In the past few posts I’ve shared about my calling and commission. But I’ve recently been reading some of my early channeled material (from the early 1990s), and I’m finding so much foretold symbolically that I want to share it with you.
I’ve always been faithful to record everything my guides have spoken and revealed to me. But I must admit that I didn’t really believe it. I wanted to, but deep in my heart, I never thought it was actually possible. Not for me, anyway. (This crisis came to a head in An Abrupt Turn, Part 4.)
How would I ever get from my current circumstances—and chronic doubt—to the place my guides said I was destined for?
A Way Where There Seems to Be No Way
Twenty years ago, my guide spoke often about launching me into ministry, “making a way where there seems to be no way.” For example, on March 30, 1993, I channeled the following in writing:
Have I not promised you that I would move on your behalf? I have spoken many times about this, and I tell you that my word to you is true. I have promised to make a way where there seems to be no way—not to make a way where it looks as if one could be made. I desire to do the impossible. I desire to do the miraculous for you.
Do not look for a bridge, my son, but expect me to part the waters before you so that you may cross the Jordan on dry ground. Not in the mud and the mire, but on dry ground. I shall move my hand to cause the waters to pile up before you, and then I shall send forth my presence—the Ark of the Covenant before you—to show you the way to go. I must show you the way to go because you have not gone this way before.
To move me from where I was to the place destined for me to fulfill my purpose would take a miracle. This miracle began when I quit Churchianity and came out of the closet.
My guide often described my release into true spiritual ministry using the story of Israel completing their 40-year sojourn in the wilderness and crossing the Jordan River into the Promised Land (see Joshua chapters 1 and 3).
To set up the next few posts in this series, let’s review the history of the Hebrew people.
Recounting the Biblical History of Israel
God (YHWH) appears to a man named Abraham and tells him he will have a son in his old age, and his family will inherit the land of Canaan. The descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (renamed Israel) flourish but, during the time of Joseph, relocate to Egypt because of a famine. (For future reference, note that Egypt symbolizes dependence on materialism.)
For 400 years, the tribes of Israel are enslaved by the Egyptians. There, Moses is born, cleverly delivered from genocide, and raised in Pharaoh’s palace. After killing a man, Moses flees to the desert where he hides out for 40 years, tending sheep. But YHWH appears to him in the burning bush and calls him to lead his people out of Egypt into the wilderness to worship.
By many signs and wonders, Moses does lead them out of Egypt, across the Red Sea and into the wilderness, where God calls them to take Canaan, their Promised Land. However, because of their disobedience and unbelief, YHWH swears they will not enter the land. The first generation expires in the desert. Moses, too, dies, never entering the Promised Land.
Joshua, son of Caleb, takes Moses’ place as leader and shepherds the children of Israel into the Promised Land. They cross the Jordan River at flood stage in an amazing turn of events.
God makes a way where there seems to be no way.
Crossing the Jordan
Getting about two million people across a river at flood stage would require a miracle. Yet when the priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant led the way, God said the waters would pile up so that everyone could cross into Canaan on dry ground.
14So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them. 15Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge, 16the water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great distance away, at a town called Adam in the vicinity of Zarethan, while the water flowing down to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho. 17The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord stopped in the middle of the Jordan and stood on dry ground, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground.–Joshua 3:14-17 NIV
Next issue, we’ll learn about the Ark of the Covenant and what it represents. Then I’ll begin to weave this symbology into what my guides have foretold about my life and ministry, a pattern shared with many others. Til then, peace and pancakes.