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Weathering the Coming Storm(s)

On June 8, 1966 the most destructive tornado in the history of America (up until that point) struck Topeka, Kansas. [Details here.] I wasn’t alive then, and I didn’t grow up in Topeka. I grew up on a farm in a county south of Topeka. When I actually moved to Topeka in my adult years, I began hearing stories about the deadly tornado that ripped a 22-mile path, including through the center of Topeka destroying much of the college known as Washburn University.

As stories go among the locals, I began to hear about a pastor who prophesied the coming tornado before it happened. He is well known in Topeka, and in fact many places for his faithful work unto God and in serving across the world. I was intrigued, but I only knew of the man. We did not run in the same circles.

A couple weeks ago I was thinking about that story and I told God that if I were to see Max Manning (the pastor who prophesied the destruction), I was going to ask him my question. (Max would be 95 years old at this point today.) Less than two days later Bill and I were at a diner we don’t frequent, and I turned the corner and there was Max Manning, sitting alone. I introduced myself and asked him if I could ask him about the 1966 event.

Max told me he was preaching Sunday, May 29 to his congregation. He said as he was giving his message, the Spirit fell upon him and in the midst of the message he said, “Thus says the Lord, in ten days destruction will hit your city.” He said it startled him greatly as he had never had such a thing happen to him before. Max said he stopped abruptly, lowered his head and prayed, saying to God, “what is this, God? I didn’t say this, where is this coming from?” He then raised his head to continue his sermon and the same words came out of his mouth, startling him. “Thus says the Lord, in ten days destruction will hit your city.” Twice the warning was issued.

Max told me that he and his wife left town on the ninth day to visit some people in the southern part of the state. The next day when they turned the radio on, they heard of the F5 half-mile wide tornado in Topeka. Up until that point he did not know how the “destruction” would manifest.

I was then able to ask him my question, “Did God tell you why?” He seemed intrigued by my question. I reworded, “Did God ever tell you why the destruction was coming to Topeka?” In my mind, destruction of such a nature can be a judgment for a breach or sin. Local rumors said Topeka was cursed for building houses on an old Indian burial site (Burnett’s mound). Others said it was representative for Washburn University adopting the “Ichabod” mascot. (Ichabod means “the glory of God has departed” and incidentally though, Topeka, Kansas is also the home of the Stone Street Revival that led to the Azusa Street Revival.) I hadn’t heard from the Lord if there was truth in either of those rumors, but I did wonder if the man who gave the city a ten day warning was also told the reason of the destruction.

Max smiled at me and shook his head. “No,” he said, “He never told me why.” “Do you know now?” I asked him. He smiled and shook his head and said, “No, I still don’t know why.”

Seventeen people died in the path of that tornado in Topeka, and another 550 were injured, not to mention the costliest damages to date in its history. The tornado took 26 minutes to pass through the city. I wonder what the numbers would have been if the whole city had heeded the warning?

The Coming Solar Eclipse

On April 8, a solar eclipse will make its way across America six years, six months, six weeks and six days from the date of the last solar eclipse that swathed a path across America. The place the eclipses’ paths intersect is called “Little Egypt” in southern Illinois.

Two of the seven “Nineveh” American cities are in the direct path of the eclipse, while the other five are clustered around it. The 2017 solar eclipse passed through seven American cities called “Salem” (a derivative of Jerusalem).

The anomalies are worth paying attention to. Of course the obvious question of — is God warning America to repent? — is at the foremost of a lot of minds. I think the obvious answer is yes, but I also think that cry for repentance has been heralded for a few decades now. Is this the undeniable last warning and call?

The intersection of the two eclipses being at Little Egypt says a lot by itself. Egypt, of course, is representative of idolatry – of which America has become a land full of. More telling than that is the particular “gods” mainstream America has adopted.

Mainstream America is woefully ignorant of the systems the powers that be have put into place that revolve a great deal around their worship systems. Just in the last week they applauded themselves and awarded little trophies mimicking the Egyptian creator God “sokar” another name for Ptah, and which they named a clever anagram of in Oscar…

It’s a common belief that the signs in the heavens (skies) are orchestrated by God to speak directly to those paying attention in a manner man cannot create or manipulate. History is replete with sun and moon and star signs, the most obvious being the star marking Christ’s entry. If anything, it would behoove the children of God to consider and pray about what God may (or may not) be saying.

We haven’t even touched on all the other precipices we’re dangling from…

Eye witness accounts of invading mercenaries through our defenseless border describe terrorists on the FBI terrorist lists, murderers, rapists, traffickers, Chinese secret police, Middle Eastern terrorists who had the boldness to tell the video journalist, “You don’t know who I am? You will.”… and the one that makes my blood boil, people they say who have been sent by the U.N. These people have been given money and addresses to head to. Countless have been videoed coming across with full military style weaponry and body armor. This aren’t the huddled, tired masses. This is an invasion of mercenaries with marching orders waiting for the “go” signal.

The economy is long overdue for collapse. Inflation is stealing from the middle class at alarming rates. People have never been more in debt in America, and America itself has never been more in debt. Real estate is not affordable for the average family anymore, and exorbitant taxes are sucking Americans dry. It’s cheaper for our family to eat at a restaurant than a fast food restaurant in our city.

Since the covid vaccine (mRNA gene therapy), heart disease, strokes, cancers and miscarriages have escalated at alarming rates. The American working force is being whittled down from increasing disabilities. And overall deaths are increasing disproportionately, especially in the young.

Threats of new viruses (Virus “X”) are talked about like it’s a foregone conclusion. Almost all of our food is genetically modified, laden with chemicals and artificial ingredients, and/or outsourced out of the country. Eating healthy is a full time job just figuring out.

Violent crime is escalating. The law abiding citizen is shunned justice and the criminals are let free.

Oh there are plenty of threats in and to America.

Solutions exist…

We’re not at a loss for solutions, it’s just that the System won’t allow them. The powers that be need us broken to accomplish their objectives.

I travel a lot, and there is not a city I have been in (large or small) that doesn’t have ample abandoned homes and buildings. Some of those empty buildings are absolutely beautiful. With all the money the government (federal, state, local) waste on nonsense, they could just as easily put it toward helping restore abandoned homes. Malls are quickly becoming a thing of the past. Imagine converting them into housing complexes with small businesses interspersed that produce and provide a variety of needs locally sourced.

Imagine if the cities created incentives to rebuild broken neighborhoods and establish community food sources. There are fantastic underground greenhouses that enable even the coldest climates to produce tropical fruits and a variety of vegetation. There’s a fantastic book called Holy Shit that expounds on the issues of animal waste and vegetation fertilizer. We have everything we need for everything we need right in front of our faces. They’ve just industrialized our society and put our dependence on corporations instead of local sources. It’s always about money and control.

Every neighborhood in America could provide for the needs of their neighborhood. It’s not unimaginable. The local high schools, community colleges and tech schools could make affordable services for the community in exchange for much needed internships and experience.

Energy sourcing is another thing they lie about and keep us in the dark about. Every alternative energy source from harvesting energy from the ionosphere to water powered cars has been buried and the inventors paid off or killed. Look into “earthship” homes to see practically self-sustaining homes that don’t even need public utilities.

Oh there are solutions.

We don’t have a lack of space, a lack of opportunity, a lack of housing. We have deliberate dependence on a broken system and an intentional repression of ideas that actually work.

Corey’s Digs does a fantastic series called The Solution Series that covers just about everything you could think of for freeing oneself from the tentacles of corporate and bureaucratic America. Check it out (yes there’s a small fee, but the sheer volume of information is worth it).

So about those storms….

Yeah, we have some hard things in America right now, and the crystal ball looks like even harder things are coming. But we are not powerless. They want us to think we are and they have an arsenal of schemes to make it appear so. But we should never agree with the enemy. Our job is to stand on what we know to be right and true, and only agree with God.

It’s like the 1966 tornado. Was that sent by God for a particular purpose or judgment, or was it orchestrated from some arena of darkness? Either way God warned the city. And that’s what He wanted me to know as I was pondering the coming season of storms to hit America. Some of the storms will be storms of judgment from Him, and some will be the chaos orchestrated from the dark players attempting to destroy America and its people. Either way the Lord is faithful to warn His people, just like He sent Jonah to Nineveh. We just have to be faithful to listen and respond as He shows us. The Wise Men followed the star to Bethlehem (they were Spirit led), but were warned in a dream to travel home a different route (because the enemy countered).

Some storms we aren’t going to be able to be spared from. There are some hard, hard things coming to America. It will likely be a mixture. Some hard things may be released for judgment for the unrighteousness in the land, while some other hard things may be the works of the enemy for our destruction. Like the 1966 tornado, we may not know if the storm beating down on us at the time is sent from God or the enemy. But ultimately the storm is either sent or allowed by God, and He is our only shelter. We must be prepared to seek Him and heed His warnings. We have to know if our response is repentance (judgment storm) where we put ourselves at the mercy of God, or faith (enemy-facilitated storm) where we take our stand against the works of the enemy. If He warns us of coming destruction, our next response should be, “What do you want me to do?”

Daniel 11:32, my friends…. “the people who know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.” Another translation puts it this way, “the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action.”

If we posture ourselves correctly, the outcome is on the side of righteousness.

The Great Reversal…

The Solution’s Foundation Must be Laid Before We Address the Problems

I was a pretty damaged person in my early adulthood, (from some painful childhood experiences). As I became an adult, the damage I carried prevented me from wholeness and health. I knew it; I could feel it, but I couldn’t seem to get out of it. I didn’t know how. Damaged people damage people, and I knew that my reactions were damaging to those around me. I needed free, and it would take me many, many years to get there.

Along the course of seeking healing and wholeness, I had to learn (and unlearn) a lot of things. Primarily I sought God, because He was truly the only one I trusted, and I was certain He held every solution to every problem I had. I just rarely had the understanding I needed. So I took it one slow step at a time because it’s all I could handle at that point.

Once I had a direction to go, the Spirit led me to a book by Derek Prince called The Atonement, and God very plainly told me to start with that. (I had several other options at that time and God made plain I was not to move in any other direction until I had read it, contrary to what I actually wanted to do at that point.) Later I read the much more detailed book The Blood of Christ by Andrew Murray.

In a place of chaos, the way out is difficult to find. There are too many (chaotic) things flying around that make it difficult to discern up from down, left from right, in from out. You must have something solid to ground you, to give you a footing and help you gain a vision for how to move strategically forward out of the chaos.

This is why God started my healing and deliverance process with the foundation of the atonement of Christ. As I began to move through the chaotic traumas in my heart and mind, I could plant my feet on the foundation of the atonement to navigate the flying memories, emotions, and baggage that constantly accosted me, threw me off balance, and threatened to drag me into dangerously swirling emotions and pain. I began to learn to take everything back to the foundation of Christ, who He is, what He had accomplished, to gain my bearings on how to move in the midst of all that pain and chaos. Eventually I was able to make my way through it all and end the presence of chaos in my life.

This is how I know to help Christians find their way in today’s chaos. We’re inundated with evil all around us and a host of threats of which even just one could destroy us, not to mention the hundreds coming at us. Our food, water and air are polluted and poisonous. Our media and public mouthpieces are lying to us, manipulating us. Our government has betrayed us. There are physical threats, mental threats, and emotional threats on about a thousand fronts right now. Many of us have some sort of real trauma operating in our lives presently. All of this and much more swirls around us constantly.

If we try to move forward as victims, we will be defeated. If we try to find our way out by raging at the darkness, it will consume us. If we ignore it, we will become prey to it. There is but one way to navigate the chaos of the world in 2024 and come through victorious. There is only one way.

The Supremacy of Christ.

The Great Reversal

The sons of God “…did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode”. Jude 6 calls them angels. The Hebrew refers to them as sons of God, but the Greek as angels from the Greek word aggelos meaning “a messenger”, taken from the Greek ago which is a verb that means “to lead”.

If we discount that these created beings of the heavenly realm were referenced as “sons of God”, we’re going to miss some important details. Enoch tells us a more detailed history of Genesis 6, and Enoch 6:1 says it like this:

And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of heaven, saw and lusted after them…”

Genesis 6:1 says it like this:

Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.”

Those read startlingly similar. Enoch calls them “children of heaven” and Genesis calls them “sons of God”.

If I could summarize… created beings of heaven called “sons of God” and “children of heaven”, left their appropriate domain and abandoned their proper abode [in heaven] to interfere with the created realm of earth. Not only did they procreate (heavenly beings with earthly beings), but they began to teach these earthly beings all kinds of wickedness. In fact, Enoch tells that one of the watchers named Azazel was ascribed all the sin of the earth for the wickedness he taught. (10:8)

There’s a lot I’m not getting into (which is why I encourage reading Enoch), but the essence of these sons of God leading man into wickedness and then turning on man and destroying them (Enoch 7), and that these sons of God produced offspring with the daughters of men is what I want to focus on.

These sons of God who corrupted themselves and humanity, and produced offspring to further the corruption, continued to lead humanity astray by establishing religions to their names. They are the Babylonian gods of old, who were renamed by region to be Egyptian gods, Mesopotamian gods, Roman gods, Greek gods, and the list goes on and on and on.

Matthew meticulously records the fourteen generations from Abraham to David, the fourteen generations from David to the Babylonian deportation (diaspora), and the fourteen from the Babylonian deportation to Christ. Then Matthew tells us that at this last fourteenth generation, the Messiah would be born of a woman and the Spirit of God and we know He would be known as the SON OF GOD.

Only unlike these other sons of God who cohabited with women and brought wickedness to the earth, this Son of God through the union of flesh and spirit would bring righteousness.

Unlike the sons of God who brought death and destruction to the earth, this Son of God would bring life and abundance.

Unlike the sons of God who taught violence, revenge, and selfish ambition, this Son of God would teach love and peace, forgiveness and reconciliation, and personal sacrifice for the good of others.

Unlike the sons of God who demanded blood sacrifices from humans to appease their wicked appetites, this Son of God would become the blood sacrifice to atone for the wickedness of humans.

Unlike the sons of God who had priests of sexual depravity and altars of death and destruction, this Son of God would be the final sacrifice, eliminating the lust for flesh-filled altars, and become the High Priest to God, doing away with earthly priests.

Unlike the sons of God who alienated us from God, the Son of God reconciled humanity back to God.

Unlike the sons of God who made humanity slaves to sin, the Son of God delivered us from the curse of sin.

Then the Son of God gave those who would believe on Him the power to become sons of God.

The sons of God left their heavenly abode for an earthly existence and have been condemned to judgment. How ironic that through the Son of God we who are earthly can attain a heavenly existence.

Everything about Jesus addresses everything that has stymied and sabotaged man. It’s important we understand this before we move forward to some very real, very complex, and very dangerous threats to humanity. There is no problem facing humanity today that is not resolved in the person of Christ. Absolutely all and every one of our needs are met in Him.

We are in a place of chaos (by design). The ancient gods have regrouped and found a lethargic, compromised society that is easily ensnared. The weaknesses of humanity have taken care of the rest. If we’re going to be victorious in this fight, we have to be solidly planted on a foundation that won’t shift as the chaos blows around us. In some ways we’ll learn as we go, but in all ways we have to be planted firmly on the Rock.

The gods the powers-that-be are worshiping today demand the same things they did then: homage, adulation, loyalty, obedience, and yes, blood sacrifice. In exchange, they gift their adherents with resources, power, and things that stoke the flesh, like fame and notoriety, and substances that feed lusts (sex, drugs, indulgences, etc).

I’m learning to look behind the circumstance before me to see what’s operating. It’s the most liberating thing in the world to declare, “That’s not my god.” Half-time show of rituals and feeding the flesh? That’s not my god. (I won’t participate.) Latest promoted fear (whether it be war, disease, economic, etc.)? That’s not my god. (I won’t participate.) Awards ceremonies for entertainers? That’s not my god. (I won’t participate.) Technology must-haves? That’s not my god. (I won’t participate.)

When you know who your God is, the counterfeit is easier to spot. You reject the counterfeit. You don’t use it. You don’t participate in its actions and schemes. There’s a place where Christ shows us to be shrewd with the things of this world in order to advance the Kingdom of God, and we have to learn how to do that without compromising our faith and convictions and without sullying the Name of Christ. The parable of the shrewd manager is an excellent example of this.

We are now the authentic sons and daughters of God. We have the authority given us by Christ. The unrighteous sons of God have been defeated. The only power they have now is the power someone gives them. Don’t give it to them.

A few articles back I encouraged you to listen to a Jamie Winship presentation at a conference. There were two prominent takeaways: hearing the voice of God and walking in your identity. Both of those things are key for how we move in the chaos around us. Jamie was in war zones for decades, but was himself at peace. He raised a family in hostile environments, and his family was safe. When you know your identity, the circumstances around you are not your prison. When you can hear the voice of God, you can navigate around the obstacles and landmines of the battle scene you’re in.

If you didn’t get a chance to listen, here it is. If you glean value in it, it has three more parts.

We must set our foundation solidly on Christ in order to be victorious in the chaotic days ahead. Knowing who He is, and how He has defeated the enemies of God and man is critical for laying that foundation. It gives us the position we both stand and rest in.

Symbolism will be their downfall

What kind of gods are they?

In my zeal to present the gods gone astray that Psalm 82 calls the Divine Council or the congregation of the mighty, I mis-characterized them by saying they co-reigned with God, Supreme God. Let me correct my mistake and clarify: these gods of Psalm 82, these sons of God of Genesis 6 and Job, are created beings, unlike the Supreme God, who is uncreated, who has always been.

Whether these other beings should be called gods or something else is debatable. The scripture calls them gods — Elhohyim — so it’s not errant, but our connotations inferred may be. They are spiritual beings of a higher order, possibly (probably) the highest order under God Himself. I think the four archangels listed in Enoch are probably a step above them…. Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, and Uriel….

They did not/do not co-reign with God in that they share God’s power. They are created beings given much power to serve God, like the seraphim, cherubim, angels, and whatever other heavenly created beings God has created. Just like satan, they were created for a function and they abused their powers and subverted their original purpose for selfish ambitions. Their task, it appears, was some sort of service to God in the affairs of the created world on earth.

I am genuinely sorry if I confused or misrepresented anything by poor word choice or description. I never intend or want to misrepresent anything of God (or anything at all).

Some may prefer to call them angels, and that may be a better descriptor for connotation. But the actual words Scripture uses is “sons of God” and “gods” (Hebrew eloyhim), which is why I use that term, but I know it causes a bit of confusion when we’ve been taught there are no other gods but God. That is in fact true when you’re talking about the uncreated Being who is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent. There is only One. But the Bible and other works do call these lesser (yet quite powerful) other beings gods as well.

Both Daniel and Enoch call these beings “Watchers”, which is ’iyr in the Aramaic that literally means watcher, but the translators have implied as angels or guardians. It comes from the root word ‘uwr meaning “through the idea of opening the eyes”, from the root “to be bare”. Best hypothesis is these are created beings with the task of watching creation. They’re listed three times in Daniel in chapter four and each time they are coupled with the “holy ones” (which is also an Aramaic word) which loosely translates one made sacred. Each time in Daniel they’re used is to issue a decree.

According to Enoch (and corroborated in Genesis 6), it would seem that there were two hundred of these beings who left their abode in heaven, perhaps they were just doing their task they were created for (watching, reporting?), but at the leadership of Semjaza rebelled against their heavenly assignments and copulated with human women. Enoch 6:6 tells us, “And they were in all two hundred who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.” Interestingly, “Hermon” comes from an ancient Hebrew word “charam” which means “to seclude, specifically by a ban, to devote to religious uses especially destruction”. Like Heiser said, Mount Hermon is ground zero for the rebellious gods/watchers/angels.

I realize I’ve ruffled some feathers addressing and expounding on other “gods”, but I’m going to repeat something I explained in an earlier article. In the Ten Commandments, the first one is “you shall have no other gods before me.” There’s no reason for God to command this if it’s not an issue. The very next commandment is not to make idols. If idols (graven images) were the sole concern, is the first commandment necessary? And why wouldn’t God have said, “you shall have no idols before me”? He didn’t. He said gods.

There were lesser gods being worshiped and God was setting aside a nation as an example to the world of a people who worshiped only the supreme God. He goes on into verse five to say He is a “jealous” God. It literally means jealous and roots back to the primitive root qana’ meaning “to be zealous, (that is in a bad sense) jealous or envious”.

I don’t have time to keep breaking this down for people who think it’s heresy. It’s solid exegesis. A serious Biblical word study of the times eloyhim is used and its context, a serious word study of the “sons of God” and its context, should help people (who aren’t insistent that the western church’s teaching is without error) understand better. I’m really just laying this out for those with ears to hear and a heart to seek God for understanding. I realize it will sound like heresy to those entrenched in western church christianity.

If it is or if it isn’t gods, there’s still this other thing….

There is a group of people that think they are gods and they serve them. So our belief, understanding, traditions don’t matter in the context of what this other people group is doing. THEY worship other “gods”, whether you think they exist or not. They have ordered their lives around serving these other “gods”. (Just like Abraham’s dad and uncle did, just like the Israelites did when they forsook God for the gods of other nations.)

Jonathan Cahn (in his book Return of the Gods) laid it out like this… Before Christ the majority of the world was serving and worshiping other gods. They made temples to them, they made sacrifices to them, they held festivals and parades to them, their calendars were set by them. You couldn’t walk through the major cities of the world without running into homage of some sort to the gods of that region. You might have heard of them as Zeus, Osiris, Aphrodite, Poseidon, Athena, Baal, and the list goes on and on by different regions and different languages.

After Christ, the disciples and the ever increasing Christians evangelized the “modern” world and were severely persecuted and even killed for their message of the one true God and His son. Yet little by little, the worship of the other gods gave way to Christianity and the foreign gods’ temples now lie in ruins all over the world, most are famous tourist spots.

As Cahn says, if you sweep the temple clean of unclean spirits but don’t fill it with the Holy Spirit, the unclean spirit eventually comes back and brings seven more with it and the state of the temple is worse than it was before it was swept clean. A world that converted (in large portion) to Christianity eventually apostatized and the (allegorical) temple was emptied. So the other gods have moved back in all over the world in places we’d now call post-Christian. Read Cahn’s book. It will help you understand so much.

The old gods are now modern and trendy

What used to be underground and backroom worships and rituals to other gods has now gone mainstream. What they used to do in the dark they now do in broad daylight. Sometimes they’re bold enough to put their god’s name or one of the many images of their gods right out there. Just a brief sampling:

  • Starbucks uses the Ishtar image on their cups… they say it’s a siren
  • Venus razors by Gilette…. goddess of love
  • Maseratti uses the Poseidon (Neptune) trident … god of the sea
  • NBC uses the peacock … Hera goddess of women, symbol of pride
  • CBS uses the all-seeing eye … Horus or Ra
  • Nike is named after the Greek goddess of victory
  • the iconic Statue of Liberty is actually a replica of the Babylonian goddess of fertility, Ishtar
  • Paramount’s logo is a towering mountain with 22 stars encircling its top which is strangely parallel to Mount Hermon, (the mount the ancient gods left their abode in Heaven to fornicate on earth). The 22 stars are strangely parallel to the 22 named gods or beings that led the 200 in the rebellion of their original corruption of earth.
  • And of course Apple, with a bite out of it, lauds the forbidden fruit as the key to knowledge. [Their first computer debuted for sale at $666.66.]

I’m not arguing that each of these (and the multitude that I didn’t list) are idol worshipers. Obviously some companies use mythology figures for market purposes. But it is telling that the market is saturated with emulations of foreign gods and idols. In fact, there’s not an industry in the public sphere that isn’t represented in some way, shape or form by foreign gods and idols.

The entertainment industry is ripe with god worship. In fact, watching a music video these days is like having a front seat to an occult ritual. Pretty much anything by Beyonce, Lady Gaga, JayZ, Marilyn Manson, Katy Perry, Madonna, Taylor Swift, and the list goes on and on….is witnessing some form of homage to their god(s) and/or some ritual.

Speaking of the entertainment industry, the NFL is classified as “sports entertainment”, (which releases them from liability for fixing games, among other things). For years now they have employed some of the biggest names in idol worship (idols to us, gods to them) for the half-time shows. Has anyone forgotten the half-time show where Madonna came in as Ishtar to perform her ritual under the watchful eye of Ra (Horus)? It has been a steady stream of idol rituals thanks to the prolific platform the NFL has.

NASA (the Hebrew word for “to deceive”) uses a forked tongue emblem, and names their rockets after a slew of gods, just look. (Atlas, Jupiter, Thor, Titan, Athena, Minotaur, Apollo, Nike, etc.) I wonder what NASA could be being used to deceive humanity about?

The days of the week, the months of the year – almost all are named after gods. Many holidays are rooted in ancient god worship celebrations.

Here’s an interesting one, “X” is supposedly symbolic for “Osiris risen”. Celebrities crossing their arms in an X is supposedly giving homage to the resurrection of Osiris, the Egyptian god of death and resurrection. There have been a rash of other X logos lately, notably: Elon Musk renamed Twitter “X”; Madonna has an alter ego named “Madame X”; the spacecraft manufacture in CA is called “SpaceX”; the Marvel comic superheroes are “X-Men”, etc.

Altiyan Childs, 2010 X-factor winner from Australia, had a near death experience where he attributes his life being saved by God. He did an about face after that and reevaluated his life, becoming very dedicated to God. In 2021 he released a five hour video where he went into great detail on the various forms of idolatry and cult worship in the entertainment industry. His video gives great detail to the symbols they use and their meanings. Video here.

Depending on the source, the ancient Roman God Saturn (where we get Saturday, aka Saturn’s Day) is either the god of time (Kronos or Father Time), Lord of the Rings, the originator of the cult of EL…. Or is symbolic of satan himself. Interestingly you’ll find the Saturn logo on a number of corporate logos of a circle with a ring, or the rings of Saturn, such as these….

Epstein Island has a temple modeled after the Mamluk Bathhouse in Aleppo, Syria. The name Mamluk means “slave soldiers”, and they were known for kidnapping young boys to force them to become warriors, and kidnapping young girls to force them into sex slavery. The blue and white stripes are said to be a nod to ancient Greece, where sex between adults and minors was commonplace. Interestingly, the set for Ellen Degeneres’s talk show had a similar background.

The point is….

I could go on and on about the various god/idol symbolism imagery that permeates our culture. I have files and files of images and history. But the point is, the people entrenched in service and worship of their gods (little g) pay homage to their gods in their various venues. Just like a Christian displays a fish, a cross, three crosses, various aspects of God in their lives both personal and public (think personalized license plates, bumper stickers, t-shirts, business logos, sports teams, scripture references, names of the real God, etc.), so do the adherents to foreign gods display their loyalty and adoration for their gods.

There was a time, perhaps, that brazen demonstrations of idolatry would be frowned upon in American society. But as American culture has become more and more debased, rejecting adherence to Christian morals and trading them for hedonistic displays and lifestyles, those who participate and have allegiance to the lesser gods have become emboldened to no longer hide their affections and loyalties. The scales have tipped and the idolatrous feel the weight of their power and are moving forward with their objectives.

It’s a brave new world where conservative morals are ridiculed and being outlawed while outright depravity, perversions and licentiousness are lauded and on open display. It’s a demonstration of allegiance to the gods one serves, or the God one serves.

If there was a time such loyalties hid in the shadows, that time is either over or quickly fading. The battle of the gods has commenced and loyalties will be the dividing lines in the coming days. If ever a true believer in the true God needed to evaluate their loyalties and the things they give affection to, I would think that time would be upon us. As the battle heightens, compromising affections with lesser gods will prove devastating to Christians.

Our nation and indeed our world are being led by Godless adherents to foreign gods intent on doing the bidding of their gods, and that is a dark and destructive place. We are and will further be deemed the enemy because our allegiance is to the true and supreme God. God is able to protect us, but we cannot afford to be found with one foot in allegiance to God and the other in the cesspools of idolatry.

As I alluded to earlier, the end outcome is guaranteed victory for the supreme God and His children, but the battle leading up to that end will be treacherous for us all. The gods do not fight fair and human suffering is nothing to such gods. In fact, they prefer humans to suffer. Fortunately, we have a God who does care and protects those found abiding in Him and has provided the way for us through Christ.

The Battle of the Gods

Joshua, an old testament type for Jesus, finished the work of Moses and brought the children of Israel into the Promised Land. His book details the overview of their deliverance, and at the end of his book, it records his final instructions to God’s people. Joshua reminded the people that their ancestors had lived beyond the Euphrates and he calls Abraham’s family out by name: Terah, his dad, and Nahor, his uncle and said, “They served other gods.” A bit later in his discourse he says this well known piece:

“Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell….”1

Most every Christian can quote the next part: “But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

The “gods” their fathers served were the sons of God (and later their offspring) of Genesis 6 who intermarried with human women to create Nephilim who corrupted the earth. They were spiritual beings of a higher order than man. They took a physical form, just like God did when He walked in the Garden.

It’s a really, really old story that only changes in nuances as the centuries turn into millennia. The Supreme God created other gods to co-reign with Him, and then He created man. His co-reigning entities rebelled and altered the created order. I know it’s popular to blame the perpetual failures of humanity on Adam and Eve, but they had help.

It’s really a fascinating story that would leave any movie or novel in the dust. But we’ve sanitized it over the centuries, and taken turns both marginalizing and fantasizing it, and turned it into myths and legends, and done all but really learn from it.

Basically the fallen Watchers taught humans knowledge that corrupted humanity and were then imprisoned until the final judgment (Enoch 10:11-12, also Jude and Peter make reference to such). Before they were imprisoned in the dark underworld, they intermarried with human women and produced offspring called the Nephilim. (Don’t scorn me please, it’s in Genesis 6.)

The Nephilim

The Nephilim were giants. When the Nephilim were finally killed off (the Flood finished the last of them), they were cursed in that their bodies died but their spirits were left on earth. Enoch says plainly (En. 5:28) they are the source of demons on the earth, they roam around for things to inhabit because they can’t have their original bodies. (Usually they inhabit people, but they can inhabit animals and objects as well.)

The late Dr. Michael Heiser brought the hardcore Scriptural breakdown of the story to the forefront. I studied under his teaching for awhile before I said anything to anyone. I wanted to be able to follow up on the extensive bibliography and resources he provides. But I’ll never forget when I met my young adult son for lunch one day. We finished our burgers and caught up on details of life, and he said casually, “What’s new with you? What are you working on?”

I paused. Oh well, I thought, let’s see where this goes. I said, “Look up Psalm 82 and read the first verse to me. Tell me what you think.” He pulled out his phone and pulled up the Bible app. He began reading the first verse and just looked quizzical at me. “It’s the wrong version,” I said. “Look at it in the English Standard.”

He began reading aloud, “God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment.” He stopped. I’ll never forget his face or what he said next, “Mom! This changes everything! This makes everything make sense.”

Yes. Yes it does.

Before I could get home (an hour and a half drive), he had called me to tell me of additional passages he had found that helped him. I hadn’t seen my son excited about things of God and faith in a long time. He was disillusioned with a lot of religious aspects of western Christianity. But this resonated with him, with his observations of the world, with his own experiences….

What are the rules for the gods?

I don’t know what the rules were for the sons of God. There had to be some that we’re not necessarily privy to. I was always stumped by the covenant God made with Abraham when He tells Abraham about his progeny being enslaved for four hundred years, but the fourth generation they will be released. Then He says this curious thing, “…for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.”

We can know the Amorites were giants because Amos 2:9 tells us God said, “Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks.” The Amorites lived in the known region of the giants in the region west of Sumer and ancient Babylon, and in fact were giants. (Remember, when you see “giants” think Nephilim, offspring of the fallen watchers and women.) Nephilim existed post-Flood too.

So basically God called Abraham and set him aside to establish a people group that would be faithful to Him in the face of a world of people groups serving other gods. But He did so with a future date in mind: four hundred years! Why not just wait four hundred years to do it? Why speak it four hundred years in advance? There must be some rules or protocols if He was unwilling to move Abraham and his seed into an established territory because the occupants’ iniquity was not “yet complete”.

We know the nations were divided according to the sons of God (Deut. 32:8-9), and God later judged them (in Psalm 82) as not ruling mankind justly. Hesier says it like this, “Recall that in Deuteronomy 32:8-9, the ‘Most High’ had disinherited the nations of the world, assigned them to the dominion of supernatural sons of God, and then created Israel from nothing. Those sons of God rebelled and became corrupt (Psalm 32:1-4), throwing God’s order into chaos (Psalm 82:1-5).” 2

So there must be some sort of rules in the council of the gods for being able to upend boundaries and people groups, otherwise wouldn’t God just be able to move them when and as He pleased? I’m just thinking we don’t know all the rules the gods are playing by. What’s the measurement for a collective iniquity to be complete? We’re talking about the Amorites — godless, ruthless giants. Why was there a waiting time before they could be removed? What constitutes completing the iniquity?? God was clearly keeping some standard or some set of rules there.

What was in the mind of God that He made a plan to interfere in the affairs of man and overthrow another god’s territory to establish one for Himself? He had already reset the world twice: at the flood and at the tower of Babel. Were there other purposes involved?

The Timing of God

Now think of this: if Christ was the solution to the sin problem that separates humanity from God set in motion by the first man and woman, why did God wait four thousand years to bring the solution? Why wasn’t it at some other point? Why then?? He reset the world twice in two thousand years (that we know of). What was going on, what had been put in motion or already established, that caused the remedy in Noah’s day to be a flood, and in Nimrod’s day to be confounding people languages, but wait another two thousand years to bring the perpetual, perfect and permanent solution?

Why does Paul write (in Galatians 4:5) that God sent Christ “when the fullness of time had come”? And in 1 Timothy 2:6 he said that Christ’s ransom for man was given “at the proper time”…. It’s almost as if there’s a timetable God is working on… a time for the nation of Israel to be formed… a time for the Nephilim to be eradicated… a time for the redemption of humanity to be unveiled…

Mesopotamian History is Important

Mesopotamia is the region the giants inhabited and that this drama is set against. Mesopotamia has numerous ancient documents and histories and legends passed down in written script. Dr. Heiser wisely argues that such script gives context to those blocks of history, and ignoring them makes one blind to seeing the bigger picture. The western institutional church strongly discourages (and worse in some cases) studying and reading such for a multitude of reasons. History is still history, and leaving context out hinders understanding. (to put it mildly) “My people perish for lack of knowledge” is certainly applicable here. Moreover, convincing argument and evidence is provided that indicate the disciples and children of God in Christ’s day and the early church history would have this same knowledge and understanding of ancient Mesopotamia.

Heiser explains that Mesopotamian history teaches that there were divine beings pre-flood called the “apkallu” who functioned as a go-between between heaven and earth, teaching humans things like “wisdom [including omens, magic, etc.], social forms and craftsmanship”. There were seven of these apkallu that were considered some form of “culture heroes who brought the arts of civilization to the land. During the time that follows this period, nothing new is invented, the original revelation is only transmitted and unfolded.”4

In fact, Heiser underscores the relevance of this with Genesis. He said, “It is difficult to do justice to the importance of the idea that the knowledge that made Mesopotamian civilization great – particularly in the case of Babylon – came from a divine source. It is a subject with immediate ties to Genesis.”5

Whether these are benign or malevolent beings is open to debate. The inhabitants of Mesopotamia thought they were good, and they developed their culture and society with instruction and learning from these. The ancient scripts depict a scenario of people gaining instruction and knowledge from divine beings, and establishing their civilizations according to such instruction.

Remember, this is pre-flood. The Bible says very little about pre-flood (comparatively to post). As followers of the Supreme God, we can assume the knowledge and instruction being given was NOT good because it led to the destruction of life on earth. This would also be in that time Enoch speaks quite thoroughly of regarding its wickedness and the pronouncement of God’s judgment on the (original 200) Watchers. God said, “You were in heaven, and no mystery was revealed to you; but a stolen mystery you learned; and this you made known to the women in your hardness of heart, and through this mystery the women and men are multiplying evils upon the earth.” (En. 16:3)

Seriously, read the book of Enoch. The foundation for the courses of history on earth are better understood when you evaluate as much of the history available that you can.

Understanding the premise of the early history on earth and the players involved will help understand current events and the players involved. Historical documents indicate the seven apkallu pre-flood were divine (not human), but the four apkallu recorded post-flood were “of human descent”, with the fourth (Gilgamesh) described as two-thirds apkallu. This presents a hybrid of people on the earth even post-flood, a mixture of divine with flesh.

These hybrid post-flood apkallu were known as giants. Those giants were later exterminated from the land God promised Abraham’s seed. God knew when He called Abraham to that land that the giants, (hybrids of the apkallu), lived on the land. For some reason, there was a timeline for when the land could be conquered for God’s people and it would have to wait for four hundred years.

The rest of the Bible gives plenty of opportunities to examine the continued presence of giants (Nephilim).

What happened to the sons of god with dominion over the other nations?

What I’m more interested in is the gods that created these giants and what happened to them. Pre-Christ we know they were given dominion over the nations and the nations served these other gods. Then Israel got ensnared with them, from Baal to Ashteroth, to Chemosh, Molech, etc. These gods existed and humanity was paying homage to them. Israel and Judah were both divorced from God for their unfaithfulness to Him in serving other gods.

These gods are consistent through all historical and archaeological records. Their names change with their locations but their functions and titles remain much the same.

When Christ came as the “son of God” – a title that competes with the rebellious fallen gods – He basically waged a war on not only the consequences of sin, but also the staked claim of the fallen gods. Christ was transfigured on Mount Hermon, the entry point for the Watchers when they descended from Heaven to earth. Mount Hermon is considered the mountain of the gods (not God). Christ was revealed for who He is on Mount Hermon, on enemy territory, in fact the enemy’s base camp!

Heiser reveals a subtle difference in Jesus’s encounter with the demon-possessed between Mark 1:24 and Mark 5:7. In Mark 1:24, they were in Capernaum (Jewish territory) when the demons (remember demons are fallen Nephilim spirits inhabiting humans) addressed Him as “Jesus of Nazareth”. But in the region of Bashan, when Jesus came into Gerasenes, the demons addressed Him as “son of the Most High God”. (Territorial spirits are also known as principalities.) These spirits in Gerasenes rightly identified Christ’s dominion even in their territory. The game was changing.

As Heiser said, “Bashan and Hermon were ground zero for spiritual evil, and in particular, the Watchers of 1 Enoch. The spiritual corruption of humanity would be healed by the atonement of the cross. His resurrection meant that no member of the kingdom of God would share living space with the Watchers in the underworld Abyss, the realm of the dead. Even an army of Watchers was overmatched by the Son of the Most High. They would be lords of nothing.”2

So the gods of old were defeated at Calvary and His resurrection from the grave. Jonathan Cahn in Return of the Gods does an excellent and careful exposition of this very topic. He lays out how the ancient gods of Rome and Greece and Babylon, etc. (they’re all the same gods with different names according to the language spoken) waged war against the early Christians as they turned the world upside down, liberating people from empty and vile worship of malevolent beings and showing them the benevolence of the true God in His son Christ, and the freedom Christ gives.

The ancient gods were silenced and eventually all but forgotten, relegated to underground sects and cults. Their temples and altars are now ancient ruins in what used to be hotbeds of parades and sacrifices and orgies to the gods. But these gods emerged in America in the last fifty-plus years, specifically Baal, Ishtar and Molech. In fact, they’ve resurfaced in many places in the last century or so. Cahn and Heiser have their own theories on the how and why, and while I see and understand and agree with them both (different angles), I have my own theories with another slant. But I’m out of space for today.

Resources for better learning:

The Unseen Realm, by Dr. Michael Heiser

Reversing Hermon, by Dr. Michael Heiser

Return of the Gods, by Jonathan Cahn

1Joshua 24

2Reversing Hermon, by Dr. Michael S. Heiser, pg 101

3Ibid. Pg 102

4Ibid. Pp 38-39

5Ibid.

Defining WWIII

When you’re raised on the controllers of the narrative’s history, you view things like war kind of black and white. There are bad guys and there are good guys, and they fight each other with guns and tanks, submarines and planes. People die from direct and indirect fire. Espionage and spying happens in backrooms and shadowy streets, and the side with the best strategy, best fighters, and scariest weapons usually wins. There’s a mental imagery for this, and the media blasts it in movies and books and magazines. We envision things like mushroom clouds, mangled bloody bodies, low flying airplanes, dirty orphaned toddlers, etc.

So it’s hard to tell people WWIII is not in the future, it is now. Modern warfare has less to do with battle lines and territorial conflicts and more to do with controlling the flow of money and redrawing the power lines of people control. Modern warfare is less about moving boundaries between nations and more about making nations boundary-less. They don’t care about things like “borders” anymore. World dominion is the goal, not national upheaval. They’re not declaring war to achieve this, they’re actually committing acts of war to do it.

Modern warfare isn’t rolling tanks down the streets; it uses technology to roll ideology into the masses. They aren’t bombing the cities and military posts as much as they are controlling the information and infiltrating the mind. They don’t use war rations, they use things like “inflation” and “shortages”. There hasn’t been an official declaration of war, and yet today’s weapons of war are prolific and have been actively engaged for years now.

WWIII isn’t coming, it is here. And until people begin to see that, they will continue to be casualties of this war without a seeming shot being fired.

Humanity’s numbers are being decimated by this ignorance. They’ve gas lit humanity to think the enemy is a race or a gender or a socio-economic status or a political faction. How tragic. The enemy is none of those things, yet it commandeers all of those things to subvert the truth.

At the risk of oversimplifying it, the enemies of God are the enemies of humanity. The battle is cosmic, but the battleground is earth. The ignorant are the greatest losers in the current battle because they’re the pawns being used to advance the agenda.

Let’s look at two things today: the battle on the earth, and the battle in the other dimensions.

The Battle on the Earth

[I’m just going to broad stroke this for brevity. I encourage you to dig into areas of interest for further understanding.]

Currently in America and the world at large, the attacks can be categorized easily into four areas:

The Mind

Obviously the mind is the seat of thought; thought leads to belief; belief leads to action. If you control the mind, you control the action. They attack this on many fronts, the most obvious being indoctrination (via education and employment) and propaganda (via media and all forms of entertainment). I could write a series of articles on just those two and the various implementations they use.

There are a myriad of subsections to each of those that incorporate things like redefining words, attaching shame and ridicule to belief structures, scorning alternative ideas, and assigning social pressure to anything contrary to the accepted narrative. Those are actually the more benign methods.

More troublesome than that is their use of chemicals and toxins to suppress the mind, whether it be in the form of legal, prescribed, and/or illicit drugs or through fluoride in the water (a known developmental neurotoxin), or through genetically modified foods, or environmental toxins, etc. The alarming statistics of autism, childhood mental disorders, and geriatric diseases like dementia, Alzheimer’s, etc. have startling connections to environmental toxins and heavy metals, and yes, vaccines. These aren’t accidental occurrences. One or two may be coincidental, but the epidemic-like increasing numbers cannot be. (What are they spraying in our skies 24/7??)

And even more nefarious than those are the technology advances they boast about through phones, frequencies, and other scientific and medical procedures. I’ll spend more time on this one in the near future. The obvious conclusion is if you cripple the mind or in some way interfere with its ability to function properly, you have a mentally handicapped population unable to assess the threats against it and/or form a resistance and response to it.

The Body

They need the body weak for three primary reasons:

1. A weak body makes one unable or less willing to engage in the battle. How many adult Americans (percentage wise) can actually run a block without being winded, or can even run a block at all? How many can walk several miles, carry a load, move heavy objects, breathe without difficulty? It’s hard to have a militia to stave off enemy combatants with weak-bodied people. Have you looked at America’s health statistics vs. other countries? Maybe compare today’s American’s health statistics with the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s….

2. A weak body consumes mental energy and distracts so that one’s attention is constantly engaged in fixing the ailments of the body. A weak body leads to a compromised mind. If one’s body is weak or compromised, it’s hard to learn a trade or skill that is beneficial because one is consumed with trying to fix the body. When one needs healing, mental energy goes to doing just the basic tasks at hand that are necessary. There is no energy or fortitude to look at problems outside of the immediate need(s). Current events, community threats, and national needs have to wait because there is not enough energy to dedicate oneself to educating and responding.

3. A weak body is a tool for a medical industry that makes the body dependent on a system governed by those who want total control, and robs the person(s) of valuable financial resources for other things. When one is consumed with “fixing” ailments, diseases, disorders, one’s finances are used to support the system in control. When that system is beholden to the slave masters wanting world dominion, the system produces exactly what the slave master tells it to. Healing cancer, disease, disorders, etc. will not fill their coffers, so they produce poisons to alleviate one symptom while creating ten more. The system has no interest in root cause or true healing. This cycle intensifies until the person is totally incapacitated or dead. A transference of wealth has happened because the persons’ money fed the system and left them penniless and broken. The system grows while the people languish and die, robbing their progeny of an inheritance and worse, it encumbers or steals resources that could otherwise be used for the betterment of humanity and/or to fight the true enemy.

Unity

If we can’t get along with one another, we can’t fight a common enemy. It’s that simple. Apparently their tactics are that simple as well: continually pit people groups against one another. If it’s not race it’s gender. If it’s not gender it’s income. If it’s not income it’s religion. If it’s not religion it’s education. If it’s not education it’s employment. The list goes on and on.

Humans have a lot of weaknesses, because humans (as a general rule) tend to glide through life without much intentional understanding. People like the path of least resistance. But people are woefully emotional. Emotions are most people’s Achilles heel. So they stoke emotional outbursts by thinly veiled public drama that if reason prevailed would show it for the inciting charade it is. Then they control the public narrative so reason cannot prevail. Emotions do the rest, from mobs and riots, to slander, and almost eventually always into violence (especially when it’s funded by the puppet masters).

It’s embarrassing how easily humanity allows this manipulation. The end result is we refuse to work together for the good of humanity, because we’ve foolishly agreed upon an emotional delineation of pitting people into modern caste systems. It’s selfish and foolish and plays right into the scheme of those in control.

The solution is quite simple, but emotions don’t want solutions, they want revenge. Selfishness doesn’t want solutions, it wants accommodation and preference.

Freedom

Freedom is the antithesis of control. People cannot be free for this battle for world dominion to be successful. So laws must be made, and freedoms must be destroyed, and people must be forced (through fear and coercion and deceit and bribery and a whole host of other things) to choose to give up personal freedom and to force others to do the same.

They’ll have a hard time with this one in a direct attack. So they attack it on smaller fronts with clever cliches like “we’re all in this together” and “do it for your neighbor” and “it takes all of us” and “end racism” and “words hurt”, etc. The emotional ones will fall lockstep into this and agree that we must force some rules that restrict freedom for some exaggerated harm coming down the pike. That’s how we get things like the misnomer Patriot Act, the TSA, amnesty, vaccine mandates, etc. It is almost always based on fear.

There are solutions to each of these categories that I’ll address in coming articles.

The Battle in Other Dimensions

Because the average American (or person in general) is fighting battles in any or all of the four categories above, they are unable to see the battle actually has very little to do with them personally and is actually an epic battle of entities of far more power than flesh and blood.

It’ll take me a few articles to lay this battle out. Remember how I explained the Supreme God created a group of gods before He created humans? Psalm 82 calls them the “Divine Council” and Scripture refers to them as the “sons of god”. These sons of god, (lesser gods), rebelled against God by interfering in the affairs of men. This interference wrought the landscape on earth that is laid out by ancient texts, specifically Mesopotamian texts and in books not canonized in the Bible, as well as the Bible itself.

For most of human history, there was no one Bible, there were ancient scripts passed down from the scribes. We know them as books, but to those before us they were a collection of the history of man on the earth. That history included the interactions of men and women with the gods.

[I realize even addressing this is going to get me the coveted label of “heretic” (humor there), but I’m a seeker of truth AND a lover of God, and I have followed the truths to this point, which will offend mainstream Christianity that has neatly packaged a religion that creates more questions than it answers. If you’ll humor me and just look at the evidence of these things, you may not draw the same conclusions as I have, but you may be able to see, perceive and understand some things that actually help you navigate some otherwise difficult waters. Just at least look at some of the evidence? 🙂 ]

Without getting into the history (right here and now), the basic point is these “sons of god” were rejected by God. (Read Psalm 82) They appealed to Enoch to intercede for forgiveness for their transgressions, and after petitioning God, Enoch had to report back to them that there would be no forgiveness for them (Enoch 11-12). Their sins were not forgiven by God, and they would be punished. From there the battle escalated, with humanity the continual casualty of this war.

Many books and historical documents lay out that these gods are all the gods that the Bible lays out. Moloch, Baal, Ashtoreth, Chemosh, etc. are just renames of older gods. The famous ten plagues of Exodus were specific plagues to reveal to the world (Egypt was the world power at the time) the inability of the pantheon of gods to thwart the Supreme God. God took on the gods of the most powerful nation at the time, and removed His people from their midst by defeating the Egyptian gods.

These gods trace back to Nimrod and the famous Babylon of old. Do you find it interesting at all that the gods on the landscape of Genesis are the same ones alluded to in Revelation? How can you explain the mighty angel’s words at the close of Revelation 18 that in Babylon was found the blood of “prophets and saints and all who have been slain on the earth”? Were all the prophets and all the saints of God murdered in Babylon? Is EVERYONE who has been slain on the earth from Babylon? Or is it describing the seat of the religion that slaughtered the men and women of God, and is responsible for the slaughter of countless men and women?

Ancient Babylon was the seat of the ancient gods who set up government, religion and culture in opposition to the Supreme God. The religion they set up was the worship and adherence to the sons of god, rather than the Supreme God. Their names change with the region and languages they’re in and from. Look at the days of the week and the names of the months. Each was named after a Roman god or its equivalent. Each Roman god is another name for an Egyptian god, for a Greek god, for a Norse god, for a Phoenician god, for a Babylonian god…

Enter Christ. The true Son of God. He took His disciples to what He called “the gates of hell” in the region of Caesarea Philippi, the northern part of Bashan at the foot of Mount Hermon. Mount Hermon is the place the Watchers (sons of god) descended to earth to commit their first crimes. Bashan was considered the gateway to the underworld. Dr. Heiser calls Bashan “ground zero for Old Testament geography”. He devotes a whole chapter (33) to Bashan and its history Biblically in his book The Unseen Realm.

In Jonathan Cahn’s book The Return of the Gods, he carefully lays out the origin of words in Scripture that depicts these gods. He addressed the clash of the gods against the Son of God and the resulting war against the message His followers brought. Their gods were being challenged and they responded with violence, killing the Christians in an attempt to negate the message that there was a God higher than the ones they worshiped. He told a fascinating story of the Roman pagan emperor Julian the Apostate who attempted to restore the Oracle of Delphi’s temple in 362 A.D. He sent for their version of a prophet to get guidance for the restoration. The recorded answer was deafening:

“Tell the emperor that my hall has fallen to the ground. Phoebus [the god Apollo] no longer has his house, nor his mantic bay nor his prophetic spring; the water has dried up.”

Christ had defeated the gods on their own turf, and the fallout was tremendous. We find ourselves in 2024 where the ancient gods who went underground have resurfaced with a vengeance. The scene on the earth has changed since they were dethroned, and their tactics have changed. This is what we’ll get into in the coming weeks.

In my next article I’ll expound on this and attempt to link current events to this battle, as well as speculate on why it has crescendoed so incredibly in the last couple decades.

It’s the Six Moves between that are Worrisome

Today we’ll touch on the cosmic battle, the six moves before checkmate, and personal application. I’ll introduce a couple concepts here and start to fill them in with more detail in the coming weeks. As is always the case, don’t believe me carte blanche. Use my thoughts as a springboard for your own study. There’s a good chance I’m missing some details and maybe some of you can share more insight so we can all get a fuller picture.

The Cosmic Battle

A great place to start to wrap your head around this is to read The Unseen Realm by Dr. Michael Heiser. You can read his book, listen to his lectures on YouTube, and/or his podcasts on The Naked Bible. I’m going to summarize the teaching, but to understand the proof of the essence, you’ll want to study Heiser’s work. He has the receipts of proof.

The essence of Dr. Heiser’s teaching is the (mostly) untaught concept that God created gods in what Psalm 82 calls the Divine Council. The Divine Council is commonly referred to as the “sons of God” in Scripture. There are two references in Genesis 6 (vs. 2 and 4) and three in Job (1:6, 2:1, 38:7). If you want an overview before you get the book (or in lieu of the book), Dr. Heiser has a 23-page overview here.

Some of those sons of God rebelled against God by interfering in human affairs after Creation. That rebellion is casually referenced in Genesis 6, probably because it’s assumed the original readers/listeners of the Genesis account would also be readers and students of Enoch, [who covers that rebellion in great detail]. That rebellion is what led to the great Flood (or Deluge) of Noah’s day.

These “sons of God” are divine beings, not human, and endeavor to corrupt humanity for their own purposes of control that cause the premise of the cosmic battle. Understanding this foundation is absolutely critical to grasping the (diabolical but failing) globalist agenda of today.

Whether or not you agree with this is mostly irrelevant. The globalist elite are absolutely dedicated to this. So whether it’s true or false or partly true/partly false is again almost irrelevant. Those intent on global dominion are 100% sold out to this and have no intention of acquiescing to what they would refer to as stupid minions, or workers, basically the majority of people who they deem worthless and in the way.

I realize some of these concepts are going to be met with a lot of resistance, especially in mainstream Christianity. I’m not here to sell you anything. I’m presenting what I’ve been learning, and you can evaluate its merit and make your own decisions. I have nothing to gain from presenting my understanding, (and actually I have much to lose). But if you’re unwilling to look at the evidence of the claims, don’t bother to write me and tell me how wrong I am. It takes study and an open mind to understand these concepts. I’ll be giving you in short bursts what I’ve been studying for years.

Dr. Heiser teaches that Deuteronomy 32:8-9 reads in the original Dead Sea Scrolls:

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance (נחל, nchl), when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God (האלהיםֹבני, bny h’lhym) But the LORD’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage”. (emphasis mine)

[Modern translations have “according to the number of the sons of Israel”, which is a mis-translation that he proves in chapter fourteen of his book. He also has a 27-page paper breaking it down here.]

This indicates that God gave the nations (that were divided after the tower of Babel) over to the authority of the (lesser) gods of the Divine Council, but set aside Israel as His own. He then set Himself to separate a people who would hopefully be a light to the world, distinguishing between those who walk with God and those who do not. If you evaluate the Mosaic law and instructions to the Israelites after the Exodus in the light of this foundation, I think you’ll see most of the laws were almost specific to contradict the corrupt teachings learned by the people from the gods.

You have to read Enoch to understand the level of corruption the gods had brought to humanity. In the Book of Enoch (Enoch I) and the book of Daniel, those gods of the Divine Council are also called the Watchers. For example, Enoch is instructed (Chapter 16) to tell the Watchers who rebelled and caused rebellion on earth, “You have been in heaven, but all the mysteries had not yet been revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness of your hearts you have made known to the women, and through these mysteries women and men work much evil on earth.”

This degeneration on the earth (see Enoch 7 and 8) was a thorough corruption. Perhaps those who have studied the secret organizations of the wicked on the earth will understand that those who have set themselves in the highest organizations of power and influence on the earth today are just as Enoch described in 65:6: “…because they have learned all the secrets of the angels and all the violence of the devils, and all their powers – the most secret ones – and all the power of those who practice sorcery, and the power of witchcraft, and the power of those who make molten images for the whole earth…”

Chapter 69 goes through the list of the Watchers’ crimes against God and His order, and how they taught this wickedness to the men and women on earth. It’s a sobering list; it’s a list that plainly demonstrates the same wickedness is on the earth today, passed down from those in rebellion to God, whether in flesh or in spirit.

When you understand that this is a cosmic battle of gods in rebellion to the Supreme God…. When you study the origins of the original crimes against humanity… It becomes plain that today is just an extension of an ancient war, and it’s crescendoing to its climax. The same crimes the ancient gods inflicted upon humanity through cunning and deceit and promise of wealth and power, are the same crimes running the world today.

When you realize earth is the battlefield…. The days of Noah and the days of Lot seem even more relevant than ever. Current events corroborate this battle engages the whole of humanity on this plane called Earth.

Remember, this is what THEY believe. Remember that Hillary’s emails include an email with a reference to “sacrifice a chicken to Moloch”? Of course that’s been soundly deciphered as code words for pedophilia and child sacrifice. But the word choice of “Moloch” isn’t random. Moloch is one of those gods they worship. Moloch and Baal and the list goes on. [Look up Bohemian Grove and the reports from infiltrators.] They have pledged their allegiance to these gods, and for the most part, these gods have given them their worldly success and riches and power. They are indebted to these gods.

These gods require sacrifice, the blood of innocent. Survivors and victims of the horrific child trafficking rings tell similar stories of rituals they were made to watch or participate in with blood sacrifices, including human, usually children. They are always in a type of ceremony, almost always with black cloaked people around an altar of sorts.

They worship and have pledged their allegiance to these gods who rebelled against God. They prefer these gods over Creator God. They think they can overthrow God. They are also running on a timeline, and to them, they have to create a set amount of chaos in order to have a chance to throw the timeline back to their agenda. They are panicked and they are desperate because it’s not going as well as they thought. They thought they’d have this in the bag by now. There was an eight year plan that was supposed to be the coup de grâce  — unfurled in 2016. They spent decades building up the under girding for the final unfurl. Their plans were thwarted when Trump was elected (in spite of their best efforts to insulate against that). It set their timeline back considerably, and time is not a luxury they have anymore. They’re working against a ticking clock and they know it.

So it doesn’t matter a great deal whether we believe in these gods they believe in (though there are plenty of Scriptural clues they exist), because the globalist tools DO, and they are acting accordingly.

The frenzy before the climax

If the Project Looking Glass information be correct and ultimately the plans of the globalists will fail and an awakening of sorts will instead happen, then Bill Wood’s analogy of the seven moves until checkmate bears weight for the here and now. For it means the people intent on their seizure of earth and its inhabitants for their own purposes are more desperate than ever to achieve their objective as they feel it slipping through their fingers. They are willing to roll out every action in their playbook in desperation to swing the momentum to their side.

Even now the WHO is projecting a new deadly pandemic (DiseaseX). Experts are predicting a Black Swan economic event. Our border has been purposefully and methodically infiltrated with enemies of the state. We’re allegedly tottering on the brink of any number of wars that could lead to world war. Our skies have never been more polluted, and Americans’ health has never been so poor. There are no shortages of weaknesses; there is no stretch to see the demise of America from enemies without and within, from recklessness and immorality and a host of things that put us on a curse rather than blessing list in God’s Book.

If we would be mindful of the lessons we learned in Covid-19, perhaps we will not allow the same and even more damage than the first round. Their modus operandi is always control through fear. It’s a basic playbook, and should be quite familiar to Christians, as we’re called to faith over fear. We’re supposed to agree with God, not fear. We’re supposed to walk out the Kingdom of God principles, not fall into the traps of man. But for the most part, Christianity in Kingdom power in America is a bit rusty, a little dusty, and a lot asleep.

I don’t know all the evil the world players are going to roll out in the coming passage of time. I know they will, though. And to the extent of agreement we give them is the extent of control they will gain.

The words of the wise heard in quietness are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools. Wisdom is better than weapons of war…..” (Eccl. 9:17) Do you see that? Wisdom. Oh we need wisdom. Wisdom is heard in quietness. Find the quiet place and seek His face.

Let’s learn from the mistakes of those who have gone before. “In repentance and rest you will be saved. In quietness and trust is your strength.” (Is. 30:15)

In repentance, (shuwbah), returning to Godin rest (Arabic Nachath) descent, moving from a higher level to a lower level…. you will be saved (yasha) safe, free.

Return to God. Move from a place of pride, of self-sufficiency to a place of returning to God, depending upon Him. This will save you and avenge you, it will make you free.

In quietness (shaquat) to repose, rest, lie, a state of calm, freedom from worry…. In trust (bitchah) as in confidence, surenessis your strength (gebuwrah) force, victory.

Recall the rest of that passage! The people rejected this counsel and fled (in fear) and put their faith in a foreign government (Egypt – symbolic of the way of the world) to save or protect them. Yet God said if they would return to God, come down from the place of self-sufficiency and pride, His people would have been saved, avenged, made free. If God’s people will rest, lie in a state of calm, refuse to worry and instead put their confidence in God, they would be strengthened and find victory.

I am quite aware of the armies entering our nation and assembling in designated areas to await their orders. I realize our government has sold us to our enemies. I realize there are biolabs here and abroad concocting a number of deadly toxins. I realize we are being crippled and diseased by malicious “food” practices, compromised “medical” facilities, and continual poisons in our air, food, water, bodies and minds.

At the end of the last article I exhorted you to listen to a message from Jamie Winship. In that message he illustrated the necessity of understanding your God-given identity, why you were created, what your purpose is, and how to hear God’s voice. It had so many practical instructions and illustrations for how we will proceed in the frenzied days ahead. Every answer we need for every problem and threat I’ve listed (and those I haven’t) is found in God and the solutions will be acted upon by His children who know their God and know their identity. The warriors will fight. The educators will teach. The healers will heal. The encouragers will give hope. The intercessors will petition the Throne for strategies. And the list goes on and on.

My Takeaway

So now is the time to return to God, to descend to a place of rest and trust in Him instead of a puffed up place of self-sufficiency, or a panicked state of distrust and fear. As I sought God at the end of 2023 for wisdom for the coming year, He was faithful to give it. He showed me there will be trials and turbulence and even disaster ahead. He plainly showed there will be judgments that will bring punishment and correction. He also plainly showed me I could not go through it without loss, and that instead I was to pull aside to a quiet place. The storms will rage around me outside, but from my place with Him and in Him, I will be safe and saved. He is no respecter of persons. What He will do for me He will do for you, if we just meet the requirements. Remember: repentance, rest, quietness and trust!

Seven Moves from Checkmate

I believe “collective consciousness” was coined by psychologist Carl Jung. It’s the concept that there’s a community consciousness of sorts. (I’ve never really delved into it and don’t have an opinion one way or another. The few things I’ve run across in the years seemed a bit out there to me, so I left them alone.) Then there came the “100th Monkey” from the 1950s…

The premise of the 100th Monkey (in a nutshell) is a group of scientists in Japan were researching Macaque monkeys on various Japanese islands. They would drop sweet potatoes on the beach for the monkeys. On the island of Koshima they observed one monkey take a sweet potato to a fresh water lake and wash it. One by one the other monkeys began doing the same. The researchers noticed that after the hundredth monkey did it, that monkeys on other islands began doing it too, despite being detached and unable to observe or learn from the ones on Koshima.

It became known as the 100th Monkey, and suggested that there was a collective consciousness. It suggested that when so many of the monkeys had the same thoughts, that it created a type of community of thought, if you will, where the community no longer had to learn the behavior or thought pattern, that it was picked up even subconsciously.

I probably would have rejected this concept in the past, except that I learned about the 100th monkey after some quantum physics studies. I wrote a four part series on some of my (quantum) learning here. (If there’s interest I can republish them here on NewsWithViews. But they are kind of detailed with a lot of science and I didn’t know if there would be interest…. It’s probably my favorite series I’ve ever written.)

The gist of the notion is the human brain is a type of electric field (electromagnetic); it sends out a frequency (or frequencies). The human body is a magnetic field of its own. (I wrote about that in the spring of 2020, because the implications of that alone bear a lot of weight on things like “viruses” and “pandemics”.) The human body’s electro-magnetic field is a torus. For brevity I can’t get into that right now.

I bring it up because the seat of consciousness is in the brain, which is an electromagnetic field. The actual science exists that the frequencies emitted from a brain can be picked up by another brain – even subconsciously. There’s a lot of places we could go with this, but it’s not the purpose of this article.

The suggestion of the 100th Monkey is that there is a tipping point – a point that when so many have the same thought (that leads to behavior or action), it tips into those outside of the original bubble of influence, it spills over and others pick up the frequencies that have spilled over.

Of course it’s “just a theory” with some remarkable circumstantial evidence. It could explain a “mob mentality” – where people engage in actions they would otherwise not do if alone but do when in a crowd engaged in such activity.

Now if we revisit the premise of Project Looking Glass (which I wrote about here) indicating there’s a point the world heads down a specific road and there’s nothing to change that outcome, (but it’s not the outcome the globalists want), it creates some questions with current events. According to the whistleblower on Project Looking Glass, after inserting numerous scenarios to try to change the outcome, they learned the outcome was inevitable. They learned the world was moving to a type of awakening rather than a dystopic globalist regime.

As a Christian, I don’t find that surprising.

I realize using math and science to substantiate faith is out of the comfort zone of a few Christians. Yet the universe was created by a Divine Creator who used principles and laws for His Creation. Those principles and laws can be found in math and science, if you stick with pure math and science and not the pseudo-science and math promoted in academia and globalist agendas. (Research the origins of the American educational system to understand how far away from true education it is. Here’s a good place to start.)

I know it’s trendy in Christendom Churchanity to predict and project an “Antichrist”, a great tribulation, a magical “rapture” and other Armageddon type scenarios. (I used to do it myself.) I know I’m going to anger a certain percentage of Christians just by saying that, and I’m sorry for that because I don’t want you to be so angry you can’t hear and research what I’m saying. So if you could withhold your indignation long enough to entertain another possibility, I have some things to say.

The power tools of the adversary of God are deception and fear, and they often work tandem.

What we do in the construct of organized church Christianity, is teach principles and precepts of the religion as has been passed down to us. If my own experiences are any indicator, questioning the established rhetoric is frowned upon and not at all encouraged. You can’t even have an innocent, just trying to understand, question in some churches. And if those principles and precepts are incomplete, or even worse, wrong, well you are generally put in a position of either dismissing your doubts and questions to stay in the good graces of the institution, or leaving and trying to find such truths apart from it. Such is the same system in the world.

For example, the “Antichrist” figure is for the most part taught as some evil person coming from somewhere like Russia, or Iran, or somewhere in the Middle East, and sometimes it’s even a person coming from America. And yet “antichrist” cannot be found anywhere in the book of Revelation. When I point that out, people usually point me to Revelation 13. There are two beasts in Revelation, and beasts are prophetic imagery for kingdoms or countries. That’s not a person.

It matters not to most institutionalized Christians. They don’t miss a beat as they continue to guess and project what new world leader is the “Antichrist”. If I press them, they’ll pull from some pastor or teacher or apologist to justify why they must see the “Antichrist” as the beast in Revelation 13, coming to kill all the Christians – (as if error cannot be passed down).

Let’s change gears for a minute.

Do you remember the “Leave the World Behind” Netflix movie I referenced in my last article? Did you know that people who work in video editing discovered there are four audio tracks in the video? There are usually one. In fact, there are never multiple audio tracks in a video – says people who have worked in the field for a number of years. They found one of the tracks is specifically infrasonic frequencies (ELF).

The infrasonic track peaked at just a few places in the movie, places of extreme stress. (I believe it was maximized at the scenes when the ship ran aground on the beach, and both times the piercing pitch was sent out for a full minute.) Infrasonic frequency is known to disrupt sleep and to cause feelings of fear, dread and/or depression.

There are other theories as to why infrasonic frequencies were inserted into the movie, but I can’t cover those with brevity in this article. For now let’s just evaluate why an Armageddon type movie could be inserting indiscernible frequencies in its movie at stress points when infrasonic frequencies are known to incite fear or dread (or worse).

Obviously there’s a desire to incite feelings of fear or dread. It is, after all, a movie about cataclysmic events in America. We could attempt to give some benefit of doubt by saying it was just theatrical effect (albeit it hasn’t been done like that before to current knowledge) to enhance the intended impact.

But….

What about predictive programming? Predictive programming is the concept that they use media outlets (movies, music, literature, etc.) to predict what they want to do in the future. They paint the outline, so to speak, and it fills in at a future time. Examples would be Contagion for Covid-19, White Noise for the Palestine, OH chemical spill (ironically both produced by Netflix), “The Eyes of Darkness” by Dean Koontz for Covid-19, and any number of Simpsons or South Park episodes, etc.

The theory is they plant the idea in the head so that when the future produces the scenario the mind accepts its reality because it’s familiar. Whether that’s true or not is subjective, but there are a lot of uncanny “coincidences” between media products and subsequent real events.

Let’s say the Leave the World Behind was an attempt at predictive programming. It would mean, then, that there is a plan or objective to propel America into some sort of “attack”, whether it be foreign attack, cyber attack, economic attack, or a combination of things. They elude to a breakdown of communication and a turning of neighbor against neighbor, almost a civil war type of thing at the onset of perceived external attack. One is left, at the end of the movie, with the distinct impression everyone is for himself, and must wait “it” out. Any semblance of victory, of unity, of push back against the unidentified attacker is absent. Hmmm….

The Obamas producing the movie is enough to give a discerning mind pause. The Obamas are the Manchurian candidates for deceiving Americans into accepting a veneer of political correctness sitting under a base of diabolical tyranny. So if the puppets of deceit are producing a movie of the demise of America, what’s the motive? I can assure you it is not pure entertainment.

I’m going to argue here that Klaus Schwab and Yuval Noah Harari and ilk don’t have their world globalist agenda buttoned up like they hoped they would. Things aren’t going as swimmingly as they hoped, and the minions of the world are pushing back on their agendas. German farmers, Dutch farmers, Canadian activists, even America seems done with Hollywood’s voices. (If only we could show the sports ball enthusiasts they’re watching the same script Hollywood produces, just in different clothes.)

Bill Wood, whistle blower for Project Looking Glass, said it kind of like this: Let’s say you’re watching a chess match between two Chess Masters, the two best. And the one looks down at the board and realizes he’s in check mate in seven moves. The only way he gets out of this is if his opponent makes a mistake. He looks across at his opponent and realizes his opponent knows full well he has him in check mate in seven moves. What can he do? He can play out the next six moves any way he wants, the end will remain the same. He can stall and try to delay the end. He will make every attempt to take out his opponents moves, but it will all still be in vain.

I don’t know how to make you see this in 2500 words or less, so I’m going to spend a few future articles trying to break pieces down to help you see. It’s not that there aren’t hard things ahead for us. I’ve spent some time praying about 2024 and I know the Lord showed me there are some hard things in front of us. BUT…. It’s the frantic six moves before checkmate. They are desperate to try to swing the momentum back to get their globalist tyrannical utopia. They will pull out all the stops to try to change the outcome, even though the outcome is already decided and they lose.

How long will those six moves take? I don’t know. A year? Five years? Ten? Only God knows.

But I think the action of the key players is telling. I think they’re panicked. I think the movie was an attempt to paint a picture of defeat, and embed (with maybe some infrasonic frequency help) fear in the minds of the minions. They need a collective consciousness of fear (and they will use deceit to create it). They’re hoping they can create enough circumstances to produce enough fear for that tipping point to spill over into a collective consciousness that submits to their agenda through default of fear.

They are few and we are many. They need the many in fear of the few. They’ve deceived themselves (and others) that they will obtain their victory. But it’s really not up to them. They’re the pawns of God’s adversary, and while they think they’re calling the shots, they really aren’t. I want to expound on the cosmic battle in the coming weeks, but it will take me some time to lay it all out.

Yes, the enemy has plans to bring destruction, and some of those moves he’s going to make will be painful. We can navigate the battlefield with little loss if we know how to position ourselves. I only have some of the pieces and understanding, but I will present all that I have. In the meantime, have a listen to this.

Moving Forward into 2024

The Obamas collaborated to produce a trending movie on Netflix called “Leave the World Behind.” It’s basically an Armageddon type movie where America is under attack from various angles and the implication is it will be destroyed or fundamentally altered. I won’t get into the details, but you can read a great synopsis of the symbolism in it here.

Why do you suppose the Obamas wanted to produce a movie depicting America under siege and the end of America as we know it? We’ll get back to that in a moment.

Moving forward into 2024…

My husband and I like to read the famous Oswald Chambers devotional My Utmost for His Highest. The December 31st entry seemed especially profound a couple weeks ago for a couple reasons I’d like to elucidate. Here’s the entry:

As I meditated on that in the following days, some of its profoundness really spoke to me. It reminded me of some life journey lessons I’ve learned along the way that speak to some of the topic of foundations I alluded to in my prior article.

Errors in the foundation create future building problems

We have errors in our foundations just like we have errors in our past. Those errors weaken the structure until they are either removed or reinforced with corrective measures. If our foundations are riddled with errors, our structure is weak and the weaker it is, the easier it topples.

When we learn from the errors, we don’t take them into the future as building blocks, but rather as construction signs for future building. We use them to remember what not to do, or what to do differently, or what to avoid, etc.

If we don’t understand or identify the errors, they remain in the foundation and weaken the structure. “God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.” Cognizance of our past errors protects us from falling into the same pits in our present.

The more weaknesses we have in our foundations that have not been fixed, the weaker our structure becomes with age. Because when we move forward with errors intact, we build on weak foundations.

I say this because sometimes I’ve realized layers of foundation were laid that I later learned were in error. I can’t always “fix” these errors. Sometimes I have to remove them altogether. That’s an arduous task. Depending on how old those faulty foundational layers are, is the extent of construction I have to go through. If the foundational layer has multiple layers atop of it, I have to take other layers down to remove the bottom level error. This upsets the apple cart, to put it mildly.

Of course, a foundational layer on a wing of my structure won’t cause the same damage as a foundational layer in the building’s bedrock structure. It’s when the foundational layer is embedded in the strength of the foundation that I have serious reconstruction to do that usually starts with demolition.

Sometimes you have to let go of one thing to get hold of another

This is a key to a lot of different things in life. Relationships are a good example. Sometimes we have to let go of past offenses in a relationship (the Bible calls this forgiveness) in order to move forward to a healthier relationship. If I sinned against you, or just made a mistake (innocent or otherwise) that cost you in pain, confusion, misdirection, loss, or any number of things, then if I am in a repentant state, if I have turned from the error of my ways and changed my mind, then you will have to let go of your judgment and perspective of me in my prior state in order to receive me in my present state. If you don’t, and if you hold onto me in the perspective of my past mistake(s), you will never have with me the health of a better relationship. (of course the inverse is as true)

Foundational errors work the same way. If I am presented with a new (to me) truth that contradicts a foundational truth I hold, I must evaluate this new truth apart from the old truth in my personal foundation. If I try to evaluate the presented “new” truth with my current foundation that contradicts it, (most people are not strong enough to do this), I will almost always reject the new truth as error. (whether it is or not)

This is true for almost any category, whether it be your knowledge foundation from your accumulated schools and educational resources of life, or it be your relationship foundation from your accumulated experiences with people in life, or it be your spiritual foundation from your accumulated learning from various teachers and institutions coupled with your personal experiences, etc.

If we don’t acknowledge that our foundations could have errors, we’re unlikely to be liberated from the consequences of those errors. We will continue on in our lives with a host of consequences like being deceived, misunderstanding events in our life and around us, broken relationships, confusion, drawing wrong conclusions, etc.

We have to learn how to let go of foundational truths at least long enough to objectively evaluate new truths. We can do that by examining our own foundation, which is helpful but hard to do objectively because we are so familiar with it that it is inherently correct to our judgment. (Because who purposely builds on error and lies??? We think what we know and have understood is truth, as a general rule.)

And we can do that by setting aside what we know as truth and evaluating new information on its own merit, instead of rejecting it because it produces a conflict within us. (Look up “normalcy bias” to understand this a bit more.) It’s not that we immediately reject our foundational layers any time new information comes, because a portion of our foundation will be good, real and true. It’s that we have to be willing to set it aside long enough to give the new information an honest assessment.

We have to let go of one to take hold of another.

If in the effort of evaluating the new information we find it faulty, we simply reject it and retain our foundation. BUT if we find the conflicting new information has merit, we are in the delicate position of determining if this new truth can co-exist with our foundational truth, and if so, how? And if it not, one has to go. Which one should it be?

Beware of the stronghold that comes with the religious spirit

I taught an extensive class in 2014 that God made me do a whole class just to prepare the class FOR the class I was going to teach. He had me address things that keep us from receiving new teaching, new information, new ideas, etc. One of the (many) things that keeps us from receiving new revelation from God is the religious spirit. He gave me two passages of Scriptures to make two points to show how the religious spirit shuts off revelation.

In Mark 9:30-32 Christ was teaching His disciples and telling them plainly how He was going to die. [He would be delivered to men who would kill Him and then He would rise after three days.] Then the Scripture says this curious thing: “But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him.”

The idea is that sometimes we cannot understand plain concepts, thoughts or teachings from God because our own understanding of what we think about a topic gets in the way of the revelation of truth He’s trying to show us. The disciples could not grasp this plain statement from God because they had their own ideas and thoughts of why Jesus was there and what He was going to do.

My own foundational thoughts about a thing can keep me from new thoughts about the same thing. It will cause me to miss revelation because I can’t let go of the familiar foundation (that is in error) enough to receive the (new) information as truth.

In Mark 8:9-13, Jesus had just fed the four thousand by a miracle. He got in His boat and went to an adjacent area to minister. The Pharisees came out and began arguing with Him, testing Him, asking Him for a sign…. (Remember He just fed four thousand from scraps.) He sighed and said He would not give one and left.

God simply said to me entertaining the religious spirit will cause Jesus to leave without receiving the revelation He was bringing. If God has brought truth to me and I decide to test His package, He may indeed leave without depositing the revelation. The religious spirit rises against the revelation of Christ and we are left empty-handed when we could instead receive from the bounty of God, whether it be healing, revelation, wisdom, deliverance, etc.

I’m going to suggest some difficult theories for current events in the articles to come. Some may be counter-intuitive. Some may contradict the status quo and the common teaching of familiar institutions. I’m not saying I’m right, but I do know it will be hard for some people to even evaluate the possibilities of them because of foundational blocks that may have been already laid. If you want to evaluate them on their own merit, you may have to let go of what you think you know, at least long enough to analyze them.

Back to the movie….

I think the Obamas produced the movie “Leave the World Behind” to raise a collective consciousness to endorse an inevitable end to America. I think that the powers that be that are driving the world to the cliff of a new world order globalist regime, need to sell fear and doubt to the masses in order to achieve their purposes.

Ex-military whistle blower Bill Wood exposed a lot of things about America’s leadership’s agenda. One of his most intriguing reveals was the Project Looking Glass interview, which has been substantiated by a few other sources. It’s basically the concept that shadow government players developed a (sort of) computer program that puts in the data of scenarios and probabilities to predict human response. (I’m base-lining this for brevity. It’s more complicated than this.) It’s kind of like if we do this action, here are the statistical probabilities of these outcomes.

This is a lot more complicated than I’m covering here because it deals in quantum physics and world timelines, etc. But the takeaway is they were able to get the computer to push ahead several years in advance of scenarios.

They put scenarios in of if they do this, people will do that, then they’ll counter-move this, and people will do that, etc. And what they found was an alleged split timeline where it was going to go one way or another: cataclysmic or reformative. The further they pushed in the data, the more they discovered it was not going to end well for the globalist agenda. Every scenario ultimately ended in rejection of the tyranny and a mass global awakening. They continued to put different scenarios in to try to get the outcome they wanted, and each time it ended the same way.

Their Project Looking Glass, their Yellow Cube or Yellow Book (all computer simulations of outcomes of events) originally projected Hillary Clinton winning the 2016 election. Imagine their surprise when she didn’t. [You’ll say this was because it was a faulty program. I think it was because of the biases of the programmers more than the program.] From that point on they have been determined to create an event or series of events that puts their globalist agenda back into the reality. The program says it’s past the point of no return. It is not just an improbability, but an impossibility.

It’s now 2017. Enter Q, the voice that entered the arena in the anonymous pages of a crude message board. Strange the timing of the entrance. Q had seeming insider information about a host of things kept hidden in the dark, and Q began an interaction with a growing body of patriots who were sick of the wickedness. You don’t have to “believe in Q” or endorse Q or any sort of agreement whatsoever. I had a handful of people rail against me regarding Q. But maybe Q’s purpose was a vehicle to generate an awakening. Maybe Q’s purpose wasn’t an intended end, just a tool for facilitating the awakening?

Q had a saying that got adopted pretty wide: “Nothing Can Stop What Is Coming”, later abbreviated to NCSWIC. It became apparent Q’s security clearance was the top of the top. What if Q had access to the Looking Glass findings and Q knew all of the raging to order the world into this dystopic future was for naught ultimately? That would give license for the phrase that ignores present actions for future victory.

I’ll write more on this later, but I think the Obamas and their ilk are trying desperately to create a narrative based on fear in hopes of tilting the alleged inevitable outcome where they lose. I think they think if they can create an atmosphere of hopelessness, of darkness, of depravity, of disasters and cataclysmic events, that they will be able to prevent their ultimate defeat and demise. They have this theory that the collective consciousness can change their outcome if they can get the collective consciousness in fear. (enter pandemics, natural disasters, war, etc.)

Many are warning of an unleashing of difficult scenarios in 2024. I think the solution is refusal to agree with the darkness. I think instead we should heed the wisdom of Oswald Chambers. God “will go before you…. God will send His forces out where we have failed to do so. He will keep watch so that we will not be tripped up again by the same failures… It is true that we have lost opportunities that will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ. Leave the broken, irreversible past in His hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.”

The future is bright if we know how to look at it and how to align with the purposes of God. We must refuse to align with the agendas of godless people, reject the darkness, and walk fearlessly in the light of God.

Foundations of Truth are Prerequisite to Understanding the Times and Seasons

Some years ago I was asked to teach a high school Sunday School class. I had just recently started attending that church and knew very few people. I had recently done my own study of John the Baptist and found it fascinating. As I was talking with God about what to teach, I said to Him, “I’ll teach them about what I’ve learned about John the Baptist!” I immediately saw (in my mind’s eye) a large structure like a pavilion with a large load of snow on top and I heard the Lord say, “No. The weight of that teaching is too heavy. It will collapse.” Then I saw the pavilion collapse.

I didn’t really understand why He was telling me that so I argued with Him about how great a teaching I thought that would be because they’re the future generation, and there are so many parallels to John the Baptist and those awaiting Christ’s return in present generations. He told me again the weight of that teaching would collapse the structure, and that I must first lay a foundation. He said the kids didn’t have a foundation under them to carry such a weight. I argued again (sigh), and He said, “Okay, ask them.”

So that Sunday I asked the high school aged kids who built the ark, who was considered the patriarch of the faith, who was sold by his brothers into slavery, who was Nicodemus, and a number of other basic tenets of Christianity including who was John the Baptist. To my great shock and surprise, they maybe answered ten percent of those questions correctly. I was truly surprised. Most of those kids had been raised in Christian homes and spent considerable time in the church.

I then backed out. I got a piece of butcher block paper and hung it on the wall, and we started from the beginning. We started in the Garden and moved through the chronological history of the basics of the faith. It took us months to get to the birth of Christ.

What an apt description of America today. We have a majority of the population with no solid foundation of anything of real importance really. They don’t understand the premise of the Revolutionary War, the function of government, the threat of tyranny, or any other number of things that establish a plumb line for truth. They think freedom and hedonism are synonymous, and they disregard the personal responsibility of human conduct.

They are slaves of emotions and the whim of popular opinion. They lack conviction connected to truth and righteousness, and instead rage against standards of righteousness and truth with no understanding of WHY such standards have existed for millennia. They are easily deceived, easily ensnared in folly, and pawns of a regime and system intent on using and discarding them for the sake of the system being set up.

The intricacies of the current system we’re entrenched in are nearly impossible to teach on or elaborate upon with the lack of foundation under the status quo. How do you expound upon the perils of trans-humanism to a generation raised by video games and virtual reality? They think it’s just another step to an exciting superhero mentality. They have no foundation under them for understanding the profound greatness of our humanity in its creation. They’ve been programmed to despise the frailties of humanity and the design of its Creator.

I haven’t decided if we’re in the era of 1984, Brave New World, or Atlas Shrugged. But it feels to me like a combination of all of them. Do you remember George Orwell’s last recorded interview? He described the future as a “boot stamping on a human face forever”. When asked what he would advise future generations, he simply said, “Don’t let it happen.”

And yet here we are.

At the same time as I lament the lack of foundation of truth and understanding of the status quo, I remember that scene in The Princess Bride where Wesley has been mostly dead (from the torture machine), and was brought out of it and they needed to rescue the Princess. When he wanted to be brought up to speed on the current setting, he was told, “Let me explain. No, there is too much; let me sum up.” I feel as though we are perpetually under time restraints, where we must sum up because explanations are too long. Presently the need for action is imminent but there is not enough time to bring people to a fuller understanding.

Regardless, we must try.

When I first fell in love with God, felt the enormity of His goodness, His love, His salvation, I wanted to know Him but didn’t know where to start. A wise woman bought me a yearly Bible (a Bible divided into 365 readings to read it through in a year). She told me to just read it. Just read it. So I did.

I didn’t realize in that year what I was reading. Much of it I had no context for, no real understanding. But it was a starting point. It laid a foundation of sorts that could be built upon. I would go on to read the Bible completely through several more times. Each time there was more I understood. If I read it through again in 2024, I will learn even more. There is no end to the knowledge contained in its pages.

Recently a dear friend reminded me of this passage in Daniel 2….

“He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding….”

And it reminds me of when Christ gave the parable of the talents and he says, “For to everyone who has, more shall be given and he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does not have shall be taken away.”

So I guess the point I’m trying to make is we must make effort to understand the foundations, to build upon the solid foundations. There are things in our world that don’t make sense without a foundation of knowledge, understanding, wisdom. I don’t think it’s too late (though I do think time is running out) to learn the ancient paths, to seek knowledge and wisdom, to put beneath us foundations we can build upon, and foundations that enable us to discern fallacies and deceptions.

You don’t understand calculus without learning basic arithmetic. You can’t comprehend literary classics without grasping language concepts. You can’t foresee economical crisis without understanding basic economic concepts. You can’t discern propaganda without knowledge of political agendas. The list goes on and on. The sleeping world would not have been bamboozled into poisonous medical injections had they understood basic (real) science and biology, and they would have rejected the propaganda had they learned of the pharmaceutical mafia and its agenda. Imagine how many other dangers and ills that could be thwarted if we would just seek foundational knowledge and truths.

I didn’t understand “covid-19” when it first came out, but my discernment indicated it was not as it appeared. I spent untold of hours trying to bring myself up to speed on all sorts of things like viruses, contagions (and what that even means), past historical examples, etc. I didn’t have a foundation yet to make a decision on whether to comply with the public narrative, so I suspended judgment and action until I had time to gain a foundation of truth. There were others who already had such a foundation which enabled them to make quick decisions.

I had to find sources of truth that were foundational and not sensational. I had to pray a lot that God lead me to truth, and I had to silence the loud voices of fear and manipulation. There’s a process to laying a foundation. There’s a slow, steady process of laying layer upon layer, line upon line, precept upon precept. Then there’s the quik-crete process of crash studying, little sleep, disallowing distractions, focused and intent learning in a short span of time, etc. Covid-19 was a crash course for me. Other things I don’t have to “study” for because I already have a foundation for that has been laid over longer periods of time and testing.

The point is to lay solid foundations, whether through a time enhanced process, or a quicker crash course. Reject the spoon-fed answers and seek the paths of truth that lead to understanding and ultimately, wisdom. We cannot possibly learn all we need to know in the limited time and resources we have on earth, but we can still be set on the right paths.

A new year is upon us. Maybe it’s a good time to lay down the superfluous activities of the current systems that are trying to create dystopic futures, and instead use the talents given us to invest in lasting investments of knowledge that lead to understanding, which ultimately leads to wisdom. There’s a very exciting future in front of us where indeed the purposes of God are made manifest in the face of the deceptive darkness trying to project its agendum.

I’m going to write about some things in the coming days that are easier to understand with some foundational truths. I pray they will be laid upon foundations of truth that can bear the weight. This is not to imply I have some superior knowledge; it’s just to elucidate wisdom and understanding are usually found within the foundations laid by truth. In the meantime, may you seek the Living God and His truth before all else. In many ways, it is the most exciting time to be alive on earth.

what if we’re post-millennial?

Okay, let’s have some fun with this. I’m going to come at this sideways and backwards, but not so much head on. To come at it head-on, we’d have to work from the Olivet Discourse, the historical accounts of what happened 70A.D., and muddle our ways forward. I’ve already pointed you to some places to work from that angle, so dig into those if that’s where you want to camp.

Coming from that angle, we will run into all sorts of roadblocks and historical inaccuracies that will muddy the waters and can get us stuck in mire. (designed that way on purpose) That path will be long and arduous and not much fun because it will rile about every religious spirit there is. So we’re going to come at this another way. There are far better teachers than I, so all I can do is show you what I’ve learned and you can explore it and see if it resonates with you. Maybe just use it to springboard into your own happy digging.

There’s this silly concept I learned back in my early training of reading comprehension. I was taught that if you’re struggling to understand a concept, if the chapter or page or even paragraph you just read just doesn’t make sense to you, you don’t understand, you don’t know how to comprehend it accurately, to try reading it backwards — not words backwards, but sentences or phrases backwards. Sometimes the end helps you sort out the middle.

LET’S WORK BACKWARDS….

With that in mind, let’s consider Revelation 20. Let’s lay aside all the details that come before, the scroll, the trumpets, the seals, etc. and just skip to the end. There’s this culmination where Christ comes back on a white horse with the armies of heaven (chapter 19). They wage war on the unrighteous inhabitants of earth, and it ends with the beast and false prophet being tossed into the “lake of fire”. THEN a mighty angel seizes the devil and binds him. Satan is thrown into the abyss for “a thousand years”.

Then the prophecy says a curious thing: “After that he must be released for a little while.”

Let’s just stop there for a moment. Why? What’s going on here? [It took me a long, long time of studying Revelation to undo the religious spirit’s influence on my comprehension. A. LONG. TIME.]

This is almost a foreshadowing, because right after that sentence it goes into what’s happening in the heavenly realm – thrones appeared; the martyred were resurrected; the righteous were accounted for, and it says simply that the martyred and righteous “reigned with Christ for a thousand years.”

So satan is thrown into a prison abyss for the same thousand years Christ and the martyred and righteous reign on earth. That’s literally all it says about that. We have to go to Isaiah and other prophecies about this time to know what it may be like. John does not have a vision for it in his prophecy.

Before we move on, let’s pause and revisit that curious statement that the devil will be bound for a thousand years (the same thousand years Christ is reigning on earth). Verse 3 tells us he is bound “…so that he might not deceive the nations any longer.” From that, is it safe to deduce deception is no longer a player on the earth among men during the millennial? At least an external source of deception?

There are a thousand years of Christ’s righteous reign where we’re told the righteous and martyred co-reign with Him on earth and satan is bound from deceiving the nations. So clearly there will still be nations under Christ’s reign here. Is that a fair deduction?

And “after that”…. After what? Christ’s millennial reign. Then satan is loosed “for a little while” or a little season.

So how do you read that? Does that mean there’s an end to Christ’s millennial reign? Because the passage says “after that”, referring to his millennial reign. Does that connote an end? Or do the two things (Christ’s reign and satan’s release) continue to happen simultaneously?

MILLENNIAL REIGN EXPIRATION….

When we keep reading, we get to verse seven where it says, “when the thousand years are expired…” Expired… Greek: teleo. Complete, executed, discharged, accomplished. So there is an end to this millennial reign of Christ. It’s a set amount of time, and when it’s done, it’s done. Again, why?

Why is there a millennial reign of Christ that ENDS, expires, is completed? Why is satan released at that end? Why wasn’t satan vanquished to the lake of fire like the false prophet and the beast? Why must he be “released for a little season”?

And how does Christ’s millennial reign end? Is there an announcement across the earth? Does Christ go somewhere else than where He had been? What do the inhabitants on earth do? Do they continue as they were before? How does this transition from millennial rule to satan loosed to deceive?

All we’re told is this: “And when the thousand years are expired, satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle….” [That word battle means warfare and could mean a single encounter or a series.]

WHAT DOES THE MILLENNIAL REIGN LOOK LIKE?

This is where I want to camp for right now, because we’re going to have to use our imaginations to figure out what this could possibly look like. The Scriptures are eerily silent on the details of this. Let’s just assume we know the broad strokes of what the righteous reign of Christ would look like on the earth. Relative peace? Mostly if not completely crime free? Relative unity? Probably a homeostasis, a balance of nature to man? Can we assume perversions and deviations from God’s character are not present, or are swiftly brought into order? Are human physical and mental limitations absent? We can probably agree it’s definitely good on earth, right?

Was Christ’s reign on earth physical or spiritual? Is He reigning in physical form, or is it a spiritual concept?

If it’s physical, where is He reigning from? Let’s just presume it’s Jerusalem for this exercise. What happens at the end of the appointed millennium when it expires? Does He leave Jerusalem or does He stay? If He leaves, where does He go? How does He go? If He stays, wouldn’t that mean He’d be present when satan is going about deceiving the nations? If He’s present in physical form, how in the world would satan be able to deceive the nations?

What about all the resurrected martyrs and righteous that reigned with Him? Do they die on the earth? Surely not, for Scripture tells us there’s just one physical death. Then are they reigning in spirit or natural form? From where and how? Do they stay or leave at the expiration?

Turn this over in your head. I think it matters if His reign is spiritual or natural. Do we assume the dead brought to life that reign with Him are reigning in the same manner as He is? So are they all reigning in the natural or in the flesh? At the expiration, if it’s natural, where do they go? Or do they stay? Being resurrected they cannot die anymore, so wouldn’t they remain in the natural if they were already here in the natural? If they stay, wouldn’t all the inhabitants of the earth know them and know of their reign?

If it’s a spiritual reign, how is it conducted? Do people still pray? How do people know how to align with the righteous rule of Christ if it’s spiritual? Is it impressed upon their hearts? Is it taught? Are there schools or churches to instruct people, or will they just know what to do?

Is it safe to assume the millennial reign of Christ and His resurrected saints is either in the natural or in the spiritual? Is there another way it can be? Put a bookmark here.

SATAN IS RELEASED FROM HIS THOUSAND YEAR PRISON…

Now when satan is loosed, how does that look? Will people know he was loosed? Who has seen satan to know what he looks like in present day? When he was bound and thrown into the abyss, did anyone see that happen? Was it a physical location in our four-dimensional world? Or is it a separate location outside of our dimensional world, in the realm where spirits and angels and demons live? If it’s the latter, who sees his imprisonment? If it’s the latter, who sees his release? Put a bookmark here.

HOW DOES EARTH TRANSITION FROM MILLENNIAL REIGN TO DECEIVED?

Now on the natural plane of the earth, after a millennium of peace and righteous rule, how do the inhabitants of earth go from peace and unity to deception and rebellion of God? This is what has stumped me all of my life. How could a world operating under the righteous reign of Christ turn from that into deception and rebellion to God? What would it take to transition from peace to a large people group ready to battle the saints on earth and God Himself?

These are questions you have to ponder to try to wrap your head around these limited descriptors John gives us of the millennial reign and loose of satan for what looks like the end of the end, because right after that the new Jerusalem is presented and a new heaven and earth replaces the old.

Here’s my take after a lot of study, prayer and thought, and I’ll present sub-points in different posts in the coming days that help build it and show you where I’m coming from.

I think Christ came back sometime after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70A.D., (but I don’t know how long after). We have eyewitness accounts of a heavenly army at the destruction of Jerusalem around 70A.D. I think His reign and rule was in the spiritual dimension. He may or may not have appeared in physical form in this period of time, but I’m leaning toward it being more spiritual than natural.

No one saw satan being bound in the abyss prison, just like I doubt anyone saw the false prophet and beast be put in the lake of fire. I think the lake of fire is allegorical to an extent. I think these things happen in another dimension than what we can see here on earth. John is telling us things he saw, right? (in Revelation) Look at Revelation 12. John is telling us of something that happened in the past: Satan is thrown out of heaven and pursues both Israel and the children of God. No one saw this in the natural, but John gives the vision of past actions and how they looked in the spiritual realm — another dimension humanity doesn’t have access to see directly. I think this is the same thing with the lake of fire and abyss – we won’t witness it on earth, but it’s happening in a parallel dimension we can’t see.

We can study Revelation 12 and know what was described by John’s vision actually manifested on earth, but no one ever sees the dragon, right? It’s in the spiritual dimension. Yet it manifests in the earthly dimension. Same thing happens throughout all of Revelation.

Right now we know Christ is at the right hand of the Father, seated in Heaven. He “ever lives to make intercession for the saints”, right? And we know that after Christ’s ascension, our body’s become the temple of God, and that the Spirit dwells within us. [1Cor. 3:16, 2Cor. 6:16-19] and that the body of believers presents as the temple of God, where He dwells. [Ephesians 2:19-21] Paul calls it the “mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints…this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” [Col. 1:26-28] The MYSTERY is CHRIST IN YOU. Do you get it??? Christ is IN the believer, and that has been hidden for ages past only to be revealed after Christ’s great victory. (It had to be, and I can’t wait to talk about this part in another post.)

Everything changed after Christ. He was literally the door to God. [John 10:9] We are literally changed when we receive the truth of Christ and put ourselves in His care. Everything moves from natural to spiritual, and we live out our remaining physical days on earth learning and becoming more spiritual beings and less natural beings. It’s a metamorphosis of types, if you will.

It’s a spiritual concept that can only be experienced. The world can’t understand it. Paul says, “Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.”

Paul goes on to explain how the natural world can neither see nor understand what’s happening in this realm. Read the rest of the chapter, 1Cor. 2.

So whether Christ’s millennial reign is in the flesh or spirit, I do not know. But I’m going to guess it’s in the spiritual, and the removal of the false prophet and beast and satan’s removal from the earth, and the unbelievers who are slain, enables the remaining humanity on the earth to see clearly to walk under the leadership of Christ, into a new era.

In this era, humanity is no longer under the threat of deception and is able to walk with Christ. The millennial reign is probably much like what the Garden of Eden was supposed to be like before the Fall.

Now tell me if you have generations in this thousand years of reign, walking on earth in love and humility, in peace and cooperation with one another, how do you think satan, when released from his prison, is going to deceive the nations?

I was pressing God for this when I was first starting to try to wrap my head around it. I can tell you where I was when He said, “How many generations do you think it would take, Michelle, to forget the righteous reign of Christ?” [I’ll revisit this later.]

Satan’s imprisonment and release aren’t on the world stage. The world isn’t going to see this happen, anymore than they saw his expulsion from heaven with a third of the rebellious angels. We’re not going to be here on earth and be like, oh here he comes! He’s not going to announce his arrival back on the scene with a press conference. He’s going to operate as he always does, in the shadows.

How long would it take a worldwide society walking in peace and love and unity to be deceived? It probably wouldn’t be the first generation. It probably wouldn’t even be the second generation. It will be a gradual infiltration. He won’t be able to hit it head on. He would have to infect it.

I think he made some Faustian bargains with some people. I think we’ve been studying those people awhile. I think he made some backroom Faustian bargains with some people who stayed behind the scenes and infiltrated the institutions of government and policy and economy and media and social and entertainment – you get the idea. And they began to subvert the systems. I’ll build on that later.

If there was a peaceful millennium, you can rest assured the memory of it would have to be erased in order to deceive the world. No one (on a large scale, in mass numbers) is going to trade peace and love and health for what we have now. The record of it would have to be struck. The memory of it would have to be erased. Every last bit of evidence of it would have to be altered, and a false narrative would have to be given of anything they couldn’t erase.

Try not to knee jerk too much. Really chew on some of those questions. I’ll build on this in the coming days.