Monday, February 18, 2008

CROSSING THE RUBICON-BY STEPHEN SMITH

Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:49:47 -0800
smith.sc@ghc.org

Dear Swarna,

Greetings,

I wanted to pass along some words I have been given from the Lord in December 2007. I have to admit that He had been silent with me for a little while. The silence has felt like a chastening in my spirit. Through many years, he has sometimes been silent with me. I can now send this along….

He gave me Isaiah 47:


1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.

4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.

8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.

11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

Then he gave me Daniel 5:22-28

22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;

23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:

24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.

25 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.

27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

The Lord gave me a vision that this scripture has been spoken over this empire of America. As Christ said in Matthew 24:4-7, first understand that we must take heed that no man deceive us. Secondly that many will come in His name - declaring they are Christ and deceive many, thirdly that we will hear of wars and rumors of wars and to be not troubled, fourthly that nation will rise against nation and kingdom will rise against kingdom. It is this fourth point that I am to concentrate on. Nation against nation and kingdom and kingdom.

Nation means a community of people composed of one or more nationalities and possessing a more or less defined territory and government c: a territorial division containing a body of people of one or more nationalities and usually characterized by relatively large size and independent status.

Kingdom means a politically organized community or major territorial unit having a monarchical form of government headed by a king or queen or a realm or region in which something is dominant - an area or sphere in which one holds a preeminent position.

A nation is representative just as it is defined above, whereas kingdom in the scripture is defined as ethnic or tribal group against another ethnic or tribal group. Kingdom defines the peoples populating a nation. A prime example is the nation of Yugoslavia which broke up into ethnic groups in the recent past. As is the case of these types of affairs, violence was man's typical response. This will also occur in America. This balkanization is

In America, mina and mina has occurred. The first mina took place with the separation from Britain and the second mina took place during the civil war, the tekel was the empowerment of the American empire post-civil war through to September 11th, 2001, the upharsin will be the dividing the of the nation and the kingdoms (ethnicities). This division will be wrought in blood once again. We have been judged!

As of 2-15-08

Within the last hour he gave me a word …. Rubicon.

He just directed me to look this up and start to write .

Here is a brief history:


Rubicon (Rubicō, Italian: Rubicone) is a 29km long river in northern Italy. The river flows from the Appennines to the Adriatic sea through the southern Emilia-Romagna region between the towns of Rimini and Cesena.

"Crossing the Rubicon" is a popular idiom meaning to go past a point of no return; the river was a Roman boundary between Cisalpine Gaul and Italy. Julius Caesar crossed the river in 49 BC deliberately as an act of war. Historian Suetonius quoted Caesar as having said, "the die is cast" upon taking this action.[1]

The river is notable as Roman law forbade its generals from crossing it with an army. The river was considered to mark the boundary between the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul to the north and Italy proper to the south; the law thus protected the republic from internal military threat. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC, supposedly on January 10 of the Roman calendar, to make his way to Rome he broke that law and made armed conflict inevitable. According to Suetonius he uttered the famous phrase ālea iacta est ("the die is cast").[2]

Suetonius also described how Caesar was apparently still undecided as he approached the river, and the author gave credit for the actual moment of crossing to a supernatural apparition. The phrase "crossing the Rubicon" has survived to refer to any people committing themselves irrevocably to a risky and revolutionary course of action – similar to the current phrase "passing the point of no return". It also refers, in limited usage, to its plainer meaning of using military power in a non-receptive homeland.

I was led to write this below:

To all who are called by the Son of Man now is the time to hide yourselves for a while. Take heed in this moment because the kings, the banksters, the captains of the guard have all trumpeted , "Peace, Peace!" and there has been no peace nor has there been safety. Long ago has the day been declared that this nation will no longer survive as you have known it. The northerners have been brought out of slumber and are sharpening their arrows and they are reining in their horses. The haughty and proud have been called into formation. The drums once in the deep now beat louder and louder each moment. The days of slumber have passed and all will know who the LORD OF LORDS and KING OF KINGS truly is!

Brethren be not afraid of man but fear Him who can put your soul in eternal damnation. The minutes tick by quicker and quicker. All will bow their knee and confess with their tongue that Jesus Christ is Lord.

Heed the word of the Holy One…….

Go my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until His wrath has passed by. See , the Lord is coming out of His dwelling to punish the people of America for their sins. I say to you, Repent now. Come to me now. I am merciful. Those who turn from the things of this world those who come out of her, I will cover you with my right hand until my wrath has pass by. A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it Proverbs 22:3 (The simple stay in the mist of destruction and do nothing).

Martial law is coming to your community! Again I say martial law is coming to your community! Where will you run to escape the two pronged attack. The spirit of oneness is upon the people. Who will think for themselves and seek the Father in this day. Who will choose not to corrupt themselves in this hour. Midnight approaches …tick, tick, tick, the eleventh hours has come and gone.

I thought I would pass this on. I pray that you are holding fast to Him.

In Christ

Steve Smith
from Washington State


RESPONSE BY-RUBY, U.S.A.
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:00:18 -0500

Dear Swarna,

In 1990 I received Isaiah 47 as a very strong warning concerning America. It was during the time of the Gulf War. In my innocence, I really felt that it was imminent. Here we are in 2008 and the scripture is again coming to the forefront.
Blessing to all,
Ruby

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