Dear Joseph,
I have read your parables blog for several years; this is the first time I have made a comment. Your article is right on, America is under judgment and this judgment will continue to intensify.
I have lived in Colorado since 1963, mainly in the Denver area. Though fires are not uncommon in the state, this one is most interesting. I have been visiting my parents in Colorado Springs for several months. The fire is on the west side of I-25; my parents live on the east side of I-25, about a 15-20 minute drive to the highway. As reported, the fire was contained in the Canyon area for the first few days. Though we could smell and see the smoke from my parent’s house, it was not bad. When the fire jumped the canyon on Wednesday afternoon, it was a drastic change. I was sitting on their front porch, which faces east. I started noticing the change in the air, the smell of smoke was very strong, you could taste it, ash was falling, the haze from the fire was very thick, and the cloud of smoke produced from the fire was stacking so high, it looked like a thunderstorm was forming. The smoke rising from this fire made me think about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; smoke being a testimony or witness of something that has been destroyed/judged by fire and is burning and/or burned. Also, as Colorado is one of the so called "election swing states", it is a state which is on fire! We see also the south side of the Air Force Academy being evacuated. Finally, this fire started in Waldo Canyon; which is near the city of Manitou Springs. Manitou, means a good or evil spirit as an object of reverence, Waldo, means Rule, Canyon, means a narrow chasm with steep cliff walls; a throat.
We are to choose each day who we will serve. Will you be "ruled" by good or evil? What you are ruled by will determine what you speak by the air, the spirit. It will exert great force on you. You will speak from the narrow chasm with steep cliff walls, your throat.
Deborah