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I am Assuming I am supposed to respond to the title of this section by introducing myself and offering some insight as to my person. Well, right Now, you can call me…TIRED! As I haven’t slept, something is getting ready to happen, been here too many times, when something big is close, I end up losing much sleep as I am prompted of the Spirit to get alot of work done usually. I truly hope no one dies, and if they do, I hope it is not a loved one. Haven’t been expecting that though, but have been expecting an event which could be really bad. and at this time, for now, Like Forrest Gump, “That’s I Have to Say about THAT.”
I hope you will pardon me if in my tired state I borrow from another post placed on the Mt. Carmel Discussion Board on January 13, 2009 to fill in this section. The post is titled:
“A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME”
I will soon be seeking to use a portion of the very small sum coming from my attorney to changing my name legally to Steven Benjamin, for those of you who know me as Crider, that will be fine and appropriate as well, but the person born Billy Steven Crider, in effort to embrace in prudence that a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and that person being myself, will Honor the Name given me by God in a vision of David Koresh about 8 years ago. At which time, I would request you address me as Steve, Steven, Steven Benjamin, or simply Benjamin, emphasis on Benjamin.
Billy Steven Crider will always be a part of me, and my roots, but I am who God Says I am, and I am Benjamin, “Son of the right hand.”
God, My God, the Living God, YHWH, has given me many gifts in life, of these, perhaps one of the greatest is a new name, my name, Benjamin.
I was Born Billy Steven Crider. Billy, given to me by my mother, is German, not William, WilHELM, which is German, English, and Irish, but BILLY, exclusively German. She wanted to name me a JR. but Dad also Billy Crider, protested and refused. He has told me since I was very young that I was my own man. The Name means “WISE.”
Steven, The name given me by my Dad, is Greek, it means “Crowned in Victory, Victor, or Victorious,” I guess it has to do with tense.
Crider, well also German, once Krieder, and according to the family historian, prior to that Kriedger, and prior Kruger. What does it mean, well, mostly I guess trouble…just kidding. Actually, I haven’t seen the results of her work and the name by name geneolgies, but know she spent an extensive amount of time on it and have no reason to doubt her. The story I was told, is that Kruger’s were of a royal line, but they evidently ticked off the peasants, so as they made their exit, they took the money with them and entered into England. Now, while there, they were accepted and the name went through a change, I guess to protect themselves. Eventually they went broke, and were basically ran out of there, and landed in America somewhere around Ohio or Kentucky. The name went through a couple of more changes, ending at Crider. I have done some of my own research into the name, and there is a Criderville Ohio, started by Ephraim and Polly Crider, whom I recall vaguely an uncle once showing me a very old photograph, attributing the same names to being my ancestors,my dad later confirming the same, still I don’t know with certainty if it is the same two. Most of my family is in west Texas, and there was one of the worlds biggest oil booms in Criderville for about 20 years in the late 1800’s, but when the oil dried up, many moved to Texas, so it fits.
BENJAMIN, is the name I was given in a vision, not a first name, not a last name, simply BENJAMIN. And I was told a thing about that name too, as well that I would no longer be known by my birth name. I must confess, Steven was never mentioned, simply Benjamin. And I have no qualm with that, and may well, if possible, simply change my name to “Benjamin,” Period.
I only know I will be making the legal change soon. Now, it would be about a year before I would know the greater implication of such, and likewise to my joy, and confirmation yet again of my calling. I was having a conversation with a semite Hebrew. One who can trace his ancestry to Abraham. I believe Ron Goins is such a person by the way. Anyway, we were discussion David Koresh, and I explained to him that the name Koresh was taken from the name CYRUS, and he immediately understood, and the conversation shifted from my infoming him of David Koresh, to him informing me of the phonetic changes used by David, the pronuciation KA-RESH is actually slightly different than the HEBREW, at least he explained such. Still, he didn’t strike me as a devout Jew, and I seem to recall such coming at his confession, but he got it. I took the opportuntiy to ask him what Benjamin meant in Hebrew, not telling him at first why, and he told me the name means, “SON OF THE RIGHT HAND.”
It seemed very appropriate, and I am honored to be deemed worthy of such a name, and place in honor. So if I find I can have but one name, though I love my parents, I would choose the name given me of God, My God, Jah’, my redeemer, creator of Heaven and earth, the living God, the one God, My God, my fortress, and my refuge.
I know who I am, I am who YHWH says I am, I am “Benjamin,” and that is enough for me. And I know what I am to do in life, I am to do that he told me, I am “to finish the work that David Koresh started,”
…whatever in truth, that may actually be.
Thank you for your attention, and your respect in honoring my position in this matter.
–Bemjamin
Benjamin,
I’ve been having trouble leaving posts on the discussion board and getting email responses so I’m posting this here in hopes it will be seen. Could you please re-post The Seventh Angels Message audio sermon by Koresh. All other sermons on your voice of fire podcast load except this one.
Thank you,
Kevin