the dry tree

                                                           MORIAH'S MESSAGE #9:
                                                      "THE DRY TREE"

             An eagle came to Lebanon, flew to the highest branch of a cedar tree, cropped off it's twigs, and carried them to a land of merchants. He took the seed of the land and planted it as a willow in a field, by great waters. Its roots turned under it, it became a vine, and brought forth branches. The vine bent its roots toward another eagle, from the furrow where it was planted, that he might water it. "When the east wind touches it, it will wither in the furrow... I will crop off a tender one from the top of his young twigs... it will be...a goodly cedar... I...dried up the green tree, and made the dry tree flourish (Eze 17)."
            The first eagle is Jehovah, the second is Jesus; the twigs are the elect, and the seed are the lost ten tribes. They became a vine and send out roots to Jesus, to receive water. Christians worship both eagles. This is why their history is full of bloodshed, as well as loving service. If the east wind touches the vine, it will wither. East is qadim–forefront; wind is ruwach– whirlwind. The east wind is The Holy Ghost; they will come to the forefront at the Lord's signal. The green tree will then die and the dry tree will live. Twigs is yanaq– nurse, give milk. The Lord scattered the elect among his plantation to feed them on his gospel, so they can be harvested. The goodly cedar is the remnant.
             "I will hedge up her way with thorns, and make a wall... She will follow after her lovers... but not find them...for she did not know I gave her corn, wine, and oil which they prepared for Baal. I will return and take away my corn...and my wine...given to cover her nakedness... None will deliver her out of my hand... I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably to her. I will give her vineyards...for a door of hope, she will sing there...as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt...at that day, you will call me Ishi, and shall no more call me Baal. I will take away the names of Baalim... I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and the fowls of heaven...and make them lie down safely (Hos 2:6-18)."
           Christians follow after their lovers–the Creator and Jesus, but they can't find them because the Lord hedged their way with thorns. Thorns is cirab–a hook; these hooks are demons. The crown of thorns on Jesus' head symbolize the gods. Christians do not know who they are worshiping–they are allured (enchanted and entranced). When they come out of the god-spell, they will know their god is Ishi–a blood-thirsty mortal. The Lord's corn symbolizes Christians, his wine symbolizes The Holy Ghost; the Lord's oil symbolizes our life force. Wilderness is midbar–a cattle pasture. The Hebrews in the Sinai wilderness, and Europeans in the American wilderness, symbolize the Israelites walking like cattle into the Lord's pasture, where they were to all lie down, or be killed. His remnant (beasts of the field), and his demons (fowls of heaven), would then inherit the earth.
           Isaiah said "Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord ...that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles (Isaiah 60:9)." Columbus sailed from the ancient city of Tarshish, to the Caribbean islands, and claimed them "in the name of the Lord." He searched the islands for the gold Jehovah promised, but it wasn't found in large quantities until Cortes discovered the Aztecs 27 years later. The natives in South America were plundered and destroyed for their gold and silver.
            Ezekiel said "Tarshish was thy merchant...of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs...The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee...and you were replenished and made very glorious in the midst of the seas (Eze 27:12, 25)." The gods in the sea of humanity were replenished by their merchants (the elect) who "were the great men of the earth for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived (Rev 18:23)." Babylon is the sorcery they deceive us with. When the gods see her burning they will cast dust on their heads and wail, for Babylon is no more (Eze 27:30-32; Rev 18:17-19). The strongest gods were to survive, but if gospel is destroyed before the bridegroom sounds, they will all die.
           Europeans claimed the land now called North America, as an inheritance from the Lord. They called it "manifest destiny;" but the destiny their God had planned for them, was not what they thought it would be. They raped the land from ocean to ocean. Millions of animals were slaughtered, many species were completely annihilated. Giant hardwood trees, thousands of years old were chopped down. Trees form a network of energy, which they send to each other and the earth–even stars receive their transmissions. Ancient trees are strong power stations. When one is cut down, the earth feels its loss, and so does the whole galaxy, for the energy lines are permanently changed. Jehovah was behind this destruction; it symbolized his planned destruction of the earth.
            The beautiful forests of giant trees, existed because of the symbiotic relationship between red man and the w ilderness. In The Vision by Tom Brown, Stalking Wolf tells how his people selected a young tree for a bow. First a need was established, then prayers were sent to the Creator, and all the little trees in the forest. A four day fast was held, while gratitude was felt for the sapling that would sacrifice his life for the tribe. Then the bow maker began his search, "guided more by his heart than his head... He might search for days, looking for the right sapling... Once chosen, prayers were sent to the Creator and the tree. He would explain to the little sapling what it would be used for, and how his people were honored at its sacrifice..it would be made well, and cherished. The bow maker knew the sapling would eventually die in its struggle for the sun. He knew that too many saplings would...make the grove...susceptible to disease. By removing that sapling, he insured the strength of the grove...(and) would benefit future generations of his people."
           Native Americans lived in ‘America' for thousands of years, and never destroyed any part of it. A Wintu woman said "we don't chop down the trees, we only use dead wood. But the White people plow up the ground, pull down trees, kill everything. The tree says ‘don't hurt me,' but they chop it down and cut it up. The spirit of the land hates them... The Indians never hurt anything, but the white people destroy all. They blast rocks and scatter them on the ground. The rock says ‘don't, you are hurting me,' but the White people pay no attention... How can the spirit of the earth like the White man?"
           Walking Buffalo said "You whites assumed we were savages... you condemned us as lost souls, just because our form of worship was different from yours. We saw the Great Spirit's work in...sun, moon, trees, wind, mountains. Sometimes we approached him through these things... Did you know that trees talk?...They talk to each other, and they'll talk to you if you listen. Trouble is, white people don't listen. They never learned to listen to the Indians, so I don't suppose they'll listen to other voices in nature. But I have learned a lot from trees... Indians living close to nature, are not living in darkness."
            The Europeans destroyed their "new world" because they did not understand the connection between themselves and the earth. They were not guided by their intuition, but by Jehovah, who has no life-force, and must live on destruction. He is not part of the-spirit-that- moves-in-all-things. The Whites killed huge buffalo herds hoping their slaughter would cause the Indians to die. Jehovah was behind this killing frenzy; buffalo extermination was the working of wonder. It symbolized the day of the Lord, when the Son of man was going to kill the "beasts of the earth" with this same massive slaughter.
             Native Americans were taken from their homelands, and forced to travel with little food and few blankets, to concentration camps called reservations. Many died on the way. Their sacred objects–totems, pipes, medicine bags, etc, were destroyed. Once they arrived, their children were taken away from them. They were put in prisons called boarding schools, where they were beaten daily, forbidden to speak their language, or live their religion–their way of life. They were exiled in their own country. "Brother...our land was taken from us...my people are scattered and gone. When I shout I hear my voice in the depths of the forest, but no answering voice comes back... (Chief Cobb)."
             The Europeans destroyed the native people's prayer sticks, pipes, drums, rattles, totems, etc, because they are graven images. They believed these things were used in Satanic witchcraft, but they are just spiritual tools. Sacred objects, and the rituals they are used in, are like walking sticks that help us climb the mountain. Once we reach the top, we can throw our walking sticks away. In the meantime, they help us commune with nature and the Spirit world. All ancient cultures used various aids to help them in their life journey. These pagan methods were suppressed, but survived through oral teachings. They can help us secure a sure footing, as we blaze a trail up the mountain.
            In 1800 the land act was passed, and a mob of thousands raced west to claim "free" land. This same year Mason Weem's published his fifth edition of Washington's biography. This one included a myth about George chopping down his father's cherry tree. George is symbolic of Christians, his father represents Jehovah; the cherry tree is the earth and its fruit (all people and all things). The cherry tree is very sacred to the Lakota. The cherries symbolize the fruit of the earth or "all my relatives" (everything that exists). Over the ensuing century the earth was raped, and by the turn of the next century, the earth was dying. If we do not stop this abuse, our earth mother will die, and all life on her will cease.
             Chief Dan George took his grandson into the woods; "I told him...how the wolf became our guardian, and that I would sing the sacred wolf song over him... I sang. In my voice was the hope that clings to every heartbeat. I sang...and the song floated on the sun's rays... The whole world listened with us, to hear the wolf's reply. We waited a long time, but none came. Again I sang...as invitingly as I could, until...my voice gave out. All of a sudden I realized why no wolves had heard my sacred song. There were none left. My heart filled with tears... At last I could whisper to him: ‘It is finished.' ‘Can I go home now?' he asked, checking his watch to see if he would be in time to catch his favorite TV program. I watched him disappear and wept in silence. All is finished."
            White man will not live in peace until he loves the earth, the way all Red men did before the White race came to their land. Do you know what really happened when the Red and White races met? Native American Testimony by Nabokov, Touch The Earth by McLuhan, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown, and From the Heart by Miller, will reveal this. Crazy Horse had a vision of his people climbing a rock cliff. Whites tried to follow but couldn't make it, and so they helped them, in spite of all the devastation they brought on them. Crazy Horse's vision is symbolic of our need for their skills and Native Americans will help us when we need them too–if we embrace them as our brothers.
            Noble Red Man said "We lived a good and happy life until White man came and made it miserable...You killed our people, you stole our land...our buffalo are gone, the country we loved is lost...Respect is our law--respect for God's creation, for all the living beings of this earth... We can't harm the earth or the water because we respect their place in the world...That is our religion... We don't need your church, we have the Black Hills for our church. We don't need your Bible, we have the wind, rain, and stars for our Bible. The world is an open Bible... we've studied it for millions of years... Everything God made is living–even the rocks are alive ....we talk to them and they talk...to us."
             When Europeans came to America, they believed the Natives worshiped Satan and needed to be saved. They stripped them of their culture, and they lost their ability to talk to nature. Their world was destroyed, and the rites that brought them visions, dreams, and miracles, were not allowed. It was not the Natives that worshiped Satan, it was Europeans. We should not interfere with other cultures and traditions, and we should not blindly follow the beaten trail, just because everyone else is traveling it. We should blaze our own trail through life. Our uniqueness is God's greatest gift, He will never take it away from us. We should not take it away from ourselves through conformity, or from each other through oppression. When we learn to respect "all my relatives" we will heal the world.
             "...You think you own whatever land you land on. The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim. But I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name ...Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon, or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned? Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind? Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest. Come taste the sun sweet berries of the earth. Come roll in all the riches all around you, and for once, never wonder what they're worth. The rainstorm and the river are my brothers. The heron and the otter are my friends. And we are all connected to each other, in a circle, in a hoop that never ends... For whether we are white or copper skinned... We need to paint with all the colors of the wind (Colors of the Wind by Stephen Schwartz)."
            The Lord ‘searches after every green thing'–rye (the remnant), wheat (the elect), and corn & barley (Christians). Jehovah needs the green tree of life to feed his dry tree so it can live at our expense. Ancient cultures portrayed the tree of life with a serpent at the base, and an eagle on the top. The serpent is Satan, who tricked us into feeding his dry tree. The eagle is symbolic of Black Elk, a Lakota Holy man who died in 1950. Black Elk will soon be "made over," becoming "Chief of all the Heavens." He will then come to earth and cut off the dry tree. The green tree will then flourish, and the earth will be renewed.
             The gospel is symbolized by flax, which the elect weave into linen for Christians to wear. The linen is The Holy Ghost, which slowly consumes them without flame. The Lord wants his smoking flax to keep smoldering until his judgement begins, which is to be given out by grain type. The gospel will then be quenched, and the god's dry tree will live. "...I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall show judgement to the Gentiles...and smoking flax he shall not quench till he sends forth judgment...(Mt 12:18, 20)." If we cast out the Lord's spirit; his judgement will not go forth. The dry tree will then "utterly whither away."