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Prophetic word for
today (p.i.)
4-horse drama
First preliminary posting: November 3, 2007
E-mailed:
September 22, 2007
Word
received
by: John Edwards
In my dream, I am laying above a common area where
people are mingling, playing cards, drinking coffee, relaxing. In these two
areas, we are under a white Astro-Dome type canopy. All white, no other colors
except for some clothes I'll go into in just a bit. The separate levels were not
a separation of importance; one was just higher than another, like a loft. From where I am
laying I could see the outside street area, also in white, but some of the [men]
were wearing black suit's jacket and pants, and the ladies just colors, not
anything as particular as the men. The whole of the background was white,
however. The street was not under the canopy. It was outside; I recall seeing
"blank" buildings all in white in the background, like "Hollywood" backdrop
staging. The hard
surface I was laying on was apparently my resting place/bed, but without a
mattress, [nor a] pillow, nor a need of a blanket. Thinking back now, I am not sure
if I was wearing anything or not; apparently it didn't matter. I also recall not
seeing but a coved wall behind me without a way to get off.
In my dream, I am tossing and turning, not getting any sleep, when I noticed at
first a young lady coming into the common area, at first at a distance. Then,
somehow, when we were talking up close, I asked her what she wanted. She
said she was just there to get a few magazines. She was pleasant to look at and
was polite. She gathered up a few magazines, tucked them into her left elbow and
turned to walk out when I noticed one of the magazines had in large "white"
letters "GEO" or "GEQ." The joint at her left elbow cut off the half of the
letter, but I recall thinking that the magazines seemed to be modern for 2007.
The young woman was a nurse's aid. She was wearing a light blue and white
stripped dress with an old-style (50's) nurses cap (its' how I could tell she
was a nurse). Then she turned and left, walking outside to the right, mixing with
the flow of foot traffic.
The second scene shortly afterwards opened with everything dark. Dark red, like
the dark red color of dried blood, was the color everywhere. I could not see anything, not even [myself]. I
was very much afraid. Being so afraid, I had to force my right-hand fingers into
my mouth and force myself to ask: "What ... do ... you ... want?" Once
[I] asked, the
darkness slipped away into a fleeing spirit who was moving outward towards the
street area, yet did not touch down to walk. When I looked to see more, I saw a
dark-red, like dried-blood-colored cloak, and just the back of a head (not
attached to the body) with well-groomed dark-red, like dried-blood color, hair flowing in the breeze
of its movement. No arms, legs, neck, face, no body parts of any kind were ever
seen; then, it was gone as if moving across the outside foot traffic, not
turning to go either way but towards the blank buildings.
[In] the third scene, I awoke with my arm under my head partially hanging off the
bed I was on, with two very old men grabbing and hanging on me at the same time.
Both men looked like twins. They were both very skinny, with hard, tanned skin,
and were both bald. One man was in front while his twin was right behind him.
All I could see of the latter man was his bald head, his forehead, and the tops
of his eyes looking right at me. Again I asked: "What do you want?" and then too
were gone. Somewhere soon after, the dream had ended.
Our
brief comments
The scene sequence
in this dream points to the following:
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The
initial part of the dream, where brother John is
under a white canopy
points to the galloping of
the 1st horse of the Apocalypse --
the white
horse. A close study of the order in which the tribes of Israel are
named in Revelation 7:5-8 (when contrasted with the order in which the sons
of Jacob were born in Genesis 29:31-30:24) reveals that the white horse
comes to bring a silent awareness of our priesthood as believers. As the
white horse begins to gallop, believers who are attentive to God become
subconsciously aware that there is no difference between "ministers" and
"laymen" and that we are all of the "same species" within the Body of
Christ. As other believers remain comfortable playing the religious game, "mingling,
playing cards, drinking coffee", and "relaxing",
and
as things seem to be "business as usual", the white horse begins its run in
the invisible spirit realm above. The white horse's gallop leads to a
"silent awakening" amongst believers who may be operating within
the Church's religious system but whose hearts are after God's perfect will.
As we have
said
before, the white horse acts as a "spiritual umbrella" for the other 3
horses of the Apocalypse, which correlates with the white canopy in the
dream.
The fact that the canopy was
like the AstroDome's
points to the Houston Astros (who played there). As we have shared
before,
the Houston Astros point to God's waiting remnant who are interceding,
longing for the manifestation of God's Kingdom on Earth. The word "Astro"
literally means "star", and it points to what the Lord said in Luke 10:20.
As we have studied
before, the sons of God are as spiritual stars in the heavens who are
called to shine forth and emanate God's Kingship all over the spiritual
atmosphere of the Earth. As believers begin to hear the gallop of the white
horse, they begin to gaze up, and they become aware of their "star" up in
the sky, the star that was "activated" in the heavens by God the moment they
were born again, just as Jesus's was when He was physically born into the
Earth (Matthew 2:2). That is when they realise that there is no "separation
of importance" amongst God's people, and that they are called to
operate in the fullness of their God-endowed
Spirit nature.
The
"blank" buildings that looked like "Hollywood" backdrop staging
emphasise the "background" nature of the white horse. The word "Hollywood"
is God's coded way of saying "Holy wood", which points to God's people as "oaks
of righteousness" (Isaiah
61:3) who are called to
grow into the
measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (Ephesians 4:13).
The fact that
the dreamer had no blanket and
that it did not seem to matter whether he was wearing anything or not points
to an important spiritual fact: Those who heed the white horse's gallop
begin to lose their interest in
human
coverings. As they become aware that the God of heaven is their
covering, the shame that religious man associates with
non-submission to human structures becomes irrelevant.
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The
young lady who comes into the common area is a figure of the
red-horse riders who are
sent by God into the Church as the 2nd seal of the Apocalypse is opened. The
red horse comes to create
unrest
and
inconformity with the status quo, which explains why the dreamer was "tossing
and turning, not getting any sleep" when he noticed the young
lady approaching. The
young red-horse
rider comes to cause face-to-face conflict, confronting
Cain's
paradigms directly. This is the reason why the dreamer found himself "talking
up close" with the young lady all of a sudden. To those who prefer
Cain's paradigms, the red horse becomes an unpleasant and rude nuisance. To
those who are interested in doing God's will, the red horse is as a fresh
breeze blowing through a stale land. That is the reason why the dreamer
found the young lady "pleasant to
look at" and "polite".
God's red horse comes to call God's people out
into the black-horse wilderness, away from the house of Cain. This is the
reason why the young lady said that she was there to "get
a few magazines"; each magazine represents a believer, and only a
chosen few shall heed God's
red-horse
shout. As indicated on
wikipedia.org,
the word "magazine" is used in artillery terms to refer to any item or place
within which ammunition is stored. The word is derived from the Arabic word
makahazin meaning "warehouse". Therefore, the magazines in
the dream are God's coded way of saying that He sees His people as a mighty
spiritual arsenal, an armoury of mighty weapons that has remained
inert and unused
due to a
pastoral matriarchy that has
conspired to neutralise the manifestation of God's
"male" warrior
spirit,
tyrannically emphasising the
soothing of the soul and the
exalting
of men
instead. Through the horses of the Apocalypse, however, the Lord shall
rescue His chosen weapons from the grip of the
Babylonian
pastoral matriarchy so as to unleash His
mighty
vengeance against the spirit of Jezebel that has ruled the Church:
"23How is the
hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a
desolation among the nations! 24I have laid a snare for thee, and
thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and
also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. 25The
LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his
indignation: for this
is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. 26Come
against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as
heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left. 27Slay
all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for
their day is come, the time of their visitation. 28The voice of
them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the
vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple." (Jeremiah
50:23-28)
As we have
said
before,
the left side is related to the prophetic. Therefore, the fact that the
young lady tucked the magazines
into her left elbow speaks of the prophetic endowment of God's
red-horse teachers. Being teacher-apostles, they are strongly
right-handed,
since both the teacher and apostolic ministries are
mind-oriented endowments;
even so, they are strongly prophetic, for the words they speak are derived
from a direct relationship with God, and they come to encourage others to
embrace such a relationship. They come to emphasise the value of the
invisible anointing, an anointing that cannot be discerned by looking at
external religious titles.
One of the magazines had in large white letters
either "GEO" or "GEQ".
There is deep prophetic significance behind this. As indicated on
acronymattic.com,
the acronym "GEQ" can stand for "Graphic Equaliser", which, according to
wikipedia.org,
refers to devises that change "the frequency envelope of a sound" by correcting, or
making equal, the frequency response of a signal; graphic equalisation helps
to ensure that the sound system does not give certain frequencies an
inordinate importance. In the same way, the red horse comes to challenge the
"religious pre-eminence" of the Cains who rule the Church. In that way, the
red horse is God's "Graphic equaliser", teaching believers that all who
believe have direct access to God.
According to
acronymattic.com,
the acronym "GEO" can stand for "General Education", which speaks to how
God's red-horse riders come to teach to all, in full faith that God's
people have the potential to operate in the deep things of God because they
have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16). Those in the spirit of Cain
believe that the "common blokes" are too spiritually inferior to understand
the deep things of the Spirit (John 7:49); to them, only the "chosen
ministers" can dare to delve into "spiritual stuff".
The word "GEO" also points to the prefix "geo",
which comes from the Greek word ge meaning "earth". In Scripture,
"earth" points to man's temporal weakness, which in turn points to the
teacher ministry,
the weakest of
all ministries. God's red-horse riders appear
on the scene
in weakness, proclaiming that God wants to pour His Spirit upon
all flesh (i.e.- all "earth"). We are all made of the same weakly "GEO", and
we are all equally called to share in
God's unifying anointing. That is what
God's red-horse "GEQ" ("graphic equalisers") come to teach.
The fact that
the magazines seemed modern for
2007 points to how God's red-horse teachings are prophetic
"teachings beyond their time", teachings that
break the barriers of
human
traditions, traditions which work to keep believers in spiritual stagnation,
a stagnation in which
chronos time continues ticking whilst kairos
time silently stops.
When the young woman left, she walked "outside
to the right, mixing with the flow of foot traffic". This
"mingling with the foot traffic" points to how God's red-horse riders come
to emphasise the equality of all people through right-handed apostolic
teachings:
"8And there sat a
certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his
mother’s womb, who never had walked: 9The same heard Paul speak:
who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
10Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he
leaped and walked. 11And when the people saw what Paul had done,
they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are
come down to us in the likeness of men. 12And they called
Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.
13Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city,
brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with
the people. 14Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard
of, they rent their
clothes, and ran in among the people,
crying out, 15And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things?
We also are men of like
passions with you, and
preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God,
which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
16Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own
ways. 17Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that
he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our
hearts with food and gladness. 18And with these sayings scarce
restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them."
(Acts 14:8-18)
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The dream's second scene opens "with
everything dark". This scene points to
the 3rd
horse of the Apocalypse ... the
black horse. The "dark
red" colour seen throughout the scene points to the transition
from the red horse to the black horse. The fact that the colour seemed like
that of "dried blood"
points to the blood of red-horse Abel, the blood shed by Cain as he works to
silence Abel's "pestilent" teachings. As Abel's red-horse blood dries in the
ground, the black horse begins to gallop.
In the scene, the dreamer is "so
afraid" that he had to use his fingers into his mouth to ask the
darkness, "What do you want?". This is a figure of the great fear that
envelops believers as they become aware that God is calling them out of the
"safe" covering of Cain and into the black-horse wilderness. Once a believer
sheds the fig-leaf covering of Cain, he or she is going from a life as a
"mere soul" into a life as a spirit being ... from being a "son or daughter
of Eve" (Genesis 3:20, 4:1) to becoming a "son of Adam", the latter Adam
(1 Corinthians
15:45). This is the reason why
the dreamer saw the darkness slip away "into
a fleeing spirit who was moving outward towards the street area".
This spirit was not touching down
to walk, which is a figure of believers beginning to walk in the
supernatural realm of the Spirit, above the pavement of natural
understanding. Once you heed God's red-horse shout, you will want to flee;
you will want to
escape from the control of Cain. That is the reason why the
darkness fled out into the street when the dreamer asked "What do you
want?". From the black-horse wilderness, God's believers begin to launch
prophetic arrows of
invisible
judgments
against the Church they left behind.
"28The voice of
them that flee and
escape out of the land of Babylon,
to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his
temple. 29Call
together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow,
camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her
according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for
she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel."
(Jeremiah 50:28-29)
As God's believers shed the fig-leaf covering of
Cain, they are given an invisible but real covering. This is why the dreamer
saw a dark-red cloak,
which he was able to see only after he resolved to "see more", meaning that the cloak is
not immediately visible to the natural mind. The
well-groomed "hair flowing in the
breeze of its movement" speaks of a believer who is beginning to
flow in the freedom of the Wind (i.e.- the Spirit), with his or her thoughts
at peace about that freedom because of God's red-horse teachings, which
certify that his or her actions are not the product of human rebellion but
rather the result of a heart more interested in God's will than man's (as we
have shared before,
hair is a figure of the thoughts emanating from our minds).
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The dream's third scene opens with
bald twins grabbing and
hanging on to the dreamer whilst he was in bed. The bald twins point to the
spirit of "bald Korah", the spirit that the 4th
horse of the Apocalypse,
the green horse, fights
against. As we have said
before, Korah is a Canaanite-Girgashite, and, as we
have also said
before, the Canaanite and Girgashite spirits are the
foundation for the matriarchy of the 2 "female" ministries (pastor and
teacher). In the spirit realm, there are 2 important sets of twins:
the twins of apostle and prophet and the twins of pastor and teacher. In
God's Kingdom, the apostolic and prophetic anointings are the foundation
(Ephesians 2:20); in satan's kingdom, the pastoral and teaching ministries
are the foundation. The horses of the Apocalypse come to uncover this
distorted foundation, and, as the last horse begins to gallop, a bald and
pathetic Korah is left exposed before all.
As I was meditating on twins, the Lord brought
George W. Bush's twin daughters to my attention. As we have shared
before,
these twins have served to expose many of the serious spiritual flaws in a
man who is supposed to be a devout Christian and churchgoer after God's own
heart. This is no coincidence. As the horses of the Apocalypse have galloped
across America and the world (beginning
in 2004), the shaky foundation of
the 2 "female" ministry twins in the American Church has been exposed. It is
no coincidence, either, that Jenna Bush, one of the twins, has recently
declared that she wants to invest her life doing "charitable work" in Latin
America, which reveals the Bushes' emotional attachment to the same
Latin
American culture that helped
delay America's latter-rain revival, a revival
that was supposed to have started during Bush's time in office. By
befriending Latin America in their souls, Bush and his family befriended
Latin America's spirit of Korah.
The fact that the twins were
old and
skinny
speaks of a Girgashite wear-down. Through the horses of the Apocalypse, God
has exposed the temporality and vulnerability of the American Church's
leadership. The twins' "hard"
skin refers to the
stubborn determination on the part of the Church
leadership to "remain in power" despite the barrage of God's judgements
against them. Korah is a stubborn,
self-deceived fool that refuses to
surrender. That is the reason why they were "hanging
off the bed", refusing to fall all the way down.
Even though the pastoral and teaching ministries
have joined to form an evil Canaanite-Girgashite set of twins, the pastoral
ministry is the dominant twin (Daniel
8:3). That is the reason why the dreamer could see
one of the twins right in front of him, with
the other twin "right behind him".
The
dream ended "somewhere soon after" the bald twins were gone.
After Korah is defeated in the spirit realm through the sacrificial death of
God's green-horse riders, an unavoidable chain of events is unleashed in the
natural realm. This chain of events is manifested in the 3
seals that come
after the 4 horses of the Apocalypse have galloped through. Though Korah has
been defeated in the spirit realm, his fall in the natural realm is not all
that "immediate". That is the reason why the dreamer perceived a time lapse
right before the dream actually ended. We are in the middle of this "time
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