*SEASON OF THE OWLS

SELAH MINISTRIES

In 2010 Ray and I were at a conference in Washington state and at the end of the meeting a lady walked up to us and handed us a greeting card, there wasn’t anything written on the inside but there was a picture of a baby owl on the front. She said she didn’t know why she bought it but when she saw it she thought of us and felt like she was supposed to give it to us.

Initially I didn’t think much about it until the next day when we went out to lunch with some of the local leaders. As we were eating, talking and visiting, a stranger sitting a few tables over heard us talking and knew we were from somewhere in the south. There were just a few minutes of conversation with him about where we were from, then we all went back to talking to our own group. The man got up to leave and Ray waved goodbye to him. A few minutes later this man came walking back in and walked up to Ray and handed him a handmade walking stick, a cane that he had carved four small owls in to. He said “I just wanted to give this to you, I think you are supposed to have it.” Then he turned around and left. We said “Well, this is getting interesting. Is the Lord trying to say something here to us about owls?”

We flew home after the conference and when we pulled up in our driveway there was an owl sitting on our mailbox. Ok we knew something was up for sure then. I started researching owls on the Internet and there was a lot of interesting facts about owls that I knew could be applied spiritually. They are the only bird that have eyes positioned on the front of their head instead of on the side of their head like other birds. This allows them to see like humans with binocular vision, they see with both eyes at the same time, seeing the same thing but from two different perspectives.  Because of this they have great depth perception. They are able to see clearly even on the darkest night. Their ears are situated unevenly on the sides of their head,  one higher than the other. Because of this placement they can judge the  distance of objects accurately, by the time it takes the sound of movement to reach each ear separately. As I was researching, a movie trailer came up and was advertising and announcing a new movie that was being made but wasn’t coming out until next year. The name of the movie was “The Guardians of the Legend, the Owls of Gahool” (I will be writing about this movie and its significance also) I thought it was interesting that the movie wasn’t coming out until the next year and the owls that had been given to us and that we had seen were all baby owls. As if the fullness or timing of the coming of the owls was not here yet or they were still young and not fully mature.

In January 2014 I had a dream about snowy white owls. The dream was very simple, I just saw a lot of snowy white owls flying and landing and I heard the words A New Song. When I woke up that morning I went to my computer and typed in snowy white owls and was astonished to see several news clips about hundreds of white owls that had flown 3000 miles from the arctic tundra and were landing all up and down the east coast. Two had landed in a field on His Song Road.

Owls are known for a few things that are important for this time.

One…they have always been associated with wisdom. (A wise old owl)

Two…foreseeing the future.

The native Americans have always believed when they saw or heard an owl it was telling them something specific was about to happen. Usually a death. Many cultures believe the owl is a sign or omen. Or it was telling them something of the future. In other words a seer.

A seer coupled with wisdom.

Bob Jones went to be with The Lord on February 14 2014. I know Bob was a great prophet and the eagle has always represented the prophet but Bob was a seer too and I believe the owl represents the seer anointing. At Bobs passing I heard the question many times,  who do you think will get Bobs mantle? Of course no one knew but some felt like it wouldn’t go to just one man but to many individuals that The Lord had been preparing. I think that is why hundreds of snowy white owls have come to rest on the coast where a great white haired eagle/owl (prophet/seer) has gone on home and his mantle is being disbursed to many for the great end time harvest and the billion souls that Bob saw and foretold about.

-Denise Hughes