be hot, furious, become angry, be kindled". Thus, the hole in the woven work is a figure of a mouth pronouncing judgments that come forth out of an angry heart, a heart kindled with the zeal of God. God's green-horse riders are uncompromising believers who are out to utterly destroy the soul matriarchy, so their mouths will be quick to pronounce angry judgments even against apparently "little" things when those "little" things show the influence of the soul matriarchy. They will be willing to go to Sheol rather than accept a world in which the soul matriarchy has been "contained" but not destroyed. Green-horse riders do not believe in spiritual détente. Instead, they believe in creating pressure through their spiritual actions that forces a definition, a definitive victory by either one side or the other. Thus, the "blue prayer shawl" is a cloak of zeal.

The word "band" in verse 23 was translated from the Hebrew word saphah, which literally means "lip, edge", and is related to the following 3 words:

This means that God's green-horse riders trigger a spiritual "conclusion" as they allow themselves to be "bound in blue" and taken where they would rather not go. Through this, they ensure that the enemy will be "swept bare", obliterated in such a way that all roots of unrighteousness shall be "snatched away", plucked out of the ground and destroyed. God's green-horse riders unleash this consequence on the enemy because they are willing to be "swept bare" and "snatched away" themselves. Thus, the charah anger borne by God's green-horse riders is not an out-of-control, carnal anger. Instead, it is a judging anger that is also willing to be silenced in sacrificial death. They are willing to be bound with "blue bands" and taken to unpleasant places because they believe in crossing the "edge" of the Jordan into new dimensions, and they know that that crossing must be done in binds. They know that God wants more than "lip" service. They know that the words from their lips must be bound to deeds and truth in order to stand the test of God (1 John 3:18).

Whilst the remnant weave a complex work in God's wisdom, the pastoral matriarchy continue to weave an ever-entangling web of excuses to condone unrighteousness and suppress God's judgments.

"⁵They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. ⁶Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. ⁷Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. ⁸The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. ⁹Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. ¹⁰We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. ¹¹We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us." (Isaiah 59:5-11)

[As shown by verse 11, Scripture establishes a tight connection between judgment and salvation (Isaiah 1:26-28), a connection that the matriarchal Church is too proud, blind, and emotionally-judgmental to understand.]

Tola and Jair

The weaving root in the ground was operating like an earthworm. As indicated on wikipedia.org, the lowly earthworm performs an invisible but very important work beneath the surface (literally). God's remnant are His earthworms, performing the "dirty" and thankless work that is setting the stage for His end-time latter-rain revival.

The earthworm-like behaviour of the root also points to the following passage:

"¹And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim. ²And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir. ³And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years. ⁴And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead. ⁵And Jair died, and was buried in Camon." (Judges 10:1-5)

The name "Tola" means "worm", and is derived from the Hebrew word for a crimson dye that was made in ancient times from the dried body of the female "coccus ilicis" worm. This dye, therefore, required the death and crushing of the worm, which is a figure of how green-horse riders die in prophetic sacrifice in order to leave an indelible (dye) mark on the lives of others. The name "Puah" in verse 1 literally means "splendid", and is derived from the Hebrew word paah meaning "to cleave or break into pieces, to shatter"; the name "Dodo", in turn, means "his beloved". Therefore, the names "Puah" and "Dodo" speak of those who are beloved by God because of their willingness to be shattered and broken for the sake of His purposes in others (Isaiah 53:4-9). God takes these beloved ("Dodo") up on their sacrificial offer and leads them down a life of constant "breaking into pieces" ("Puah"), and they end up like earthworms ("Tola") who perform an unseen weaving work that prepares great restoration and glory for others down the road. This is how "Dodo" begets "Puah" and how "Puah" begets "Tola". It all starts with a deliberate decision to surrender your life to God in unrestrained sacrifice, saying to God,

"Do as You please with my life; break it and shatter it, if You will; devastate me if that is what is necessary; reduce me to nothing if that is Your desire, so long as Your purposes are fulfilled"

After you say this to God with a sincere heart, He will do the rest. You will be bound up and taken through hell, and your life will release uncontainable nuclear power that will transform the Earth unto God.

According to verse 1 above, Tola, Puah, and Dodo, were of the tribe of Issachar. The name "Issachar" means "there is recompense". This means that those who take on the "Tola" anointing shall have their recompense for their selfless work, and that recompense is God Himself.

"Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him" (Isaiah 62:11)

The name "Issachar" also points to the sentinel spirit that discerns the moves of God and sees them coming on the horizon. These are the believers who are willing to hear the heart of God and who are willing to forge His agenda on Earth. These are the believers who live for God's dreams and visions rather than their own. These are the believers who live for the full-blown manifestation of God's Glory on Earth. They are the ones who constantly gaze into the horizon in the darkness of the night, longing for the Sun of Righteousness to emerge and inundate the Earth with His righteousness and an all-encompassing presence that cannot be ignored. They are a lonely bunch, but, through their longing and restless gaze, God's eternal purposes shall be fulfilled, for their proactive gaze is backed by painful sacrifice that causes their vision to draw ever so close.

"And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment" (1 Chronicles 12:32)

According to Judges 10:2 (quoted above), Tola dwelt in Shamir. The name "Shamir" literally means "point, thorn", which correlates with the thorn-like protuberances on the weaving root. Tola believers are called to live a "thorny" life, a life filled with sorrows and heartaches that work to restore the lives of others. The word "Shamir" is derived from the almost identical word shamiyr meaning "adamant, flint", which points to the uncompromising, flint forehead of God's "Tola" judges. The word shamiyr is in turn derived from the word shamar meaning "to keep, guard, observe, give heed", which emphasises the sentinel nature of God's "Tola" believers. With unflinching determination, they continue to stare through the thick darkness, and they travail in that thick, anonymous darkness until the Sun of Righteousness rises over the land.

According to Judges 10:3, Tola died in Shamir, which is a figure of how "Tola" believers are called to "die" like Elisha without seeing the promise fulfilled in "their days".

After Tola came Jair to judge Israel (Judges 10:3). The name "Jair" literally means "he enlightens". Jair was a Gileadite. Interestingly enough, the word "Gilead" is derived from the Hebrew word galed meaning "witness heap". Therefore, the name "Jair" speaks of a remnant of whom God witnesses the following,

"My revelation is in them, for they have been willing to pay the price, and, through them, My light shall shine upon you and bless you"

The Gilead "witness heap" speaks of the remnant believers who have died as witnesses (i.e.- martyrs) and whose spiritual work is accumulating for a nuclear 6th-seal release.

According to Judges 10:4, Jair had 30 sons who rode on 30 ass colts. The number "30" speaks of someone who has reached ministerial maturity, which implies the willingness to operate in green-horse weakness (30=5*"6"), even in the midst of ministerial grace (25=5*"5"). The Hebrew word translated as "ass colts" in Judges 10:4, ayir, is the same word used in Zechariah 9:9:

"⁹Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. ¹⁰And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth. ¹¹As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water." (Zechariah 9:9-11)

[The word "colt" in verse 9 was translated from ayir]

This passage had a literal fulfilment in Yeshua's literal entrance into Jerusalem (Matthew 21:4-5). Therefore, the 30 colt-riding sons of Jair refer to a nation of believers who reach ministerial maturity and who shall enter "Jerusalem" (i.e.- the religious structures) in order to destroy man's paradigms and manifest God's glory on Earth. These are the "buds", the sons and daughters of God that the remnant "Tola" root is pregnant with.

According to Judges 10:4, Jair's 30 sons had 30 cities which were called "Havoth-Jair". The name "Havoth-Jair" only appears 3 times in the Old Testament; its first appearance is in the following passage:

"³⁹And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it. ⁴⁰And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein. ⁴¹And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair." (Numbers 32:39-41)

The name "Machir" means "sold", and the name "Manasseh" means "causing to forget". Therefore, "Machir the son of Manasseh" speaks of the spiritual Josephs who are sold off to the enemy by their brethren and forgotten. These "forgotten ones" shall arise from their exile in oblivion to dispossess the Amorite kings who are ruling the Church and the world. The belittled ones shall return, riding on their ass colts to retake "Jerusalem" and the world unto God. These "Machirs" are begetting a generation of believers who will reconquer the spiritual atmosphere of the Earth back from satan and unto God.

Notice how Zechariah 9:11, quoted above, speaks of the prisoners whom God shall send forth from out of the pit (Revelation 9:11). These are the Josephs, forgotten in their prison pits, whom God will release with a mighty temblor, and who will with joy beget "Manasseh" as they say, "God has made me forget all my labour" (Genesis 41:51). These Josephs shall also beget "Ephraim" as they exclaim, "God has caused me to be fruitful on this Earth of my poverty" (Genesis 41:52).

As we said above, the name "Tola" points to a crimson dye used in ancient times. As indicated on wikipedia.org, crimson is a bright deep colour that is combined with some blue. This once again points to the blue prayer shawl and to the blue woven work mentioned in Exodus 39:22-23 above. Notice that the verse numbers in the passage Exodus 39:22-23 are also the number of years that Tola and Jair judged the people of God. Tola judged for 23 years and Jair for 22. As we have said before, the number "23" points to the pastoral ministry, and the number "22" points to spiritual civil war. Tola, therefore, represents green-horse believers who operate in true pastorship. As we have said before, green-horse riders are prophet-pastors, and, in their green-horse sacrifice, they fulfil the pastoral obligation that most "pastors" in the Church are unwilling to carry out in the Spirit:

"¹¹I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. ¹²But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. ¹³ The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep." (John 15:10)

Because of this, green-horse riders die and are interred as impoverished and ignominious pastors rather than as exalted pastors beloved by all. Unlike the pastors who rule over the Church, God's green-horse riders are not "pastoral queens and kings" (i.e.- frogs and wolves). Instead, they are "pastoral slaves", and, by exercising true pastorship to the point of sacrificial death, they unleash a spiritual judgment against the pastoral matriarchs that have refused to operate in true pastorship, for the deeds of God's green remnant make it evident that God's true pastorship was indeed a "feat" achievable by lowly "worm-men", not a "privilege" endowed upon a select few.

"²⁸But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. ²⁹For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. ³⁰Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. ³¹For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?" (Luke 23:28-31)

After the "Tolas" die, their souls are sent to a haven of rest, and the "Jair" light of God's revelation is hidden away within them. During this period, spiritual "civil war" arises as God forces a definition of things. This is the reason why Jair judged for 22 years. As this period is completed, the 30 "buds" in "Tola" and "Jair" come forth, emerging as mature sons riding on their ass colts to take over Jerusalem and manifest the light of God's revelation in public.

"Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel" (Isaiah 41:14)

[The numbers "41 and 14" speak of the battle between the aggrandised Amorites ("41") and the yet-to-be-manifested "miniscule" remnant ("14"). This battle takes place in the context of a man-caused delay that has prevented the remnant's manifestation. Without this manifestation, the remnant remains "weak", and is forced to suffer an additional season of suffering at the hands of the powers-that-be. This is the spiritual reason why the UN resolution issued on November 8, 2002 against Iraq was officially called "UN Resolution 1441". Due to Tony Blair's interference, the attack on Saddam that was scheduled for the week of September 18-24, 2002 in the spirit realm became entangled in the swampland of UN "ministerial diplomacy". George W. Bush is to this day being judged by God for heeding the advice of Tony Blair (and others), who encouraged him to pursue the futile "diplomatic" route until the end. This delay opened the spiritual (and literal) way for the current quagmire in Iraq. Even though Resolution 1441 had strong and threatening language and was passed unanimously, the UN chose to sit on it without following through, just as it had done with all the other resolutions issued against Saddam.

This is what happens when you obey God halfway. If you choose to obey God's voice, it is better to do so full-throttle, with all the gusto in your heart. Otherwise, you will set yourself up for a tortuous and unnecessary no-man's land, and you will cause others to suffer for no good reason at all in the limbo that you created. The situation in Iraq will not be resolved until the remnant's situation is resolved in the spirit realm. The plight of the coalition forces in Iraq, and of the Iraqi people in general, is a physical manifestation of the plight the prophetic remnant are going through. Let him who has ears hear what the Lord is saying. Those who bless and value the "worm" shall themselves be blessed of God. To bless the worm, however, implies joining the worm in his unpleasant endeavour. It implies becoming part of the worm and sharing in his travail.]

February 7

Sister Catha had this vision on February 7, 2006. The Lord prompted me to do a search for the date "February 7" in all our postings (prior to this one), and I was surprised by the 2 results. The first result appears in the "Blue prayer shawl (Part 1)" posting, in which the Lord prompted us to mention "February 7, 2006", the exact date when sister Catha received the vision. On that date, the Lord spoke to us about the spiritual connection between the UK and the green horse of the Apocalypse. As America refused to remove her religious carcasses, the Lord gave the UK a prominent spiritual role earlier than originally planned. The series of spiritual events that have transpired since February 7, 2006 are all intimately related to the UK and to this vision. This spiritual connection shall be made increasingly evident in the months and years to come.

The second posting that mentioned the date "February 7" was one titled "Trichotillomania", which was posted on February 7, 2005, exactly one year before sister Catha's vision. Interestingly enough, the first section in that posting is titled 'The "root" of hair', which correlates with the "weaving root" in sister Catha's vision. As I was typing the previous paragraph (on Sunday, January 14, 2007, shortly before 19:00 GMT), the Lord had me listening to BBC Radio 4, which began to air a summary of a recently broadcast programme called "All in the mind" (which was aired on January 9, 2007). That broadcast featured readings from the diary of a young girl named Gillian; in this diary, she details her struggle with a compulsion that prompted her to cut herself with knives. As Gillian herself read portions of the diary, I was gripped by the things this young girl had written, and I stopped writing for a moment. It was then that they read a diary entry that began with the date "February 7, 2004". I was shocked to hear the date "February 7" being mentioned just as I was typing a paragraph on that precise date, and I was shocked even further by the fact that trichotillomania is spiritually related to the harm that Gillian was inflicting on herself through her self-cutting. I then understood that the Lord was saying that there is a spiritual connection between the shaming spirits and sister Catha's vision. These spirits have launched a final, vicious assault in an effort to bully God's remnant into submission. The remnant are now in seclusion, in underground "bubble caves", but their spiritual weaving continues unabated. The 6th seal shall be publicly opened, and the Jebusite-Hittite forces that are trying to prevent this shall not prevail.

{You may read more about the "All in the mind" broadcast mentioned above on a page posted on bbc.co.uk; this page may expire after a short time}

January 7

Around January 4, 2007, out of nowhere, the Lord said to me, "It is time for the root vision to be posted". Through no deliberate intention of our own, we began a full-blown writing of this word on January 7, 2007. "Coincidentally", this is exactly 11 months after sister Catha had the vision. As we have said before, the number "11" speaks of God's judgments. Therefore, God is declaring that a period of payback has started on January 7, 2007. As we have shared before, America is in the midst of its "5th period" during its 4-year revival delay. This 5th period, which is to last for 336 days (48 weeks), started on June 11, 2006, meaning that January 6, 2007 was Day #210 into the period. Thus, January 6, 2007 marked the completion of the first 30 weeks (210=30*7) in the 5th period, and January 7, 2007 marked the beginning of the last 18 (=48-30) weeks in the 5th period:

The 30 weeks in the first sub-period points to the 30 sons of "Jair" who are born as "Tola" dies. The 18 weeks in the second sub-period point to Luke 13:1-5, which, as we have studied before, speaks of chaotic attacks that result in senseless carnage.

January 7, 2007 was an eventful day for New York, sportwise. On that day, both of its NFL teams (the New York Jets and New York Giants), which had made it into the playoffs, lost their respective playoff games. The next day, New Yorkers woke up to a powerful smell of natural gas that permeated much of Manhattan and parts of New Jersey, causing a temporary suspension of commuter train service. Despite the alarmingly wide extension of the mysterious smell, the city's authorities were unable to determine its exact source or cause. According to a Reuters report posted on uk.news.yahoo.com, the smell was strong enough in Greenwich Village so as to cause headaches; 7 people in New Jersey sought emergency-room treatment as a result of the smell. According to a report posted on abclocal.go.com, the smell was first reported around 9:00 am in the vicinity of Fifth Avenue and 34th street, right around the Empire State Building and the world-famous Macy's store. New York authorities later said that New Jersey was to blame for the nauseating smell, an accusation that New Jersey has heard before. This time, however, the pointing of the finger at New Jersey is prophetic in nature.

As we have said before, New York was to be (and shall be) the epicentre of the latter-rain revival in America. However, this spiritual outbreak from New York was delayed due to New York's indifference and to America's stubbornness. This is the spiritual reason for the incidents in New York and New Jersey around January 7, 2007. Let him who has ears hear what the Lord is saying.

As we are writing these words (in the wee hours of January 15, 2007), the news story of a deadly ice storm in America is appearing on the Internet. As indicated on an AP report posted on Yahoo! News, ice storms have hit a wide section of the United States, causing at least 20 deaths and leaving hundreds of thousands without power. After places like New York had enjoyed unseasonably warm weather, waves of freezing rain, sleet, and snow began to pound much of the United States. In New York state, a 22-year-old died in an accident caused by the icy roads. He had just gotten out of his car after a crash when another car suddenly slid on the icy road and came towards him; he climbed a railing to avoid the oncoming car, but he slipped off the railing and fell 90 feet from the bridge to his death. This great fall in New York speaks of God's judgment against America for having delayed His revival. Just like the 22-year-old man, America may feel as if she has dodged God's bullet. The 22-year-old man escaped unharmed from the first crash, but, just as with Agag, death rained down upon him all of a sudden, just as he was saying to himself that everything was "alright" and that doom did not loom over his head.

As we are writing these words (in the wee hours of January 16, 2007), news stories of the damage done by this deadly ice storm continue to surface. According to an AP report posted on Yahoo! News, the storm is now blamed for at least 39 deaths in 6 states. It moved into the U.S.'s Northeast on Monday (January 15), coating roads with an ice "shell" up to a half-inch thick, and knocking out power to more than half-a-million homes and businesses. The "ice shell" points to the isolation shell God's remnant are now hibernating in, and the half-inch thickness (along with the half-a-million homes and businesses without power) points to the halving line that God has drawn across America. The 39 reported deaths up until now point to America remaining stuck at "39", halfway between "38" and "40". God, however, will jolt America out of this half-hearted no-man's land. In this shaking, many will die (figuratively and literally), just as many Israelites died during the first 38 years in the desert. Those at "39" will either be forcibly dragged back to a "38" death or be propelled into a "40" entrance into the Promised Land. The American Church shall not be allowed to remain in limbo for long. Sister Catha had this vision on February 7, 2006, which happened to be day #38 of the year 2006. This is no coincidence. God's open wrath against the 39ers has begun; a cloud of "38" death is upon them.

The American ice storm ruined the Martin Luther King Jr. bank holiday in America. MLK is most famous for his "I have a dream" speech. Therefore, as we have shared before (in a paragraph written exactly one year ago to the day of the typing of these words), God sent this ice storm to declare,

"You have ruined My dream for you. I had a dream for you in 2005, yet you were oblivious to My plans. I shall deal very harshly with you, and I will force you to a place of repentance. I shall drag you through much carnage, a carnage that I had not originally intended for you. How sad!!! You do not understand My words now, but you will surely understand My sadness when sadness covers you like sackcloth. You will then utter the words I am uttering now, 'How sad, how sad, how sad!'"

In early 2006, the Lord dragged me down an "Azazel-goat" path that led to me standing in a small and gloomy room on March 19, 2006. As I paced back and forth, befuddled by utter despondency and sadness, I turned around, and, without being consciously aware of it, I picked up a small magazine and opened it. When I became aware of what I had done, I looked at the open page and saw a picture that filled half the page. I was in utter shock at what I was beholding. It was the picture of a real-life tree that had an intricate web of roots completely exposed!!! I then understood that I was not crazy, that it had indeed been the Lord God of Israel who had led me down this Azazel-goat path! God had sent me to my death, and, along the way to my death, He sent various signs that certified that I would rise like the phoenix from the ashes of my death. Just as the Lord Jesus rose from His death, all those who die in Him shall be resurrected in Him.

March 19, 2006 was exactly one month after sister Catha emailed her vision to us, and it was exactly 40 days after February 7, 2006, the date of the vision. The reason, therefore, why the Lord led me to see the banana-tree picture on that date was as a prophetic figure of a "40" entrance into the Promised Land. Because of the weaving work being performed by the "root remnant", the world shall enter into the Promised Land, a land in which God's Glory shall permeate across the entire Earth. Instead of an unpleasant stench, the atmosphere of New York shall be filled with the awesome presence of God's Glory. God is already at work in London and throughout Scotland, and His Glory shall be seen throughout the UK, Europe, and America, for it is the time of the coming of the Glory of the Lord.

Catalina

At the time of this writing (the wee hours of January 17, 2007), southern California in the U.S. has been attacked by an unusually cold front that is leading to freezing temperatures (literally) in usually sunny California. As indicated on an AP report posted on Yahoo! News, the brief 3-night cold spell has been so intense that 3/4 of the citrus crop in California has been destroyed, causing a US$1 billion loss. A little over a day ago, Fox News Channel reported how Catalina Island, a small island to the south of Los Angeles, had been pounded by huge waves. As we have studied before, God shall massively judge California between now and the end of the 4-year revival delay (May 10, 2009), for California is the epicentre of the Latin American contamination in America, a contamination which worked to hinder God's visitation upon the US. Whilst America was hospitable to the unrighteous who have crossed the border to rape her, she was inhospitable (and indifferent) to God's remnant spirit. Whilst the Latin American influence has continued to "come to America", the Lord God of Israel, in His full manifestation, has been driven out of America. This is why California shall become the epicentre of the oncoming waves of God's judgments against America.

The name "Catalina" is the Spanish form of the name "Katherine". According to a names-meaning website, the name "Katherine" has several possible origins. One of the possible origins is the Greek word aikia meaning "torture". Another possible origin is a Coptic name meaning "my consecration of your name". The Romans associated the name "Katherine" with the Greek word katharos meaning "pure". All of these possibilities explain why the Lord God chose to pound "Catalina Island" at this time:

I shall torture you, oh America, just as you have allowed My precious remnant to be tortured. I shall pound you with one stone after the other, and you shall say, "Enough, enough!!", but I shall say, "It is not enough!!!". Because you have refused to consecrate My Name before the people, I shall desecrate your name before the world. I shall show the world how "holy" I esteem your name, for I shall not allow any 'god' to stand before Me. The god of your American pride shall be driven to the ground, for you judged yourself a "Christian nation" when you were in fact a "needy nation". You did not see the potential across the sea, and you refused to let go of your religious paradigms. You said to yourself, "I know what I am doing; no need to make any changes". You shut Me out, slamming your door in My Face. You did not recognise Me, and you went back inside to continue with your slumber. And My Face still feels the violent breeze of the door you slammed on Me!!! Thus, I shall wake you up. I shall blow My wind with might against you. I shall pound you until you fall out of your bed and cry out "Lord God, Lord God! What are we doing wrong? Help us to change!" When you do that, I shall be merciful upon you and restore you, and I shall forgive you for what you have done to Me, says the Lord God of Israel.

On January 18, 2007, the day after we wrote the paragraphs above, BBC Radio 4 aired a small interview which dealt with the possible emergence of the true location of Princess Katherine's tomb. Princess Katherine was Henry VIII's aunt, and recently-discovered evidence indicates that her tomb could be one in St. Peter's Church in Devon in S.W. England. As indicated on bbc.co.uk, it was formerly believed that her tomb had been at Castle Chapel, which was demolished in the 17th century.

As I listened to the interview, the BBC interviewer said, "3 of Henry VIII's wives were called Katherine, and my name is Katherine". When she said that, I felt the Lord impacting my spirit and saying, "What you read yesterday was relevant". The day before, on January 17, as I looked up the meaning of the name "Katherine", I read a comment indicating that 3 of Henry VIII's 6 wives bore that name. The Lord was therefore saying that the connection between the name "Katherine" and Henry VIII had a "treasure message" that needed to be unearthed. I then tried to learn more about these Katherines. For some reason, the one who drew my attention the most was the first Katherine, Henry VIII's first wife. As you may know, Henry VIII, who was an Amorite opportunist and fornicator, wanted to divorce Katherine simply because he could not bear him a male child. It was acceptable in England for a woman to sit on the throne; however, Henry VIII threw a wobbly because "baby Henry" wanted a boy. Besides that, his heart began to lust after another woman and he was weaving an excuse to get rid of his wife.

Up until then, Henry VIII had been a "staunch supporter" of the catholic faith and a public enemy of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. Because of this, the pope gave him the title "Defender of the faith", a title which all subsequent monarchs of England have retained (it is important that the English Christians who take pride in this title realise its tainted origin). Despite his title, the "defender of the [catholic] faith" wanted a divorce, even though the catholic church was officially opposed to it. This shows how Henry VIII was a man of convenience, not conviction. Whenever his belief system did not fit with his desires, he would acquit himself of all blame by simply changing his belief system; as a now-dead Amorite from Louisiana (LA) and Los Angeles (LA) would say, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit".

Catherine of Aragon, Henry's wife, was the aunt of Charles V, king of Spain. Because of this, the pope knew that granting Henry's request for divorce would imply "problems" with Charles V, who was also the "Holy Roman Emperor", making Charles V king over large parts of Europe, including Italy. Thus, the Roman pope, who was an Amorite opportunist himself, found it more "inconvenient" to grant the divorce than to reject it, so he chose to deny Henry's request. That is when Henry VIII chose to break off from the catholic church, thus founding the "Anglican Church", of which he proclaimed himself as the "sole protector and supreme head".

Catherine of Aragon (whose great-great-grandmothers --- Catherine and Philippa --- were both from Lancaster, England) bravely opposed the divorce. She was therefore separated from her daughter and banished to remote castles where she lived in humble conditions. She died of cancer on January 7, 1536, 22 days after her 50th birthday. I was stunned to learn that she had died on "January 7", since that is the beginning of the full-blown "payback period" mentioned above. This certified the spiritual connection between the name "Katherine" and the banana-tree vision.

Catherine was a figure of a soul who was not afraid to fight for her convictions, despite the Amorite bear's intimidation. She was banished to a life of silence, but her silence unleashed a violence that ensured that Henry VIII would die grotesquely overweight and in ill repute in the eyes of history. In 1536, the same year that Catherine died, Henry had a violent jousting accident in which he suffered a thigh wound; this wound, which prevented him from taking exercise, never healed; it became ulcerated and may have indirectly led to his death in 1547. Thus, Henry was forced to endure 11 years of a slow, agonising decay as he became fatter and fatter, to the point that he reached a waist measurement of 137 cm (54 inches).

100 years after his death, the theory arose that Henry VIII suffered from syphilis, a theory that has reasonable evidence to support it. Thus, Henry VIII, a megalomaniac, has become the historical "poster child" of callous opportunism, sexual impurity, and overindulgence. Catherine's silence, therefore, produced a lasting damage on Henry VIII much greater than anything that Henry could have done to her. Her silence, epitomised by her death on January 7, did more damage to Henry VIII than all the kings of Europe and their armies combined could ever have, and it was part of the spiritual foundation that led to the eventual rise of a righteous queen in Britain, Elizabeth I.

{Some of the information above was extracted from various wikipedia.org articles, including the ones titled "Henry VIII of England", "Catherine of Aragon", and "English Reformation"}

The events throughout America and in California that are being unleashed starting January 7, 2007 are a prophetic sign of what lies ahead. These judgments shall come like a hailstorm, as one pounding after the other, until the end of the judgment period. After that, God shall visit America, and America shall see the Glory of God.

In recent days, the Lord has been constantly reminding me of the 52 victims who died in London on July 7, 2005. Interestingly enough, January 7, 2007 is exactly 18 months after July 7, 2005. As we said above, the number "18" speaks of carnage that could have been averted had it not been for unrepentant stubbornness. The UK was forced to suffer unnecessarily because of America's stubbornness; God shall therefore repay America with "unnecessary" carnage.

The banana boat song

As I would meditate on sister Catha's banana-tree vision, the "banana boat song" would come to my mind once and again (and it still does). This song was made popular by New-York-born singer Harry Belafonte, who is of Jamaican ancestry. Part of the song's lyrics read as follows:

{Lyrics adapted from answers.com}

Work all night on a drink of rum!
(Daylight come and me want go home)
Stack banana till the morning come!
(Daylight come and me want go home)
Come Mr. Tally Man, tally me banana
(Daylight come and me want go home)
Come Mr. Tally Man, tally me banana
(Daylight come and me want go home)
Lift 6 foot, 7 foot, 8 foot bunch!
(Daylight come and me want go home)
6 foot, 7 foot, 8 foot bunch!
(Daylight come and me want go home)

A beautiful bunch of ripe banana!
(Daylight come and me want go home)
Hide the deadly black tarantula!
(Daylight come and me want go home)
 

The remnant have been working in the anonymity of the night, impelled by a drink of "RUM"; their spiritual work has been driven by the dream they are pregnant with, a dream which has led them to "Relish an Uncontainable Manifestation" of God. They have been stacking up "ban-ana", spiritual work designed to ban that which God has declared "anathema" (i.e.- cursed unto destruction). They have been stacking up these "ban-ana" so that the morning of God's rising may come upon the Church and the Earth. Just like Joseph, the remnant have been voluntarily paying the toll required to free Jacob from the matriarchal snare he himself fell into. The remnant are paying with their very lives in order to undo the spiritual damage done by others. They have been paying "mr. satan tally man", just as Hosea paid the slave owner to redeem his wife from her self-induced slavery (Hosea 3:1-5). The remnant have been draining themselves, like an electric device running on batteries, but their batteries are running out, and the time has come for their batteries to be "refreshed", "recharged" by those whom they have paved the path for. It is time for the remnant to go home, but just as Pharaoh did with the people of Israel, "mr. tally man" refuses to let the remnant go. With the help of a Church that refuses to house the remnant, "mr. tally man" continues to demand a toll from the remnant; however, all the toll that had to be paid has been paid already. Therefore, just as Pharaoh's Egypt was judged with massive carnage, America shall be judged with massive carnage, for she has been the epicentre of "mr. tally man's" resistance.

As we have said before, the remnant have been forging a transition from "6 to 8". Through their invisible "worm" work, they have forged a transition path from the human works of "6" into the death and rest of "7", which must then be followed by the resurrection regeneration of "8". Many in the American Church became stuck in the religious works of "6"; a few did move on to the rest of "7", but they became stuck there, without understanding that God had an all-encompassing "8" regeneration in mind. The remnant, however, went into the transition expecting an "8". They were willing to kill and destroy many fundamental things so that something completely new would arise. The remnant were not just "tweaking", they were "reaping" ... 6-foot, 7-foot, and 8-foot bunch, daylight come and me want go home.

The remnant have been working to reap a "beautiful ripe bunch" of mature believers walking in the fullness of God. They want the "deadly black tarantula" to disappear. This hideous banana spider, which reigns invisibly behind the Church's banana clusters, has been hindering God's entrance into "Jerusalem". This hideous spider --- the pastoral matriarchy --- continues to weave her web of soul deceit (Isaiah 59:5), even as the remnant have been weaving their blue robe of righteousness. According to wikipedia.org, the spider known as the "banana tarantula" is the dangerous "Brazilian wandering spider"; even though the spider is named after Brazil, it is actually a spider indigenous to many parts of Latin America (according to wikipedia.org). This is no spiritual coincidence, for the "banana tarantula" of Latin American spiritual influence in America remains in full view before God's eyes, and the American Church keeps dismissing her iniquitous and repugnant presence as "irrelevant and harmless". Every time the remnant try to place this repulsive beast under the covering of the Spirit, the beast violently waves off the mantle of God's male Spirit with her ugly indigenous legs, as she defiantly claims her "right" not to be judged. Cursed be the Latin American whore! My eyes shall see her demise! And I shall rejoice as I see her shamefully wallow in the mire of her moral stagnation before the eyes of the entire globe, for the Lord God of Israel cannot be mocked! The Canaanites who refuse the covering of Shem and Japheth are cursed unto destruction. May God have mercy on the Lots in Latin America who deserve a chance to be rescued! May they hear the call of the Lord and distance themselves from the Latin American whore, for this distancing is a matter of spiritual choice, not a matter of geographical birth.

{Fellow believer, we strongly encourage you to read a news story posted on news.bbc.co.uk about a woman in Cornwall, England, who was bitten by a "banana wandering spider" on August 11, 2005, exactly 35 days after the July 7 terrorist attacks in London. Because of America's unwillingness to destroy the banana tarantula, the UK was forced to suffer attacks from this wicked beast, attacks that would have been unnecessary had America done her part. As indicated on wikipedia.org, Cornwall is bordered to the east by the River Tamar, which has some 20 crossings, including the Tamar Bridge, a toll bridge on the A38 trunk road. This is no spiritual coincidence, for the name "Tamar" points to the Tamar travail that God's remnant are going through (Genesis 38:1-30); the "Tamar Bridge" points to how the remnant are interceding with their very lives, acting as a bridge upon which God Himself shall walk into the Church and the Earth and manifest the Fullness of His Glory. The 20 crossings points to the "20" spiritual warfare that God's remnant have been engaging in, even as the Church (especially the American Church) have remained at "19", and the number "38" in "A38" point to how the (American) Church unwittingly regressed to "38" instead of moving on to "40", after having reached "39".}

According to wikipedia.org, a parody of the banana boat song was produced shortly after the 9/11 attacks in NYC. The main refrain says,

Come Mr. Taliban, turn over bin Laden
(Payback come then we gonna go home)
Come Mr. Taliban, turn over bin Laden
(Payback come then we gonna go home)
 

The words in this parody are no spiritual coincidence. As we have said before, God's remnant cannot "go home" and rest until God's payback is unleashed upon the Earth. The green-horse remnant exposed themselves to a vicious attack from the enemy, and God's vindicating vengeance has come and is coming. God shall not rest until the banana tarantula is handed over. Through His judgments, the tarantula shall be destroyed, and the way will be paved for His manifestation, for He will only manifest Himself wherever His little ones are welcomed rather than attacked.

The "banana boat song" became a chart-topper in the US and the UK in 1957. This is no spiritual coincidence. On March 6, 1957, the UK colonies of Gold Coast and British Togoland became the independent Republic of Ghana. Ghana thus became the first independent (i.e.- "fully mature") colony in Africa (according to wikipedia.org); the rest of the colonies in Africa followed Ghana's lead in the years that followed. This correlates with the "ministerial maturity" that God's worms are unleashing upon the Church and the Earth. On October 10, 1957 (218 days after Ghana's independence), US president Eisenhower issued an apology to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he was refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware. This speaks of how America shall be forced to apologise to the maturity-forging remnant for the way she has treated them. Instead of accepting the fact that "Independence Day" has come, the American Church betrayed God by trying to bring about revival under the cursed minister-layman paradigm, a paradigm which God abhors.

According to wikipedia.org, Harry Belafonte was born in (Harlem) New York in 1927, but he lived from 1935 to 1939 with his mother in the village of Aboukir in her native Jamaica. Jamaica was a former British colony, and, remains, to this day, part of the British commonwealth, recognising Queen Elizabeth II as the "Queen of Jamaica" (as indicated on www.royal.gov.uk). Therefore, it is no coincidence that God chose a New-York-born man of Jamaican ancestry to broadcast the "banana song" worldwide. New York shall be the epicentre of the latter-rain revival in America, and the UK is the launching point of the latter-rain revival throughout Europe and much of the world. In a spiritual sense, Jamaica represents the confluence of 3 geographical locations, all of which are related to the "banana saga" currently going on in the spirit realm. Two of those locations are North America and Europe.

According to wikipedia.org, the name "Jamaica" means either "Land of Springs" or "Land of Wood and Water". There is a spiritual message behind this: Treat the lowly worm well, and springs of life shall flow forth in your land. Treat the lowly worm poorly, and obliterating judgment shall devastate your land. If you do not realise that it is time to let the worm "go home", the wrath of God shall be upon you, and there shall be no reprieve for you until you either repent or perish never to rise again (as shall be the case with the Latin American whore).

"¹⁴Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁵Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. ¹⁶Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁷When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. ¹⁸I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. ¹⁹I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together: ²⁰That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it." (Isaiah 41:14-20)

Harry Belafonte's version of the "banana boat song" was a Top-10 phenomenon in both the US and the UK in 1957. Shortly after that, Shirley Bassey released a different version of the song, which became a hit in the United Kingdom in 1957. This means that the banana boat song was a hit in the UK twice in the year 1957. According to wikipedia.org, Shirley Bassey is a singer born at 182 Bute Street in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, Wales. As we have studied before, the number "182" speaks of God's "detour" out of America in order to work in the spiritual atmosphere of Europe (while America gets its act together). The UK has therefore turned into a "Tiger Bay" in which the remnant's tiger spirit has made a spiritual landing and found a "bay of refuge", as opposed to North America, where God's tiger found nothing but a cold "Glace Bay".

Shirley Bassey's father was a Nigerian who worked as a seaman, while her mother was from Yorkshire, North England. The Nigerian origin of Shirley's father points to the black horse of the Apocalypse, since the name "Nigeria" comes from the word "Niger" meaning "black". The fact that Shirley's mother originated from Yorkshire points to the green horse of the Apocalypse; there is a spiritual "epicentre" located on a road called "Heavens Walk" in Doncaster, South Yorkshire; this epicentre is a spiritual focal point related to God's black- and green-horse visitation of Europe.

According to www.songsofshirleybassey.co.uk, the "banana boat song" version sung by Shirley Bassey was written by a group called the "Tarriers". This is no spiritual coincidence. Because of the American Church's indifference, God was forced to "tarry" longer than necessary, and His latter-rain manifestation was delayed. The Tarriers' members were Erik Darling, Bob Carey, and Alan Arkin. As a teenager in 1950, Erik Darling arrived in New York in 1950, and, with the passing of time, he formed the "Tarriers", which was initially signed by "Glory Records". All of this speaks of how the manifestation of God's Glory in New York was forced to "tarry". Their greatest imprint on music was made through a UK singer across the ocean from New York (Shirley Bassey), which is a figure of how God had to shift His focus across the sea because of the spiritual delay in America. Therefore, it is no spiritual coincidence that the Tarriers' version of the song includes the following lines:

Pack up all my things and I'll go to sea (go to sea)

Day de light and I wanna go home
 

Interestingly enough, Shirley Bassey began to perform her version of the banana boat song in December 1955 when she joined the cast of Jack Hylton's "Such is Life", a revue show in London's West End at Adelphi Theatre. This means that the "banana song" was being heard in the UK even before Harry Belafonte made it famous in America and throughout the world. This is a figure of how God has been working in the UK's spirit realm even before His work has been manifested in America and worldwide. God's "latter-day show" has already been started in anonymity.

British airways

At the time of this writing (the wee hours of Thursday, January 18, 2007), Britain is bracing herself for a rather blustery day. As indicated on a Reuters report posted on lep.co.uk (a website from Lancashire, Preston), the wind gusts are expected to reach up to 80 miles per hour in parts of Britain. These gales could affect electricity networks, damage buildings, and interrupt transport in many areas. These gales are expected to impact all of England and Wales, and could even affect southern Scotland and Northern Ireland. Britain was also hit by strong winds right before New Year's Day 2007, which forced many New Year's Day celebrations to be cancelled across Scotland, England, and Northern Ireland (as indicated on news.bbc.co.uk). On December 7, 2006, a tornado struck North-West London in the Kensal Rise neighbourhood, sweeping across several streets in less than a minute, injuring 6 people, and causing extensive damage to at least 100 properties (as indicated on wikipedia.org).

There is a spiritual reason for the sudden surge in wind intensity across the UK in recent weeks, especially since the second week of January 2007. Just as there was a spiritual delay in America, there has been a spiritual barrier causing a temporary delay in the UK. The UK's accountability in her delay, however, is much smaller in the eyes of God than America's accountability for her delay. God is applying spiritual pressure on the UK, forcing British believers to discern what God is trying to do. The British people are ready for God's great move. There is something in the air in the UK. There have been various reports of "spiritual stirrings" occurring across the UK, especially in Scotland. I feel those stirrings in my bones. I sense God's pressure on a thin, plywood wall lined across a field in the UK's countryside, and I see it bending down and swaying forcefully under the strong winds. I see that wall yielding to the wind and laying flat on the ground, opening the path for an army, a mighty army that shall march over the plywood on the ground and invade the land.

God did not want the UK to celebrate New Year's Day 2007. He forced the UK to sense God's sadness over the religious resistance in the UK that is preventing His visitation on the land. Ever since 2005, the Lord has forced the UK to share in the sorrows of the remnant. If God's remnant are sad, the UK shall be gloomy. If God's remnant are perturbed, the UK shall be perturbed. If God's remnant are pining for a spring breeze, the UK shall be immersed in pining. The UK's atmosphere has been given to the remnant, and that atmosphere will reflect the things stirring in the remnant's heart. God has found a land with people who have the ability to empathise with the remnant spirit, and, even without them knowing it, the people of that land are sh