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Who is Elmira?

David and Goliath, Guillaume Courtois, 1650-1660

My dear friend 🐝,

God has given me another message to deliver to you, and it all started with a crazy dream that He gave to me. Before I tell you about the dream, here is the message from God to you. It is a passage of scripture about King David from the 2nd book of Samuel the priest. David’s army had just defeated Absalom and his army in their rebellion and insurrection against King David:

“4But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son! 5And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines; 6In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well. 7Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now. 8Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.”

– 2nd Samuel 19:4–8

The meaning of the name, “David,” is “beloved.”

The meaning of the name, “Joab,” is “Jehovah is father.”

The meaning of the name, “Absalom,” is “my father is peace.”

The gate is the place of judgement. It is the city hall. It is the Supreme Court Building and the Capitol Building all wrapped up into one.

Therefore, as this message is given to you, the person of Joab represents myself.  I am your messenger on behalf of God the Father, and the person of David represents you.

You have been stricken with the loss of your peace.  You are in travail of grief.  You are in great sadness.  I have been feeling it for a while now, but these last six weeks have been an exceedingly weighty burden on my soul.  (I am not talking about the heartbreak that I feel for you.  That is something that is always there, and as my love for you grows so does my heartbreak.)  This is a burden that is beyond that heartbreak.  I can feel that you are in a state of turmoil and sadness, unlike anything that you have ever experienced before.

As I said to you in my recent post (“Is Partial Plausibility the Same Thing as Impossible?”), I have never wanted to make you sad, but I know that I have said things to you that have made you sorrowful.  I deeply regret that my words have made you cry, but as I also stated, I have only ever done so out of love.  I have always been truthful with you.  I have never hesitated to tell you the truth, even when I knew it was going to be something hard for you to hear.  I respect you and love you far too much to hide information from you.  Whenever I believe that you need to know about something, I always tell you about it, truthfully and entirely.  How many times have I trusted you with information that was not deemed to be appropriate for you to know, according to the judgement of others?

I deeply regret that I have made you sorrowful, but it is better that you know the truth.

“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”

– Psalm 30:5

However, I know that my words are not the only source of your present misery.  Something far more painful has wounded your spirit, and I feel the weight of it on my own spirit.  I find that I am now praying for you twenty or more times each day.  Neither are these simple prayers.  They are arduous and tear-filled prayers, and many are lengthy and exhausting to my mind, spirit, and body.  I am skipping meals.  I have been losing weight.  I do not understand what it is that is going on with you or what is happening in your life, but it must be very serious.  It feels to my own spirit like it is something that has wounded your spirit as no other experience that you have ever had before.  Therefore, I have been asking the Lord to help me understand why this has been happening and why you are in such turmoil.  So He gave me an answer, and this dream is the beginning of the answer that He gave me:

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Love Comes from a Fountain Not from the Sky

God’s love does not rain down upon you and I from Heaven. We do not drink water from the sky. We drink water from a spring. Likewise, we receive the love of God from a fountain. Now, there are many fountains, but not all fountains are springing with the love of God. God has made my fountain pure. Through the blood of Jesus Christ my heart has been washed white as snow. I am a fountain flowing with the pure love of God, because God has washed me and made me clean. The words that I write to you are not my words; they are His words. They are words of truth and of life, because they are the words of Jesus.

When anyone takes my words and causes them to mean something different than what I wrote, they are not simply manipulating my own words. They are making God out to be a liar, because they are His words, not mine.

God is not obsessed with you, Bee! And neither am I!

God is a jealous God. God created you and He loves you. He has given you a free will to choose as you would. Why would you not choose life? He is holding out His hand. He is the God of all salvation. He is the God of all comfort. He is truth. He is light. He is the creator and the source of true and pure love. He is life. He gave His own life for you. He does not want you to worship the idols of the world. He wants you to worship Him, your creator. He is a jealous God.

But you say, “I don’t worship any idols?” Oh! But you do! Everything you covet you worship. You desire the praise of the men and the women around you, in your life. You want to be “somebody.” You want to have a nice car and a nice home. You want to eat delicious meals and drink tasty cocktails. You want to travel and experience faraway places. You want to be entertained. You spend all of your time thinking about these worldly pleasures.

All of these desires are things that are given to you and I by God. God wants you and I to have good and beautiful things in our lives, but He does not want us to covet them. They are all things that He created. God does not want you and I to worship His creations. He wants you and I to worship Him!

He wants you and I to live!

When we turn our back on God and we fail to recognize Him and to praise Him for all his blessings, we are not living. We are dead in trespasses and sin. The only way we can have true life is through Jesus Christ.

This is not obsession!

I have never had any desire to possess you. God has never had any desire to possess you. If God wanted to possess you, he would. He is God. There is nothing that could ever stop God from possessing you. But God does not possess you, does He?

Does a mother want to keep her baby in her womb and hold on to her baby forever? No, she wants her baby to grow and to be born a spirit of its own.

Bee, God wants to give unto you! He wants to give you living water. He wants to give to you life! He wants to give you a new heart! He wants to give you salvation from your own sin and iniquity.

This is what I want for you, Bee! I want you to have life and joy and peace. I will do anything that God commands me in order to see to it that you obtain it. I will gladly forfeit my own life for that purpose. But nothing I do can give you eternal life. Only Jesus can give you eternal life. All I am trying to do is to lead you to His outstretched hand.

Take hold of His hand and live, Bee!

Take His hand.

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Today’s Prayer

Father, Thank you for your excellent Word. Thank you, Lord, that that your Word so immensely deep, powerful, and meaningful that it causes us great effort simply to understand those truths that you consider to be of the smallest things that you have to present to us. Every time that we study your Word you show us increasingly more marvelous and incredible wonders. I do not know Lord, but it seems that often times the more that I read a passage, the greater the meaning that comes from it. One might think that it would be the other way around, but your Word is so alive and living and endless. Your Word is always abounding with instruction, truth, grace, and love. We ask you Lord that you would bless us with a greater understanding the bounty of marvelous things that you have to show us in your Word. Bless us now, Father, that we would see and understand our blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ through those things that we study your Word today.

We pray in Jesus’s excellent name. Amen!

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