Triple Divide Pass
While coming back from a campmeeting at Crows Nest Pass Bible Camp (BC/Alberta border) last fall (1994), and in regards to the fact that the name of Crows Nest Pass had obvious satanic overtones, I asked the Lord what the big deal was and why He was expending so much effort in this geographical area. I reasoned that this pass is no different than many other passes across the Continental Divide - Loveland, Monarch, Rabbit Ears, or Logan. His response was:
"You're looking at the wrong place. It is not these passes that I am interested in. Look at Triple Divide Pass. The water goes to the Atlantic, Hudson Bay and to the Pacific. This area is up for grabs (like a "jump ball" in basketball I understoodl). This area does not belong to the Blackfeet and the closest that I've allowed the devil to get is Crow's Nest Pass. I intend to use people from Canada, from the Flathead, and from the Blackfeet Reservation, for I will pour out My Spirit and it shall fall like rain and it will fall on Triple Divide Pass and it shall flow to the north through Hudson Bay out into the North Atlantic and on to Europe. It shall flow through the Missouri, to the Mississippi and out into the Gulf southward to South America and Africa and it shall flow westward through the Columbia out into the Pacific to Asia and Australia. And so My Spirit shall flow from Triple Divide Pass to the whole world."
This appears to be a highly symbolic word to say the least.
Nonetheless, on the weekend of 4th of July in 1995, I, along with James Kraemer hiked up to Triple Divide Pass. I had collected some rain water at my house, carried it along on the journey and symbolically poured it out at the pass while offering a prayer that God's word would be fulfilled.
The hike itself is not much - four miles along a stream and then a three mile climbing traverse. Symbolically it was interesting. As we climbed the traverse, we could look back down the valley and see a storm approaching. As we got closer to the summit, we could see that the storm was also coming up the other valley and the clouds were pouring over the pass.
As we approached the summit, we walked right into the clouds! That may sound exciting, but in order to have a good cloud you have to have a lower temperature and it was considerably colder inside the cloud. Still, the symbolism was not lost on me due to earlier experiences.
As we hiked back down, the clouds stopped coming up the valley and as we looked back to the Pass, the clouds had cleared away.
About a year and a half later, James was reading through an old copy of "New Wine" magazine. He was actually looking at another article when something caught his attention. It was an article titled "Waging War in the Heavenlies" by Jim Croft. As it turned out, the cover of the article had several tanks sitting on a topographic map. To his utter astonishment, the map was of Triple Divide Pass! This particular issue came out in 1977!
What does it all mean? I don't know, but I would like to clarify one point. The actual point of the "triple divide" is not Triple Divide Pass but the neighboring peak, Triple Divide Mountain. I took this to the Lord and He didn't budge. So I looked up the word "pass" in the dictionary. "A place to be maintained against odds". Since the Lord was speaking symbolically, the word "pass" is more correct than "peak".
There is more stuff up on the Crown on the Continent website.
