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Grand Central explosion

First posted: September 3, 2007

Written: August 24-September 3, 2007

Word received by: Shamah-Elim

 

In September 2006, sister Betty Greene (who sent us the "Halving line" dream) shared with us that God began sending her to New York City to walk and pray, just as Joshua and the Israelites did when they walked around Jericho. On her last prayer incursion into New York City, on Sunday October 15, 2006, the Lord told her to simply stay at Grand Central station for an hour or so. The Lord then told her that "her job was done" and that her period of incursive prayer for a revival in New York had ended, at least for the time being. When she shared that with us, it immediately struck a chord in my heart. On a Sunday of early 2006, the Lord had me "wandering about" Manhattan, and, suddenly, when I realised it, I was around 42nd Street, and I was walking by an entrance to Grand Central Station. The Lord told me to walk in, so I did. I quickly walked across it. I can't recall anything "significant" that caught my attention, and I was left with the doubt as to why God had made me walk through it. Across the street and some metres from that entrance, there is a building with a plaque that says "Meredith" (I don't know if that's the official name of the building). In 2003, a brother in Christ had shared with me that God had shown him a vision of what he later realised was New York City. When he asked the Lord the name of the place he was seeing in the vision, the Lord simply said, "Meredith". As I meditated on why the Lord had made me walk across Grand Central Station, I knew that the name "Meredith" had something to do with it.

 

As a result of sister Betty's email in October 2006, I was prompted to continue meditating on the spiritual meaning of Grand Central Station. The Lord then made me understand that it was related to the "Pan Am" building (now "MetLife") building that is nearby. As indicated on the wikipedia.org article on that building, it is a building related with disasters and failures. I remember that, as a youngster, the Pan Am building was one of the first landmark buildings that drew my attention in Manhattan. The name "Pan Am" means "Pan American", and it speaks of an America integrated with the rest of the Americas. Therefore, it points to America's spiritual contamination from Latin America. Interestingly enough, Pan Am was a company whose name was synonymous with "air travel" for decades, having established itself around the world as the airline for international travel. Yet, this giant of a company ended up collapsing into ignominious bankruptcy in 1991, disappearing altogether. Therefore, Pan Am symbolises the mighty collapse of God's revival project in America due to her Latin-American-style spiritual contamination. God's revival project in America was designed to extend like a giant seismic wave around the globe's spiritual atmosphere, touching down all over the Earth, just as Pan Am's planes had been able to do.

 

The Pan Am building was bought by the "MetLife" insurance company in 1981. In spiritual terms, the letters "M.E.T." in "MetLife" stand for "Massively Expansive Transformation", and there is a spiritual reason why "MET-life" bought the Pan Am building in 1981. The year 1981 marked the beginning of a crucial period in America's spiritual history, a long 24-year period of final preparation before the latter-day revival. That is when God was preparing America to impact the globe through her cultural and economic influence around the world. The prefix "Pan" literally means "all" or "comprehensive" in Greek. Thus, MetLife's purchase of the Pan Am building was God's way of saying that He was about to use "Pan Am" (i.e.- America's influence all over the world) to impart "MetLife" (i.e.- Massively Expansive Transformation life) around the planet. However, in 1991, ten years after MetLife's purchase, Pan Am went bankrupt and disappeared. This is a figure of how America was unwilling to pay the spiritual "tithe" (i.e.- tenth) that God was asking of her. That is when America's "Pan Am" went from representing "America's influence all over the world" to representing "America being influenced by the all of the Americas, i.e.- Latin America". The America's "Pan Am", therefore, was no longer worthy of being used to spread "MET Life", for which reason God removed the highly visible Pan Am logos from the top of the MetLife building, replacing them with the word "MetLife".

 

All of this correlates with the word "Meredith" mentioned above. According to behindthename.com, the name "MerEdiTh" is of Celtic Welsh origin and literally means "great lord" or "sea lord". Therefore, it represents the green-horse call to "head for the sea", but, as we have shared before, America ignored the call, choosing instead to remain in the dry land of "traditional revival". Because of this, God has shifted His spiritual focus towards the UK and Europe. God's green-horse remnant spirit "took to the seas" and headed for London, the UK, and Europe in general. God has set His judgement throne in the sea, for He was not about to set it in the dry land of Thomas-like waviness and scepticism.

 

It is interesting to consider the fact that "Meredith" was originally intended to be a male name, and it is a name predominantly assigned to males in Wales, its place of origin. Around the 1920s, however, the name "Meredith" began being used in America as a female name, and, now, it is a predominantly female name, at least in America. There is spiritual significance behind this. As we have shared before, the sea-oriented green horse of the Apocalypse comes to obliterate the matriarchy of the "female" soul so that the "male" Spirit may govern. Therefore, it makes sense that the green-horse name "Meredith" (meaning "sea lord") has remained a male name in Europe whilst it has become a female name in America, since America stymied God's green-horse visitation in 2005, forcing God to shift His focus towards Europe whilst America endures a 4-year delay. God had "come to America", so to speak, to turn "Meredith" back to a "male" (i.e.- a Spirit) name, but America said to God that she wanted it to remain a "female" (i.e.- a soul) name.

 

As we have shared before, when God officialised the 4-year delay in America's revival, He declared a "civil war" in America's spiritual atmosphere. Therefore, it is no coincidence that the MetLife company began in 1863, in the middle of America's Civil War period, when a group of New York City businessmen raised US$100,000 to start a company intended to insuring Civil War sailors and soldiers against disabilities caused by the war, according to MetLife's website. Interestingly enough, in 1879, MetLife's president Joseph Knapp "turned his attention to England", where industrial worker insurance was widely successful. He imported English agents to train Americans, allowing MetLife to quickly absorb successful British insurance methods. This helped MetLife to become a widely successful insurance company. All of this correlates with God's spiritual shift towards the UK and His intended impartation of the UK's spirit to America. This impartation is already manifesting itself in American popular culture, as can be seen by the increased and very visible British influence on America's television, music, and entertainment industries. A second "British invasion" (of America and the world) is in progress.

 

The name of MetLife's president Joseph Knapp also has spiritual significance. As we have said before, "Joseph" is a green-horse name; thus, it points to the green-horse spirit. According to wikipedia.org, the exact origin of the surname "Knapp" is uncertain, but it is believed that it is of Germanic origin and that it means "lacking in funds"; this theory is supported by the fact that the word "knapp" means "scarcely" or "little difference" in modern German. The name "Joseph" itself means "he will add" (according to behindthename.com). Therefore, the combined name "Joseph Knapp" speaks of someone who will have addition or increase but is at present lacking in funds. It speaks of a person who is rich in the spirit but poor in the natural and is thus unable to impart the spiritual riches he or she possesses to others. It speaks of spiritual "Lazaruses" who are not being enabled by others to spread what is inside of them. MetLife's Joseph Knapp had a vision. He wanted MetLife to grow into a powerhouse company, and, as he visualised MetLife's future greatness, he gazed across the sea to England, and he realised that England had the methodological resources he lacked in order to fulfil his vision. He then "called upon the British", shall we say, and the British heeded his call, enabling him to fulfil his vision. This is what is happening in the spiritual realm, even as we speak.

 

MetLife is famous for its "Snoopy" blimps, which hover over stadiums to cover major sporting events in America. Blimps are also known as "airships", which once again points to the green-horse spirit, since green-horse riders are "spiritual seafarers" who perceive the potential in the sea and who therefore end up as "sailors on spiritual ships" that navigate the sea as they are "teletransported" in the spirit to various places. Green-horse riders relentlessly navigate the "sea of love", the "green sea of blue love", driven by the God-potential they perceive and long to see manifested in others. Green-horse riders "navigate the wild blue yonder", cloaked in their blue prayer shawls of wilful sacrifice. Therefore, it is not surprising that MetLife's Snoopy airships are all blue.

 

According to wikipedia.org, the Peanuts cartoon character "Snoopy" became MetLife's official mascot in the 1980s, the same decade in which MetLife acquired the Pan Am building. As you may know, Snoopy is at times portrayed in the Peanuts cartoon as a daydreaming writer; in his stories, Snoopy turns into these heroic characters who battle against evil people. As indicated on wikipedia.org, his daydreaming novels always start with the phrase, "It was a dark and stormy night", which is the opener for the 1830 novel "Paul Clifford" by Englishman Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Peanuts creator Charles Schulz said the following in a 1997 interview with regard to Snoopy's daydreaming writing: "He has to retreat into his fanciful world in order to survive. Otherwise, he leads kind of a dull, miserable life." All of this reveals a spiritual fact about God's green-horse riders. They may appear to be right there in front of you, walking about as "ordinary human beings", yet, in the spirit realm, they are travelling to and fro, waging awesome battles in the spirit realm. Their willingness to die and descend to Sheol enables them to operate in a mode of "teletransportation" that is unavailable to those who prefer the comfort of "Churchianity". Just like Snoopy (and just like Joseph), God's green-horse riders are dreamers. They are constantly dreaming of great and mighty things. They are the only ones willing to dream the "impossible dream" of a world in which God's judgements and glory have filled the Earth. This is why they are the only ones in whom God can entrust the task of forging His latter-rain manifestation. Due to their spirit of non-compromise and self-abandoning sacrifice, such believers often experience "hell on Earth", for they often serve as magnets that draw in great attacks in order to preserve the lives of others. This is why they are often forced to "daydream" in order to escape the raw reality of their daily lives, just as Joseph would daydream of his day of freedom whilst he served time in the Egyptian prison. The Irish group U2's song "In God's country" speaks of such green-horse daydreamers:

 

[Adapted from lirama.net and u2.com]

 

Desert sky

Dream beneath a desert sky

The rivers run but soon run dry

We need new dreams tonight

 

Desert rose

Dreamed I saw a desert rose

Dress torn in ribbons and in bows

Like a siren she calls to me

 

Sleep comes like a drug

In God's Country

Sad eyes, crooked crosses

In God's Country

 

Set me alight

We'll punch a hole right through the night

Everyday the dreamers die

To see what's on the other side

 

She is liberty

And she comes to rescue me

Hope, faith, her vanity

The greatest gift is gold

 

Sleep comes like a drug

In God's Country

Sad eyes, crooked crosses

In God's Country

 

Naked flame

She stands with a naked flame

I stand with the sons of Cain

Burned by the fire of love [2x]

 

{We strongly recommend that you read through an article posted on www.trincoll.edu that discusses the Christian faith of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz}

 

As indicated on wikipedia.org, the English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton (from whom Snoopy took the line "It was a dark and stormy night") penned many works. Interestingly enough, one of those works is called "The Coming Race", and it is a story about a subterranean race of men waiting to reclaim the surface of the Earth. Without knowing it, Bulwer-Lytton was writing about God's green-horse riders who emerge from the depths of Sheol to obliterate the soul matriarchy on Earth so that God's Kingdom may be established, thus enabling the rise of a "new race" of Spirit-controlled (rather than soul-controlled) human beings.

 

There is spiritual significance behind the fact that MetLife's Snoopy airships are filled with helium. This is emphasised by an "interesting coincidence". For some reason, from the time in 2003 when the brother in Christ mentioned the name "Meredith" to me, I was somehow aware that there was a place in Texas, America, with such a name. As I did a search for that place a few days ago, I learnt that there is a lake in Texas called "Lake Meredith". According to wikipedia.org, Lake Meredith is a man-made lake formed by a dam on the Canadian River at Sanford, Texas. It is located 30 miles northeast of Amarillo, Texas. Interestingly enough, "amarillo" means "yellow" in Spanish, and, according to wikipedia.org, Amarillo is also known as the "Yellow Rose of Texas", all of which points to God's green-horse riders in their vulnerable "yellow-flower" state. Amarillo is home to Pantex, America's only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility. This points to the radioactive nature of God's "yellowcake" green-horse riders. It is also worth noting that Amarillo calls itself "The Helium Capital of the World" due to the nearby Cliffside Gas Field, the largest producer of helium in America; Texas is America's leading helium producer solely on the strength of the Cliffside Gas Field, according to wikipedia.org (notice the similarity between the word "Cliffside" and the name "Clifford" in the title of Bulwer-Lytton's novel mentioned earlier).

 

The word "helium" is derived from the Greek word helios meaning "sun". According to answers.com, this is due to the fact that helium was discovered as English astronomer Joseph Lockyer and French astronomer Pierre Janssen were independently studying an eclipse of the sun. These "2 witnesses" detected a yellow band of light in their spectrometers, which are instruments that break up light into different colour bands depending on the elements present. The yellow band did not correlate with any element known at the time. It was the Englishman Lockyer who suggested that helium be named after the sun. As we have studied before, the "sun" points to God as the Sun of Righteousness, the God of Judgements and Justice. According to answers.com, helium is one of the most abundant elements in the universe, but most of it is outside the Earth's atmosphere. This is a figure of how God is like a "foreign agent" waiting to invade the Earth and overtake it with His presence and judgements. God's judgements have been "rare" on Earth because man's soul has worked to hinder their manifestation, but that stubborn hindering shall be no more (Psalm 105:7, Amos 5:24).

 

Interestingly enough, it was another Englishman, chemist Sir William Ramsay, who first identified the presence of helium on Earth, in 1895, finding it in a uranium mineral called "cleveite"; two Swedish chemists made a similar discovery at about the same time. Ten years later, in 1905 (the year Japan humiliated the Russian bear in the Russo-Japanese War), natural gas extracted in Dexter, Kansas was found to contain as much as 2% helium. With time, it was discovered that the United States have the highest concentrations of helium around the world.

 

Helium is formed underground through the radioactive decay of heavy elements such as uranium and thorium. This correlates with the spiritual radioactivity unleashed by God's green-horse riders as they are willing to be taken down to Sheol. Some of the helium produced underground makes it to the surface, enters the atmosphere, and rises out into space. This is a figure of how God's green-horse riders are resurrected and raptured into the things of the Spirit because they refuse to become content and remain in the conformity of earthly religiosity. All of this correlates with Snoopy's "daydreaming escapism" and with the fact that the Snoopy airships used by MetLife are filled with helium. As indicated on wikipedia.org, Snoopy has for some reason been strongly associated with air and space travel throughout the years. The Apollo space programme, for example, adopted Snoopy as its mascot for "aerospace safety". The Apollo 10 lunar module (which left the Earth's soul-dominated atmosphere, just as helium does) was nicknamed "Snoopy".

 

On the website daysofleisure.com, the Lord allowed me to find the complete text of Snoopy's "It was a dark and stormy night" novel. If you read through it, you will find some interesting details, all related to God's green horse:

 

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It mentions a "pirate ship" appearing on the horizon, which correlates with the "buccaneer" nature of God's green-horse riders.

 

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It says, "While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury"; this points to how God's green-horse riders die as "resourceless Lazaruses" outside the house whilst the Church's ministers "live it up" inside.

 

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It then says, "Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up", which points to all that we have shared regarding Kansas and to how God has a generation of green-horse believers who are growing up in anonymity and who shall rise up as a mighty army of Dorothy's to overcome the wicked soul witch of the west that has ruled the Church and the world for ages.

 

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It says, "The mysterious patient in Room 213 had finally awakened". This again speaks of how the Church shall finally awake from her spiritual slumber through the trumpet call of God's green-horse sentinels.

 

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It mentions a "violet", which points to the colour violet. As we have studied before, violet is the colour of the rainbow that God's green-horse riders are aiming at. It is the colour at the end of the rainbow, and it manifests itself only after you have gone through the green-horse bands of "green", "blue", and "indigo". This traversal, however, requires a flint forehead of steely determination. Therefore, it is no coincidence that the MetLife president's surname "Knapp" (mentioned above) is also a verb related to flint; according to wikipedia.org, "knapping" is the flaking of flint to make tools.

 

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It mentions a "shawl", which points to the blue prayer shawl that God's green-horse riders are wrapped in.

 

 

Whilst green-horse "Snoopy" soars like helium into the spirit realm, the black-horse riders who are indifferent towards "L.A." contamination end up in disaster. Therefore, I was not surprised to learn that Pan Am was taken over by Delta Airlines during its last year of operations, the year it declared bankruptcy (as we have shared before, "Delta", when used in a negative sense, stands for "Disaster"). As indicated on wikipedia.org, during Delta's takeover, Pan Am was reduced to a smaller version of itself that predominantly served the Caribbean and Latin America, which correlates with how America's contamination from Latin America was instrumental in her spiritual disaster in 2005, preventing her flying onto the heights of God's latter-rain visitation. Interestingly enough, Pan Am's last flight was Flight 436 from Bridgetown, Barbados to Miami. Due to the American Church's spiritual indifference, the bridge that God was building to walk into America and visit her in a mighty way collapsed. This is the spiritual reason behind the recent bridge disaster in Minneapolis, Minnesota on August 1, 2007. As indicated on wikipedia.org, the name of that bridge was the "I-35W Mississippi River Bridge", which points to the number "35", which in turn points to the green horse of the Apocalypse and to spiritual civil war. The plane of Pan Am's last flight was a Boeing 727 named the "Clipper Goodwill". America discarded God's "good will" towards her, forcing God to bring about His green-horse visitation through harsh judgements, as has been shown (and shall continue to be shown) by all the judgements that have pelted America since 2005.

 

{It is worth noting that Charles Schulz, mentioned above, hailed from Minneapolis Minnesota, the very place where the August 1, 2007 bridge disaster occurred. Oddly enough, I just realised this, a few minutes before finishing the writing of this word (it is no spiritual coincidence, therefore, that the Lord had us write about Charles Schulz in this word). As we have shared before, Minnesota was the 32nd state admitted into the American Union, and the number "32" represents the predominance of the 3 "male" ministries over the 2 "female" ministries, which means that Minnesota, as a state, has great spiritual relevance in America's spirit realm, but it has become stuck in Girgashite lakes, and has therefore been unable to fulfil its destiny.}

 

As we said at the beginning of this word, the Pan Am building is spiritually related to disaster and tragedy, in particular, with tragedies where things plummet to the ground from great heights, as was the case, for example, with the Pan Am company itself. On May 16, 1977, a terrible disaster took place at the heliport atop the Pan Am building. As indicated on wikipedia.org, a broken landing gear caused a parked Sikorsky S-61L helicopter to tip over whilst its rotors were still turning. This led to the death of 4 people who were waiting to board the helicopter at the building's rooftop; one of those dead was sexploitation filmmaker Michael Findlay. Part of one of the rotor blades sailed over and killed a pedestrian on the corner of Madison and 43rd Street. Two others were seriously injured. There is much to say regarding the 7 people affected by the accident (the 5 who died and the 2 who were injured), the Russia-related Sikorsky helicopter, and the death of the sexploitation filmmaker. Suffice it to say, however, that this accident reveals God's 6th-seal vengeance on the overbearing beast that has oppressed God's remnant for ages. The death of the pedestrian standing on the corner of Madison and 43rd speaks of people who became stuck in the placid conformism of "black-hole Madison, Wisconsin" without realising that it was a time of "43" conflict between the Spirit of God and the religious whore ("43" is a number of strife and conflict, as evidenced by Ezekiel 43 and Jeremiah 43).

 

Besides the above tragedy, the Pan Am Building was also known for the spectacular suicide of successful businessman Eli M. Black. On February 3, 1975, Eli Black shattered a window on the 44th floor using his briefcase and then jumped to his death on Park Avenue. According to wikipedia.org, Eli Black was a Jewish-American born in Poland, and he even served as rabbi in a congregation in Woodmere, New York. Three and a half years later, however, he gave up the pulpit and left Woodmere to enter the world of business. He became a successful investment banker and began to rise through the ranks of America's corporate world, eventually taking over banana producer "United Fruit Company" (now known as Chiquita Brands International). United Fruit, however, was not as solvent as he thought when he acquired it, and it soon found itself in deep debt after Black's takeover. United Fruit's problems were heightened by the damage caused by Hurricane Fifi to the company's Latin American plantations in 1974, and by a US$2.5 million bribe scandal involving a Latin American government (how surprising!). All of this drove Eli Black to despair, leading to his eventual suicide. There is a large number of spiritual issues hidden behind all the details in this story. Suffice it to say, however, that this accident once again reveals the spiritual tragedy that befell America's black-horse riders as they refused to see the danger of Latin American contamination. Just like Eli in 1 Samuel 2-4, America's black-horse riders were unwilling to fully judge the unrighteousness Hophni and Phineas, and, as a result, they died of a fall (1 Samuel 4:18) and were unable to cross the Jordan and enter into the green-horse phase of their calling.

 

{By the way, according to behindthename.com, the name "Fifi" mentioned above is a pet form of the name "Joséphine", which is, in turn, the French feminine form of (green-horse) "Joseph". Thus, hurricane Fifi, which helped push Eli Black to his suicide, represents black-horse believers who turned "female" soulish (rather than submitting to the "male" Spirit) when the time came for them to enter into the green-horse stage of their walk. This led to them going from a "green-horse Joseph" to a "Korah-ite Josephine", which then led to their spiritual suicide.}

 

The fact that Eli Black fell from the 44th floor of the Pan Am building has spiritual significance. As we have shared before, the number "44" speaks of a waiting remnant who are unrelentingly interceding for God's visitation, and it also speaks of a "change in the priesthood" (from Aaron to Melchizedek). When it came time for America's black-horse forerunners to enter into green-horse intercession and to cry out for a removal of the Church's current priesthood, they failed. It is worth noting that Grand Central Terminal has 44 platforms, according to wikipedia.org. The fact that Eli Black's death happened on February 3, 1975 also has prophetic significance. As I stared at the date "February 3", I felt as if there was a "familiar ring" to it. As I searched for that date amongst the posted words, I was surprised to find that there were 4 words posted on such a date: "Flooded land" in 2005, "The London whale (Part 1)" and "The London whale (Part 2)" in 2006, and "Birth delay" in 2007. All 4 words are strongly related to America's failure to heed God's green-horse call, i.e.- to America's inability to stay at floor "44". The fact that Eli Black headed a banana-producing company is no coincidence either. As we have studied before, the "banana tree" is also related to God's green-horse visitation and to events deriving from America's revival delay.

 

Interestingly enough, the Pan Am building was sold by MetLife to a group headed by "Tishman Speyer Properties" in 2005. The selling price was US$1.72 billion, the highest price ever paid for an office building in U.S. history at the time. According to wikipedia.org, this was the first of 3 historically huge real estate deals in which Tishman Speyer were involved in 2005 and 2006. On October 17, 2006, MetLife sold the Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village residential developments in Manhattan to Tishman Speyer for US$5.4 billion; at the time, it was the biggest real estate deal in U.S. history. In December 2006, Tishman Speyer sold the 41-story "666 Fifth Avenue" building in Manhattan to Kushner Properties for US$1.8 billion, which became the highest price ever paid for an individual building in Manhattan. As indicated on wikipedia.org, the building had been built by the Tishman family in 1957, and it was originally known as the "Tishman" building; besides its location on 5th Avenue across from "Rockefeller Center", the building was famous for its prominent "666" sign at the top, which means that the Tishman family felt no shame in displaying the building's number to the world. Therefore, the sale of the Pan Am building to the Tishman Speyer company speaks of how the American Church sold out God's remnant to the spirit of the beast so that the beast could do with them "as he pleased". Instead of rising up to finish off the wounded beast, the American Church allowed it to heal from its mortal wound, and she allowed the second beast to arise. That hideous Jebusite-Hittite beast (gone Canaanite) is the one at work at present, feverishly working to reinstate the Girgashite base of support that the first beast once had but which has been washed away by the green-horse remnant's spiritual work.

 

"11And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 15And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. 16And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." (Revelation 13:11-18)

[The word "great" in verse 13 was translated from the Greek word megas, and the word "wonders" was mistranslated from the Greek word semeion meaning "sign, token". The 3 mega-deals in which Tishman Speyer were involved are a figure of the "great signs" performed by the 2nd beast. Unbeknownst to most believers, we are living in the days of the 2nd beast, for the 1st beast was mortally wounded by the black horse, but, during the time of the green horse, the American Church refused to behead the cadaver and put it away, allowing it to come back to life in zombie form. As we have said before, the "farm" Church and her parrot eschatologists are expecting the book of Revelation to be fulfilled in a literal, earthly way. When all is said and done, however, they will ask God, "Why didn't the prophecies of Revelation come to pass?", and God will reply, "The whole movie happened right before your eyes, and you were in it, but you were too blind to realise it".]

 

God willing, we will share more on the two beasts of Revelation 13 in a future posting. Mind you, I understand that posting such a word implies vicious personal attacks from the enemy; were it not for the blue-bubble protection of the Lord God, I would not be alive today to type these words. That is how close I came to being murdered on Monday August 27, 2007 by 2 Latin American bastards shortly after the Lord had had me studying the passage above. Again, these bastards do not know me, and I do not know them, but the Jebusite spirit and Hittite spirit in each of them knew me, and they did everything in their Canaanite power to take my life, but God sent them running in a supernatural way ... Jezebel, you whore, your intimidation is not working; you can send all your Latin American offspring if you want; it will still not work, and it never will, for God's Jehu remnant are here to slay you, and they shall be dissuaded by nothing you send. The second beast is not enough to contain the glorious army of the Lord.

 

"30And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window. 31And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master? 32And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. 33And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot. 34And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king’s daughter. 35And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands. 36Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel: 37And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel." (2 Kings 9:30-37)

 

Having said all of the above, we come to the event God used to trigger the writing of this word. As indicated on Dallas's cbs11tv.com, on July 18, 2007, during evening rush hour, an underground steam pipe burst near Grand Central Terminal, causing an enormous geyser of steam and flying rubble, darkening the busy Manhattan street with dark smoke, according to a witness quoted in the news story ("coincidentally", the witness's name is Darryl Green, which was God's way of certifying sister Betty Greene's involvement in all of this). The hole created by the explosion was so huge that it swallowed up a tow lorry, and it led to 18 people being taken to hospital, with one of them dying from an apparent heart attack. The 24-inch steam pipe that burst was installed in 1924. When the story broke, it was believed that the explosion was caused by a condition known as "water hammer", which happens when water condenses inside a steam pipe, leading to a sudden mix of hot steam and cool water that triggers a dramatic rise in pressure. All of these facts have spiritual significance:

 

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The fact that it happened on the 18th (of July) and that 18 people were taken to hospital (according to the cbs11tv.com posting) point to the number "18", which, as we have said before, speaks of unnecessary carnage and suffering, when used in a negative sense. This significance is emphasised by the fact that it happened in July, the 7th month, since America's spiritual indifference in 2005 led to the UK having to suffer through the 7/7 attacks, a suffering that would have been unnecessary had the American Church aligned herself with God's will. At a time when the American Church was called to be hospitable to God's green visitation, she became inhospitable. Therefore, America is now forcibly taking her injured to hospital.

 

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The 24-inch steam pipe points to the number "24", which, as we have said before, speaks of "elders".

 

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The year 1924 points to what the Lord has had us share regarding that year. As we shared in an earlier word, the year "1924" speaks of how believers in the American Church stayed at "19" and did not rise up as a mighty green army because they revered their "24 elders" more than they did God Himself.

 

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The "water hammer" condition leads to a sudden mix of hot steam and cool water. This speaks of the hot zeal for righteousness of God's green-horse riders colliding with the spiritual "coolness" of the American Church, which inevitably leads to a sudden burst of judgement.

 

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The tow lorry that was swallowed up in the hole caused by the explosion has a very interesting spiritual significance. As I was at a loss as to the meaning of the tow lorry, the Lord (through an unusual event that He triggered) made me hear the following line from a song called "Africa" (by the group Toto): "It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you". That's when I understood what the "tow lorry" was all about. It speaks of how the American Church allowed His green-horse riders to be unceremoniously dragged away by the Korah-spirit crowd. The tow lorry in the hole, therefore, is a figure of God's revenge against those who dragged His emissaries away. The hole itself points to the "Pothole 52" dream that we received one day after the 7/7 attacks in London.

 

[The "Africa" song's full lyrics are available at lirama.net]

 

As the Lord had me typing the paragraph on the year 1924 above, I was reminded of something the Lord prompted me to say to a sister from Wales. Out of nowhere, the conversation (which involved other brothers and sisters) turned to the American state of Ohio as she shared that she would be visiting Ohio in October, which prompted me to spontaneously say the following:

 

Ohio was called to act as a forerunner state in America (that is the reason why Ohio decided the 2004 elections); God is calling Ohio to account for standing still when she was supposed to move forward (in 2005); that is the reason for the recent floodings there; Ohio is a crucial state in America's spirit realm

 

The conversation then continued down a different line. Some minutes later, however, the sister from Wales asked about the "standing still" comment I had made. I was about to explain when the conversation took a different line, and I was unable to share any more. I was reminded of all of this as I reread the words "the American Church stayed at '19'" in the paragraph on 1924 above. Because of this, I suddenly perceived that there was a spiritual connection between the state of Ohio and the year 1924. The Lord then said to me, "Look up the words 'ohio 1924' on the Internet". I then typed "ohio 1924" in www.yahoo.com's search box, and the top result was an article posted on ohiohistory.org titled "June 28, 1924: Lorain Tornado". The article indicates that the Lorain Tornado of 1924 was the deadliest tornado in Ohio history; even though it was not the largest or strongest tornado Ohio had ever had, it became the deadliest one because it targeted an urban centre. The tornado killed 85 persons, 72 in the town of Lorain alone. The death toll of 85 points to the "85 killed by minister Saul" (1 Samuel 22:16-19) because "Ohio" turned God's remnant over to the enemy, leaving them to fend for themselves. The death toll of 72 in Lorain points to the hidden remnant and the 72 spiritual nations that we briefly shared on in the "New York tornado" word; in other words, the death of the 72 speaks of how the American "Ohio" allowed the hidden remnant to be killed by the beast, instead of enabling their full manifestation. The tornado of 1924 struck the town of Sandusky first, killing 8; it then crossed Lake Erie to reach Lorain, damaging some 35 blocks along Broadway, killing 15 in the "State Theater" (the most ever killed by a tornado in a single building in Ohio). The 35-block damage points to the number "35", which, as we have said before, speaks of the Jordan-crossing transition from "3" to "5" that God's green-horse remnant come to forge; when "Ohio" passed up on her time of visitation in 2005, she damaged the "3" to "5" transition that God was about to forge in Ohio and America. The 15 who died in the "State Theater" (or "Ohio Theatre", since Lorain is in the state of Ohio) also has spiritual significance. As we said in a prophetic word titled "Out of the old Church", the number "15" speaks of the true manifestation of the "male" ministries inside the Church. Therefore, the death of the 15 inside the "Ohio Theatre" speaks of how "Ohio's" spiritual indifference killed the start of the true manifestation of the "male", Spirit-centred ministries in the Church.

 

The fact that the Lorain Tornado struck on June 28 also has spiritual significance. As we have said before, June 29, 2003 was the day when God cast off Latin America's spiritual calling (with only Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay surviving the decree). That means June 28, 2003 (exactly 79 years after the Lorain Tornado) was the last day in which Latin America's calling remained alive. Interestingly enough, June 28 fell on a Saturday both in 1924 and in 2003. All of this emphasises the fact that America's failure to forge God's revival in 2005 was in large part motivated by her spiritual contamination from Latin America.

 

The fact that June 28 fell on a Saturday in 1924 and then again in 2003, 79 years later, has spiritual significance. The fact that Ohio's literal disaster happened on a Saturday (June 28) whilst Latin America's spiritual disaster happened on a Sunday (June 29) has spiritual significance. The fact that God struck Ohio on a Saturday means that Ohio had the opportunity to resurrect on Sunday morning. The fact that God struck down Latin America on a Sunday means that Latin America's time was up; there was no opportunity for a resurrection the next day, for "Sunday" was the appointed day of resurrection; it was a day intended for life, but Latin America turned into a day for death.

 

All of the above was encoded in the 1924 steam pipe that burst near Grand Central station on July 18, 2007. This spectacular explosion was the manifestation of spiritual pressure built underground, outside of natural man's view; this pressure mounted as God's remnant prayed with their words and their deeds for the manifestation of God's Kingdom in New York, America and the world. Thus, it is no coincidence that sister Betty Greene sent us a dream involving underground prayer in a basement on June 2, 2006. Sister Betty walked and prayed around Manhattan for a period of weeks, and her intercessory prayer ended inside Grand Central Station on Sunday October 15, 2006. The result of her intercession manifested itself exactly 276 days later, on July 18, 2006, when the steam pipe burst, which points to the following passage:

 

"33And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing. 34Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you. 35And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat. 36Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat. 37And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls. 38And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea. 39And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship. 40And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore. 41And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves. 42And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape. 43But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land: 44And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land." (Acts 27:33-44)

 

America's spiritual negligence thrust the remnant into a tumultuous and dramatic "ship trip", and the remnant have been suffering aboard this ship, just as Paul did during his trip to Rome. However, just as God preserved the lives of the 276 souls aboard Paul's ship, God shall preserve the prophetic calling of America as a nation, though not without a devastating "shipwreck" first, as was the case with Paul's "shipmates". The dramatic pipe explosion is a figure of this shipwreck. More judgements are to come against America, both in terms of numbers and intensity. These judgements are necessary in order to hammer down the wall of resistance that the American Church is putting up against God's green-horse visitation.

 

Grand Central Station's official name is actually "Grand Central Terminal". The fact that the Lord chose a place whose official name includes the word "terminal" points to the "terminator" nature of God's green-horse riders, a nature that matriarchal America was not comfortable with. Grand Central Terminal is famous around the world for its cavernous Main Concourse, which is a figure of the "Sheol caves" green-horse riders reside in after their "deaths"; these caves are "carved out" by their uncompromising stance against the reign of the soul, for they come to terminate the matriarchy, not to negotiate with it.

 

[As I meditated on Grand Central Station, the Spirit reminded me of the terminal that sister Chelsea Brown saw in the "Turban threat" dream. Grand Central Station, therefore, is spiritually related to that terminal.]

 

Grand Central Terminal is also famous around the world for the 4-faced clock on top of the information booth in the centre of its Main Concourse. The 4 faces are made of opal, which points to what we said about opal in the "Hospitality" word. Therefore, the Lord is once again emphasising the spiritual connection between the pipe explosion near Grand Central and America's inhospitality to His green-horse spirit. The clock in the centre of the Main Concourse speaks of God's kairos watch, which only moves forward through intercession, and, as we have said before, true intercessors intercede through their very lives, thus becoming "living intercessions" on Earth. When America told "green" to "go home", she caused her kairos watch to stop for 4 years (1 year for each face on the clock), meaning that she will remain spiritually stagnant until the end of the 4-year sentence, even if the natural chronos time continues ticking. When the pipe explosion occurred, everything in Grand Central Terminal ground to a halt, along with all activity in the surrounding area. That is what happened to America's progress in the spirit realm.

 

As I did a search some days ago for the words "meredith manhattan new york 42nd street" on uk.msn.com, I found a news story titled "NYC Explosion: A Blow to Businesses"; this story is posted on various websites, including cbs11tv.com. According to the story, the neighbourhood just south of Grand Central Terminal (the one where the explosion occurred) is one of America's most expensive commercial districts, and includes offices for major companies such as Pfizer, Newmark Knight Frank, and magazine publisher Meredith. To be honest with you, I had no idea what the Meredith company were about. Upon researching, I learnt that Meredith are a magazine and book publishing company that focus on women's issues (as indicated on answers.com and on the company's own website). This is no spiritual coincidence. As we said above, the "green" name "Meredith" was originally intended as a male name in the UK, but it has been turned into a female name in America. When God came in the form of His green-horse riders to revert this trend (spiritually speaking), America refused. This is the reason why God prompted this steam pipe explosion so close to Meredith Corporation's headquarters near Grand Central, as if to certify that kairos time has stopped in America because the American Church refused to yield her ("female") soulish control to the ("male") Spirit.

 

According to the news story mentioned in the paragraph above, a witness declared that she had seen steam rising out of the ground for weeks where the explosion occurred. She was surprised by the fact that people were acting as if the explosion had "happened out of the blue", since she had at times seen so much steam that she couldn't even see the cars driving through it. In the same way, God gave ample warnings to America before He decreed the "freezing" of kairos time for 4 years, but the warnings went (and remain) unheeded. It is no coincidence that the news story refers to the area affected by the blast as "the frozen zone". That is what America has become for now. The cleanup was expected to "drag" well into the following week, meaning that businesses in the area would suffer huge losses. Just as the American Church allowed the remnant to be "dragged out" of America's spiritual scene, God is now unleashing judgements upon America that are causing "dragging delays". In a spiritual sense, this blast near Grand Central Terminal did happen "out of the blue" (as the witness in the story put it), for it was the remnant wrapped in a blue prayer shawl who have triggered all of this.

 

The fact that Grand Central Terminal is related to trains points to what we shared on a word posted on February 3, 2007. There is a spiritual train rumbling along beneath the surface of the visible, and you can only hear its rumbling if you listen to the wind.