pioneering through Saint Joseph

Do you realize that Columbus discovered America for us? And Lewis and Clark traveled up the Missouri River and camped here, for us? And Joseph Robidoux came here and build a fur empire that would become the city of Saint Joseph, for us! And all the history of saint Joseph from 1843 to 2011 is also for us. O, it serves the whole city in a general way, but it serves the sons of God in a particular way.

Before 1700 the tribes moved about the land and harvested the animals lightly. They made hardly more damage to the environment than the other beasts of the area. But now the Frenchmen began to come. they were pioneers of a great wave of peoples who would dramatically change the environment. The animals and the tribal people would both become consumed at a rate that brought them to near extinction. The Buffalo furs would become so valuable that whole herds would eventually be slaughtered and their meated carcases left on the prairie, only the fur taken. Joseph Robidoux was a fur trader. He pioneered into the Missouri river from Saint Louis to where Council Bluffs now stands. Council Bluffs was a place where tribes gathered to meet. Joseph come to trade with them. Another man, named John Jacob Astor owned the American Fur company. Through dealings with them, Joseph would eventually end up in Blacksnake landing where Saint Joseph now stands. Through the sacrifice of animals for the fur, he gained a foothold in this tribal land. It was through their shedding of blood that our city came to be. Today I appreciate their sacrifice. I often imagine of late, what this spot was like two hundred years ago. I go back to my childhood when I use to spend many hours in the woods hunting squirrels. It helps me to imagine the days when very few people were here ,and even no white men. I am sure this area was the same for thousands of years, but that was about to change. The new world had come to time to yield treasures that would hurl all into the modern age of great technology. All these things now serve, but the greatest service to the sons of God in the way is the name of their city. This place had to be called Saint Joseph! It is now a great door in the midst of America. A door that the holy walk through on the road to the New Jerusalem.

From the garden of Eden to the New Jerusalem via Saint Joseph

All the sons of God are sent into the world in a timely mission according to the council of the Father before the world was. The world is arranged to manifest the sons of God in due time. All things serve them according to the purpose. where each was born and when and who to, are all arranged. Cities are formed in order to have proper environment to bring them forth. All creation groans in sin and death waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. Many of the sons place roles of preparation throughout the age before manifestation. All the sons have a role in this. Together we are walking in a long history that goes from the garden of Eden into the Holy City New Jerusalem to the Father enthroned in Him in His only begotten son Jesus Christ. The journey first becomes a great fall into sin and death where by nature all men are constituted Sin. Then the gospel path opens. One son hears the curse and offers out of it in his presumed righteousness. The other hears the blessing and follows the lamb to offer anther's righteousness. This son sacrifices unto death and his blood is first to cry out from the ground. Those that have an ear to hear can hear it speaking still. It opened the way for the sons of God in the line of Seth. The faith of the sons of God values the blood of Abel and does not go in the way of Cain. Our history comes down the Seth line even to this day. All that has passed before us who are here in 2011 now serves for the sons of God to mature as is necessary for the coming transfiguration into glory. The sons of God are called out of their history, but in that calling the history of faith is theirs.

The past two millenniums has been a baptism wherein all are as in a great sea. The sons of God take up their history in Jesus who walks upon this seas. In believing into Him we arise above it to see even its history. Revelation 1-3 shows the history in seven cities. These seven local churches are the bridge across the age. They are the measure of the age. Now on this side each of the sons of God can and must plug his city into it as the 8Th. Then the angel of the city Will serve to fellowship with you unto your maturity and glorious manifestation. I write of my local church, Saint Joseph and I invite others in other cities to share of the bread given on this now holy ground. I write to the sons of God in Saint Joseph and those who have been here and those that shall be. I pray that you each gain the precious holy think needed to return to our heavenly Father, for it is here. And I write to the Angel of the church in Saint Joseph, bless you in your service to the faith of the son of man.

Take off your shoes

your feet are on holy ground.

Holy Ground

I am writing from a place in the center of North America. Here in the center of one of the seven lands across seven seas is a town called Saint Joseph. It is a holy place which the Lord has chosen to accomplish a hidden work.

Before the Europeans came here, there were a number of tribes in this area. What is now called the Missouri river was the roadway they used. Before horse came to America, these tribe found the river as the way to travel through the land. One of these tribes came to be called the Missouria. This means "those that dug out canoes" This tribe was an off shoot of the Sioux which are also called the Lakota.

The peoples of America were not writers. There is no history they have written. The word came from Europe. Probably the first words written at the place I now write, were on July 7, 1804. At that time the Lewis and Clark expedition camped in the what is now saint Joseph. They called in Saint Michael's Prairie. At that time the river ran around it to the west. In 1952 a flood changed the course of the river. Rosecrans Airport now stands about were they camped, but the river is now east of there.

Tribal peoples considered this place to be holy. In the world this Word is man very unholy in the way it is used. Let us bring the holiness of it forth. This Word "holy" comes from the Greek word hagios. It means sacred. It is the same as sanctify. Saint, sanction, sanctuary, sacred, holiness are all of this word. It is the Hebrew word- kodesh. It means to separate to the very nature of the Holy God. To write about Saint Joseph requires we first establish the Word-holy. when something is truly holy it means that God watches over it and guards it for His purpose to be revealed. I write now to hold saint Joseph true to its name.