♥ THE SECRET PLACE & THE PRETTY PENNY ♥

¶ Considering our One Nation Under God, today, must we not first consider Jamestown, May 14th, 1607,  the Berkeley Hundred, December 4, 1619, and Plymouth Rock, December 22, 1620?  Must we then not pour-over what great persecutions, plights, trials, and tribulations they must have endured in their native England, coupled with, coming to terms with themselves, and the Will of God, through a sober, soul-searching, investigation of character, Crowned with the Pommpting of the Spirit, that would spur Thirty Seven Pilgrims to do such a thing as to sail off into the unknown on an unrelenting quest for FREEDOM? Must we not forget to mention the Strangers that sailed with them? Soldiers, Men of Business, along with Explorers, and a few Seekers of Fortune, One Hundred and Two, altogether, of which only Fifty survived the first winter in Plymouth Rock. Still, they sought FREEDOM. Freedom from the Harlot Church, freedom from a tyrannical king, freedom from ridiculous taxation, and inhuman judgments, such as lashings, beheadings, being drawn and quartered, being burned at the stake, and being locked in dungeons. As our Ancestry of Forebearers might have said back in their day, “Think nothing of it, Freedom does indeed Cost A Pretty Penny“.

¶ Bethinking all of the above, must we not then ponder the Great Transformation that took place on the continent of North America between the Signing of the Mayflower Compact in 1620 and the Signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1775, leading to the establishment of the Thirteen Colonies and the taking root of the very dangerous concept of “Self-Rule”?  Hazardous? Why? Because maintaining civility, brotherly love, godliness, justice, judgment, and UNITY while keeping Tyranny and Anarchy at an Arm’s Length under a Self-Ruled Republic does, If the Truth Is To Be Told, cost far more than an arm and a leg, yes, they knew full-well back in 1620,  “Freedom does indeed Cost A Pretty Penny”.  Nonetheless, through the thick and the thin of it, for one hundred and fifty-six years, between the Signing of the Mayflower Compact and the Signing of the Declaration of Independence, Freedom began to flourish.

¶ Do the citizens of the United States of America today have even the slightest notion of the price that was paid by our Forefathers, their Forebearers, and the following generations of  Patriots in the settling and establishing of the Greatest Nation on Earth?  If I might use an old colloquialism familiar to them in their day to describe the price they paid, it was, indesputably, a Pretty Penny.

¶ Now, consider the Revolutionary War, which spanned from April 19, 1775, to September 3, 1783. Can you even imagine the sparse populace of Thirteen young Colonies, who, with neither army nor navy, taking on the most powerful nation in the world, and staying Faithful to The Cause for over eight years, until finally bringing the most powerful nation in the world to their knees in a humiliating defeat?

♦ What ON EARTH was their SECRET? That can be answered with two quotes:

♥ The First, “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is LIBERTY.”  (2 Corinthians, 3:17)

♠ The Second, “Give me LIBERTY or give me Death.” Patrick Henry

♦♠♥ Within those two quotes are seated both the Power and the Resolve of the Founders of the Greatest Nation on Earth.

¶ What is it that gives some men and women the Resolve to Pay such a Pretty Penny for FREEDOM, while others, in contrast, drool over ill-gotten gain and tyrannical rule, even if it means casting all honesty, moral integrity, and justice to the dogs? Even if it means having your conscience willingly seared by the Hot Iron of Diablo!?!

♥ My answer to that would have to be, “Where the Spirit of the Lord is,  there is Liberty.” (2 Corinthians 3:17)

♠ Now, consider these Shadowy Antagonists, who love the Darkside of the Moon, “Who, forever craving and conniving, will kill, steal, and destroy to rule and reign over others to satisfy their egos and their lusts. Wars are indeed devised and launched out of the hearts of the deranged². “Is it not out of a Seared Conscience and Deranged Heart that flow the deluges of evil?”  (James 4:1, Mark 7:21-23, ¹wcv&²) 

¶ Considering all of this, it is an absolute necessity that we address the Liege Lord of Darkness himself, the Black Swan, that did, In the Beginning, when cast out of the Throne Room of the Father (Ezekiel 28:13-15), was hurled like lightning through the heavens to the earth (Luke 10;18-20), only to rise again on an ill wind out of Eden to bring into the Theatres of the Ages of Men,  deception, confusion, chaos, violence, and bloodlust, along with the most filthy of perversions, greed, wars, and rumors of war all wrapped up in the Lust Of the Eyes, the Lust Of The Flesh, and The Pride Of Life, neatly packaged in Pandora’s Pretty Little Box, erroniously labeled, today, as “The Pursuit of Happiness”, as opposed to the PURSUIT OF GOD, Who just so happens to be the ONE Who has brought the Greatest Nation on Earth victoriously through all of the above to where we are today. Why?  Because, down through the Ages, there has always been a Bright Cloud of Witnesses who, through it all, Faithfully Petition Heaven, bringing their Strong Causes before the Lord… (Isaiah 41:21, 43:13)…Who, throughout their days on earth, Dwell Faithfully in the Secret Place of the Most High, even if it cost them a Pretty Penny.

¶ Now, consider the fact that the Black Swan has once again, in These Last Days, appeared in a Force rivaling, if not surpassing, that of the Days of Noah, to replace the Eagle with a Dragon, that a Vulture might devour our Great Nation and leave us as nothing more than a dropped deuce by the side of the road.

¶ Then consider the Bright Cloud of Witnesses (Hebrews 12:1) who, throughout the Ages, have forever been counted by the world as nothing more than a small, ragtag, insignificant, Remnant of Curious People who walk in that strange thing called the Spirit and  Live by that silly “Pie in the Sky” notion called Faith. And, even though they have lived their lives throughout the Ages in a Present, Evil World completely overshadowed by the Black Swan, they did, and do to this day, Abide in a Realm that cannot be darkened by the Shadow of the Black Swan, for the heavens above them continually open up into the Throne Room of the Father; the SECRET PLACE of the Most High, The Portals of Heaven!  And though they Paid A Pretty Penny enduring struggles thoroughly unimaginable to todays mollycoddled multitude of derailed descendants, through many trials, tribulations, heartaches, and failures; without fail, they were always VICTORIOUS in RECEIVING the Blessings of an Open Heaven, which, in the end, could not be controlled, misconstrued, dampened, dimmed, twisted or dismantled by the Powers of the Shadow of the Black Swan, and because they interceded relentlessly in their great Labors of Love; prayer, supplication, worship, and thanksgiving, their Great Strength of Righteousness, the Lord Himself, did always rise-up and scatter their enemy. Because of the Fruit Of Their Labor today, this entire present, evil, One World Order, like it or not, has just witnessed such a VICTORY in this here United States of America! In what seemed to be but the twinkling of an eye, ALMIGHTY GOD did, for a reason, for this whole, wide, present, evil world to see, extinguish the fiery arrows of the wicked, break the longbow of the hard steel rule of tyrants, strip asunder the traitor’s cloaks of cozenage, shatter their shields, dull their swords, and confound the Devil in the Big House, that we might bring-to-task the scallywags and charlatans living high-on-the-hog off the sweat-of-the-brow of the common working man, not to mention the thugs, despots, mercenaries, and myrmidons of the Evil One who thought they had this nation dead to rights. The Lord, with the whole world watching, has just handed us the whatwithall to quell the coup and save America the Beautiful in a Time Such as This (Esther 4:14), all because the Faithful Remnant who Abides in the SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH has been relentlessly bringing their Strong Causes into the Throne Room of the Father, crying,  “Let God arise and His enemies be scattered. Let those that hate You, O Lord, vanish before us “. (Psalm 68:1, Isaiah 41:21, 43:13)   

¶ And though the Lord not only approves of but also blesses Peace Through Strength, the strength of a sound, strong, well-organized military – Religious Culture, a Bring-It-On-Attitude, Honky Tonk Patriotism, 16th Avenue Christianity, Red Neck Righteousness, Bad Boy Vengeance and even Western, Red Rider Justice will not do the job; however, that “Silly Thing” called PRAYER, you know, that “THING” everyone cries out for when the Grim Reaper comes knockin’ on their door, yes, PRAYER, when Rightly Applied, Will Get The Job Done!!! For uncontestably so, PRAYER, when properly applied, is THE MOST POWERFUL WEAPON ON THE PLANET!!! The entire world has just witnessed this, in real-time!  Whether they acknowledge IT as the mighty moving of the Hand of God or not is neither here nor there. Why? Because IT HAPPENED! IT HAPPENED! IT HAPPENED!  Still, we are AT WAR as NEVER BEFORE. Though our Beloved Country has just received a seemingly overnight deliverance out of the damning clutches of the [sic] Obama Nation of Desolation, we are still smack-dab-in-the-midst of the Final Collision of Good and Evil!

♣ Which brings to mind a Song I wrote describing the disparaging distress, the quandary, and the gloom our One Nation Under God suffered under the many Thumbs of several of the former Dark Administrations, in which so many seemed to be simply “Biden Their Time” under the Damnation of the “Obama Nation of Desolation”.  Nonetheless, there are still “Shadows in the Big House and Shadows on The Hill” that need to be brought into the Light, exposed, dealt with, and removed far from us. While this wonderful, current Administration is busy fighting to bring us back to being One Nation Under God, we best not forget The Secret Place of the Most High, and what a Pretty Penny it is we have paid for FREEDOM!!! …which is what this Song is all about. It is entitled,

LIVIN’ ON THE GOVER’MENT PLANTATION by Will Callery© / William & Cynthia Pub. Co.©, 2012 BMI

 

♠SUMMARY♠

¶ The Godless plans of the self-appointed blackhearted rulers of this world have indeed been shaken. Many of those who boasted in the taking down of America, if we are faithful, are about to see the Hand of God’s Destroying Angel cast them into a Sleepless Death of Terrors (Psalm 76:5) to awake no more to Rule this One Nation Under God. If we are FAITHFUL in Prayer, Supplication, Worship, and Thanksgiving, they will indeed awake to find themselves plundered by the very ONE they came to plunder, before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, the Lord of All Creation. Oh, but it will indeed cost a Pretty Penny.

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THE SECRET PLACE  {Part II} THE FACE OF GOD

 

Heavy winds are blowing through my Nation,

They pound against these battered hills of mine.

Yet He shelters us in Hallowed Hands,

While changes crash in thunder bands,

Shaking all that Deadfall from the Tree.

 

Need not we die in vain up in these hills,

Or fly like shadows blinded by the Light,

But stand instead, and face the wind,

Let it blow away the sin,

So we can see,

The Face of God.

 

What will you do when arrows fill the sky,

And you hear footsteps of terror in the night?

Why did you wait until so late?

Tell me, What’s that comin’ through your gate?

What you did not believe,

It’s at your door!

 

He who Dwells In The Secret of the Most High,

Shall abide neath the Shadow of His Wings.

I will say unto the Lord,

You are my Refuge from this storm,

My very Present Help

In times of trouble.

 

Need not we die in vain up in these hills,

Or fly like shadows blinded by the Light,

But stand instead, and face the wind,

Let it blow away the sin,

The we, we just might see,

The Face of God.       ©Will Callery

 

♠  “In That Day, those whose names are not found written in the Lamb’s Book of Life (Revelation 13:8, 20:15), who have bowed down before the Evil One, to willingly have their consciences seared by the Hot Iron of Diablo, who, without hesitation, have received the Mark of the Beast in their Foreheads or their Right Hands, and have, out of either pleasure or fear, taken the Number of His Name; Six Hundred Three Score and Sixty” (Revelation 13:16) …are the same Strange Children, who, in the End Times, will say to the Lord, ” ‘We have made a Covenant with Death’. ‘We have an agreement with hell itself.’  ‘We will pass through Your overflowing Scourge of Judgement unscathed’. ‘We have Cloaks of Cozenage whose warp and woof have been woven by Appollyon himself of the finest fabrics of Lies, Falsehoods, and Half-Truths known to mankind²’.’ ‘We cannot be uncovered, though we are visible, we are covert².’ ‘We are Masters at using Good to do Evil and Evil to do Good².’  ‘We, not You, are the Masters of this Present, Evil World, and we are here to stay² ‘.”   These Strange Children, at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, will swallow their vanity, choke on their arrogance, chew on their tongues, and gnash their teeth for lack of defense². (Revelation 16:10, Matthew 25:30)  “They will abandon their colossal estates, cast their fortunes of silver and gold, along with all their other ill-gotten gain, to the moles, to the bats, and out into the streets, saying, ‘Wait a minute, wait a minute here, none of this belongs to me. None of this ill-gotten gain belongs to me! Some will say, ‘Why, I was just a politician reaping some of the benefits while representing the people, others will say, I was just a poor preacher being blessed by gratuities due to the office I held.².. ”  They will twist the Scriptures, saying, “Well now, a workman is worthy of his wages, you know.” (1 Timothy 5:18, ¹wcv&²)

♠  “…They will hide in the clefts of the rocks, in the heights of the ragged peaks, and, in their well-constructed bunkers in the, unbknownst to them, Shadow of the Valley of Death from the Fear of the Lord, and the Glory of His Majesty, when He arises to shake the heavens and the earth with a terrible and dreadful reckoning that will befall all of the Mephistophelian Rogues of the earth, along with their henchmen, stooges, and bootlicking sycophants².”  Truly, “The Lord is about to shake all that can be shaken.” (Isaiah 2:19,20,21 / Isaiah 28:15,16, ¹wcv&²) 

♠  “I will make the nations shake at the sound of the fall of the Mighty Cedar of Lebanon, ( i.e., The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil²,  i.e., the Tempter himself²), that has been, throughout the ages, enticing and cabalistically indoctrinating the rejected, the fearful, the naive, and the narcisisstic, in the heinous, malevolent, and diabolical ways of the Evil One to rule the earth on his behalf². The Lord goes on to say, “When he falls², I will cast him down to hell, along with all his henchmen, stooges, and bootlicking sycophants², to be welcomed by the departed spirits of all the infamous rulers of the earth who have, down through the ages, preceded him to their final Estate, the Abyss.  (Ezekiel 31:16,17,¹wcv&²)  Yes, “This very hour², Hell is stirring itself, even rejoicing, at the anticipation of their arrival.” (Isaiah 5:14, 14:9, ¹wcv&²)

♠   The Lord is, this very hour, not only putting His “Axe into the roots”(Matthew 3:10) of the Mighty Cedar of Lebanon, i.e., the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, but He is also SHAKING all the Deadfall from the Tree of Life.

without a doubt,

Heavy winds are blowing through my Beloved Nation!

Oh, and how they pound against these battered hills of mine!

Yet, He shelters us in Hallowed Hands,

While changes crash in thunder bands,

Shaking all the Deadfall from the Tree

 

But we who dwell in the Secret Place of the Most High,

Who abide in the Shadow of His Wings;

We, this very day, shall say, “Lord,

“You are my Refuge from this storm.”

“My very present Help”, (My Deliverer)

“In the Time of Jacob’s Trouble”.

 

We will not die in vain up in these hills,

Or fly like shadows blinded by the Light,

No, we will stand strong and face the wind,

We will let it blow away the sin,

So we can see

The Face of God.       ©Will Callery

BLACK SWAN RISING by Will Callery ©William & Cynthia Pub. Co., ©2023 BMI

 

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THE SECRET PLACE {Part III} CAST YOUR BREAD UPON THE WATER

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Cast Your Bread Upon The Water,

Cast your cares upon the Lord, (1 Peter 5:7)

Seek Him like you ain’t never,

Sought the Lord before. (Ecclesiastes 11:1, Matthew 7:7)

 

Cast Your Bread Upon The Water,

And He will Strike the Seven Streams, (Isaiah 11:15)

Raise up Seven Shepherds, (Mica 5:5)

Eight Warriors and a King.  ( Mica 5:5,  Isa. 11:15, Ecc.11:15)

 

Partaker of His Nature;  (2Peter 1:4)

You will wonder how It came (John 3:8)

When out of dark and stormy skies,

Blessings fall like rain. (Joel 2:23)

 

So, Cast Your Bread Upon The Water,

Cast your cares upon the Lord,

Lite out into His Great Beyond

Where you ain’t never been before.

 

Cast Your Bread Upon The Water, (Ecclesiastes 11:1)

And He will Strike the Seven Streams,

Raise up Seven Shepherds,

Eight Warriors and a King. (Mica 5:5,  Isaiah 11:15, Ecc.11:15)

 

Be Strong and of Good Courage, (Joshua 1:9)

For after many days,

What you Cast Upon The Water

Will Fall like a Summer Rain. (Joel 2:23)

 

Cast Your Bread Upon The Water, ((Ecclesiastes 11:1)

Cast your cares upon the Lord, (1Peter 5:7)

Seek Him like you ain’t never,

Sought the Lord before. (Matthew 7:7)

 

Cast Your Bread Upon The Water,  (Ecclesiastes 11:1)

And He will Strike the Seven Streams,  (Isaiah 11:15)

Raise up Seven Shepherds, (Mica 5:5)

Eight Warriors and King.  ( Mica 5:5,  Isa. 11:15) (2 Peter 1:4)

 

Partaker of His Nature;  (2Peter 1:4)

Born of  Seven Winds,

To walk in Spirit and in Truth

Through the thick and through the thin.

 

So be strong and of Good Courage,

Do not be dismayed, (Joshua 1:9)

What you Cast Upon the Water, (Ecclesiastes 11:1)

Until the Twelvth of Never

Is Forever and a Day.

{Cast Your Bread Upon the Water} by Will Callery & Ronnie “Herald” Phillips / ©William & Cynthia Pub. Co., ©7/25/25

♦ The BREAKDOWN:  “Seven” is the Biblical number designating “PerfectION”. “Eight”, the Biblical number designating “Complete”.  “Seven Shepherds” is a Hebrew catchphrase describing the “Perfect Shepherd.” “Eight Warriors” / “Eight Princes” is a Hebrew catchphrase that describes the “Complete Man.“  In Isaiah 11:15, “Strike the Seven Streams” is the Hebrew catchphrase for “Drying Up the Euphrates”, which simply means “Removing All Obstacles.”  The term “King” as applied in Revelation 1:6 & 5:10 states that, under Christ, we are Kings and Priests to God, and will rule and reign with Him in the Age to Come. Thus, even though we are a work in progress, we are, nonetheless, “Partakers of His Divine Nature”. (2 Peter 1:4)

The “Seven Shepherds”, the “Eight Warriors / Princes”, and the “King” are but the Distinguishing Attributes of Jesus Christ that, throughout our lives on earth, are being restored in us who Abide in the Secret Place of the Most High.  If we are truly Born Again of the Spirit, we are, day by day, being transformed by the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, into the Image and Likeness in which we were originally created, the Image and Likeness (Genesis 1:26) of Christ, which we forfeited in “The Fall”. Yes, we, who Dwell in the Secret Place of the Most High, are, hands-down, or should I say, hands raised, “Partakers of His Divine Nature”. (2 Peter 1:4) 

SUMMARY:

IF

We Cast our Bread Upon the Water,

And our cares upon the Lord,

Seek Him like we ain’t never

Sought the Lord before;

He will, indeed, Strike the Seven Streams

Raise Up (within us) Seven Shepherds,

Eight Warriors and a King.

 

Yes, according to the Scriptures (2 Peter 1:4), without a doubt, we, who “Dwell in the Secret Place of the Most High,” are “Partakers of His Divine Nature”. 

THE GREAT AWAKENING, written & performed by Will Callery, ©William & Cynthia Pub. Co., ©2013 BMI

 

SUMMARY: “Broad and beguiling² is the gate and wide and enticing² is the road that leads to destruction, and many are they that travel that old seductive turnpike in the pursuit of happiness². However, straight is the gate, narrow, and sometimes a bit trying and rough, is that old Heartworn Highway² that will take you to that SECRET PLACE, and ultimately to that City Not Made By Man², unfortunately², few find IT.” (Matthew 7:13,14, ¹wcv)

 

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