A week from today Hilary and I fly back to Belfast. (D.V.)
Yesterday our daughter Abby sent us this photo of an iconic building in the centre of Belfast, ablaze. I couldn’t help but line it up with The Flame picture that hangs in our hallway. Painted by our Australian friend Paul Newton, co-inciding with the 2000 Sydney Olympics, it illustrates The Flame song I was given at that time.
The painting is based on two photos Paul took of his father’s hands and his daughter’s hands with the flame of faith being passed through the three generations. Interestingly when Abby found and married her Belfast flame, Stephen, she moved from Minneapolis to live in a little house literally 50 yards from where her godly grandfather had his furniture shop! Stephen and Abby’s joint flame now burns bright as they serve together in leading a thriving Belfast city centre church!
I have been pondering the significance of this fire because although there is a purely ‘natural’ reason (someone having a fag? ) and response, (relief there were no casualties. sadness at the loss of an historic building etc.) for these things, there is another greater ‘reality’ manifesting in this time/space continuum that we are being given eyes to see. So may I offer a couple of ‘insights’
I believe we are living in Verse 4 of the Flame song
…..When this age shall end and the time has come, for the Trump to sound.
When I was given those lyrics back in 2000 no one was thinking of Donald Trump as a political candidate much less as a future President of the United States! So the next phrase should have us on high alert:
….and our Lord to come.
When Hilary was showing the photo to someone here, she made a throw away comment I picked up on, “It’s famous as The Bank Building.”
In Revelation 18 we read about Mystery Babylon and her fall. The power of this entity has lain in her ability to remain secretive. However because ‘the time has come’ I believe God is now exposing as never before “The works of darkness.”
One expression of the ‘kingdom of darkness’ based in the world of banking, is the Federal Reserve, which is not Federal at all but a group of private bankers that has welded enormous power over the last century. It’s origins are well documented in the book “The Creature from Jeckel Island” by G Edward Griffin. More and more people are now waking up to the manipulating narrative of the money manipulated, mainstream media. I have mentioned this before as described in the old BBC documentary “The Century of the Self” available on Youtube.
So to understand what is really going on requires an understanding of history and a more accurate knowledge of current events, but most important of all an insight given by the Spirit into Scripture.
These blogs are not a teaching platform but mere morsels to whet the appetite for this deeper study and understanding that is possible for those with a hunger for truth.
A second observation to do with these two photos I was lead to lay alongside each others is this….
You will notice that above the flame atop The Bank Building is an ominous black cloud of smoke. News of troubling events in today’s world can fill us with foreboding!
However if you look above the other Flame, the Flame of God’s love, you will see a rainbow. The rainbow was given in Genesis 9 as a sign of God’s covenant with the whole of creation. This was a reaffirmation and elaboration of the first covenant given to Abraham, the covenant fulfilled in Christ, based on grace through faith. This new covenant stood in contrast to the old covenant. The old covenant was to do with man’s vow to God, which he could never keep, the New Covenant is to do with God’s vow to man which he will most certainly keep.
This is the incredibly good news of the God of hope who fills our hearts with joy and peace, as we put our trust in Him…..to do all that he has said he would do for you, me and the whole of creation that lies under that rainbow of His promise.
Babylon is bound to fall and as Jesus taught his disciples to pray…..the unshakable Kingdom of God will come, and his will, be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
P.S.We are looking forward to carrying this hope to our family and friends in Ireland from September 6th – October 10th. If any of you Irish blog readers would like to connect with us during that time, please do contact us……and we’ll see what adventure our Father has in store for us together as we worship and wait on Him in this Tabernacles season.
P.P.S. We fly out the day after the Robbinsdale City Council meeting. We have been greatly encouraged by the many expressions of love and faith we have received on this journey, and will hopefully have a report to share with you on the next blog. For those who live locally and would like to attend, the meeting is at Robbinsdale City Hall at 7pm on Tuesday 4th September