Just after posting the last P.S. “Tsunami of Truth”,someone sent me the following short video. Even though it is a few years old, I thought it a balancing P.S. to the Part 5 blog message! Some of you might remember Paul from Manfred Mann, ‘back in the day.’
P.S. Another ‘Tsunami of Truth’ in just 4 minutes.
………and another’TSUNAMI of TRUTH’ ……..in just one verse,
”Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!’ (Psalm 46:10)
Back to the Future in Belfast Part 5.
I thought I’d finished this series, when the other day on the phone I mentioned the title Back to the Future in Belfast to Paul McAree, and as an aside he said,
”Yes. Belfast……Of course that’s where the Delorean car, the vehicle in the movie that took them back to the future was built!’
As the psalmist would say…….Selah.
So I realized there was meant to be another part to this series, and as I pondered it, here are the ‘pieces’ that came together.
Prophetically a vehicle represents a ministry but a train represents a movement of the Holy Spirit.
Just yesterday. I was talking to a brother who had a dream recently that the car they were driving, ran into a train, and they were catapulted forward by the train through the air eventually landing safely. This following our conversation that this next ‘movement’ of God’s Spirit will not be merely, ‘another revival” but be ‘utterly other’ than anything we have known heretofore, as I have said before. The feasts of the Lord provide the template as we move from Passover to Pentecost and now into the third and final feast of Tabernacles.”
I was then reminded of the final ‘treat’ at the steam train museum in Whitehead, pictured above. The carriage being restored is the last 12 wheel carriage (authority) in Ireland and is also unique in that all three classes of travel are accommodated in this one carriage, 1st class, 2nd class, and 3rd class.
As we anticipate ‘the first resurrection’ (Rev.20:6) we understand from 1 Corinthians 15: 20ff. that this is the first of three ‘squadrons’ or harvests as in the barley the wheat and the grape harvests. Dr Stephen Jones has written extensively about this harvest of the whole earth, and his books are freely available at https://godskingdom.org/
When we were in Ireland, Mike Johnson was appointed Speaker in the US House.
I believe I heard Father say it marked, ‘A turning point.’ Then He pointed me to the name ‘son of John’ John meaning ‘Yahweh is gracious’
I believe God has graciously brought us to ‘a turning point’ as a NATION.
Then I was alerted to the fact that Hilary’s maiden name was also Johnston, and thought how God had through her, graciously brought me to ‘a turning point’ as a PERSON
So when I discovered the pastor of Every Nation Church in Belfast was named Johann, also John, I realized this was also a sign that God was graciously bringing Belfast to ‘a turning point’ as a CITY.
Somehow the book featured on the blog several months ago just ‘turned up’ on my chair!…..and I noticed again my friend the author’s name…..John.🙂
My friend who called yesterday brought yet another confirmation as he related how God had just graciously turned things around after a 12+ year rift between he and his brother with a wonderful deathbed resolution and reconciliation that is bearing ongoing fruit. His brother’s name? John of course.
The number 861 had been assigned to the carriage above. At first It wasn’t obvious to me the meaning, then I realized that 168 represents the Greek letter phi, which is to do with ‘timing’
861 of course is most appropriate for the Back to the Future title as it is a back to front wink from heaven of 168…….
NOW is the time!
How appropriate that I should end up with 5 parts to this blog, the number for grace, as this is the paramount revelation in ‘the great turning’ as we migrate as true Hebrews from an old covenant mindset to a more authentic new covenant understanding and experience of God’s amazing grace!
A final photo from the train museum🙂
This train number points to the following text as from ‘Back to the Future’ we come to the present
”God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains fall into the the heart of the sea, though it’s water’s roar and foam, though the mountains quake with their surging.” Psalm.46:1ff)
There is currently a Tsunami of Truth breaking on our world.
For those who take refuge in God this tsunami of truth will set us free from all fear.
Did you know that there is a train in scripture? ….. in Isaiah’s vision. ‘…..I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up and his TRAIN filled the temple.”
We are that temple of the Holy Spirit on earth that the train of his glory is destined to fill, as God’s promise is fulfilled, and the glory of the Lord covers the earth as the waters cover the sea.(Num.14:21)
When I review some of my songs written years ago I sometimes would like to tweak them knowing what I now know that I didn’t understand when I wrote and recorded them.
In “Always With You” I would now rewrite the last verse,‘Afterwards I know you will MAKE me your glory (rather than ‘take me to glory’) and there I will stay.”
I’ve learned God wants us to focus more on his glory coming to earth through us, rather than ‘our going to heaven’
Enjoy listening to Paul McAree’s wonderful arrangement of the song again, by clicking on the YouTube link at the top, and see can you hear the rhythm of that glory train -a-coming ?🙂
P.S. The ‘quaking’ we read about in this Tsunami Psalm is of the ‘mountains’ of society. Below are two recent documentaries which explain how two of these mountains have been captured by, “the serpent’ but are destined to become, “the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ.”
Back to the Future in Belfast. Part 4.
It is when the heavenly reality and earthly events converge that I get most excited. As I was given in “The Blessing’ “May your feet be always found planted firm on solid ground, and your heart be lost in heaven’s boundless blue.”
I wrote last about such a ‘heaven and earth’ convergence in a ‘church service’ but Father then pointed out to me an even more amazing one that had happened the day before, as we had simply gone about our ‘regular life’.
It was our last day out with our two young Irish grandsons, 2 and 5 years old. Those of you with sons or grandsons of such an age will be aware of the timeless fascination they seem to have with steam trains. (In addition to this one of our boys happens to be called Tom as in Thomas the tank engine🙂)
Well ‘auntie Jane’ suggested to us what might be a special treat for our last day together. She told us about something we had never heard about before……a steam train museum, a short bus and train ride away. So on our 7th Saturday, off we set.
We arrived only to discover that alas! The time for the last tour had passed! ‘No problem’ said Eleanor the guide. ‘I’ll take you around.’ So off we set.
The boys eyes got bigger and bigger until the ultimate happened………
Luke and Tom had their own personal ‘Casey Jones’ experience. ( for my generation🙂)
But ‘the best’ was indeed, yet to come! Eleanor’s final ‘unveiling’ was carriage # 50
This was the carriage that had been customized to accommodate the newly coronated Queen Elizabeth 2 . In 1953 following her being crowned Queen she had visited Northern Ireland and ridden from Belfast to the North West on a steam train……in this very carriage!
I couldn’t but take this very personally, as I had been born in 1953, just 3 months after the coronation, at 7 minutes past 7 in the morning, weighing in at 7lbs 7oz!
Doing more research I discovered this was one of 25 visits the Queen had made to Northern Ireland. Then I came across the following summary of her 25th and last visit……7 years ago…..which is where it gets really interesting!
25. 27th – 28th June 2016
In her final and most recent visit to Northern Ireland, the Queen paid a trip to the Giant’s Causeway on the North Coast.
She also visited the nearby Bushmills where she unveiled a statue to the Victoria Cross recipient Robert Quigg.
The Queen also took a steam train through Coleraine and Bellarena – a trip that harked back to her coronation tour of 1953.
Amazingly this was the identical itinerary the YSF prayer team………a company aspiring to ‘reign and rule with Christ on the earth for a thousand years.’ as the King’s beautiful Queen (Rev.5;10, 20::6)……..had chosen, for our ‘day out’ together, after the retreat!
We too had gone to the Giant’s Causeway and then had also gone to Bushmills for ‘toasties’ (Not sure what Queen Elizabeth had for lunch 7 years previously🙂) We too had then completed our day with a stop in Coleraine where we had a final ‘‘koinonia’ meal together at Maurice and Carolyn’s home!
Another wink from heaven was when I noticed the dates of the Queen’s last visit. It was on our 41st wedding anniversary and the first day of our 42nd year of marriage. 41 represents separation and 42 arrival pointing to the separation of the bride of Christ in preparation for his arrival at his second coming.
https://godskingdom.org/blog/2023/05/the-meaning-of-42/
The final Psalm 85 ‘kiss’ of the heavenly and the earthly was when I realized the location of the steam train museum – Whitehead.
‘Daniel 7 records, ““As I looked, “thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took his seat. His clothing was as white as snow; the hair of his HEAD was WHITE like wool. His throne was flaming with fire, and its wheels were all ablaze……….“In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed……….As I watched, this horn was waging war against the holy people and defeating them, until the Ancient of Days came and pronounced judgement in favor of the holy people of the Most High, and the time came when they possessed the kingdom.” ………Then the sovereignty, power and greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven will be handed over to the holy people of the Most High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will worship and obey him.’”
Daniel 7:9, 13-14, 21-22, 27 NIV
More next time.
Back to the Future in Belfast. Part 3.
I enjoy joining the dots. I believe DOTS stands for Details Of The Story.
There is in the end of the day, only one Story. It is His – Story which is fulfilled prophecy writ through the whole of our lives.
Yesterday I watched a short video from the Bible project. It concluded with the significance of the number 7 and of the seventh day. Our trip to Ireland stretched to 7 weeks this time and it was on this seventh week that I witnessed events culminate as our story synchronized with The Story.
In Part 1. I spoke of the ‘Belle of Belfast City’ being the beautiful bride Father is preparing for his Son…….A Queen for His King. Well the final weekend I was invited by the South African pastor to share at Every Nation Church.
The church meets in the chapel of Methodist College Belfast, where our sons Robin and Ben attended before leaving Belfast in 1994. It is a mere stone’s throw from the Queen’s University and literally ‘round the corner’ from where the events on last week’s blog took place!
I had been in the chapel only once before, just prior to our moving to America. It was to sing at the wedding of a young man from our community called Colin Davidson. Colin had just finished at Art College and had completed a painting for us for the Come Lord Jesus album, of the harvesting Irish farmer with the subtext, “put in the sickle, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.” (Rev.14:15)
Little did we know at the time that Colin would go on to be a world renowned artist particularly known for his portraits of famous people. This included the portrait of Angela Merkel for Time magazine’s Person of the Year and Queen Elizabeth 2. The photo at the beginning of the blog literally pictures
………. ‘the unveiling of the Queen’
So as in the last blog we were back in exactly the same place, Methody chapel, this time not 50 but 30 years later! We began by singing the “Belle of Belfast City’ brilliantly accompanied by grandsons Luke and Tom🙂pictured below. Then I unpacked the prophetic message described in Part 1.
I then lead the international congregation in Lord Jesus we enthrone You, and then asked if any of them had sung the song in their own ‘hometown’ in a different language. Several people put their hands up.
This included a group who said they had sung it in Persian in their homeland, Iran. A young Iranian had just testified (through a translator) of being healed from a stage 4 cancer and coming to faith in Jesus Christ from Islam. Apparently 25 other young Iranian men had also been converted. The following Sunday there was to be a baptism service!
Here 30 years on, God had brought from the ends of the earth harvesters, to harvest those he had brought from the ends of the earth to the city of Belfast, as a part of His Irish harvest!
………for ‘the harvest of the earth is ripe’ and it is time for the bridal Queen, drawn “from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.” (Rev.5:9) to be unveiled!
Back to the Future in Belfast. Part 2.
The Smiling Face retreat was small but select.
Nestled between numbers 22 and 24 Elmwood Avenue we knew it was our Psalm 23 shepherd who had lead each one to be at that place, as he smiled out from the flyer, pictured on the October10th blog.
(Above is Brian’s smiling face as he selfied some of the combined US/Ireland Your Smiling Face team)
I begin the last blog by mentioning that we had over the years been sent to all 5 continents At the retreat we heard from participants from Poland, from South Africa, from Korea, from the US (and of course from Ireland : ) wonderful testimonies of how Jesus had set them free!
That left Australasia as the only continent not represented.
Then Father pointed out to me that the following weekend at the Come Magnify the Lord worship gathering, much to our surprise and delight, Barbara, a friend we hadn’t seen in many years came forward to testify about the time we visited their church in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.
I recalled singing On the Day You were Born for the first time there. A Māori lady then shared about a vision she had as we were singing, of Jesus coming on a long white cloud. The Maori name for their country, Aotearoa means, ‘The land of the long white cloud’
Barbara then went on to remind me of how the next day we went to the highest spot in the region to sing Lord Jesus we Enthrone You and invite him to take his place as King throughout that land. She recalled a tourist standing nearby had ambled up to us and said, “I know that song. We sing it in our country too.”
I recalled that on the identical spot where Barbara now stood and spoke, exactly 50 years previously, the Come Together in Jesus Name choir had been given a prophecy by David Matthews (who died earlier this year, after 77 years service here on earth.) He quoted the scripture,
‘Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.’ (Jn.12:24)
At the time the leadership team received this word as from the Lord, and even though it seemed in the natural, the musical had a lot more ‘mileage’, we decided to give it back to God, and let it ‘die’.
And now here we were again, 50 years later, hearing stories about this hospitable church being filled with students from the four corners of the globe, and our own ‘Jubilee’ event tokening the same broad reach, and a real depth of life changing testimonies!
The number 23, as illustrated in Psalm 23, represents ‘Death and Resurrection’.
After embracing the word about letting something die 50 years previously, Father had brought us back to exactly the same spot, to witness the faithful fulfillment of his promise in,
…….The Church of The Resurrection🙂
At the worship gathering, Keith sang a beautiful song he had written for us. Here is the snippet we caught……
indeed, “The plans of the Lord will stand for ever; the purpose of the Lord from age to age.”
We had now witnessed this personally in this place, as the story of the last 50 years had unfolded.
Towards the end of the evening someone initiated prayer for us. Words came about sowing in tears but reaping with joy, about a harvest of 60, 80 and 100 fold, about an anointing going with us. As the first word was given the microphone suddenly came love, and out boomed…..”Paul, the best is yet to come.’
We only had to wait until the following weekend to experience the beginnings of that word being fulfilled.
More in next week’s blog🙂
Back to the Future in Belfast. Part 1
Over the years we have had the privilege of assignments on all five continents. Usually we will begin our sharing by inviting King Jesus to come and take His place in that place, as we sing ‘Lord Jesus We Enthrone you, we proclaim you are King.’
Then by way of introducing ourselves, we often would sing about our hometown in, ‘The Belle of Belfast City’
I would then speak about that beautiful Belle as being the Bride of Christ that God is preparing for His Son not just in Belfast but in every city, town and village across the globe
I reckon that makes the bride of the King we long for……the Queen.
Interestingly when we lived in Belfast much spiritual activity happened around our old alma mater, The Queen’s University Belfast (Q.U.B.).
This was where ‘the charismatic movement’ first landed, where the ‘Come Together in Jesus Name’ choir was born, and where the musical presentation ‘Come Lord Jesus’ first took place. Both these musicals spread through Ireland and beyond. These three ‘birthings’ happened literally within a quarter mile radius of one another…..at Queen’s.
On our return last month the three events I gave notice about on the blog, once again……all happened to take place around ‘Queens’
More than ever before, the Belfast folk song about the Belle of Belfast City came alive to me as a prophecy, now being fulfilled in our time!.
The chorus goes,
She is handsome, she is pretty
She is the Belle of Belfast city
She is a courtin’ one, two, three
Please won’t you tell me who is she.
‘Handsome’ usually refers to men and ‘pretty’ to women indicating that ‘the bride of Christ’ is made up of both men and women.
And who are three she is courting? Why the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
In verse one we hear of conflict, ‘All the boys are fighting’ and the boys are fighting the girls, ‘They boys won’t leave the girls alone…..They pull my hair and stole my comb.’ Beyond the historic, ‘Troubles’ of Northern Ireland conflict between ethnic groups and between the genders is more marked worldwide now than ever before.
And yet out of these difficult times emerges the Belle…..
’Out she comes as white as snow
Rings on her fingers bells on her toes.’
Scripture tells us that though our sins be as scarlet they shall be white as snow. This white robe speaks of the righteousness that is ours in Christ, (Is. 1:18, 61:10,11) As returning prodigals we have been given a ring of authority on our finger (Lk.15:22) and on our feet, the bells that ring out good news, from those whose feet have been shod, ‘with the gospel of peace.’ (Eph.6:15)
‘How lovely on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news. Proclaiming peace announcing news of happiness,’Our God reigns’ (Is. 52:7)
This above all is the good news, that our good God reigns in all, over all and through all!
The third verse begins,
‘Let the wind and the rain and the hail blow high.
The snow come a tumbling from the sky.
She’s as sweet as apple pie
And she’ll get her own lad by and by.”
Today we are in the midst of a ferocious worldwide storm. Yet we find the Belle, ‘sweet as apple pie’
She lives the truth of Psalm 46 for God is her refuge and strength an ever present help in trouble therefore she does not fear though the earth appears to give way for through her heart flows the stream of God’s Spirit enabling her to be still in the knowledge that God is God.
We discover the Belle does get her love. So who is “the fella with the rovin’ eye’?
‘For the eyes of the LORD roam throughout the earth, so that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His.” (2 Chron.16:9)
We discover his name is ‘Albert Mooney’. What does that reveal? Albert means ‘bright and noble’ one, and Mooney means ‘wealthy’.
Is not Jesus, the wealthy one? The creator and owner of all things, it is He who is our bright and noble bridegroom……the beautiful Queen’s Coming King.
Stumbling across Revival!
We literally met a ‘good shepherd’ several years ago when we made our traditional visit to ‘the land.’
‘The land’ is a quarter acre field my father purchased on Horn Head, Donegal. It has I think one of the most beautiful views in Ireland, but he and we have been prevented from building on it all these years. That is another story, but we do like to visit when we’ve over here and drink in the beauty for a few minutes.
The farm beside the field is owned by a shepherd and when we met him a number of years ago and heard and saw how he handled his sheep, we knew he was a ‘good shepherd’ He took us into the shed to see a new born lamb that had been too weak to feed from his mother. Lying there peacefully on the warm straw under the rays of a heat lamp, Shane, the farmer was giving feeds from a bottle filled with mother’s milk.
In the absence of development, we had given permission for Shane to use our field in the meantime. Last visit I spied a doll’s house in one corner. This time it was a miniature football net revealing the addition of two little ‘human lambs’ to Shane and his wife, that were now the object of his care and attention.
I found Shane’s step mother sunning herself next door. A pleasant, friendly and helpful woman, we’d met on a previous visit, she sported a bandage on her right wrist.
“Carpel tunnel syndrome?’ I ventured.
“Yes” she replied. ‘I had this one done last week. I’m due to have the other done next.”
‘Would you like me to pray for you to be healed?’ I ventured further.
‘O yes please.’ She eagerly responded.
I leaned over the low whitewashed wall placed my hand on her shoulder, and against that backcloth of beauty, released the healing power of ‘the great shepherd’.
Raised on the East coast of Ulster at Gilnahirk, ‘the hill of the horn blower’, each time we would visit Horn Head on the western coast we would take the opportunity to sound the horn the Lord had given us to blow in the song Lord Jesus We Enthrone You, proclaiming Jesus King, and inviting him to come and take his place here as we overlooked the town of Dunfanaghy below.
Back in town, it was time for coffee……good coffee I mean!
Fortunately we knew the spot. It was the most prominent building at the heart of the village, facing onto the town market square. A plaque commemorated it being the location of an incident related to the worst of the British Empire.
A few hundred yards away the old Workhouse now adapted for the tourists.
The ‘famine pot’ outside was another reminder of those ‘bad old days’
The ‘evil empire’ has continued largely hidden as ‘Mystery Babylon’ Now the ‘Mystery’ is being uncovered and ‘Babylon’ exposed, for its time is up! The Luciferian death cult that has usurped the seven mountains of influence (government, media, economy, religion, family, arts and entertainment, education) is soon to be displaced as the ‘sons’ whom God has been preparing rise up to take their place as the true ‘shepherds’ of the sheep, that Isaiah 2: 2 be fulfilled and ‘the mountain of the Lord’ grow to fill the whole earth.
As we entered the shop in the historic heart of the village we found ourselves in easy conversation with Kathy the owner. We quickly knew we were on the same page and she talked about her husband as the one ‘ferreting out’ the truth. As a nurse he had refused the order to be the one to go to Tory island and inject the islanders with the untested experimental gene therapy.
“Sure they had to open a clinic in Letterkenny to help the women who developed menstrual problems post vaccination.” She said. ‘There was no way I was letting my 12 year old daughter get that jab.”
‘Yes, we’ve been ostracized, but we’re still here.” She said with a quiet confidence.
As we pottered through the antiques and collectibles we came across the shepherd’s crook pictured above.
Once again Father was pointing up another hero, this time not an national or international figure such as those mentioned in the last blog, but a ‘local hero’ carrying the shepherd’s heart right at the very heart of this community we had been singing and proclaiming Jesus King over for years.
Father highlighted to me the name Kathy had chosen for the shop, REVIVE, and I realized again, “This is that.’ Something ‘utterly other than we have known heretofore’ where in the heart of the marketplace and government of this community, the heart of ‘the good shepherd’ is being manifested and ‘the mountain of the Lord’ is being established.
I had stumbled across Revival.
The Little Man in the Big Picture and the Big Man in the Little Picture
That is the title of the message Father has given me to share at the Chapel of Unity in Methodist College Belfast this Sunday at 11 am at Every Nation Church. 1 Malone Road. BY9 6SJ. All are welcome.
Come and Join us for a Great Night Out.
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