WAHKEETAH'S HEARTSONG
The wolf stands above the horizon
And cries to the night
The moon weeps her tears of blood
Old men are no longer wise
Smiles of the children are buried in ashes
Fire burns the souls of our people
Their bones are white and dry.
Great ones, weep and wail......
Our cries we send in ashes
To the Great Spirit, Wonkin Tonka.
Our prayer, our song, dances on the four winds
Searching for the next rising Son.
Will He come????
And bring with Him all the lost ones???
We cannot see....
Our eyes are darkened....
We feel only cold around us.
We seek the others who carry the Light...
To be our eyes....
To be our voice.
Take us to our homeland.
Give us back our eyes.
Let us hear again.
Let us touch and feel our loved ones tears.
Oh children of our children
Set us free from this Spirit prison.
Our journey has been long.
The wolf stands above the horizon and cries to the night.
His howling is our prayers to the stars...
To the Great One Whom we seek....
To Our Home.
Our brother, the wolf, has been our voice.
Our brothers could not hear us speak....till Now.
Oh children of our children
Sing the songs....
Wash the ashes away with your tears.
Be our voice....
And take us Home.
Inspiration received by Summer Breeze from Wahkeetah on July 17, 1997
at the National Rainbow Gathering in Ochoco National Forest, Oregon.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Wahkeetah's Heartsong
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Prayers for Wounded Knee
This is a plea for continued prayers for Wounded Knee and the entire Lakota reservations in South Dakota. If you have a prayer to share, or a recorded dedication prayer in native Lakota tradition, please email themidnightwriter1@gmail.com so I can post it on the blog.
Our trip to Wounded Knee met with a few complications. However, we spent a lot of time in prayer for the healing of the tribe. It was more a private vigil for us that carried us to places in Wyoming which we never thought about visiting. Our trip culminated at Devil's Tower where we took some time to camp and reflect. We met some interesting friends there, photographers, so we enjoyed their company one evening while they shared their photos. Jerry and Ann were from New Jersey. They travel one month every year for four years now.
An interesting co-incidence occurred in that our friends Jerry and Ann also enjoy trips to Devils Tower, Wounded knee, and Tucumcari, one of our other favorite places. Actually, all these sites are sacred vigils for us along with a few others, like Indian Prairie in the Ochoco National Forest in Oregon. Synchronicity? Maybe. Co-incidence? Possible. Divine Providence and Universal guidance? Definitely.
I have a desire to write letters to as many people in the Lakota tribe as possible to ask them to host a large reconciliatory prayer assembly at Wounded Knee. The letters should come from people around the world. The letters to invite people from around the world should come, in my thoughts, from the Lakota. It will take a unified effort to bring this about. I am seeking volunteers to help bring about this vision.
Please write to themidnightwriter1@gmail.com if you would like to volunteer to help with this effort.
A date for the next prayer assembly at Wounded Knee will be posted in the future. It will probably take place some time in 2009. Please visit the Pine Ridge Reservations on your own initiative and help out in any areas possible. While you are there, please stop at the Wounded Knee cemetery and offer up your prayers.
Much love,
And may peace be with you.
Summer Breeze, The Midnight Writer
MSN.com
Glenwood Springs in Colorado is a fascinating stop on our travels this August. We arrived yesterday and spent the night at "No Name" Rest Area located at mile marker 117. Interesting name and fantastic rest area. Nestled in the canyon along a 17 mile stretch of Interstate 70, this rest area welcomes one with spacious parking enough for cars, trucks, 18 wheelers, motor homes, van, or whatever your travel vessel of choice. Awe inspiring mountain peaks surround the rest area with peaks at canyon crevices which make one want to put on climbing gear, while the river flows along the interstate below the rest area. Fantastic views make visitors want to pull out the camping gear. Beware of the rest area highway workers, though if you decide to stay more than one night. Four hours is the limit officially, but most workers will give you eight hours grace before taking down your license plate. What do they do with your plate number? Turn it over to highway patrol the following morning if you are still parked there. Colorado Highway Patrol will be speedily called on the second day, at which time lingering visitors will be given a notice to tow citation.
All official warnings aside, take time to stop at the No Name rest area. Walk the wonderful trail that follows the river for a span of twelve miles. Bicyclists can enjoy the wide walkway alongside walkers while gazing at the many rafting expeditions flowing down the river and the kayakers. This river flows east to west through the White River National Forest.
Cephas and I took pictures of the friendly rafters who waved and posed for us. I will post them as soon as I buy a card reader to upload to the computer from my canon digital.
We enjoyed the walk along the river and the many sites. All the while, I was wishing we had thought to make a reservation for a rafting tour or to stay at the campgrounds located along the riverside in Glenwood Springs Canyon.
Be sure to visit town with its quaint old town, with many stores, shops, and facilities. Folks were out after 9pm walking about, families, and children and old folks alike. Seems like a friendly town with all the activity at this time of night.
Visit the fanciful new town which is based at the foot of a fantastic red mountain that is covered with the greenest trees that offset the dark red earth. The sunset view from the corner just outside Starbucks is awesome! I took a picture of that as well. Oh yeah, Starbucks in Glenwood Springs offers free AT&T Wi-Fi with your registered Starbucks card. I sure enjoy it!
Don't forget the one main attraction that brings folks from around the country and probably the world, I would guess..the mineral Glenwood Springs Hot Pools. I can find more information on this but the stories about the town and the springs dates back into the 1800's with tales of Doc Holiday, who died in the Glenwood hotel, and the Ute Indians who used the hot pools as a sacred healing site. Have to check my facts on all this, but meanwhile, surf online to find out more for yourself and visit Glenwood Springs.
I forgot one thing...the Amtrak route through Colorado runs through the canyon. I have taken this trip myself on several occasions and I highly recommend it. It is the most inspiring and beautiful ride with views in the tops of the mountains that defy description. You just have to see it for yourself.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Petra in 2011
Wadi Rum Rainbow Gathering February 2006
In 2011 we are calling for a spiritual prayer assembly and a gathering of nations at the holy ancient city of Petra. Details will be written on this blog as they happen. This assembly and pilgrimage to Petra in 2011 was put on my heart by the Holy Spirit of God in the spring of 2007.
Wadi Rum Rainbow Jam..So Much Magnificence
To understand why go to Petra, I want to present the history and Biblical prophetical significance of this ancient city. I begin this presentation with information taken from this website, as it was compiled by a man who has a personal experience with the Bible, with prophecy and perhaps a "passion" for the city of Petra.
http://www.cai.org/bible-studies/petras-time-clock
Petra's Time Clock
The famous ruined city of Petra lies on an ancient caravan route south-west of Amman, the capital of Jordan. It sits in a deep-sided basin, and contains tombs and temples whose breathtaking facades are cut into the rockface. David Down has been visiting the Middle-East regularly since 1958, and leads tour groups around the area each year. In this article he looks at a prophecy that begins in Genesis and is fulfilled many centuries later. Petra plays an intriguing part in this, and it reinforces the reliability of Genesis as well as other parts of Scripture.
I spend a full day each year visiting the temples and tombs of ancient Petra. But I never walk through those rose-red ruins without marvelling at the uncanny accuracy of God's great time clock which slowly but relentlessly ticked away till Petra's hour struck. But let us start at the beginning.
Nearly thirty-eight centuries ago a mother gave birth to twins. After waiting 20 years for the birth of a child, Rebekah's delivery was a traumatic affair. "And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau" (GENESIS 25:25). Medically this was a rare, but not unknown, birth defect called hypertrichosis.
The Hebrew word se'ar, here translated 'hairy', from which the name Esau seems to have been derived, is closely akin to the word sa'ir, which is 52 times translated as goat or kid. Jacob, Esau's twin brother, was later to deceive his blind father Isaac into thinking he was Esau by draping a goat skin over his hands (GENESIS 27:23). The area later occupied by Esau's descendants was called the land of Seir (GENESIS 32:3).
Even more significant was the Hebrew word for red, admoniy, derived from the word 'Adam'. Esau was so passionately fond of red lentils that he impetuously sold his birthright for a pot of them. "Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage;" he urged Jacob, "for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom." (GENESIS 25:30). And so his descendants were called Edomites. "Esau the father of the Edomites" (GENESIS 36:43).
"Please let us pass"
Esau was naturally resentful of Jacob's duplicity in deceiving his father into bestowing Esau's birthright upon Jacob, and this hostility was perpetuated in their descendants. When the weary Israelites reached the borders of Edom, they requested permission to go through Edomite territory. "Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country:..." Moses pleaded. "...we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way..."
But the polite request was met with a curt refusal, backed up by a show of military strength. "Thou shalt not pass by me," the king of Edom retorted, "lest I come out against thee with the sword" (NUMBERS 20:17-18). So the Israelites were obliged to take the arduous route through the Syrian desert.
But during Rebekah's pregnancy a Divine prediction had been made: "...the elder (Esau) shall serve the younger (Jacob)" (GENESIS 25:23). For a long time there seemed to be some miscarriage of prophecy. For 800 years Esau and his descendants had the upper hand. But though God's time clock ticks slowly, it is none the less certain.
When the youthful David achieved a united Israel and established his capital city at Jerusalem, the surrounding nations became apprehensive at the growing strength of Israel. On the west, the Philistines decided to launch a pre-emptive strike. David decisively repulsed them. This aroused the fears of the nations on David's eastern border. David was obliged to face the Moabites, the Ammonites, a coalition of Syrian kings, and the Edomites. He defeated them and put them to tribute. "And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians [should read 'Edomites'; Aram-Syria and Edom are almost identical in the Hebrew script] in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men. And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants." (2 SAMUEL 8:13-14).
Time Caught Up
So time had caught up with Esau's descendants; the prophecy began to take effect. David was now the monarch of an extensive empire.
During the reign of Jehoram, king of Judah, 150 years later, "Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves." (2 KINGS 8:20).
Fifty years after this, Amaziah restored Judah's control over Edom. "He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war..." (2 KINGS 14:7). (This is the first usage of the word Sela in the King James Version. It is a Hebrew word meaning 'rock', and is so translated 56 times.) Later, during the Greek period, the site was called Petra, which is the Greek word for 'rock'. Ultimately, the word Petra came to designate the whole valley.
In 2 KINGS 14:7 the Hebrew word used is hassela, which means literally 'THE rock'. The term originally referred to a high flat-topped hill with near-vertical sides in the Petra valley. It is today known to the Arabs as 'Um el Biyara', meaning "place of cisterns".
It was the last line of retreat for the Edomites, and was well nigh impregnable. Carved into its flat top are five deep cisterns. Into these, rainwater was channelled, providing a plentiful water supply should the defenders be besieged.
In 2. Kings 14:7 the Hebrew word used is 'hassola' which means literally "the rock". The term originally referred to a high flat-topped hill with near-vertical sides in the Petra valley. It is today known to the Arabs as 'Um el Blyara', meaning "place of cisterns".
Dashed to Pieces
But this did not prevent its capture by Amaziah. Under him, "And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock [Hebrew: hassela], that they all were broken in pieces." (2 CHRONICLES 25:12). This was rather a grim end for the captured soldiers. I have stood on the edge of Um el Biyara and looked over the dizzying precipice. It is a long way to the bottom.
The Edomites tasted the fruits of revenge 200 years later. Judah had forsaken the worship of Yahweh, and prostrated themselves before the idols of their neighbours. God allowed the Babylonians to conquer Jerusalem. Thousands of Jewish captives were sent into exile, and the city was placed under tribute. Zedekiah, against the counsel of the prophet Jeremiah, tried to assert Judah's independence. The Babylonians returned, and this time there was no reprieve for the city.
Nebuchadnezzar, accompanied by his allies, who included the Edomites, besieged Jerusalem in 588 B.C. For two bitter years the defenders held out, but in 586 B.C. the walls were breached and the city was taken. What should be done to prevent further sedition? The Edomite allies saw their chance to vent their spite, and urged: "Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof" (PSALM 137:7). Nebuchadnezzar took their advice, and Jerusalem was levelled to the ground on which it stood.
No One Shall Abide There
Yahweh's response through the prophet Jeremiah was swift and decisive. "Concerning Edom, thus saith the Lord of hosts... I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself... O thou that dwell in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD. Also Edom shall be an desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof. As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it." (JEREMIAH 49:7, 10, 16-18). Obadiah, whose entire book is directed at the Edomites, added, "For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever."
'The height of the hill' refers to Um el Biyara, and the 'clefts of the rock' refers to what is now known to the Arabs as the Siq. Petra is in a large hilly valley, and the main entrance to the valley is through a long narrow winding fissure through the surrounding hills. This spectacular gorge has towering sides which almost seem to meet overhead in places. This Siq is more than a kilometre in length, and rendered Petra easily defensible.
These prophecies were to receive a dramatic and specific fulfilment. But lest anyone accuse the prophets of making predictions after it all happened, nearly a thousand years were to roll by before their ultimate toll was taken.
But for the Edomites, judgment soon fell. About 200 years later the Nabataeans (an Arabic tribe) arrived on the scene, and the Edomites were dispossessed of their ancestral home. There is no scriptural record of what happened, so it is not known whether it was a military conquest, or whether the Nabataeans infiltrated Petra and finally squeezed the Edomites out. All we know is that it happened in the fourth century B.C.
The Edomites were obliged to take refuge in the arid Negev in southern Judah. Through a strange twist, they became part of the nation they despised. In the late second century B.C. the Maccabean leader John Hyrcanus forced them to be circumcised and to become Jewish proselytes. This move backfired 70 years later when a strong-minded Edomite, Herod the Great, with the support of Rome, seized Jerusalem and brought the Jews under his iron hand. It was he who slaughtered the Jewish babies in Bethlehem.
New Architecture
Back in Petra, the Nabataeans introduced a new era of architecture and sculpture. They were a tribe from northern Arabia, probably descended from Nebajoth, Ishmael's eldest son (GENESIS 25:13). Actually, Esau married Nebajoth's sister (GENESIS 28:9), so the newcomers to Petra were not altogether unrelated.
Petra's hills consist of stratified sandstone made up of layer upon layer of multicoloured stone. Every colour of the rainbow is represented. The stone is not just brown or yellow, but red, green and blue. And the Nabataeans proceeded to carve their houses, tombs and temples out of the solid mountainsides, exposing the multicoloured strata in dazzling patterns.
Camel caravans, laden with spices and gold, plodded through Petra from Arabia to Damascus and Anatolia, and the Nabataeans exacted their tolls. Instead of the predicted desolation, Petra flourished. The king's daughter was married to Herod Antipas, the despot who beheaded John the Baptist. When Herod married Herodias, Aretas IV regarded it as an offence to his daughter and declared war on Herod.
The Nabataean political influence extended to such an extent that Damascus came under their control. Paul reported that, "In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands." (2 CORINTHIANS 11:32-33).
Tales of the fabulous riches of Petra came to the ears of imperial Rome, and the emperors cast covetous eyes on the mountain stronghold. Two attempts to capture the city failed, but in A.D. 106, under the emperor Trajan, Roman legions entered Petra.
Mocking the Prophets?
But Petra did not die. A well-paved Roman road was built through the Siq and valley, and a triumphal arch erected across the road. A Roman temple was built at the foot of Um el Biyara. Tombs took on the appearance of the facade of a Roman palace, and Petra's prosperity seemed to mock at the distant tirades of the Hebrew prophets.
Christianity came to Petra. Crosses were chiselled into the walls of tombs, and the dead were buried in graves hollowed out of the floors of old houses. A huge Roman tomb was converted into a Christian church.
But the deeds of death were being sown for Petra's thriving populace. A new caravan route along the Red Sea became increasingly attractive to the camel drivers, and Palmyra in the north became a great centre of trade. Deprived of their income from taxation, the people of Petra became impoverished.
By the time Islam came to the Middle East in the seventh century of our era, Petra was but a shell of its former glory. The inhabitants continued to drift away to more prosperous occupations and Petra echoed to the hollow sounds of an almost deserted city.
We only have one more glimpse of activity in Petra before it lapsed into silence. The crusaders occupied the valley and built a stone fortress on the slopes of Um el Biyara. But when the crusaders withdrew in the twelfth century, Petra was left to foxes and jackals, and the occasional Arab nomad.
Petra's Hour Strikes
Though long delayed, Petra's hour had struck, and even the location of the city was lost. Tales of past glory were told in the Western world, but the whereabouts of the mysterious city was completely unknown. 'No one shall abide there', the prophet had said, and Petra was an empty shell.
On Wednesday, November 24, 1784, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was educated in Germany and in 1806 he went to England, where he studied for three years at London and Cambridge. Three years later he was appointed by the British African Society to explore in Africa. He was advised to go first to Syria to study Arabic and the Islam religion, which was then the dominant influence in North Africa.
Burckhardt so successfully identified himself with Islam that he became an authority on the Koran. He adopted a Muslim name, and later made a pilgrimage to Mecca in the guise of an Arab.
In 1812 he set out from Damascus on his way to Cairo, taking the route through southern Jordan. He was accompanied by a local guide, who in the course of conversation mentioned a strange deserted valley near Mount Hor, the traditional burial place of Aaron. It was a sacred site for Muslim pilgrims, and Burckhardt professed to his guide that he had made a vow to sacrifice a goat at the tomb.
'I must reach the mount'
The guide led him to Wadi Musa, the spring of Moses, from which the shrine on top of Mount Hor is visible, and suggested that the goat could be acceptably sacrificed in sight of the tomb. But Burckhardt insisted that his vow required him to reach the mount.
So the two continued into the valley. What Burckhardt saw made him gasp. So much so that the guide became suspicious. He accused him of being a spy, and wanted to kill him. Burckhardt allayed the guide's suspicions only by hastily slaying his goat, and proceeding on his journey. When he reached civilisation, he announced to an astonished world that he had found the lost city of Petra.
When I first visited Petra it was still a dangerous place for tourists. When I told the local police that I wanted to sleep with my family in a deserted tomb (there was nowhere else to sleep in Petra), the police would only consent on condition that I hire an armed guard to stand outside my tomb door all night. The guard was duly hired, and I spent three days in Petra exploring its amazing temples and tombs.
Today, a beautiful hotel caters for guests at Wadi Musa, and a comfortable restaurant nestles at the foot of Um el Biyara. A stream of tourists constantly enters the valley on foot, on horses, and even in Jeeps. "...every one that goeth by it shall be astonished..." said the prophet (JEREMIAH 49:17). And no one can visit these magnificent ruins without a profound feeling of wonder and admiration at what they see.
by David Down
Source: 'Creation Ex-Nihilo', Vol. 12, No.1
In 2011 we are calling for a spiritual prayer assembly and a gathering of nations at the holy ancient city of Petra. Details will be written on this blog as they happen. This assembly and pilgrimage to Petra in 2011 was put on my heart by the Holy Spirit of God in the spring of 2007.
Wadi Rum Rainbow Jam..So Much Magnificence
To understand why go to Petra, I want to present the history and Biblical prophetical significance of this ancient city. I begin this presentation with information taken from this website, as it was compiled by a man who has a personal experience with the Bible, with prophecy and perhaps a "passion" for the city of Petra.
http://www.cai.org/bible-studies/petras-time-clock
Petra's Time Clock
The famous ruined city of Petra lies on an ancient caravan route south-west of Amman, the capital of Jordan. It sits in a deep-sided basin, and contains tombs and temples whose breathtaking facades are cut into the rockface. David Down has been visiting the Middle-East regularly since 1958, and leads tour groups around the area each year. In this article he looks at a prophecy that begins in Genesis and is fulfilled many centuries later. Petra plays an intriguing part in this, and it reinforces the reliability of Genesis as well as other parts of Scripture.
I spend a full day each year visiting the temples and tombs of ancient Petra. But I never walk through those rose-red ruins without marvelling at the uncanny accuracy of God's great time clock which slowly but relentlessly ticked away till Petra's hour struck. But let us start at the beginning.
Nearly thirty-eight centuries ago a mother gave birth to twins. After waiting 20 years for the birth of a child, Rebekah's delivery was a traumatic affair. "And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau" (GENESIS 25:25). Medically this was a rare, but not unknown, birth defect called hypertrichosis.
The Hebrew word se'ar, here translated 'hairy', from which the name Esau seems to have been derived, is closely akin to the word sa'ir, which is 52 times translated as goat or kid. Jacob, Esau's twin brother, was later to deceive his blind father Isaac into thinking he was Esau by draping a goat skin over his hands (GENESIS 27:23). The area later occupied by Esau's descendants was called the land of Seir (GENESIS 32:3).
Even more significant was the Hebrew word for red, admoniy, derived from the word 'Adam'. Esau was so passionately fond of red lentils that he impetuously sold his birthright for a pot of them. "Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage;" he urged Jacob, "for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom." (GENESIS 25:30). And so his descendants were called Edomites. "Esau the father of the Edomites" (GENESIS 36:43).
"Please let us pass"
Esau was naturally resentful of Jacob's duplicity in deceiving his father into bestowing Esau's birthright upon Jacob, and this hostility was perpetuated in their descendants. When the weary Israelites reached the borders of Edom, they requested permission to go through Edomite territory. "Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country:..." Moses pleaded. "...we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way..."
But the polite request was met with a curt refusal, backed up by a show of military strength. "Thou shalt not pass by me," the king of Edom retorted, "lest I come out against thee with the sword" (NUMBERS 20:17-18). So the Israelites were obliged to take the arduous route through the Syrian desert.
But during Rebekah's pregnancy a Divine prediction had been made: "...the elder (Esau) shall serve the younger (Jacob)" (GENESIS 25:23). For a long time there seemed to be some miscarriage of prophecy. For 800 years Esau and his descendants had the upper hand. But though God's time clock ticks slowly, it is none the less certain.
When the youthful David achieved a united Israel and established his capital city at Jerusalem, the surrounding nations became apprehensive at the growing strength of Israel. On the west, the Philistines decided to launch a pre-emptive strike. David decisively repulsed them. This aroused the fears of the nations on David's eastern border. David was obliged to face the Moabites, the Ammonites, a coalition of Syrian kings, and the Edomites. He defeated them and put them to tribute. "And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians [should read 'Edomites'; Aram-Syria and Edom are almost identical in the Hebrew script] in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men. And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants." (2 SAMUEL 8:13-14).
Time Caught Up
So time had caught up with Esau's descendants; the prophecy began to take effect. David was now the monarch of an extensive empire.
During the reign of Jehoram, king of Judah, 150 years later, "Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves." (2 KINGS 8:20).
Fifty years after this, Amaziah restored Judah's control over Edom. "He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war..." (2 KINGS 14:7). (This is the first usage of the word Sela in the King James Version. It is a Hebrew word meaning 'rock', and is so translated 56 times.) Later, during the Greek period, the site was called Petra, which is the Greek word for 'rock'. Ultimately, the word Petra came to designate the whole valley.
In 2 KINGS 14:7 the Hebrew word used is hassela, which means literally 'THE rock'. The term originally referred to a high flat-topped hill with near-vertical sides in the Petra valley. It is today known to the Arabs as 'Um el Biyara', meaning "place of cisterns".
It was the last line of retreat for the Edomites, and was well nigh impregnable. Carved into its flat top are five deep cisterns. Into these, rainwater was channelled, providing a plentiful water supply should the defenders be besieged.
In 2. Kings 14:7 the Hebrew word used is 'hassola' which means literally "the rock". The term originally referred to a high flat-topped hill with near-vertical sides in the Petra valley. It is today known to the Arabs as 'Um el Blyara', meaning "place of cisterns".
Dashed to Pieces
But this did not prevent its capture by Amaziah. Under him, "And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock [Hebrew: hassela], that they all were broken in pieces." (2 CHRONICLES 25:12). This was rather a grim end for the captured soldiers. I have stood on the edge of Um el Biyara and looked over the dizzying precipice. It is a long way to the bottom.
The Edomites tasted the fruits of revenge 200 years later. Judah had forsaken the worship of Yahweh, and prostrated themselves before the idols of their neighbours. God allowed the Babylonians to conquer Jerusalem. Thousands of Jewish captives were sent into exile, and the city was placed under tribute. Zedekiah, against the counsel of the prophet Jeremiah, tried to assert Judah's independence. The Babylonians returned, and this time there was no reprieve for the city.
Nebuchadnezzar, accompanied by his allies, who included the Edomites, besieged Jerusalem in 588 B.C. For two bitter years the defenders held out, but in 586 B.C. the walls were breached and the city was taken. What should be done to prevent further sedition? The Edomite allies saw their chance to vent their spite, and urged: "Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof" (PSALM 137:7). Nebuchadnezzar took their advice, and Jerusalem was levelled to the ground on which it stood.
No One Shall Abide There
Yahweh's response through the prophet Jeremiah was swift and decisive. "Concerning Edom, thus saith the Lord of hosts... I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself... O thou that dwell in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD. Also Edom shall be an desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof. As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it." (JEREMIAH 49:7, 10, 16-18). Obadiah, whose entire book is directed at the Edomites, added, "For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever."
'The height of the hill' refers to Um el Biyara, and the 'clefts of the rock' refers to what is now known to the Arabs as the Siq. Petra is in a large hilly valley, and the main entrance to the valley is through a long narrow winding fissure through the surrounding hills. This spectacular gorge has towering sides which almost seem to meet overhead in places. This Siq is more than a kilometre in length, and rendered Petra easily defensible.
These prophecies were to receive a dramatic and specific fulfilment. But lest anyone accuse the prophets of making predictions after it all happened, nearly a thousand years were to roll by before their ultimate toll was taken.
But for the Edomites, judgment soon fell. About 200 years later the Nabataeans (an Arabic tribe) arrived on the scene, and the Edomites were dispossessed of their ancestral home. There is no scriptural record of what happened, so it is not known whether it was a military conquest, or whether the Nabataeans infiltrated Petra and finally squeezed the Edomites out. All we know is that it happened in the fourth century B.C.
The Edomites were obliged to take refuge in the arid Negev in southern Judah. Through a strange twist, they became part of the nation they despised. In the late second century B.C. the Maccabean leader John Hyrcanus forced them to be circumcised and to become Jewish proselytes. This move backfired 70 years later when a strong-minded Edomite, Herod the Great, with the support of Rome, seized Jerusalem and brought the Jews under his iron hand. It was he who slaughtered the Jewish babies in Bethlehem.
New Architecture
Back in Petra, the Nabataeans introduced a new era of architecture and sculpture. They were a tribe from northern Arabia, probably descended from Nebajoth, Ishmael's eldest son (GENESIS 25:13). Actually, Esau married Nebajoth's sister (GENESIS 28:9), so the newcomers to Petra were not altogether unrelated.
Petra's hills consist of stratified sandstone made up of layer upon layer of multicoloured stone. Every colour of the rainbow is represented. The stone is not just brown or yellow, but red, green and blue. And the Nabataeans proceeded to carve their houses, tombs and temples out of the solid mountainsides, exposing the multicoloured strata in dazzling patterns.
Camel caravans, laden with spices and gold, plodded through Petra from Arabia to Damascus and Anatolia, and the Nabataeans exacted their tolls. Instead of the predicted desolation, Petra flourished. The king's daughter was married to Herod Antipas, the despot who beheaded John the Baptist. When Herod married Herodias, Aretas IV regarded it as an offence to his daughter and declared war on Herod.
The Nabataean political influence extended to such an extent that Damascus came under their control. Paul reported that, "In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands." (2 CORINTHIANS 11:32-33).
Tales of the fabulous riches of Petra came to the ears of imperial Rome, and the emperors cast covetous eyes on the mountain stronghold. Two attempts to capture the city failed, but in A.D. 106, under the emperor Trajan, Roman legions entered Petra.
Mocking the Prophets?
But Petra did not die. A well-paved Roman road was built through the Siq and valley, and a triumphal arch erected across the road. A Roman temple was built at the foot of Um el Biyara. Tombs took on the appearance of the facade of a Roman palace, and Petra's prosperity seemed to mock at the distant tirades of the Hebrew prophets.
Christianity came to Petra. Crosses were chiselled into the walls of tombs, and the dead were buried in graves hollowed out of the floors of old houses. A huge Roman tomb was converted into a Christian church.
But the deeds of death were being sown for Petra's thriving populace. A new caravan route along the Red Sea became increasingly attractive to the camel drivers, and Palmyra in the north became a great centre of trade. Deprived of their income from taxation, the people of Petra became impoverished.
By the time Islam came to the Middle East in the seventh century of our era, Petra was but a shell of its former glory. The inhabitants continued to drift away to more prosperous occupations and Petra echoed to the hollow sounds of an almost deserted city.
We only have one more glimpse of activity in Petra before it lapsed into silence. The crusaders occupied the valley and built a stone fortress on the slopes of Um el Biyara. But when the crusaders withdrew in the twelfth century, Petra was left to foxes and jackals, and the occasional Arab nomad.
Petra's Hour Strikes
Though long delayed, Petra's hour had struck, and even the location of the city was lost. Tales of past glory were told in the Western world, but the whereabouts of the mysterious city was completely unknown. 'No one shall abide there', the prophet had said, and Petra was an empty shell.
On Wednesday, November 24, 1784, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was educated in Germany and in 1806 he went to England, where he studied for three years at London and Cambridge. Three years later he was appointed by the British African Society to explore in Africa. He was advised to go first to Syria to study Arabic and the Islam religion, which was then the dominant influence in North Africa.
Burckhardt so successfully identified himself with Islam that he became an authority on the Koran. He adopted a Muslim name, and later made a pilgrimage to Mecca in the guise of an Arab.
In 1812 he set out from Damascus on his way to Cairo, taking the route through southern Jordan. He was accompanied by a local guide, who in the course of conversation mentioned a strange deserted valley near Mount Hor, the traditional burial place of Aaron. It was a sacred site for Muslim pilgrims, and Burckhardt professed to his guide that he had made a vow to sacrifice a goat at the tomb.
'I must reach the mount'
The guide led him to Wadi Musa, the spring of Moses, from which the shrine on top of Mount Hor is visible, and suggested that the goat could be acceptably sacrificed in sight of the tomb. But Burckhardt insisted that his vow required him to reach the mount.
So the two continued into the valley. What Burckhardt saw made him gasp. So much so that the guide became suspicious. He accused him of being a spy, and wanted to kill him. Burckhardt allayed the guide's suspicions only by hastily slaying his goat, and proceeding on his journey. When he reached civilisation, he announced to an astonished world that he had found the lost city of Petra.
When I first visited Petra it was still a dangerous place for tourists. When I told the local police that I wanted to sleep with my family in a deserted tomb (there was nowhere else to sleep in Petra), the police would only consent on condition that I hire an armed guard to stand outside my tomb door all night. The guard was duly hired, and I spent three days in Petra exploring its amazing temples and tombs.
Today, a beautiful hotel caters for guests at Wadi Musa, and a comfortable restaurant nestles at the foot of Um el Biyara. A stream of tourists constantly enters the valley on foot, on horses, and even in Jeeps. "...every one that goeth by it shall be astonished..." said the prophet (JEREMIAH 49:17). And no one can visit these magnificent ruins without a profound feeling of wonder and admiration at what they see.
by David Down
Source: 'Creation Ex-Nihilo', Vol. 12, No.1
Free Tibet
A friend emailed me with the link to this video and a website asking for help in getting the world's attention about human rights abuses in Tibet from China. Please watch the video and search your heart to know what to do to help.
Digital Dharma Films presents this short video “Time to Know the Truth” calling China into account and calling upon rational people everywhere to stand up for our brothers and sisters in Tibet.
Please visit this website Digital Dharma Films: Illuminating Justice, Invoking Compassion. They are the producers of the above video.
March 10th 2008 marked the 49th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising. In the largest Pan-Tibetan protests in history, tens of thousands of Tibetans rose up against China’s illegal invasion and occupation of their country. Despite China’s best attempts to destroy the Tibetan spirit, Tibetan resistance has continued for nearly half a century inside Tibet and in exile communities worldwide. With all eyes focused on the Olympics in China, Tibetans and supporters worldwide are protesting the Chinese government’s use of the Olympics as a political tool to legitimize its illegal occupation of Tibet.
Visit Digital Dharma's website for more information on how you can help. Start by sharing the above video.
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
1) Please forward this video to as many people as possible to raise awareness about the issue. Post it to you blogs and use it as a video response on YouTube and other video websites.
copy this URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U1zXO-O_ng
2) Donate to Digital Dharma Films. We are producing full-length documentary film about Tibet, Non-Violence, and Activism. In addition to seeking grants, private donations will make up over half of our budget. Your donation will help us to produce and distribute this upcoming, inspiring film so important in these tumultuous times we face.
3) Write to the United Nations Office of Human Rights demanding a third party mandate to become involved in Tibet and investigate the Human Rights abuses. email: InfoDesk@ohchr.org
4) Do the Research! Don’t take our word for it. Find out for yourself if China has fulfilled its promises to the I.O.C. China’s Olympic Pledge -Amnesty International
5) Take Action! Visit Students for a Free Tibet’s Olympic Games Campaign site where you can learn more about Tibet and get involved in direct action and strategic non-violence.
6) Talk about it!Make friends with Chinese citizens online, and have dialogs about Tibet, and cross borders. Listen, Learn Challenge.
Digital Dharma Films is:
Andrea Veccione
Tom Sepe
Archival Footage, and Recent Photographs from:
Tibetan Center For Human Rights & Democracy
Students For a Free Tibet
Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts
Yongling Kindergarten
Rebecca & Ronny Novick
CBS5 News, S.F.
Additional Music:
“One World One Dream” by Troy Lush
“Drums” Mark Growden
Special Thanks to:
All of our friends in McLeod Ganj, India
All our donors and supporters in the States and Abroad
Tibetan Youth Congress
Tibetan Women’s Association
Kyizom
Renee Bergan
Tibetan Parilment and Venerable Samdhong Rinpoche
thetibetconnection.org
« List of People and Places we’ve filmed so far
5 Responses to “CHINA-TIME TO KNOW THE TRUTH”
Feed for this Entry Trackback Address
Above information copied from Digital Dharma Website.
Digital Dharma Films presents this short video “Time to Know the Truth” calling China into account and calling upon rational people everywhere to stand up for our brothers and sisters in Tibet.
Please visit this website Digital Dharma Films: Illuminating Justice, Invoking Compassion. They are the producers of the above video.
March 10th 2008 marked the 49th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising. In the largest Pan-Tibetan protests in history, tens of thousands of Tibetans rose up against China’s illegal invasion and occupation of their country. Despite China’s best attempts to destroy the Tibetan spirit, Tibetan resistance has continued for nearly half a century inside Tibet and in exile communities worldwide. With all eyes focused on the Olympics in China, Tibetans and supporters worldwide are protesting the Chinese government’s use of the Olympics as a political tool to legitimize its illegal occupation of Tibet.
Visit Digital Dharma's website for more information on how you can help. Start by sharing the above video.
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
1) Please forward this video to as many people as possible to raise awareness about the issue. Post it to you blogs and use it as a video response on YouTube and other video websites.
copy this URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U1zXO-O_ng
2) Donate to Digital Dharma Films. We are producing full-length documentary film about Tibet, Non-Violence, and Activism. In addition to seeking grants, private donations will make up over half of our budget. Your donation will help us to produce and distribute this upcoming, inspiring film so important in these tumultuous times we face.
3) Write to the United Nations Office of Human Rights demanding a third party mandate to become involved in Tibet and investigate the Human Rights abuses. email: InfoDesk@ohchr.org
4) Do the Research! Don’t take our word for it. Find out for yourself if China has fulfilled its promises to the I.O.C. China’s Olympic Pledge -Amnesty International
5) Take Action! Visit Students for a Free Tibet’s Olympic Games Campaign site where you can learn more about Tibet and get involved in direct action and strategic non-violence.
6) Talk about it!Make friends with Chinese citizens online, and have dialogs about Tibet, and cross borders. Listen, Learn Challenge.
Digital Dharma Films is:
Andrea Veccione
Tom Sepe
Archival Footage, and Recent Photographs from:
Tibetan Center For Human Rights & Democracy
Students For a Free Tibet
Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts
Yongling Kindergarten
Rebecca & Ronny Novick
CBS5 News, S.F.
Additional Music:
“One World One Dream” by Troy Lush
“Drums” Mark Growden
Special Thanks to:
All of our friends in McLeod Ganj, India
All our donors and supporters in the States and Abroad
Tibetan Youth Congress
Tibetan Women’s Association
Kyizom
Renee Bergan
Tibetan Parilment and Venerable Samdhong Rinpoche
thetibetconnection.org
« List of People and Places we’ve filmed so far
5 Responses to “CHINA-TIME TO KNOW THE TRUTH”
Feed for this Entry Trackback Address
Above information copied from Digital Dharma Website.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Antoinette goes to the skies
howdy,
Antoinette, known as NO GUNS, passed away quietly on July 31, 2008, at home... after a long illness. good journey good sister friend,
form all those who love you...
barry, plunker, montana
Excerpts of the Rainbow Oracle from this website:
http://www.alaska.net/~peace/oracle.htm
Contained within this story is a story of our dear sister NO Guns.In tribute to sister No Guns, I paste the story here.
The Rainbow Family prophecy for appearance of the Hopi Bahana
The Rainbow Oracle
(Colorado 1972)
While at the original Rainbow Gathering, the founding family members were privileged to witness an amazing sight. One beautiful morning as brothers and sisters awoke, it was observed that in the partially snow covered mountain ridges, in the wonderful Colorado Rockies, was a perfect outline of a white buffalo. At first it was noticed by a few but as the day progressed it had become obvious that the white buffalo on the mountain had stolen the show and was the topic of the day.
The next day, at the main circle, a Rainbow sister shared a vision that she had that night. In the vision she saw the white buffalo and she saw that the white buffalo was a man. More importantly she described how in the vision the white buffalo was actually the long awaited Bahana whose arrival all the Native Americans were eagerly awaiting. Later, as the Rainbow family evolved so also did the vision as other pieces of authentic Rainbow prophecy were incorporated into the original vision. Finally the most important part of the White Buffalo vision was divulged, that the White Buffalo/Bahana would make an appearance at the 17th National Rainbow Gathering. Thus began the Rainbow Oracle.
Some of the years leading up to the the fulfillment of the oracle were marked with tragedy. In 1980, in West Viginia, two sisters were brutally murdered by shotgun after being picked up hitchhiking on their way to the National Gathering. It was also reported to me by an elder, who was at the 1987 National, that a brother had been abducted from the Gathering and lynched.
Then in 1988, at the Texas National, a beloved sister was nearly murdered when she was run down in main meadow by a local lunatic in his four-wheel drive. But Texas was the 17th National Rainbow Gathering where death was to be cheated as the Rainbow Oracle was being fulfilled!
Rejoice brothers and sisters of the Rainbow! The fulfillment of the oracle proved that the visions and prophesies of the Rainbow Tribe concerning the White Buffalo were genuine and veritable. So you're probably asking, "How was the oracle fulfilled?" That is a great question and the answer is forthcoming, but first let me explain the role of the Bahana.
The Bahana, also known as the Pahana, is prophetically known as the return of Quetzacoatl, the feathered serpent. Quetzacoatl was Enoch who oversaw the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza and crossed the Atlantic Ocean in search of black granite which he found in Wisconsin and shipped back to Egypt for the pyramid. While Enoch was in the Americas he traveled on foot southward teaching the Native Americans the religion of Adam: the religion of the One True Invisible God, called "Wakan-Tanca." Enoch was known as Quetzacoatl, Kulkulcan, and Itzamna.
Quetzacoatl promised he would return in the later times as the White Buffalo/Bahana to deliver the faithful from the hand of their oppressors and to safely lead the believers through the "fire of purification."
In the Book of the Hopi, Frank Waters tells the legend of the lost white brother. He explains,
After the Fire Clan had migrated to their permanent home, the time would come when they would be overcome by a strange people [the white people]. They would be forced to develop their land and lives according the the dictates of a new ruler, or else they would be treated as criminals and punished. But they were not to resist. They were to wait for the person who would deliver them. This person was their lost white brother, Pahana, [or Bahana] who would return to them the missing corner piece of the tablet, deliver them from their persecutors, and work out with them a new and universal brotherhood of man,...
(Book of the Hopi, page 31)
Let us continue examining the oracle's fulfillment. The sister who was run over by the jeep on that fateful day in Texas was "No Guns." She suffered a punctured lung and nearly died as hundreds of family members encircled her and tried to resuscitate her with drugs and a group "om". Fortunately there was a renowned naturopathic physician in camp. He got in his car and drove around the lake and down to the incident site and arduously made his way through the crowd and administered pure oxygen from an oxygen tank to her and saved her life (I met No Guns on the Navajo Reservation in 1991 and she expressed deep gratitude for this)! That physician was Dr. Leland Jensen, the Bahana, the White Buffalo, the lost white brother.
Beloved family! The Rainbow Oracle was fulfilled because the long awaited Bahana was there at the 17th National Gathering in Texas! Dr. Jensen and a group of Baha'is were there teaching "Fireside" classes, promulgating the new and universal brotherhood and sisterhood of mankind.
Dr. Leland Jensen is the establisher of Baha'u'llah's Revelation. Baha'u'llah was the Second Coming of Christ seated on the throne of King David, and for the Native Americans he is the "Father Sun." Baha'u'llah's message to the world is Justice. It was at the 17th National Gathering that the Rainbow Family finally received justice. 1988 was the year that a District Court Judge finally set a precedent in favor of the Rainbow Family by officially upholding our First Amendment right to peaceable assemblage. Since then no party, neither private nor public, not even the United States Forest Service, has been able to block family members from gathering in droves in the public lands. This, my friends, is a testament to Dr. Jensens mission. For the Rainbow family and the Native American Indians he is the Hopi Bahana, the elder white brother, Quetzacoatl, the white buffalo and the true Baha'i. The Texas National was the only Rainbow gathering that Dr. Leland Jensen ever went to and his appearance there was in fulfillment of the Rainbow Oracle.
Dr. Jensen did not appear, fulfilling prophecy just for the Rainbows, the Native American Indians and the Christians; he has come with teachings for the oneness of humanity, with teachings, explanations and commentaries concerning the Divine Plan. Furthermore, his arrival is prophesied in all of the world religions. For instance, just as the Natives are waiting for the Bahana so to are the Jews waiting for Ha Eretz; the Hindus - 10th "Kalki" Avatar; the Zoroastrians - Saoshyant; the Buddhists - Maitreya; the Christians and the Muslims - Jesus; and the Baha'is are awaiting the arrival of the Seventh Angel. All of these roles and more are fulfilled in Dr. Leland Jensen who now resides in Montana (the "Big Sky") and has educated a core of angelic Baha'is (people of light) who are actively teaching and gathering the 144,000 who are to safely traverse the oncoming cataclysms also called the "fire of purification."
Thousands of people, from all walks of life, including the Rainbow, have already examined Dr. Jensens proofs and credentials as the Promised One; many of whom are actively teaching the "new song" and preparing others to survive the winds of destruction and to enter the resultant Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, Paradise, Utopia, Nirvana. Will you be there? I hope so.
Each person is created with an intellect and free will. These capacities allow us to independently search for the truth; eventually, if we seek hard enough, we find it. What you choose to do at that time is strictly up to you, its called the freedom of choice. God has chosen you to hear part of the message now. This is the most important news since mankind crawled out the ocean as an amoeba! The cosmic bell is tolling. The Seventh Angel has sounded his trumpet. Let those who have ears listen. Will you put your head in the sand like an ostrich or will you sing like the nightingale in the heaven of true knowledge? Seek the truth and the truth will set you free.
May 2, 1998 A.D. Jamal 5, 155 B.E.
The text of this Document is Copyright 1998 Baha'i Under the Provisions of the Covenant and may only be republished in its entirety!
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Antoinette, known as NO GUNS, passed away quietly on July 31, 2008, at home... after a long illness. good journey good sister friend,
form all those who love you...
barry, plunker, montana
Excerpts of the Rainbow Oracle from this website:
http://www.alaska.net/~peace/oracle.htm
Contained within this story is a story of our dear sister NO Guns.In tribute to sister No Guns, I paste the story here.
The Rainbow Family prophecy for appearance of the Hopi Bahana
The Rainbow Oracle
(Colorado 1972)
While at the original Rainbow Gathering, the founding family members were privileged to witness an amazing sight. One beautiful morning as brothers and sisters awoke, it was observed that in the partially snow covered mountain ridges, in the wonderful Colorado Rockies, was a perfect outline of a white buffalo. At first it was noticed by a few but as the day progressed it had become obvious that the white buffalo on the mountain had stolen the show and was the topic of the day.
The next day, at the main circle, a Rainbow sister shared a vision that she had that night. In the vision she saw the white buffalo and she saw that the white buffalo was a man. More importantly she described how in the vision the white buffalo was actually the long awaited Bahana whose arrival all the Native Americans were eagerly awaiting. Later, as the Rainbow family evolved so also did the vision as other pieces of authentic Rainbow prophecy were incorporated into the original vision. Finally the most important part of the White Buffalo vision was divulged, that the White Buffalo/Bahana would make an appearance at the 17th National Rainbow Gathering. Thus began the Rainbow Oracle.
Some of the years leading up to the the fulfillment of the oracle were marked with tragedy. In 1980, in West Viginia, two sisters were brutally murdered by shotgun after being picked up hitchhiking on their way to the National Gathering. It was also reported to me by an elder, who was at the 1987 National, that a brother had been abducted from the Gathering and lynched.
Then in 1988, at the Texas National, a beloved sister was nearly murdered when she was run down in main meadow by a local lunatic in his four-wheel drive. But Texas was the 17th National Rainbow Gathering where death was to be cheated as the Rainbow Oracle was being fulfilled!
Rejoice brothers and sisters of the Rainbow! The fulfillment of the oracle proved that the visions and prophesies of the Rainbow Tribe concerning the White Buffalo were genuine and veritable. So you're probably asking, "How was the oracle fulfilled?" That is a great question and the answer is forthcoming, but first let me explain the role of the Bahana.
The Bahana, also known as the Pahana, is prophetically known as the return of Quetzacoatl, the feathered serpent. Quetzacoatl was Enoch who oversaw the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza and crossed the Atlantic Ocean in search of black granite which he found in Wisconsin and shipped back to Egypt for the pyramid. While Enoch was in the Americas he traveled on foot southward teaching the Native Americans the religion of Adam: the religion of the One True Invisible God, called "Wakan-Tanca." Enoch was known as Quetzacoatl, Kulkulcan, and Itzamna.
Quetzacoatl promised he would return in the later times as the White Buffalo/Bahana to deliver the faithful from the hand of their oppressors and to safely lead the believers through the "fire of purification."
In the Book of the Hopi, Frank Waters tells the legend of the lost white brother. He explains,
After the Fire Clan had migrated to their permanent home, the time would come when they would be overcome by a strange people [the white people]. They would be forced to develop their land and lives according the the dictates of a new ruler, or else they would be treated as criminals and punished. But they were not to resist. They were to wait for the person who would deliver them. This person was their lost white brother, Pahana, [or Bahana] who would return to them the missing corner piece of the tablet, deliver them from their persecutors, and work out with them a new and universal brotherhood of man,...
(Book of the Hopi, page 31)
Let us continue examining the oracle's fulfillment. The sister who was run over by the jeep on that fateful day in Texas was "No Guns." She suffered a punctured lung and nearly died as hundreds of family members encircled her and tried to resuscitate her with drugs and a group "om". Fortunately there was a renowned naturopathic physician in camp. He got in his car and drove around the lake and down to the incident site and arduously made his way through the crowd and administered pure oxygen from an oxygen tank to her and saved her life (I met No Guns on the Navajo Reservation in 1991 and she expressed deep gratitude for this)! That physician was Dr. Leland Jensen, the Bahana, the White Buffalo, the lost white brother.
Beloved family! The Rainbow Oracle was fulfilled because the long awaited Bahana was there at the 17th National Gathering in Texas! Dr. Jensen and a group of Baha'is were there teaching "Fireside" classes, promulgating the new and universal brotherhood and sisterhood of mankind.
Dr. Leland Jensen is the establisher of Baha'u'llah's Revelation. Baha'u'llah was the Second Coming of Christ seated on the throne of King David, and for the Native Americans he is the "Father Sun." Baha'u'llah's message to the world is Justice. It was at the 17th National Gathering that the Rainbow Family finally received justice. 1988 was the year that a District Court Judge finally set a precedent in favor of the Rainbow Family by officially upholding our First Amendment right to peaceable assemblage. Since then no party, neither private nor public, not even the United States Forest Service, has been able to block family members from gathering in droves in the public lands. This, my friends, is a testament to Dr. Jensens mission. For the Rainbow family and the Native American Indians he is the Hopi Bahana, the elder white brother, Quetzacoatl, the white buffalo and the true Baha'i. The Texas National was the only Rainbow gathering that Dr. Leland Jensen ever went to and his appearance there was in fulfillment of the Rainbow Oracle.
Dr. Jensen did not appear, fulfilling prophecy just for the Rainbows, the Native American Indians and the Christians; he has come with teachings for the oneness of humanity, with teachings, explanations and commentaries concerning the Divine Plan. Furthermore, his arrival is prophesied in all of the world religions. For instance, just as the Natives are waiting for the Bahana so to are the Jews waiting for Ha Eretz; the Hindus - 10th "Kalki" Avatar; the Zoroastrians - Saoshyant; the Buddhists - Maitreya; the Christians and the Muslims - Jesus; and the Baha'is are awaiting the arrival of the Seventh Angel. All of these roles and more are fulfilled in Dr. Leland Jensen who now resides in Montana (the "Big Sky") and has educated a core of angelic Baha'is (people of light) who are actively teaching and gathering the 144,000 who are to safely traverse the oncoming cataclysms also called the "fire of purification."
Thousands of people, from all walks of life, including the Rainbow, have already examined Dr. Jensens proofs and credentials as the Promised One; many of whom are actively teaching the "new song" and preparing others to survive the winds of destruction and to enter the resultant Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, Paradise, Utopia, Nirvana. Will you be there? I hope so.
Each person is created with an intellect and free will. These capacities allow us to independently search for the truth; eventually, if we seek hard enough, we find it. What you choose to do at that time is strictly up to you, its called the freedom of choice. God has chosen you to hear part of the message now. This is the most important news since mankind crawled out the ocean as an amoeba! The cosmic bell is tolling. The Seventh Angel has sounded his trumpet. Let those who have ears listen. Will you put your head in the sand like an ostrich or will you sing like the nightingale in the heaven of true knowledge? Seek the truth and the truth will set you free.
May 2, 1998 A.D. Jamal 5, 155 B.E.
The text of this Document is Copyright 1998 Baha'i Under the Provisions of the Covenant and may only be republished in its entirety!
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Sunday, August 10, 2008
A Vigil to Washington D.C.
Seeking A Redress of Grievances
Raven and Summer Breeze are making a vigil to Washington D.C. this year which will be the culmination of a national tour, visiting many individuals concerned with free assembly and all first amendment rights under the constitution.
Below is the content I created for a flyer. Feel free to copy and paste this into a flyer format and distribute freely. Please do not change any of the content or email or address information.
Seeking a Redress of Grievances
A Vigil to Washington, D.C.
Federal attack on the people July 3, 2008 in the
Big Sandy National Forest in Wyoming.
The people assembled together to pray for peace and healing on earth. The Forest
Service came in as an Incident Command police force and performed military style
training exercises on the people without their knowledge or consent. During an
arrest of a couple people at the assembly, the police opened fire on a crowd of people
in the kid village. Rubber bullets and mace balls were used. People were randomly and indiscrimately shot, including small children and the shanti sena peacekeepers
that protect the police. Harassment occurred during the entire assembly.
Visit our blog at http://1tinsoldier.blogspot.com
View the videos on this blog. Be sure to visit the other website links that also document the gathering and legal issues surrounding the free assembly of people. Visit the blog often for updates or email for direct updates. We welcome your voice to take with us to D.C. This free assembly issue is paramount to the protection of all American's individual rights. It matters to your children. Setting a precedent about free assembly in the national forests or on any public land-which belongs to the people...you...and me...will create a force that will in the future prevent the people from using public lands without strict federal controls.
Support us on our journey, if you are able. Donations can be sent by pay pal to the email below. Checks and money orders can be mailed to the address provided. Our journey is guided by the Holy Spirit and is based on moral principle. We offer our vigil to D.C. as a prayer given freely to the cause. Food and shelter for us comes when given. We are compelled to meet with as many legislators in Congress and the Senate on the matter of free assembly under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. It is our goal to appeal for new legislation to prevent such violence upon the people who are peaceably assembled, to protect the rights granted us by God and secured by American laws. A bill is needed that prohibits military style training exercises on the people. A law is needed to protect the right to free peaceable assembly and to protect the freedom of religion and of the press. Please help us and please pray for our journey.
Email us at themidnightwriter1@gmail.com.
Send mail to: Rickey & Cheryl Gardner, a/k/a Raven & Summer Breeze
360 South 4th Avenue PMB 234 Pocatello, Idaho 83201
Peace On Earth
Raven and Summer Breeze are making a vigil to Washington D.C. this year which will be the culmination of a national tour, visiting many individuals concerned with free assembly and all first amendment rights under the constitution.
Below is the content I created for a flyer. Feel free to copy and paste this into a flyer format and distribute freely. Please do not change any of the content or email or address information.
Seeking a Redress of Grievances
A Vigil to Washington, D.C.
Federal attack on the people July 3, 2008 in the
Big Sandy National Forest in Wyoming.
The people assembled together to pray for peace and healing on earth. The Forest
Service came in as an Incident Command police force and performed military style
training exercises on the people without their knowledge or consent. During an
arrest of a couple people at the assembly, the police opened fire on a crowd of people
in the kid village. Rubber bullets and mace balls were used. People were randomly and indiscrimately shot, including small children and the shanti sena peacekeepers
that protect the police. Harassment occurred during the entire assembly.
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View the videos on this blog. Be sure to visit the other website links that also document the gathering and legal issues surrounding the free assembly of people. Visit the blog often for updates or email for direct updates. We welcome your voice to take with us to D.C. This free assembly issue is paramount to the protection of all American's individual rights. It matters to your children. Setting a precedent about free assembly in the national forests or on any public land-which belongs to the people...you...and me...will create a force that will in the future prevent the people from using public lands without strict federal controls.
Support us on our journey, if you are able. Donations can be sent by pay pal to the email below. Checks and money orders can be mailed to the address provided. Our journey is guided by the Holy Spirit and is based on moral principle. We offer our vigil to D.C. as a prayer given freely to the cause. Food and shelter for us comes when given. We are compelled to meet with as many legislators in Congress and the Senate on the matter of free assembly under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. It is our goal to appeal for new legislation to prevent such violence upon the people who are peaceably assembled, to protect the rights granted us by God and secured by American laws. A bill is needed that prohibits military style training exercises on the people. A law is needed to protect the right to free peaceable assembly and to protect the freedom of religion and of the press. Please help us and please pray for our journey.
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Send mail to: Rickey & Cheryl Gardner, a/k/a Raven & Summer Breeze
360 South 4th Avenue PMB 234 Pocatello, Idaho 83201
Peace On Earth
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