Jubilee-Dedication of the Tabernacle-Temple in St. Louis (continued from home page)
We are continually amazed at how the Lord orchestrates both the times and locations for our conferences. I had been negotiating with several hotels. At two separate hotels, the sales managers of both were acquainted with someone named Bruggeman—not a very common name at all—and one of them told me her neighbor and best friend was a Bruggeman. I wondered if perhaps one of these two (very nice) hotel and conference venues might be where the Lord wanted us to hold the gathering.
But as it happened, we were offered a contract at an equally competitive rate with the Millennium Hotel which is only one block from the St. Louis arch! The other two were outlying venues. Being near the arch is important to us because the arch symbolizes the rainbow (Genesis 9), and hence, God’s covenant with all creation. Therefore, to be “under the arch” is perfect!
A letter from Ken in Tulsa first pointed us to the Millennium Hotel, and Ken also noted how we will be “surrounded by a great company of saints, and the church of the firstborn (Hebrews 12:1, 20-24).”
Looking at a map of the St. Louis area, you will notice it is surrounded by the towns of St. Ann, St. John, St. James, St. Cloud, St. Robert, St. Charles, St. Jacob, St. Genevieve, St. Francois, St. Joseph, St. George, St. Peter, St. Clair, and St. Mary.
Ken continued: “This is a grand type, and it continues—we will be at the confluence of the two great rivers (the Missouri and Mississippi), where the river gets deeper and wider (Ezekiel 47:1-12) We should be expecting a great move if we pray and believe!” Thanks, Ken.
In my first round of negotiations with the Millennium, the sales manager told me that she would have our group meet in the Lewis & Clark conference room... which caused me to about fall off my chair (with delight).
or Ron Oja has taught us for years about the prophetic significance of Lewis and Clark...going back to at least the election of Bush over Gore in 2000 when judges named Lewis and Clark gave Bush the victory in Florida. What a story that was (and still is), and I’ll bet that Ron will share it again in St. Louis in October!
Moreover, spiritually speaking, this all has to do with Ephraim (and Manasseh) and the double portion of the inheritance. With the Louisiana Purchase by President Tom Jefferson, the young U.S.A. doubled in size overnight!
Jefferson then appointed his personal secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to head up an expedition to explore the vast new territory. With his “co-captain,” William Clark, Meriwether left from St. Louis and returned there a long time later to ultimately tell of the great wonders and natural resources of the country.
Look here later for more about Lewis and Clark. For example, did you know there is evidence to show that Meriwether Lewis was later murdered by certain powers who did not wish certain findings of the expedition to gain widespread public knowledge?
Well, as it turned out, the Millennium’s Lewis and Clark room will not be large enough for the crowd we expect will attend, so the sales manager told me she was booking the Jefferson room for us—which serves prophetically just as well as the Lewis and Clark room would have!
It also just “happened” that none of the venues were able to accommodate our first choice to hold the conference on the weekend during the calendar Feast of Tabernacles, but the Millennium Hotel was able to book us for the weekend before Tabernacles. (Please note that a millennium = 1,000 and 1,000 symbolizes God’s glory!).
The weekend available, October 7th-9th, includes the Day of Atonement (October 7th), BUT...every 49th/50th year, Yom Kippur became the Feast of Jubilee—when all debts were supposed to be cancelled in the whole nation!
In that connection, remember our spiritual work at the Atlanta branch of the Federal Reserve on “the 10th day of the 7th month” (of the Gregorian calendar) in 2010? You can review that amazing story here. This link will take you to the three-part blog; click on the titles to get the complete story with numerous photos!
Now, it appears that the Father will be having us kick off this October Conference on the “the 10th day of the 7th month” per the Hebrew calendar.
Furthermore, as we noted in last month’s cover letter of our postal mailing to the Feed My Sheep mailing list, the weekend of October 7-9th has a very interesting biblical basis.
2 Chronicles 7:9 And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar [the altar standing for the entire temple] seven days, and the feast [of Tabernacles] seven days.
It was like a double Tabernacles celebration (i.e., a double portion). First, there was the week-long celebration in connection with the Dedication of Solomon’s Temple, when the glory of God filled the house (temple)!
As we have seen in the past three years, we each needed to have our spiritually bitter waters made sweet, which we saw symbolized by holding our Tabernacles Conference at Sweetwater, Tennessee, for three consecutive years. That had to occur before the glory of the Lord appears. (see Exodus 15:23-25 and 16:7) Could the glory appear this year in St. Louis at the Millennium? This Conference will clearly be a time for both a corporate and personal (re-)dedication of our temples to the service of our heavenly Father.
Incidentally, we felt last fall, after our third Sweetwater Conference, that we would be somewhere else in the fall of 2011. We did not know where. This past weekend on my way to our Cleveland (Tennessee) fellowship, I stopped by to say hello to the owner of the Sweetwater venue, a dear lady named Millie, but she was no longer there. The hotel had gone into receivership. Thus, our all-knowing Father had predetermined our 2011 gathering to be somewhere else. The location of St. Louis was revealed to us later.
Speaker-teachers for our Jubilee-Dedication-Tabernacles Bible Conference will be Diane Padilla, Vincent Imperial, Tom Rolland, Stephen Jones, Ron Oja and James Bruggeman.
The Conference will commence at 9:30 on Friday morning and conclude at 1 p.m. on Sunday. We need to have everything out of the meeting room by 2 p.m., for another group then begins to set up. Of course, we expect that many of us will find someplace else in the hotel or nearby for continued fellowship into the evening. Many will plan to come in on Thursday and depart on Monday morning.
You can click on this link to book your reservations with the Millennium. Or, if you prefer, you can simply phone in your reservations by calling 1-800-325-7353. Be sure to tell them you are with the Stone Kingdom Ministries Conference or Stone Kingdom Ministries Group. That way you will receive the very special room rate of $89/night (+ tax) in the south tower or $109 in the north tower. The rate applies to Thursday through Sunday nights. (Over 4 adults in a room requires an extra charge. Children under 18 staying in room with parent/guardian are free.)
The north tower is circular, and nicer. This is not to say the south tower is not nice; it is all first-class! Believe me, this is a great rate for this hotel! Just look on their website and see the gorgeous views of the arch, etc. Since the hotel is downtown, parking is not free.
owever, they have discounted it for our group from $18/day to $9/day (one vehicle per room, subject to availability on the black level/street level of the attached parking garage). Please be aware that I considered that extra cost in my venue comparisons: even including the parking fee, the rate at the Millennium is still competitive with the outlying hotels who did not charge for parking.)
Furthermore, we have decide to charge no admission fee to attend the Conference, knowing that our Father will provide for all the costs associated with this undertaking. It is very important for us to have an accurate head count, however, so please write or email us that you will be in attendance. Even if you are not certain, please let us know anyhow.
It is also important that you make your room reservations with the Millennium as early as possible because the cut-off date for our special discount rate is September 15, 2011. Our contract states: “After that, all unreserved rooms in our Room Block will be released for general sale.
Thereafter, additional reservations for [SKM] Group Guests for the meeting dates will be accepted on a space-available and rate-available basis.” It may still be possible to get the SKM special rate after that, but (1) there is no guarantee, and (2) it is a real burden for this office (SKM) to have to make phone calls to ask for the special rate again on your behalf.
In other words, you may have to pay the going rate, which is considerably higher. Plus, this could become especially critical if the St. Louis Cardinals are in the play-offs or the World Series, in which case, there will almost certainly be NO rooms available. So please, take this seriously and act accordingly.
The Lord did some amazing things at our Spring Conference in Manassas, Virginia, and we are “expectant” for great things to occur here as well! “Meet Me in Saint Louie” to be part of this important Jubilee Dedication of your Tabernacle-Temple!
Anyone who wishes to share a room at the Millennium can contact our office and we will try to coordinate that. Email us at stonekingdom@charter.net or phone us at 828-277-7733. Put Millennium in the subject line of your email.