Our walk as believers is built upon by the Lord in a brick by brick fashion.  The Holy Spirit will use everything He has ever spoken before to show you new things.

     Years ago, I had revelation from God regarding Luke 17:37, that the disciples had asked a geographic question, and Jesus had given them a geographic answer.  In that scripture, the Eagles (Greek-aetos) are to be gathered to the body (Greek-soma).  I perceived at that time that only one place on Earth carried the name SOMA, and it was located in Western Turkey, in the area of the biblical seven churches of Revelation.  The same Greek word SOMA is used in Revelation 18 to refer to slaves.  The Holy Spirit has had me paying special attention, since that time, to the activities of Turkey, and also those of the Slavic nations, most particularly, the old Yugoslavia, which today, is known as Bosnia, Serbia, and Kosovo.  They carry the name "Slavic" because they were perpetually enslaved.

     The companion verse in Matthew 28 is a bit different.  In that one, the eagles (Greek-aetos) are gathered to the body-kjv, or corpse-niv (Greek-ptoma).  As anyone can see, the Greek word used here is different.  This word is the first choice for use to denote a dead body or corpse, and it can also refer to a calamity, a failure or a fall into sin.

     This morning, in that space midway between sleeping and waking, the Holy Spirit and my spirit were communing, and I was pondering all of these things, when the Spirit said...THE VULTURES ARE GATHERING TO THE POTOMAC.  I awoke quickly to appreciate the play on words...ptoma...carcase...dead body...Potomac, where our nations capital is situate.  I pondered on the recent prophecies about a terrorist attack that some are saying will befall our nation's capital.

     This is truly such a time to draw close to our Lord.  We see the UN, dealing with deliberations right now in the Slavic lands that may culminate next month.  The biggest Slavic nation, Russia, has become a bear awakened.  The Turks have been conducting cross border raids into Iraq, very close to the American Eagles.

     A wise man would conclude that the time might be short.

 Stephen L. Bening