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Saturday, December 28, 2019

“The Dream & the Movie “Harriet” – A Prophetic Picture For Us Today” – Now Think On This by Steve Martin


“The Dream & the Movie “Harriet” – A Prophetic Picture For Us Today” – Now Think On This by Steve Martin

Dec. 28, 2019 Love For His People ministry
“Where there is no guidance the people fall, but in abundance of counselors there is victory.” Proverbs 11:14, NASU
The Lord God Almighty, Creator of all, can and does use anything to get His message across, to wake His people up, to lead us in the way we are to go.
He can and will use even an ass as He did with Balaam and the donkey (Numbers 22) to get our attention and reveal His directives. He uses dreams. He uses visions. He can even use Hollywood.
On Christmas day, Dec. 25, 2019, I received an email from our good friend Caroline Hyde, who lives in the Galilee region of Israel with her husband Richard. They made aliyah (immigrated) from Texas in the USA to the Land of Y’srael over 15 years ago, and have a ministry called Heart of G-d (https://heartofg-d.org/). They are fully involved with the Lord’s plans in these end times.
I want to share the email communications (thanks to Hadassah Lerner from Jerusalem for putting the string together, who is the co-founder with her husband Nissim, of His Lighthouse, Inc., https://shepherdstaffministries.org/the-lerners-ministry/ another vital ministry in Israel for aliyah) that took place between Caroline and me.
Carolyn Hyde, Heart For G-d
As follows:
Dec 25, 2019, 11:53 PM
Shalom dear ones,
I just awoke from another highly detailed, realistic dream and once again it was in North Carolina. It’s clearly an Aliyah dream but I’m not sure what the numbers at the end mean. If the L-rd shows you something, please let me know. It seems very clear that we need to come back to NC again…
Dream NC – the staging ground
26.12.19
I had parked the car somewhere but couldn’t remember where after leaving my friend’s house. After the youth planning meeting, I was brought back to my friend’s house but the next day I needed to get my car and drive to the main meeting, but I couldn’t remember where I left my car. So I said goodbye and wandered out the back door and then the pieces of the puzzle began to be put together.
There was a high-speed chase down Hwy 771 and the driver was our daughter-in-law. The police caught her and she was lying on the ground, protecting her kids. Her Mom was there to comfort her and the story came out that someone tried to hurt the girls and take them and that’s why she fled. The police had mercy on her and let her go.
I was back looking for my car near Hwy 771. There were neighborhoods of brick homes with many African-Americans that were built into the hills of North Carolina. The scenery was gorgeous and landscaping was absolutely stunning!
I passed under a bridge and there were new brick homes but also built into the hills. When I looked up, I saw Eric & Terri Morey (who also actively work for Aliyah) waving from an upper room so I walked into the house. It was very old and filled with antiques. Another was in the back room trying to stay warm. Thankfully my purse was there in that house so I was able to get it and leave and afterwards meet up with Richard. Together we walked to the large youth meeting.
It was all in NC and just before I woke up, I heard that North Carolina is the staging ground for the great Aliyah to come from the west. There are already boats near Wilmington and other coastal regions that have been designated, their owners called by G-d to carry Jewish people home when the fleeing time comes.
And I knew that I have to go back there again…
I looked up the highway number 771 in NC. It used to be a primary highway two different times but later its number was changed to Highway 38.
Dec. 26, 2019 5:26 am
Thanks for sending Carolyn.
My 1st inclination is that Hwy. 771 (which I thought you meant Interstate 77 which runs North-South through NC, through Charlotte) was part of the Underground Railroad back in the 1800’s, when the black women Harriet Tubman led escaped slaves from the South to Canada. I am not sure of that location in NC.
The movie “Harriet” is out now. Charisma Magazine said it was very good.
I will pray about this dream further and let you know.
The movie “Harriet” Nov. 2019
Dec 26, 2019, 5:52 AM
More to share:
1. Parked car – stopping point. Places along the way where people get on/off, like places along the Underground Railroad has.
2. High speed chase – time is speeding up, accelerating.
3. Shayla, kids and Mom – families will travel together in the escape
4. Police – some in authority will understand and help. As angels along the way. (Righteous Ones as during Holocaust)
5. AFRICAN-Americans: another “picture” of the Underground Railroad era
6. Purse – provision is provided
7. Youth- they will be involved as we (older generation) give them direction and instruction. Multi-generational involvement
Another aspect of the dream to consider and seek the Lord on:
The black people in NC/SC need to get involved in aliyah. They will understand it!
Steve
Carolyn HydeDec 26, 2019, 7:51 AM
What an absolutely brilliant interpretation of this dream!  I’m so thrilled and I sent the dream and your words to a new friend who is an African American intercessor from Lincolnton, NC!  She had been in our home with a tour group but I got to know her during the conference recently in Nazareth. 
She was one of the intercessors that flew out just to pray during the conference!  It was such a joy to worship and lead worship a few times with peoples from the ends of the earth – Pacific Island nations.  
Blessings to you all in Yeshua’s love,
Carolyn
Steve Martin <martinlighthouse@gmail.com>Dec 26, 2019, 8:00 AM (2 days ago)
Yes, the more I consider the dream, the “Harriet” movie now out in the theaters, the role of black Americans in the Carolinas…it is the Lord who wants to get them involved even more so! Somewhat like a “redemption” and “salvation” act on their part. For such a time as this!
Steve
Carolyn HydeDec 26, 2019, 2:25 PM
Oh I can’t wait to see this film!  Actually, you sparked a memory from a few years ago when we were ministering in a congregation in Sacramento, CA, on a Shabbat morning.  After the meeting a beautiful African American woman named Deborah invited us to minister at her brother’s church the following Sunday morning.  She said a prophetic woman was coming to minister too.  We felt the L-rd say to go and when we arrived, this woman began to speak over us.  She looked right at me and said that the anointing of Harriet Tubman was upon me and yet this lady knew nothing about our calling for Aliyah!  
I just love how the L-rd prepares the way so beautifully for His children to walk in the fullness of their callings in Him!  
Blessings, 
Carolyn 
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 3:01 PM Steve Martin <martinlighthouse@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, the more I consider the dream, the “Harriet” movie now out in the theaters, the role of black Americans in the Carolinas…it is the Lord who wants to get them involved even more so! Somewhat like a “redemption” and “salvation” act on their part. For such a time as this!
Steve
After my good wife Laurie and I saw the movie “Harriet” at 9:10 am that day, Friday, Dec. 27, 2019 (it has primarily left the theatres and will be out on DVD and movie channels Jan. 28, 2020), I sent this to Carolyn.
Steve Martin <martinlighthouse@gmail.com>  Fri, Dec 27, 12:16 PM
Caroline,
Excellent movie “Harriet”.
1. After escaping herself she went back and got all her family.
2. She became known as “Moses”.
3. She continually prayed along the way of escape, stopping, kneeling, and asking the Lord for direction. It saved her and many others several times. All portrayed in the movie.
Steve
Screenshot from the movie, “Harriet”
Having now lived in North Carolina now since July 4, 1994 (25 years ago this past summer), we are becoming more aware of what the Lord is doing with Israel, His people there, and how He is connecting Love For His People ministry (founded by Laurie and I 10 years ago in April 2010), with those in Israel who have also been called. We are becoming more extremely aware of His plans for ALIYAH and are giving ourselves to be a part of this plan, His plan. We see in part and are connecting with others who also see in part.
He is connecting the pieces of this new railroad in our day, for His people, the Jews, to get back to their land He promised them centuries ago. For there they will be supernaturally protected, have new life, and will see their Messiah, Yeshua HaMashiach, return.
The Lord Jesus, the Messiah, is awakening His people, both believing Jews and Gentiles, to what is happening in this hour, as the final days, the end of times, are upon us. He is using dreams, visions, and yes, even Hollywood, to get His point across.
We need His wisdom and understanding as we continually walk on, even as Harriet Tubman (i.e. “Moses) continually sought the Lord on the escape routes, even stopping to kneel down and pray in her steps along the way, as she guided the escaping slaves from their life of torture, cruelty, and bondage to freedom.
May you too be aware of what He is doing and get on board! Another Underground Railroad is about to happen. He is arranging the train, the conductors, and making His already prepared plans known to those with ears to hear and eyes to see.
Come on. Get on board! Maranatha, Lord Jesus!
Now think on this.
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin
Founder/President
Love For His People, Inc.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Slavery: Not as Black and White as History Reports

Slavery: Not as Black and White as History Reports




By most accounts, Dr. Bertice Berry has led a successful life. Born in poverty, she earned a doctorate, and became a nationally syndicated talk show host and best-selling author. Along the way, though, she made what she calls one of her "greatest errors."
CBN News visited Dr. Berry at her beautiful home outside of Savannah, Georgia.
In her dining room, an inviting place lined with overflowing bookcases, she read aloud from her novel Redemption Song.
"Old man Hunn wasn't so old then," she read. "He was out hunting my mama and me. He wasn't a real catcher. Others caught slaves for money. He caught 'em for keeps."
The villain of her book, an evil slaveholder, is named after a real man: John Hunn.
"John Hunn -- I knew the story, I heard the name, that he owned the plantation that our family lived on during slavery, " Berry explained.
Despite her mother's repeated objections, Berry believed Hunn owned her ancestors.
"Especially in the 60s and 70s you would say," she takes on a militant voice, 'Back when we were slaves, you know, that was my slave name,' and my mother would say, 'We were not slaves!' I'm like, 'All right. You have a slave fantasy.' Delaware was a slave state," she argued.
Villian or Hero?
But one day she came upon the PBS documentary "Whispers of Angels," about the Underground Railroad.
CBN News played a clip from the film for her, where the narrator states, "Burris eventually guided them to the home of the young Quaker, John Hunn, in Middletown."
Hunn was born in Camden, Delaware, and grew up a member of the Religious Society Friends, or Quakers.
Mike Richards, with the Camden Friends Meeting, has become an expert on Hunn.
"He became known as the chief engineer of the Underground Railroad in Delaware," he said. "So he was very well known. And people that were helping the slaves escape would say, 'Go see John Hunn.'"
Hunn helped as many as 200 fugitive slaves make their way to freedom.
Robin Krawitz is program director of Delaware State University's Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and has studied Hunn for the past 20 years.
She learned that his father, Ezekiel Hunn, also helped runaway slaves escape.
"John Hunn's father and uncle were the owners of this property; they inherited it in 1794," Krawitz explained as she showed CBN News around Wildcat Manor on a cold winter day.
Pointing to the frozen river, she explained that Ezekial Hunn had funded "an African American boatman to ferry people from here and from the St. John's River over to New Jersey, which was the closest point of freedom."
His son, however, had other plans as a young man.
In a private home owned by a descendant of John Hunn, we had the rare opportunity to see a beautiful oil painting of him at age 22. At about the time of the portrait, he finished his training to be a silk merchant.
When he went to visit his older sister, Patience, a devout Quaker, she took one look at his fancy clothes and said, "Throw off thy Babylonish garment!"
"She basically read him the riot act," Krawitz chuckled telling the story. "She believes Patience was saying, in essence, 'Come back to the faith; be who you are.'"
Underground Railroad
And he did. Hunn was 27 years old when he became involved with the Underground Railroad.
On a cold, snow-covered day, he was washing his hands at a pump outside his home, when he saw an unfamiliar covered wagon approach.
Krawitz picks up the story from here.
"There was a group of people who were escaping enslavement from Queen Anne's County in Maryland… traveling all night in a wagon and on foot," she said. "He brought the women and children into the house, and then the men went out into the barn. And they were all housed and warmed up and fed to get them ready to continue on their journey."
But a neighbor turned them in to the local magistrate. While the fugitives eventually made their way to freedom, Hunn was prosecuted in federal court.
Under the Fugitive Slave Law, it was a federal crime to assist runaway slaves, and slave owners could sue anyone who did so.
The New Castle Courthouse looks the same today. Looking around, one can imagine the scene when Hunn was brought before Judge Roger Taney.
Taney would later write the infamous Dred Scott decision, ruling that African Americans did not have civil rights protected by the U.S. Constitution.
Hunn didn't contest the charges, and Judge Taney imposed a heavy fine. Hunn's world fell apart. He lost everything. His family had to move in with relatives, and his 6-year-old son died after a long illness.
Still, he steadfastly continued his work.
"I think his calling was so strong, and he felt this issue was such an important issue, that he didn't feel he could stop, that he had to do this," Richards told CBN News.
Hunn died at age 76. He was buried in the small graveyard behind the Camden Friends Meeting House. On his deathbed, he ordered his son to burn all records of his activity in the Underground Railroad.
"I ask no other reward for any efforts made by me in the cause than to feel that I have been of use to my fellow men. No other course would have brought me peace of mind," he wrote.
"It was a shock," Berry said. "I've used this man's name, who was the southernmost conductor on the Underground Railroad, who remained hidden, the same way we do with everything -- we think everything is black and white, good and evil, sin and righteous."
"You know, no! No. You know, there's so much more to every story if you just look a little further," she said.
Setting the Record Straight
And that she did. Determined to set the record straight, Berry wrote The Ties That Bind: A Memoir of Race, Memory, and Redemption.
She imagines what she would say to him, given the opportunity.
"Dude, you are so cool; thank you, and while the laws are against you now, years from now everyone will know that you're right," she said.
Hunn's son, Jonathan, grew up to be governor of Delaware, where he ratified the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, abolishing slavery.