SARAH PALIN—FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS

Note: This is not intended to be a political article. Choice and freedom to follow ones belief is still something wonderful we enjoy in America. Spiritual things are always interesting to me and this lady, Hazel Straub, seems to have a gift of discernment for spiritual thoughts. Someone said they recently learned from a counselor that our thoughts are NOT truth. So I'm not posting this article by Miss Hazel as truth - I'm posting it because I find it very interesting. Hope you enjoy - Lyndi

By Hazel Straub, Fairbanks, Alaska, 9/15/08

"Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, "Do not imagine that you in the king's palace can escape any more than all the Jews. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?" Esther 4:13-14

Suddenly, Sarah Palin appeared on the national scene as John McCain's Vice Presidential choice. The country was baffled and said, "From where did she come? How could Alaska produce a viable candidate to be a heartbeat from being President of the USA?"

Alaska, the Forty-Ninth State is celebrating its Fiftieth Jubilee Year. In the Jubilee, the captives are set free and the land is returned to its ancestral owner. Alaska has been the Omega state but is now the Alpha state where things begin and end due to being on both sides of the International Dateline. God's plumb line has been placed on Alaska and the old corrupt system is being dismantled. The politicians who pandered to the tune set by the self serving oil companies are being exposed and brought into the light of justice. A new North wind is blowing through Alaska. Sarah Palin, an political outsider, became the Alaskan governor because she knew how to gain the favor of the King of Kings, by seeking to please him. An election for the new president was soon coming and although the cry for someone who would honor life, had gone up to heaven, it appeared that the choice was the old guard. Where was God's choice? Then suddenly on the eve of the Republican National Convention, John McCain announced Governor Sarah Palin was his choice for Vice President. Suddenly the emphasis was on the prospective Vice President rather than President.

Sarah (princess with the breath of God in her name) Palin, age 44 (double doors for Jesus our creator to walk through) was announced as the countries' new Vice President of the USA, on the 88th (double new beginnings or a new cycle) year of the right of women to vote. Additionally, Chuck Pierce, Glory of Zion, had said that America had a cycle of seven years of war that ended on 9-11-08. We have come into a new cycle that starts on the eighth year. Governor Palin will be the 44th Vice President. Alaska is the gateway for the Ancient of Days to come into the USA.

Sarah has been called a modern day Esther. Esther was a young woman who rose from obscurity to win a beauty contest and become queen to the Persian king who ruled from India to Ethiopia. The desire of Esther was to please the king and this gave her favor. Although Esther was Jewish and known as Hadassah (myrtle--"sweetness," an evergreen tree that is prized for its fragrant leaves with a scent more exquisite than a rose and medicinal berries) she took the Persian name of Esther (star). During her reign, there was much palace intrigue and a man named Haman (magnificent), the highest prince in Persia, conspired through a plot to kill all the Jews in the empire. Esther lived a privileged luxurious life in the palace but when she learned of the plot, she decided to risk her life for her people. She and her maidens and all the Jews in her city fasted and prayed for three days. She had not been summoned to see the king for quite some time. She faced death, as she boldly went into the king's presence without an invitation. Only the favor of the king with the extension of his scepter would spare her life. God granted her favor and the king extended his royal scepter to her. Within two days, Haman was no longer in favor and the tide of public opinion granted favor to the Jews. The Jews lived and triumphed over their enemies. Esther, an orphan, rose to a position of power and favor with the king "for such a time as this."

But what does the story of Esther have to do with Sarah Palin today? Over fifty and one-half million unborn children have been aborted in the past 35 years in the United States of America. Their innocent blood has been crying out to God for justice because shedding of innocent blood pollutes the land and will result in a subsequent bloodbath for the inhabitants of the land. The American Civil War came after many African slaves were murdered or treated as refuse and their blood cried out for justice. The resulting Civil War divided families just as the slave families had been divided and many perished just as the slaves had. There has not been a war since this time in the USA that has caused as many untimely deaths and heartache as did the Civil War. We, as a country, are facing a bloodbath unless we reverse the culture of death in our country. Lou Engle has energized many youth through the Call movement and twenty-four hour prayer for a reversal of the verdict of death of our unborn children and future by the USA Supreme Court. The 2008 presidential election is crucial for changing the Supreme Court into a place of life rather than death. There is a need for three new justices on the court that will go with life.

Sarah Palin, the Alaskan Governor and Vice President candidate, is a former beauty queen contestant. She was runner up for the Miss Alaska pageant a number of years ago and was voted Miss Congeniality in the contest. She is a committed praying Christian since a young age and has lived a life of protecting the unborn. Recently, she gave birth to a Downs Syndrome child, although 90% of these children are aborted. Her seventeen year old daughter is pregnant and unmarried but decided to keep her baby rather than conveniently aborting it. The priority of Sarah is to please the King of Kings. When she was Wasilla mayor, she received personal prophecy from ministry students. They prophesied to her that she would go to Washington DC and would eventually occupy the White House. Sarah seeks the favor of the King, as she wages spiritual battle against the spirits of death and deception. We need to intercede for Sarah and her family to have the favor of God on their lives and a hedge of protection. A righteous king brings life to the people.

Sarah, on 9-10-08, returned to Alaska for the first time since her nomination. Fairbanks, the Golden Heart City, was her first stop. Her homecoming was broadcast on CNN for several hours. Immediately after the homecoming rally, a rainbow appeared at the end of the Fairbanks airport runway. God told Noah that he would put a rainbow in the sky as a covenant sign. The sun began to set, over Fairbanks and the bottom part of the rainbow appeared to be a pillar of fire. The hills to the west were flaming red in the setting sun. God promised that he would be with the Israelites as a pillar of fire by night. His fire casts out darkness!

God has raised Sarah Palin up for such a time as this. There is a battle to be fought on our knees, as we seek the heart the king. May the favor of the extended scepter be granted to Sarah and all who intercede! So be it LORD!