Maori legend of man-eating bird is true

9:58AM Monday Sep 14, 2009
By Paul Rodgers

A Maori legend about a giant, man-eating bird has been confirmed by scientists.

Te Hokioi was a huge black-and-white predator with a red crest and yellow-green tinged wingtips, in an account given to Sir George Gray, an early governor of New Zealand.

It was said to be named after its cry and to have "raced the hawk to the heavens".

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“O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy upon Jerusalem? ... And the Lord answered the angel ... with good words and comfortable words.”

Zechariah 1:12,13

What a sweet answer to an anxious enquiry! This night let us rejoice in it. O Zion, there are good things in store for thee; thy time of travail shall soon be over; thy children shall be brought forth; thy captivity shall end. Bear patiently the rod for a season, and under the darkness still trust in God, for his love burneth towards thee. God loves the church with a love too deep for human imagination: he loves her with all his infinite heart. Therefore let her sons be of good courage; she cannot be far from prosperity to whom God speaketh “good words and comfortable words.” What these comfortable words are the prophet goes on to tell us: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.” The Lord loves his church so much that he cannot bear that she should go astray to others; and when she has done so, he cannot endure that she should suffer too much or too heavily. He will not have his enemies afflict her: he is displeased with them because they increase her misery. When God seems most to leave his church, his heart is warm towards her. History shows that whenever God uses a rod to chasten his servants, he always breaks it afterwards, as if he loathed the rod which gave his children pain. “Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.” God hath not forgotten us because he smites—his blows are no evidences of want of love. If this is true of his church collectively, it is of necessity true also of each individual member. You may fear that the Lord has passed you by, but it is not so: he who counts the stars, and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting his own children. He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature he ever made, or the only saint he ever loved. Approach him and be at peace.

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I was in the states in my dream part of a special forces unit which is strange haha for me that is. There were three of us assigned to take down this gang and we got word that one of the members were in the vicinity so we were dispatched however as leaving barracks or base as it was fairly large I was issued a rifle I thought and the person who issued while saying it was huge bullet and that it was the latest gun in technology and that only I was the one issued with it he showed me the casing. I was so anxious to test the puppy out haha, we ended up taking down this guy as he lay on the floor, the others were trying to get out of him where the others were etc. I was trigger happy, I just wanted to let loose and try out this new gun and I said to my other partners man I just going to nail this guy. They said just hang on man and so I turned rifle to wall which was half wood and half window and open up. It fired one shot and left red dots and peppered holes all in the wall. Now one of the other team yelled out man that's the map of Alabama. It must of had red die in it also as the red die had made town placements and the shot holes had made the shape f the map of Alabama. Really weird stuff haha.

Anyways in the dream from that point I knew it was a shotgun obviously because of the many holes it made when shot. So I turned the gun to this gangster bad dude guy haha, funny thing I used to be one of them!! and opened fire on him until I had used all me ammunition. We got called to another guy to take him down but I had no ammunition left so I had to return to get reissued some more ammo. I got back and went to armoury only to hear them ask what weapon you been using so we know what ammo to give. I said I had no clue as i had left it behind and when issued it wasn't told the name of the gun. So I was told to go to the General or whatever the guy was.... so I look all over for him and ran into him. I explained situation of running out of ammo and that I needed more and I had no clue to what sort of gun I was issued as it was only assigned to me and was brand new. He asked me what it fired like and so I explained when ya shoot it fires in the map of Alabama. He said oh that is a "Curtis Wilbanks" Now I remembered Curtis in my dream because I used to smoke Meth "P" down here in Tauranga with a guy by the name Curtis so when I awoke I remembered the name.

I said to him yeh the bullets shoot in the map of Alabama but could I get them s they shoot in the map of New Zealand. And at that I awoke.
Now just to make a note! I don't have any knowledge of guns or army, special forces. which ir really out there.
So i looked on the internet to see if I could find something and the only thing I could fine relating to was Curtis Wilbanks aka: Gun Docc *Specialized Shotgun Work*
now this is really freaky. This guy can customize shotguns according to what you hunting, he can change the pattern as well as the intensity of the shot. And he lives in next state to the right of Alabama. Weird huh
http://www.guncustomizing.com/
http://www.guncustomizing.com/targets.htm

Anyways last year 2007 I was in Mexico with David Hogan "Freedom Ministries" as a visitor and another visitor that I met over there was from Alabama. I hadn't heard from him in ages and he emailed me regarding a movement He and his friend had set this up in their basement some time ago and now it had grown and where making an impact on their area. He asked if we would like to start it here in NZ and if he could come over and start it. We are waiting as he cant come till say March of next year but are praying into the opportunity as it would have to be awesome especially with a NZ indigenous feel.

Another thing too is! that I went to a conference just this month through "Fusion Church" Jack and Gaye Stradwick! and two visiting speakers were over from the states. In the middle of one preaching he mentioned he was from Alabama and he Steven Shelley called me out. I was only one called out by him and on two days also really weird. My wife had said previous that I was to attend as she felt I was going to receive an impartation but to tell ya truth I wasn't that keen to attend. We had had rough month with many things and I was feeling exhausted physically and emotionally due to much undue circumstances.

Anyway he called me out saying that he felt that he was to impart amongst other things I cant remember as I was whacked seriously. I never usually go down like others but I did this time violently haha.

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