Today I woke up to the news story that Chile is suffering from yet another natural disaster…a raging fire that is engulfing the Valparaiso area.
I have been asking God lately…”Why so much stuff going on in Chile?” They’ve had an earthquake, a tsunami and a volcano come alive (all in the last 30 days). Now there’s a raging fire.
This morning it hit me between the eyes:
The name “Chile” comes from the trill of a warbler bird that makes a sound like “Cheele-Cheele”.
From Wikipedia:
Other theories say Chile may derive its name from a Native American word meaning either “ends of the earth” or from the Mapuche word chilli, which may mean “where the land ends;” or “the deepest point of the Earth”. Another origin attributed to chilli is the onomatopoeic cheele-cheele—the Mapuche imitation of the warble of a bird locally known as trile.
The Greater Valparaíso metropolitan area includes Valparaíso, Viña del Mar, Quilpué and Villa Alemana)
Look at the apocalyptic Meaning of these names!
Valparaiso = “val,” meaning valley; the other is “paraiso,” meaning paradise.
Or THE VALLEY OF PARADISE! We are in the Valley of the Shadow of Death but on our way to Paradise.
Vina del Mar= Wine of the Sea (Grapes of Wrath stomped out from Sea of Apostasy)
Quilpue = The origin of the name Quilpué comes from the word “Culpeo” (which means“turtledove”)
Villa Alemana = House of ALL MEN
Then God had me remember the miners in the Coal mine (occurred in 2010) and how that gripped the attention of the entire world. We watched men being pulled up from the bowels of the Earth, facing almost certain Death. It was like mini-Resurrections each time one of the men came up alive.
God is sending us a distinct prophetic message: Chile is THE CANARY IN THE COAL MINE.
We are about to enter a time a great danger. Poisonous, toxic, obnoxious gases (spiritual forces) from the bowels of the Earth are being released in the spiritual world. Unless we get out of the abyss, we are all going to die. The resurrected Christ is the “fresh air” that the world needs at this time! That is our ONLY salvation/deliverance option. Just like those men got into a tiny tube like elevator (signifies both Death, tomb and the Birth canal) and passed through suffocating darkness—then SUDDENLY they were “reborn.”! We need to stop preaching nonsense and the latest “spiritual fad” and just get back to preaching the Beauty of the Gospel/Cross.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
~Romans 1:16
I think The Message version of the Bible sometimes says it so plainly:
1 Corinthians 2
The Message (MSG)
2 1-2 You’ll remember, friends, that when I first came to you to let you in on God’s master stroke, I didn’t try to impress you with polished speeches and the latest philosophy. I deliberately kept it plain and simple: first Jesus and who he is; then Jesus and what he did—Jesus crucified.
3-5 I was unsure of how to go about this, and felt totally inadequate—I was scared to death, if you want the truth of it—and so nothing I said could have impressed you or anyone else. But the Message came through anyway. God’s Spirit and God’s power did it, which made it clear that your life of faith is a response to God’s power, not to some fancy mental or emotional footwork by me or anyone else.
REPENT!…for the Kingdom of God is at hand!
The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
~Song of Solomon 2:12
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~Posted by permission of Pastor Jeffrey N. Daly
Pastor Jeffrey N. Daly is the author of Repentance—God’s Strategy to Bless a Nation and Zeal to Repent!—A Key to Personal and National Restoration
or by emailing him at
Pastor Jeffrey N. Daly is the author of Repentance—God’s Strategy to Bless a Nation and Zeal to Repent!—A Key to Personal and National Restoration
–Both are available for FREE at The National Day of Repentance website: www.dayofrepentance.org
or by emailing him at