Change of Seasons

Now that most of us are laughing about "global warming" and the politically owned scientists have now changed the term to "climate change," there is something I've been noticing for some time now.  Scripture mentions many times that rain in it's season is a blessing.  Although the climate does vary around the globe, even deserts have a "rainy season" which, although brief; is usually in spring or late summer/fall.  Even with global information, we seem to need reminding that we all enjoy or endure different climates.  This area, as did many, had a terrific growing season this year, but it's also the year before Shemitah, so the harvest is abundant.

In my years of homesteading, the animals have made me much more "weather aware."  Social media has greatly improved my awareness beyond my own little corner of the world, and having a friend who is a weatherman has definitely expanded my knowledge and broadened my interest.

As our nation and world continue to spiral downward in greed and immorality, the blessing of rainy seasons, spring and fall, are becoming shorter.  The gradual change of temperature between summer and winter is giving way to sudden shifts of wind direction, thus sharp temperature change.  Technically it's still summer, yet snow has already fallen in some northern states.  As we look at statistics and general weather history, we may not see what I've been watching.

When I first began homesteading, I was told lettuce and peas were to be planted February 14.  Even before discovering the pagan roots of Valentine's Day, I had no romantic interests, so planting lettuce and peas seemed the perfect way to spend that day.  The first year in this lifestyle, I had to cover the young leaves once to protect them from frost, and the same the next year.  The following year in my ignorance of Shemitah, I was protected from misusing the land as the temperatures hovered around freezing until March, I was still serving as nursemaid, and a tornado tore through the region in May . . .

In the past six years, records have been set in many places for latest freeze or snow in the spring and earliest freeze or snow in the fall, not to mention excess snowfall in winter and extreme heat and drought in summer.  Some will say it's all cyclic and has happened before.  That may well be true, but we must consider the reality that seasonal shifts also serve as warnings and judgment.

Giving Consideration

Many of us are sensing change is imminent.  Many of us are feeling the need to prepare for the change.  Some are downsizing and cleaning.  Others are harvesting and preserving.  Interesting how some of us are doing the exact opposite things, yet we know we are preparing for the same purpose, ultimately.  This is how the body of Messiah is to function.  Those who are house cleaning and looking for tents are doing what they are called to do, just as I am harvesting and preserving in preparation.

Unless Abba leads me differently, there will be a brief hiatus in the production of "BEFORE It Was HEADLINES It Was PROPHECY."

As we watch the end of days unfold, we must remember the Revelation was given to John about the return of Messiah and what would be taking place.  I have spoken before that the riders on the horses have been released.  Not that I know the date of their release, but simply that they have been released.  It was today that I realized, they were released probably not long after that revelation was given, and they're simply gaining speed and traveling west.  If we consider history, that's why so many believe history is just repeating itself with war and disease, and will once again rally and reset, but that is not the case.

With each expansion of humanity, the problems have not been resolved.  The Middle East and Africa were not made better as society spread through Europe.  The legs of iron, mentioned in Daniel, which is Rome has only annexed further west and mixed with clay . . . From the Vatican throughout the world, there is promise of religious solution.  From the Gaza strip around the globe, there are wars and rumors of wars.  The entire world is facing economic collapse an has literally been propped up on debt for years.

Pharmaceuticals seem to be the newest addition to the man-made solutions, which is probably why there was only one Scriptural reference to pharmakeia prior to the Revelation.  We can see evidence of the rider on the palor horse through the Bubonic Plague and other widespread diseases, but never before has the previous "cure" become the new problem.  As we have only begun to see, the reality now exists, to spread antibiotic resistant super-bugs, globally.

 Even considering the headlines, I believe this is "the calm" before the storm that will only end when Messiah returns.