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Examine and test prophetic utterances

People keep posting alleged prophetic words and videos, and quoting the professed “prophets”.  I’m going to reference a couple that stood out to me, then I’m going to tell you what I think is a real prophetic word for the hour we’re in.

1 Thess 5:19-20 tells us:  “Do not quench the Spirit; do not despise prophetic utterances.”

And oh wow, how that likes to be used when someone has questions about a word or mouthpiece with the label “prophetic”.  The context of Paul’s thought, however, continues:  “But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form of evil.”

Absolutely do not despise prophetic utterings, BUT….  BUT…. Examine everything carefully! 

We are to examine such utterances.  Other versions say “prove” or “test” them carefully.  Look at what Jamieson, Fauccet & Brown instruct with this passage:

You ought indeed not to “quench the Spirit” nor “despise prophesyings;” ‘but,’ at the same time, do not take “all” as genuine which professes to be so; ‘prove (test) them all.’ Means of testing existed in the Church: some had the “discerning of spirits” (1 Cor 12:10; 14:29; 1 John 4:1). Another test, which we also have, is to try the professed revelation whether it accord with Scripture, as the noble Bereans did (Isa 8:20; Acts 17:11; Gal 1:8-9). This negatives Rome’s assumption of infallibly laying down the law: the laity have the right of private judgment, and are bound to exercise it in testing every human teaching by Scripture. Locke, ‘Those who are for laying aside reason in matters of revelation resemble one who should put out his eyes to use a telescope.’

(from Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary, Electronic Database. Copyright © 1997, 2003, 2005, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)

And see how Barnes’ elucidates the passage:

We have a right for private judgment – and a better word there would be “personal”, as opposed to just accepting what a corporate body or council would lead us to believe.

That said, when I read some recent words by Julie Green, (alleged and professed prophet), and I examined them against the Word of God, I had trouble in my spirit accepting them as the rhema word of God.

First I had trouble with the phrase, “They took it, and you will see them give it all back.”  I’m assuming the “they” is the “evil system”, but who is that in particular?  Banks?  Politicians and legislators?  What did they “take” in relation to the housing market?  And what will they “give back”?    Anyone carefully observing the economy and the housing bubble we’re in can probably accurately predict a market crash – and they have been doing so for months if not years now.  But what has been taken and is going to be returned by whom? 

I could kind of shrug this one off a bit as general speech instead of specific, but then I really struggled with the next part:  “You will financially know a life free from debt and lack.”  Who will?  All of God’s children?  It’s prefaced with “My children”.  So is this a promise for every child of God regardless of their decisions in their life?  If they’ve become a slave to the lender (Proverbs 22:7), is this an emancipation then just because they’re indebted?  What if they chose to buy an expensive house, car, wardrobe, vacation and voluntarily indebted him/herself to a credit master?  Is that now whisked away and absolved?  What if some of God’s children are ruled by greed and they are in debt because of greed?  Is that just swept away too?  What if some of God’s children are in lack because of addictions that have whittled away their income pockets?  Are they suddenly no longer going to be in lack but recompensed from the consequences of their own actions?

How does this work?  What will this look like?  There were no qualifiers on this statement.  It reads like a carte blanche sweeping “reset” for anyone that’s a child of God.  Is that Biblical in the real world in real time?  Why did Christ tell us the poor we would always have with us if he meant there to no longer be lack or debt for His people?  Are the poor not God’s children?

And this third part practically undid me!  All of a sudden EVERY sickness of the body will be vanquished!  When??  When is this magic corporate healing supposed to happen??  And don’t we already have that in the victory of the Cross and the Resurrection?  Isn’t that why we’re instructed as Christ’s disciples to “heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the leper”???  If God’s just going to wave His hand or whisper a word to do this miraculous corporate healing of every sickness and every need for medication, why have we been praying and laying hands and petitioning Heaven in obedience to Christ’s instructions?  Why do we have to wait?  I’ve laid hands and prayed for many people who have been healed (including myself).  It sure would be easier if I didn’t have to do that anymore.

This word does not pass an examination of the Word of God or the character of God in His Word.  I am responsible for examining it! 

One more:

So if I’m understanding this “prophecy” correctly, there will only be mass deaths of unbelievers?  Because it says God is protecting His children from these mass deaths and separating His children from the rest of the world.  It looks like here only the “enemies of God” will suffer in these mass deaths.  And what are these mass deaths from?  It sounds here like it’s a judgment from God that will cause them.  This utterance was from December.  We’re seven months later now…

And then we’re told if you took the covid vaccine and are concerned about the side effects, God’s going to render them harmless for you.  When?  Does that mean no believers have died from the vaccine or complications of its vaccine since this word was uttered?  Wow.  What about the believers who have already died from it?  Will they be resurrected?  Or is it just from date the utterance was made in December?  What Biblical precedence do we have for this?  Why has God overlooked the GMO food poisoning, the water and air poisoning, the pharmaceutical poisoning, and even the prior vaccine poisoning (see the increase in autism, autoimmune disorders, etc.) and we’ve suffered the consequences of these evils but THIS time…NOW….with this covid vaccine, we don’t have to suffer the consequences of our actions?  Is this consistent to the Word of God?  The character of God?  The history of God’s children?

I’m admonished to test or examine or prove the utterances alleged to be prophetic.  These don’t pass the test for me.

I’m not saying to throw the baby out with the bath water.  Just test the words.  Reject what doesn’t pass examination and receive what the Spirit gives.  God’s speaking through His children and not just those with national platforms.  He’s speaking through the common man and woman both in the church and out of the church.  He’s speaking through and to the young as well as the old. 

It’s important we learn how to hear the Voice of God ourselves and not become dependent on other people for hearing from God.  We don’t need to chase after the prophets.  We do need to seek God and be open to every way He wants to speak to us, including through others.

And it’s important we sharpen our discernment and not blindly accept everything said from every mouthpiece that claims to be “prophetic”.

Let’s try to learn from one more example in Scripture.  Go to 1 Kings 13 and read about the prophet from Judah who got a clear word about judgment coming to Jeroboam for his idol worship and a righteous king, Josiah, will be raised up to tear down the corruption of Jeroboam and the priests’ idolatry.  When the King attempted to seize the prophet for the declaration against him and his people, the king’s had withered.  King Jeroboam begged the prophet to pray for his hand, which the prophet did and it was restored.  At his healing, the King asked the prophet to come eat with him and we learn a very important detail:  the prophet was given specific instruction on how to give the prophetic word, and how to leave.  He was not to eat or drink anything, and he was to return home a different way than he came. 

Then an interesting thing happened.  An old prophet in the area heard about this event and intercepted the prophet and implored him to come home and eat and drink with him.  The prophet reiterated his instructions from God, then look what the old prophet replied,

1 Kings 13:18-19

“I also am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.'” But  he lied to him.  So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house and drank water.”

So the prophet ate and drank with the old prophet and as he was finishing the (real) word of God came through the old prophet and he decreed the prophet’s destruction for disobeying God’s command by eating and drinking.  The prophet departed and was killed by a lion on the road.

Now think about this for a minute.  The word of the nameless prophet from Judah was a genuine word from God that was accompanied with signs and wonders.  The old prophet who deceived the new prophet outright lied.  We’re not told if the Spirit led the old prophet to test the prophet from Judah, or if he did it of his own accord.  We only know it happened.  A prophet lied.  After that a genuine prophetic utterance came to the same prophet that just lied and deceived. 

We can learn so much from this.  You can get truth and lies from a mouthpiece of God.  You can get flesh and spirit from a mouthpiece of God.  We have got to learn how to hold fast to that which God has shown us, and to test the prophetic utterances that we not be deceived.

I’ll address what I think is a real prophetic word for this hour in the next post.

Unpopular theories I’m pondering

I’m working on some theories and still need to organize my notes.  But I’m going to put a few thoughts out here in the hope that it will spur others to weigh in on some of my thoughts in case I have some blind spots that are preventing better perspective.  I’m going to touch on three things that aren’t necessarily connected but may well be.  I think you’ll see where I’m going. 

I’m going to present in broad strokes.

Devolution, President-in-Exile, and Donald J. Trump

I’ve been off the beaten path on this topic enough to know it holds merit and could very well be true.  There’s enough circumstantial evidence to allow hope that it is true, and if true, it still seems like the best option for the immediate future for America.

The current alleged U.S. administration is taking us on a crash course to complete tyranny under the pretty guise of inclusion and perceived safety (from government promoted threats), among other things.  There is no happy future for America in the true spirit of America on our current path.  I am well aware of that.

I understand some of the tactics of war that are confusing for the foot soldier and observers.  For example, appearing weak when you are strong (and vice versa), disinformation to hide or mislead from your movements and intentions to gain ground and the element of surprise, theatrics for illusion, etc.  That said I believe all of that is going on. 

The front man (woman, whoever is the public lead) of the “side” one is on, must instill confidence and trust to his/her counterparts in the battle.  There are times we’ll be confused, times we won’t understand the strategy on the board.  I understand that is all part of the war. 

Two main things (there are lesser things as well) give me pause about Trump’s leadership for the cause of liberty and national sovereignty in America:  his relentless push for the covid vaccine, and his seeming ineptness for January 6.

Knowing what we know about the vaccine and the thousands who have been harmed by it and even killed, why would he push it as “good”?  Why not just stay silent?  Why not just reiterate we’re still the United States of America, founded on independent sovereignty and personal liberty, and remove himself from the public argument?  His base does not agree with his stance and have made it clear.  I’ve heard the argument that “Operation Warp Speed” was code name for a military operation.  (insert eye roll)  I’ve heard the argument that he had to hurry a vaccine to quell the growing public fear.  While elements of that argument make some sense in the scheme of politics, the ruse could have been dropped after the election and it was reinforced.

Even now public information on the vaccines has been coming out of grave consequences.  This would be the perfect time to feign shock and recant your stance.  But he doesn’t.  Why?

Trump knew the FBI set up the “insurrection” narrative for January 6.  Why did he encourage his group to go to the Capitol?  Why has he allowed average American citizens be put through the American gulag system and be left there almost defenseless, under abuse and suffering?  Didn’t he campaign on statements like this:

VOA tells us a Presidential pardon for all persons involved January 6 was an option on the table. 

While we still have American patriots suffering without Constitutional provisions (6th and 14th Amendments for due process and a speedy trial), while evidence is being hidden and not permitted, and Revolver has been relentless on its reporting of the injustice of it all, why has DJT remained relatively silent through it?  Why weren’t there pardons or public statements of weight?  Why is there continued silence? 

These aren’t small matters to me.  These are literal life and death matters of American people.  People are dying and facing grave health concerns for the promotion of a serum that has not proven effective for the thing it was allegedly created for.  People who did not commit crimes have been set up by a corrupt judicial and legislative system in the American government and are languishing as political prisoners in the alleged home of the free and brave.  These aren’t inconsequential oversights.  Are these people just casualties of the war? 

[This doesn’t even touch on Ivanka’s membership in the World Economic Forum or Jared’s monetary ties to serious conflicts of freedom’s interests.  I don’t have time for that and I give it a surface pass because it’s not Trump personally.]

The powers that be are intent on recreating their version of prophecy

Study will show that modern Israel was founded by Rothschilds and their cohorts.  I totally understand that God can use the wicked as pieces on a chess board to accomplish his purposes, and this may be that.  But hang with me a minute because this will lead to the next thing, and remember, these are just working theories I’m looking for other insight for.

Why would the powers in the shadows want to recreate prophecy?  That ties to my third theory, so we’ll table it for just a moment.

How difficult would it be to recreate a version of Biblical prophecy if you held sway over the major political players of the world?  What if you held sway over, say, the religious institution as well?  If what was being taught and relatively wide-spread learned across the vehicle of Christian churches was a general apocalyptic rapture, future tribulation, future antichrist scenario, then orchestrating that wouldn’t be that difficult.  Just spend some time thinking about that and I think you’ll be able to see it.

Look at the current Ukraine-Russia conflict and see how many people and places are saying Russia is the antichrist or Russia is Magog and Putin is Gog, or similar proclamations.  Only (and I don’t have time to prove this now but I will soon) Magog is Ukraine, not Russia. 

Just think about this for a minute.  If you’re the enemy of God and your endeavors are works for darkness, wouldn’t you want to subvert the truths of God and especially the prophecies?  After all, these are things that work against you and the kingdom of darkness.  If you could divert attention to arenas you painted as targets, the activities going on in other arenas would fade into the background.  This would be a reason (not the only reason) for recreating prophecy. 

Again, I’m speaking in broad strokes right now, but I will hone it down in the coming weeks. 

Ultimately life on terrestrial earth is the epic battle between light and dark, the friends of God and the enemies of God.  The only middle ground is ignorance. Let’s be real.  The vast majority of humanity is happy in the middle ground of nominal awareness of the spiritual forces around them.  As long as their basic needs are met and they are sufficiently entertained or otherwise distracted, involvement in the spiritual arena is not at the forefront.  

Regardless, as long as I’ve been alive there has been talk about the end of the earth, the coming apocalypse, a ten headed beast, an antichrist and his kingdom, a mark in the forehead, etc.  What are the chances the powers of darkness can utilize the prophecies for their agenda?  Would they try?  Wouldn’t they just somehow suppress the truths of the Scripture – a kind of 1984 tyranny that prevents disclosure?  If they couldn’t do that, then wouldn’t another strategy be to pervert it? 

Which leads me to my third realm of hypothesis….

What are the chances we’re post-millennial? 

I used to scoff at this idea.  (I was, after all, raised in the religious institution with its systems and constructs.)  I used to think that was ludicrous.  If Christ was reigning on the earth, wouldn’t the earth know it???  It’s still a valid question.  But there have been things that have blown some holes into my original thoughts.

So before you poo-poo this or mark me off as some radical fringe person, think about some of these things….

 Rev 20:7-8  (NASU)

“When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison, and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the sand of the seashore.”

In that one sentence, how much time is it covering?  How long do you think it will take Satan to deceive the nations after the world had been sitting under Christ’s millennial reign?  A few years? 

What would have to occur to convince the inhabitants of the earth that they should reject the rule of righteousness in exchange for ….what?  What are they exchanging it for?  How does this transition happen?

How do you go from the righteous reign of Christ on the earth to the nations assembling for battle against God?  How long would it take to get from point A (righteous reign) to point B (demonic rule)?  Prophecy sums up the whole thing in one sentence.  How many years, decades or centuries does that one sentence span?

The word used there is deceive not conquer.  So Satan is getting out of the abyss and heading back to the inhabitants of earth to “trick, mislead, hide the truth” from them.  How long would that take if they were under righteous rule?  Satan won’t have the authority over earth, remember?  He no longer holds the title deed to earth; Christ does.  His only M.O. will have to be deception because he’s been stripped of his legal authority.  How will he deceive the nations?

Another question, where is Christ when this happens?  If Christ has set up an earthly reign – reigning here on earth from some physical location – where is he when Satan is released from the abyss?  Why isn’t there a confrontation when this happens?  If Christ’s millennial reign is physically on the earth, what happens to it when Satan is released?  Is Christ physically reigning on the earth and Satan just kind of slithers around the background whispering lies in people’s ears?

There are really only two possibilities here:  Either Christ’s millennial reign is spiritual, or it is physical.

If it’s spiritual, then Christ rules from Heaven through His saints on earth (and in heaven) at the time of the millennial.  If it’s physical, then He reigns from a physical location on earth.  Who really thinks that in a physical reign of Christ on the earth that Satan is going to be able to come on the scene and deceive people away from peace and righteousness while Christ is still ruling on the earth?  What extraordinary circumstances would enable that scenario?  And if such a scenario would occur, where is Christ in the time Satan is deceiving the world?  Is He still on earth?  Or is He in heaven? 

These questions matter.  That one sentence doesn’t give us any of those answers.  How can we find them? 

Let’s evaluate this:

Revelation 12:9 tells us Satan was thrown down to the earth.  Who saw that happen?  Was that a physical occurrence or a spiritual?  Could we see it with our physical eyes?  Did Satan suddenly appear on the earth with a host of fallen angels with him?  If we didn’t see it with our eyes and there isn’t a historical record of it in the annals of time from witnesses (apart from Scripture), how did it happen?  When did it happen?  Where did he set up camp on earth?  Don’t we just automatically assume or recognize that this happened in the spiritual dimension hidden from our eyes? 

Rev 20:1-3

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.  And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.

Is this release after the bondage in the Abyss any different?  Is Satan suddenly going to manifest physically NOW?  Or are we still talking about the spirit realm that corresponds and parallels life on earth, but must be discerned apart from our five senses?

And IF Satan’s appearance on earth is in the spiritual realm, and these occurrences are connected with Christ’s reign “on earth”, could Christ’s reign be in the spirit realm as well? 

For the sake of hypotheses and theories, let’s assume Christ’s millennial reign is in the spirit realm, just as Satan’s deception operates from the spirit realm. Now how does life on terrestrial earth look?  Revelation 20:6 tells us the saints of God will reign as priests of God and Christ during the millennial.  But the saints John is telling us of are those faithful during the mark of the beast that “came to life”, meaning they had physically died.  So are they reigning with Christ from Heaven or in physical form on the earth? 

If resurrected saints and the resurrected Christ are reigning on earth in physical form, how is the dragon from the abyss going to be able to deceive the nations?  And where are the reigning Christ and his saints when the dragon of old comes to deceive the earth?  If they’re still on the earth, how are people deceived? 

For these reasons and more I have yet to get into, I am pursuing the possibility that we are post millennial.  I’ll spend time on that in another article, but for the sake of running down this theory, let’s pretend this working theory is correct for now and wind it back to my second point.

IF we’re post-millennial and we’re in the season of Satan deceiving the earth, why would he want to recreate the end time prophecies of Revelation, Daniel, Isaiah, etc.?  I suggest it would be part of the deception.  The Word of God is not absent post-millennial.  We have no indication from Scripture that it is struck from the public record.  What we do know is God’s adversary will deceive earth’s inhabitants.

We know Satan’s end time game is to deceive the nations and “gather them for the war”.  I’ll get into this in detail in the coming weeks, but for now, just mull over in your head how Satan could derail Christians in his scheme.  If he can’t all out get them to join him in the deception, what could he do to mislead them (a variant of the word deceive)?  I’m contemplating the possibility that he uses the prophecies to recreate a scenario that keeps the children of God from rightly perceiving the hour at hand for the purpose of establishing an army we can’t recognize for what it is.  More on that to come….

Which wraps us around to the first point of inconsistencies or discrepancies in DJT.  Why would the anti-establishment president support and promote a vaccine that we now have the increasing data is neither benevolent nor beneficial?  Either he’s playing a war game too strategic for my brain to understand at the cost of millions of lives, or he himself is deceived, or he’s part of the end time game.

This is the part where I ask for your input.

These are theories that have been percolating in my brain for a couple years now, as I’ve been scraping together miscellaneous data points to try to bring clarity to the picture.  I’ve presented in broad strokes but in the coming days I’ll start honing down with finer pictures and hope to bring it from an impressionist painting to more of either a tenebrism or viewpoint painting. 

If you have thoughts that would either cast light or even doubt on these thoughts, I welcome them.

2022: the best and worst of times

You know that scene in the Lord of the Rings when Gandalf is telling Frodo he must leave with the ring because the Ringwraiths are after him and Samwise hears the conversation and Gandalf asks what he heard and Samwise says emphatically he didn’t hear anything, he wasn’t dropping any eaves, all he heard was a great deal about a ring and the end of the world?  That’s kind of how I feel right now.

I’m pretty sure the outlook for 2022 in America (and probably the world) is grim. 

So I have good news and bad news, and I’m going to deliver the bad news first because the good news is what we need to remember and adhere to.

First, the bad news….

The nutshell is some very difficult times are upon us, and they will be times that try men’s souls.  A number of prophetic messages have been sent or forwarded to me that resonate, and they are messages of judgment and sifting, of exposure and trying.  Phrases like:  brace yourself, prepare for impact, and smoldering pressure leading to eruption…  Judgment against wicked people and wicked schemes are prophesied. 

I’ve been seeking the heart of God to substantiate and/or refute these prophecies/claims.  Here are the three things God showed me:

  • Our money will become worthless.
  • Mortal danger, death and disaster have been decreed on a large scale.
  • China is in America and will wage war on America on American soil.

How any of these scenarios are going to play out, I do not know.  I have best guesses and deductions, but I’m not sure that’s helpful.  Timing has always been the tricky part for me, but I think the Spirit showed me they’re coming sooner than later.

Most of these words and others I have read indicate things that are coming are judgments on wickedness, disobedience, and hypocrisy (in both secular and sacred arenas).  As judgments become meted out the vessels of evil (seemingly untouchable organizations and people groups, and very high profile people in very high positions) will retaliate in an effort to unleash their plans they feel are being thwarted.  There will be innocent casualties.  There will be pain and suffering.

Whether the “war” referenced in Barry’s word was literal or figurative, I do not know.  I am quite certain the Spirit has shown me (and others) that Chinese military is a player here in America even now.  How the U.S. Military will be used has not been revealed to me.  [I know of a real person who accidentally found a real closet on a major college campus with .50 caliber ammo stacked from floor to ceiling.  The enemy is within.]

With those scenarios comes a myriad of fallout…supply chains disrupted, crime unchecked, scarcity of necessities, power outages, etc.  (Not to mention any bio warfare that may or may not be released.)  I have no way of knowing what will impact what region.  The Spirit of God is our best and only defense.

Let me be clear, fear will be one of our primary enemies.  We must refuse the inclination to be paralyzed with fear.  Because fear has been unleashed on our nation for the last two years, the spirit of fear is rampant in America.  We must gird ourselves against this.  We must resist and refuse the control of fear.

Last summer the Lord had me camp out in Psalm 91 and commit it to memory.  On August 5th last year, the Spirit undeniably arrested me with Isaiah 43:2.  I didn’t understand its wide spread implications at the time but I felt an urgency.  He has renewed that message to me with increased fervor these past few days.

Isaiah 43:2:  “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you.  When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, nor will the flame burn you.”

Trial and testing, judgment and exposure are coming to America in the coming days.  There is only one real safe space.

Now the good news….

That safe place is under the shadow of the Almighty, in the shelter of the Most High.  There is no one and nothing more powerful than the true God.  If we are in obedience to Him, He will make our paths clear in times of chaos, one step at a time.  He is our first and best defense.  He is our protection, our strategy and our advocate.

I had a dream on Labor Day in 2003 that the Lord has shown me I can draw on for direction, wisdom and encouragement for these times.  Here is the dream.  What’s astounding to me is this dream is over seventeen years old and some of its parts make perfect sense for exactly right now.

Notice in the dream that there’s a place of refuge for believers during the fires of trial, testing and purification.  Notice that instructions are given during the waiting period so we know what to do.  And especially notice that Noah’s ark is a predominant fixture here.

When I was pursuing the Spirit on the recent prophetic words coming out, He said to me that I already knew much of it because He has already shown me, and He brought to my mind several dreams over the past two decades.  This dream I had in 2003 is the one He reminded me of when I heard words about fires on the east coast.  (Mind you I don’t know if those are literal fires or symbolic.)  In my dream, the fire that was driving the believers was from the east.

I don’t have enough time to get into it, but on the same day I had the dream, a horrible tragedy happened on I-35 in Kansas that the Spirit began to speak to me through.  The part I want to focus on is this part of Isaiah 35 that God highlighted, (which I am asking if it is for this time as well.  I don’t have the answer on that yet.)

Really read the whole chapter; it’s only ten verses.  But for the sake of our current topic, focus right now on verse four.

While the bad news may seem fearful, do not fear.  “Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble.   Say to those with anxious heart, ‘Take courage, fear not.’”

Sharpen your swords, don’t hide in the basement.

Hard times are coming, but a place of refuge is available.  Draw on the encouragement from this dream and posit yourselves to be in that place of safety under the shadow of the Almighty, the shelter of the Most High.  We have an enormous opportunity before us!  The Spirit will take care of the goats.  We just need to be positioned correctly.

It’s not what you look at; it’s what you see.

If you see darkness and despair, human tragedy and chaos, you will be inclined to fear.  You will struggle with hope and purpose, and you’ll slip into survival mode.  Survival is one thing, advancing the Kingdom is quite another.  This is our opportunity to advance the kingdom.  There will be ample opportunities to minister to family, friends and neighbors.  There may be opportunities to speak to larger gatherings. 

If supply lines are broken, if food is scarce, break your bread and ask God for the provision as you feed those who have none.  He can multiply bread in 2022 just as easily as He did in Christ’s day on earth.  I’ve driven two hundred miles on an empty tank of gas.  He can even multiply gas. 

Lay your hands on the sick so that they may recover.  Do not fear the poisons they may be releasing.  It’s our inheritance as a saint to be protected from deadly poison.  Some of us will even raise the dead.  It’s our inheritance.  It’s Christ’s command.  Do not go in to this season of testing in fear and anxiety.  Look at it as opportunity to exhibit faith and share the amazing salvation of the One who saved us! 

Turn the things of devastation into opportunities for hope.  Teach people how to seek God, how to find God, how to walk with God.  I don’t know how God is going to do what He’s going to do; I just know I want to be on His side, demonstrating His heart, an ambassador to a dying world.

Consider Dickens’ words, and realize the conundrum of two realities co-existing at the same point in time.  Determine to take hold of the hand of God and not look back. 

Recall the countless examples of God’s people over time.  Some were spared great tragedy and others walked through the flames.  Determine here and now to be the salt and light this nation so desperately needs.  Remember that those who know their God shall be strong and do mighty exploits.  [Daniel 11:32]

Remember that:  “Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.” [Daniel 12:3]

Do not miss that, “Many will be purged, purified and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand.”  [Daniel 12:10]

God is doing a work in the land, and we can join Him, learn the lessons we need to learn, let His fires refine us, or we can resist Him, call Him a hard or severe master (Luke 19:25) and let the fires burn us.  We can be lights in the darkness and salt in the time of peril if we choose.  Let us choose to encourage the brethren to keep the faith, and let us honor God with our words and deeds, for the Glory of His perfect Name.

This Sifting Season We’re In

“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan [the accuser] has demanded permission to sift you like wheat; but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”  Luke 22:31-32  NASU

And that word translated “demanded permission” can also be translated “obtained by asking” and comes from the Greek root “exaiteomai” which means “to demand for trial”.  Most of us know the rest of that story, that Simon went on to deny Christ at great personal cost to himself, but was later restored and led the disciples in upheaving the world for the Gospel.  [literally the good news of Christ]

The concept of sifting wheat is to remove the chaff from the grain.  The chaff is the inedible part, the worthless part (for use).  Some of the implication we can draw from this is that the enemy is used to separate the worthless from the good.

The season we are in….

This is part of the season we are in; the sifting has started.  The interesting part is it’s going to vary person to person.  The chaff that I need removed from my life is probably not the same chaff you need removed from your life.  God is a personal God, and the powers of darkness are not ignorant to the weaknesses and compromises of humans either corporately or individually.  I don’t think time is going to be wasted taking you through financial hardship if it won’t address the chaff in your life.  Your trial is more likely to come in an area that will put a finger on the sensitive area that will bring the areas of correction needed for you, if you heed the lessons before you.

There are precious few people I know right now that are not going through some sort of direct or indirect (someone they love) trial or tribulation of varying degree.  Our nation as a whole is going through a sifting, and there’s a lot of chaff here.  There are a lot of worthless attitudes, belief systems, demonstrations, etc. that permeate our society and culture.  Do I think they’ll be eradicated by this sifting process?  Some, but not most. 

The purpose of the sifting will be to expose, to lay bare that which is worthless.  Dealing with humanity we still have the reality that choices are still options.  Because a particular music or entertainment “star” is exposed for worthless or vile activity, does not necessarily mean they will be shut down.  What it will do is lay bare their intentions and alliances.  Now we can choose with better information if we want to align with them.  (And believe me, even with exposure, some will still choose the vile.  They will ignore or excuse it, and they will not turn from it.)

So on a national level, industries and organizations, persons and personalities are being sifted.  We should be watching for the chaff that is coming to the surface.  We should be reassessing our own views of these institutions (including the U.S. Government).  We should be breaking alliances and allegiances to things found worthless and vile

It’s a painful process, but a necessary one. 

Sifting is separation. 

What is God separating?  The worthless from the useful or valuable.  We should be grateful God is allowing this sifting season.  If we were to hit the season of judgment before the season of sifting, we’d all fall condemned.  But because He is sifting FIRST, we have the opportunity to be cleansed of what would condemn us.  We have the opportunity to let the sifting process do its work in us that we may be found of value as judgments are released. 

Study Ezekiel 9 to begin to understand the implications of this season.  Here’s an excerpt for emphasis:

The Lord said to him [angelic servant of God], “Go through the midst of the city, even through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations which are being committed in its midst.” But to the others He said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him and strike; do not let your eye have pity and do not spare.  Utterly slay old men, young men, maidens, little children, and women, but do not touch any man on whom is the mark; and you shall start from My sanctuary.”

Ezekiel 9:4-6 NASU

During the sifting process, the records of Heaven are taking note.  Are you sighing and groaning over the abominations in our midst?  Or have you turned a blind eye?  Or worse, are you joining with them?  Applauding them?

[Don’t miss that He starts in the sanctuary.  The Church is the first place He begins. (1Peter 4:17)  Watch the idols of the church be exposed.  Watch practicing sin be exposed.]

There’s a marking going on.  Remember Malachi 3:16-18?

Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord gave attention and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the Lord and who esteem His name.  “They will be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts, “on the day that I prepare My own possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.”  So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.

God is paying attention to our conversations.  It’s not lost on Him.  A book of remembrance is taken down of those who esteem Him.  He makes plain that there will be a distinction between the righteous and wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.  Those who He has marked will be spared on a future day of calamity and judgment.

I can already hear some of the protests.  But if that’s true, why is evil so prevalent?  Why hasn’t there been an accounting before now?  Why have I suffered for doing good while my neighbor or family member has prospered who is friends with the ways of this world?  Because God has a timetable.

Recall that when God was making His covenant with Abraham, He said there would be a delay for the promise for four hundred years.  Why?  Because the “iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete”.   [See Gen. 15:16]

Last time I checked, God has not revealed His timetable for judgment.  What it takes for the sins of a people to become complete unto judgment has not been disclosed to me.  Why it took four hundred more years for a people group who served other gods to be judged I do not know.  Why America has not been judged for the increasing and prevalent wickedness in its midst, I do not know.  I do know, that his patience is mercy, but there is a time patience is spent and mercy is set aside.  When that time comes, being positioned under the shadow of the Almighty is the only place of protection.

There are two places a sieve (tool for sifting) is used in Scripture.  Notice that both times it is an expression of judgment.

We should posture ourselves correctly during this sifting

Remember what Peter admonished:

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you;

1 Peter 4:12-13 NASU

This trial, this tribulation you and/or those you love are facing right now, Peter calls a “fiery ordeal”.  I would say the same for the trial my family is under right now, and even those around me in the midst of fiery ordeals and trials.  What did Peter say it is here for?  Your testing

And he should know.

While the national sifting is one thing, our personal sifting is another.  There are areas in each of our lives that will not withstand the winds of judgment.  (and they are coming)  God, in His mercy, has unfurled a season of sifting to get our attention to things that need put under the Sovereignty of God and the Lordship of Christ. 

Learn to seek Him in your trial in a way that isn’t just asking for reprieve or rescue.  Learn to ask what you’re supposed to be learning.  Learn to listen and observe what He is bringing to the forefront in your own thoughts, attitudes, words and actions.  There are clues in them.  They will show areas not submitted to God, areas of pain or anger (or other things) that we’re holding on to that are keeping us bound. 

I thought it was interesting that the words of Christ to Peter warning him of his upcoming trial, the word “sift” was selected as opposed to other word(s) usually associated with trials.  Thayer defined that word as, “to sift, shake in a sieve, by inward agitation to try one’s faith to the verge of overthrow”.

Are you being sifted right now?  Is there a trial in your life that is shaking you?  Do you feel inward agitation?  Do you realize it is designed to try your faith in order to overthrow it?  Get rid of the chaff so that the kernel of value is not lost because you’re holding on to the chaff (which will be burned).  Let the sifting process have its way so the worthless is removed and you can be protected in the shelter of the Most High. 

Let the chaff be separated from you and then…

Lastly, remember what Christ told Peter:  that He prayed for him.  He prayed that Peter’s faith not fail. 

Ask the Holy Spirit to intercede for you.  Recall Paul’s instruction in Romans 8:26-27…

 In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;  and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

Then remember Christ’s instruction about what we’re to do when we get through our own trial(s) of faith:  strengthen your brother. 

Take your strengthened faith and reach out to your brothers and sisters still in their trials.  Pray for them, minister to them, encourage them in the faith to hold to the teachings of Christ, to submit to the discipline of the Spirit, to respond with repentance at exposure of sin, wrong thinking, wrong attitudes, disobedience, etc. 

Meditate on Psalms 51 and 91.  Psalm 51 for your cleansing, healing and restoration.  Psalm 91 for your position in Him and for your protection.  Let the sifting prepare you for the days ahead.  Understand the separating is for your benefit (if you submit) and not your harm.  His mercy is available for this process, but will not be as readily available for the next.  Thank Him for His mercies.

Gleanings from Enoch, part 2

I think part of what I love so much about Enoch is the glimmer we get to see of the other side, and the reminder that earth is merely the trial run.  Living here on earth, trudging through the days in and out of making a living, providing and protecting, nurturing and being nurtured, sometimes the eternal seems so surreal. 

Section Three of Enoch is titled “The Astronomical Book”, and starts with chapter 72.  Most likely I will not adequately comment on the richness of this section – for it moved me beyond what I think I’m able to convey.  But I can’t help but wonder if we had set ourselves to learning according to the revelations of God versus the study of man, if our understanding and paradigm on earth would be very different than what it is in my lifetime?

I’m reminded of my hero George Washington Carver, and how his education was in the laboratory of nature with the instructor of the Holy Spirit.  If ever there was a humble man who emulated the divine inspiration for understanding nature and the elements of how this life was ordered, to me it is he. 

Enoch begins this section with a discourse on the path of the sun.  I suppose the possibility exists that it was allegorical, but I do not think so.  And if you don’t take his discourse allegorically or symbolically, your mind will likely tilt, because his description defies modern science.

To begin, he references the laws of the sun, moon and luminaries (stars).  Uriel is the host who is showing him such grand behind the scenes, and it is made plain the order is a natural law.  In fact, he says at the end of verse one,

“…and he [Uriel] showed me all their laws exactly as they are, and how it is with regard to all the years of the world and unto eternity, until the new creation is accomplished which endures until eternity.”

There is constant foreshadowing of a time after the time of earth.  Reading Enoch is an experience in learning of worlds that have been, worlds that are, and worlds that will be.  We almost have to leave behind preconceived ideology from the days of school rooms and lectures, and even the tidy lessons of Sunday School. 

Enoch calls the sun a luminary, and tells us the first law of the sun is “its rising in the eastern portals of the heaven, and its setting in the western portals of the heaven.”  Immediately we will have to consider that we have either been taught and/or believed a lie.  If the sun rises and sets out of portals of the heaven, then it is not stationary in the sky with globes revolving around it.

Enoch described six portals in both the eastern and western parts of the heaven, as well as multiple windows on each side of the portals.  He describes a sequence of days in which the sun departs one portal in the east, returns to one in the west for about thirty days, and then changes portals, which obviously shows the sun moves across the sky as the seasons progress.  It’s a fascinating depiction as it tells how the seasons move with the sun’s path, how the days get longer in some passages and shorter in others.

The chapter on the sun ends with:

“As he rises, so he sets and decreases not, and rests not, but runs day and night, and his light is sevenfold brighter than that of the moon; but as regards size they are both equal.”

When Enoch describes the moon’s course, he is very specific how the moon’s course runs separate from the sun’s, and how measuring time by the moon must take into account the discrepancies.  He explains that the moon falls behind the calendar record over eight years by eighty days.  And then he says something interesting, he addresses “world stations”.

I found some websites with people who have really taken some of these concepts Enoch shares and applied principles to them.  Here are a few I’d like to peruse sometime when I have more time:

Astronomy confirms the accuracy of the Book of Enoch

Revolutions of the Luminaries

Enoch and the still flat earth

What I also find interesting is that Enoch describes a year as 364 days (and as 52 weeks).  There are four intercalary days injected.  But it makes me wonder how off our calendars may or may not be from the variations over the millennia of measuring time into years….  For instance, if we failed to account for a year being 364 days by God’s calendar, just that one day over the course of 4000 years would make our calendars off by almost eleven years (10.9).  These are things that matter if we’re trying to keep God’s timetable.

Enoch segues into the course of the luminaries (stars) by explaining that the star courses set the intercalary days.  And then he says this fascinating thing (75:2):

“And owing to them men go wrong therein, for those luminaries truly render service on the world-stations, one in the first portal, one in the third portal of the heaven, one in the fourth portal, and one in the sixth portal, and the exactness of the year is accomplished through its separate three hundred and sixty-four stations.”

If we can temporarily set down our preconceived notions of the earth and its orbit around the sun, and just imagine, even if just to pretend, that Enoch’s descriptions are true, we find such fascinating courses of chariots and winds, windows and portals and world-stations. 

Remember when you read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe for the first time?  I remember how I had to lay aside the laws of this earth as I was taught them, to embrace the world of Narnia.  It was similar but not the same.  It had elements that did not fit with the principles I was taught of earth and life by my earliest teachers.  This reminds me of that.  I don’t necessarily have to discard the original teachings I have of these concepts, but if I just set them aside to entertain a different way of looking at them, I may be able to glean something I would otherwise miss.

Wind has always been a mysterious concept to me.  What causes it?  Where does it come from and what causes it?  I know science has their theories, but Enoch puts science on its heels.  Enoch tells us the winds are found in the twelve portals that open to the four quarters of the earth, and to find these portals you must go to the ends of the earth!

He describes the purposes of the winds, some for good, some for harm.  He assigns the plagues to the winds.  And then he moves into the quarters….

How does a round globe have four quarters?  Enoch says the quarters are also called the north, south, east, and west.  He tells us what each quarter holds, calling the second quarter most special because the Most High descends from it, and it is also called the south.  The northern quarter is subdivided into three parts, a part each for:  man, seas & land, and the “garden of righteousness”.

Then Enoch circled back to the sun and moon, and gave us their names (two for the sun and four for the moon) and their luminous abilities.  Enoch concludes this section with three chapters that I personally subtitled “the transgression”.  Here are some passages I found especially noteworthy:

[80:2)  “And in the days of the sinners the years will be shortened, and their seed will be tardy on their lands and fields, and all things on the earth will alter, and will not appear in their time.”

I grew up a farmer’s daughter.  I know that this is true even in my lifetime.

Enoch goes on in verse four to say, “And the moon will alter her order, and not appear at her time.”  This tells me the original discourse Enoch gave on the plight of the sun and moon through the portals will change.  Six thousand years later, I do believe it has changed.

Verse five tells us the sun will burn more brightly “than accords with the order of light”, and the following verses add:

“And many chiefs of the stars will transgress the order (prescribed).  And these will alter their orbits and tasks, and not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.  And the whole order of the stars will be concealed from the sinners, and the thoughts of those on the earth will err concerning them.”  (This gave me pause.  How much error is in our ways and interpretations?)

Enoch continues to hearken his son, Methuselah, (and future readers), to walk in the ways of righteousness and not depart from it.  We’re to teach the wisdom of heaven to our children and them to theirs, that the way not be lost.  He says in 82:3, “And those who understand it will not sleep but will listen with the ear that they may learn this wisdom…”

When Enoch goes on to explain the four luminaries that correct the calendar by their intercalary insertions, he admonishes:

“Owing to them men will be at fault and not reckon them in the whole reckoning of the year:  yea, men will be at fault, and not recognize them accurately.”  What point in the future was he prophesying about?   A hundred years?  A thousand?

 It’s as though Enoch looked forward through the passage of time and saw a future time that the wisdom given to him and made available by the faithful who passed it along through the millennia would hit a point that error would prevail to the detriment of those who profess to be knowing. 

If the descriptions of Enoch be true, then what we know as truth is a lie.  The earth does not spin on an axis and traverse in an orbit around a stationary sun.  That’s a difficult pill for most to swallow.  I do not portend to tell another what to think or what conclusions should be made.  I only wonder if the story has been obscured over time with the increasing wickedness of man and interference of the fallen spirits, and if there is a way to peel back the layers of fallacy to arise at honest truth that stems from the source of all Truth, God Himself.  To receive that, what must we be willing to lay down in our beliefs in order to embrace truths that contradict such? 

Surely it is not a salvation issue whether we believe the principles science and education have indoctrinated us with, or if we choose to believe ancient scripts from patriarchs of the faith.  I say that because I don’t think such topics are worth the division they cause.  They don’t impact our salvation.  Let people evaluate the data as they must, and arrive at the conclusions that their pursuit of truth leads them.  If it’s not a salvation issue, if it doesn’t deny the Lordship of Christ, let’s walk in grace toward one another.

That said, there are numerous passages of Scripture itself that indicate maybe our thoughts have been hijacked by the “reason of man”. 

Joshua 10:12-14  (NASU)

Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel,

“O sun, stand still at Gibeon, and O moon in the valley of Aijalon.” So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation avenged themselves of their enemies.

Is it not written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.  There was no day like that before it or after it, when the Lord listened to the voice of a man; for the Lord fought for Israel.

Now there’s no reason the Scripture couldn’t have called on the earth to stand still if it was rotating.  But it doesn’t.  It tells the sun to stand still and the moon to stop – for a whole day!  This was never corrected.  No translation staying as close to the original language as it could has altered that interpretation. 

And Revelation 7:1 practically reiterates Enoch’s discourse on the four winds in chapter 76.  Revelation says it like this:

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth,

And Enoch says it like this:

And at the ends of the earth I saw twelve portals open to all the quarters of the heaven from which the winds go out and blow over the earth.

The word translated “corners” in Revelation 7:1 is also translated “quarters” in Revelation 20:8.  In the Strong’s concordance they are interchangeable as corners or quarters. 

Maybe there’s more to Enoch and his revelations than the Church at large has allowed to come forth.

All this to say, Enoch was a refreshing book for me to read, full of wonder and revelation.  It presents images and explanations that make the Scripture come alive, and exposes stale or stagnant teachings that may need revisited, reevaluated, and possibly rethought. 

Gleanings from Enoch, part 1

From my rough timetable, I have that Enoch was born in the 622nd year on earth (from a timetable calculating Adam at year zero).  His father, Jared, would have been born in the 460th year.  Enoch’s great grandson Noah would have been born in year 1056, and the Great Flood would have been about year 1656.

That means Enoch spoke of the events to come in a thousand years, roughly [at Chapter 54 the word about the coming destruction through flood begins].  He tells us that in the days of his father, Jared, the Watchers came to earth to copulate with the daughters of men.  The Watchers numbered 200, and descended onto Mount Hermon.  He lists nineteen of their leaders by name, and calls Semjaza, Samlazaz Azazel various specific leaders.    

These Watchers wrought havoc on the earth by their fornication with humanity and the introduction of the Nephilim, also called giants.  They taught humanity all sorts of knowledge that would lead to ultimate destruction.  The earth got filled with a lot of bloodshed, and the Most High slated destruction to the earth because of the bloodshed and wickedness.

Enoch was given insight and revelation to the events in his day, the structure of the heavenly realm, and things to come on the earth.

I love the first chapter because it speaks of the Holy Great One, the eternal God, coming out of His chambers to execute justice upon the earth.  It is quoted by Jude, but I like the passage right before Jude’s citation, [Enoch 1:8]:

But with the righteous He will make peace.  And will protect the elect, and mercy will be upon them.  And they will all belong to God, and they will be prospered, and they will all be blessed.  And He will help them all, and light will appear unto them, and He will make peace with them.

Then verse nine is what is quoted in Jude 14-15:

And, behold, He comes with tens of thousands of His holy ones to execute judgement upon all, and to destroy the ungodly:  And to convict all flesh of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

The violence against mankind on earth was noted in chapter 8, verse 3:  “And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven.”

Chapter nine continues noting the lawlessness on earth, and verse three says:

And now to you, the holy ones of heaven, the souls of men make their suit, saying, “Bring our cause before the Most High.”

Azazel was marked in verse six for teaching “all unrighteousness on earth and [revealing] the eternal secrets which were (preserved) in heaven, which men were trying to learn.”

The following chapters spell out the judgement forthcoming to the angelic realm for their sin.  The Watchers learn of the anger of God and seek Enoch to intercede for them.  The Lord is not pleased and remarks in chapter 15, verse 2 that Enoch should point out to them:  “You should intercede for men and not men for you.” 

The whole chapter is vital for hearing the Lord’s judgment on the Watchers.  In verse eight and nine the Lord decrees and defines the definition of giants:

And now the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, will be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth will be their dwelling.  Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies because they are born from men and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they will be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits will they be called.

Probably a decade or more ago when I was down the rabbit hole of UFOs and aliens, the Spirit spoke to me that aliens were just demonic spirits manifesting under new titles.  Here I learn through Enoch that the product of the union of fallen angel and man is decreed an “evil spirit”.  When we consider that a whole other world is going on in tunnels and labs and undisclosed locations across the earth with entities the like most human eyes will never lay upon, we can know for certain that such evil is what Enoch said wreaked the earth in the days of his father leading up to the Great Flood.

Enoch goes on with the words of the Lord to him, explaining what the Church has been neglectful to teach:

[As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven will be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth will be their dwelling.]  And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble:  they take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst and cause offences.  And these spirits will rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them.

Men and women before me have labored to expose what goes on in the dark.  They have been ridiculed and scorned, neglected and rejected.  It doesn’t change the truth because one denies it exists.  The truth is still the truth.  We have enemies who have set themselves against the order of the Creator, and in so doing have endeavored to corrupt and destroy mankind. 

They are teaching insidious and irreversible techniques and methods to corrupt the flesh of humanity, to remove the God piece in humanity.  These methods come in the form of artificial intelligence, transhumanism, androgyny, nano particles and involuntary genetic modifications, gene splicing, cloning, and DNA manipulations.  How are we none the wiser today to these tactics of the enemy?

Gratefully, this passage in chapter sixteen stood out to me as a beacon of great comfort and hope:

And now as to the watchers who have sent you to intercede for them, who had been previously in heaven, (say to them):  “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.”  Say to them therefore:  “You have no peace.”

All the mysteries have not been revealed.  There is a higher wisdom; there are deeper mysteries, greater knowledge, and more encompassing truths.  The works of Freemasonry, the Illuminati and Satanic fraternities and organizations, the revelation of alien technologies, they are not the fullness of the mysteries of the wisdom of Heaven and the Holy One.

Oh that the servants of God would implore the Maker of Creation for the tools and wisdom to thwart these works of darkness!

Chapter 42 tells us that “Wisdom went out to make her dwelling among the children of men and found no dwelling place:  Wisdom returned to her place and took her seat among the angels.”  We must enter the courts of Heaven to find the Wisdom we need.  It does not exist in the channels of earth.

Chapter 46 reads so much like Daniel 7:9-10; I highlighted the whole chapter.  Chapter 48 tells us of the inexhaustible fountain of righteousness and the Son of Man and this great encouragement is found in it.  It says the Son of Man has preserved the lot of the righteous, “…because they have hated and despised this world of unrighteousness and have hated all its works and ways in the name of the Lord of Spirits.”

This was particularly encouraging to me.  I have been so weary of this world, feel so alien here, want very much to depart and abide in the abode of the spirit.  I am reminded of these passages….

1 John 2:15-17  [NASU]   Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. 17  The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.

John 12:25  [NASU]  He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.

Heb 11:37-38 [NASU]   They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated 38 (men of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.

In chapter sixty-two verse seven we read:  “For from the beginning the Son of Man was hidden, and the Most High preserved him in the presence of His might and revealed him to the elect.”  Which has beautiful echoes of Colossians 1:15-18 and John 1:1. 

And at the end of that chapter we read about the garments given to the righteous and elect:  “And they will have been clothed with garments of glory, and these will be the garments of life from the Lord of Spirits:  And your garments will not grow old, nor your glory pass away before the Lord of Spirits.”  Which has echoes of Rev 3:5 [NASU], “He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.”

The Book of Enoch was not canonized, and part of me wonders if it was because parts of it were excerpts from the Book of Noah.  For example, critics have used Enoch 60:1 to contend the book is faulty – because it says, “In the year 500….in the life of Enoch….”  Obviously a literal interpretation indicates that would be errant.  Enoch was not alive in the year 500 of earth, nor did he live 500 years.  However, this was understood to be about Noah, in Noah’s 500th year.  When reading the context of the 60th chapter we learn that Leviathan and Behemoth were placed one in the sea and the other in the wilderness to beget judgement upon the earth in part.  The judgement that subsequent chapters portray are those of the days of Noah.  Obviously Enoch was not on the earth in those days.  It seems to me to be a mixture of Enoch’s revelation of those days and Noah’s experience in those days. 

While many have discounted the work of Enoch for these seeming discrepancies, I think it’s a great loss to dismiss this work on such grounds.  The uncanny overlap of themes and even descriptions in Enoch that parallel other passages of Scripture cannot be missed.  If we want a better understanding of the “Days of Noah” here in our 21st century, perhaps an account of one who was there and one who foretold of it would be valuable for at least consideration. 

For instance, chapter sixty-four has just two sentences, but the second sentence elucidates the reason for the destruction on earth (via the Flood):  “These are the angels who descended to the earth and revealed what was hidden to the children of men and seduced the children of men into committing sin.”

Simply put, the angelic realm crossed into the earthly realm and seduced humanity to sin against God.  In the following chapter it further details, “…because they have learnt 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.”

We know that it is Noah speaking in this chapter because he says so plainly in verse 9 (Chapter 65).  Enoch told Noah, “Because of their unrighteousness their judgement has been determined upon and will not be withheld by Me forever. [quoting God’s words to him]  Because of the sorceries which they have searched out and learnt, the earth and those who dwell upon it will be destroyed.  And these – they have no place of repentance forever, because they have shown them what was hidden, and they are the damned.”

But Enoch was clear to point out Noah was innocent of knowing these secrets.

There is so much we can learn from this, especially in the light of current events.  When we hear of  Jeffrey Epstein’s tunnels and underground rooms on his island, and that as a private citizen he held an office in Harvard, wanted to “seed the human race with his DNA” and cryogenically freeze his penis and brain to be brought back at a future date, there are questions that should arise in our minds.  This New York Post story tells us:

Epstein used his own key card and campus passcode to make at least 40 visits to an office known as “Jeffrey’s Office” at the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. He had showered the program with $6.5 million before he served time for soliciting sex with a minor.

“Program for Evolutionary Dynamics”….wonder what that was about?  He helped start the program with his hefty donation, which includes population genetic s.  He was also quoted as wanting to “strengthen the human gene pool” through eugenics. 

Couple that with tidbits coming out on Bill Gates’ and those like him and their research into genetic modifications, transhumanism, cloning, etc., and we should be realizing we’re dabbling in realms of human reconstruction that will surely facilitate the judgement of God.  If humans were meant to live forever, it was surely before there was sin.  The wage of sin is death, and if we think we need to circumvent death by clones and unnaturally extending the human lifespan, what are the implications of that?  Surely that is playing God with no fear of the Creator.

The examples that have gone before us would indicate that will not work out well for humanity on planet earth.   In Noah’s day, the fallen angels were the source of the secrets that led to the wickedness encompassing the earth.  It doesn’t take too long of research to realize the likes of people in the Illuminati, Freemasonry, DUMBs, the Nazi medical labs, and other laboratories and fraternity circles are getting instructions from extradimensional beings.

Chapter 69 lists the fallen angels’ crimes with an interesting sidebar about an oath requested by Kasbeel  (requested of Michael) and called the “chief of the oath” that immediately made me think of Freemasonry and the secrets of that order based on oaths.  (This starts at verse 13 and is fascinating.)

In verse 26 we learn the Name of the Son of Man was revealed to those in this angelic order, and that the “sum of judgement” was given to Him.  Beautifully, section two ends with chapter 72 with the Son of Man proclaiming “peace in the name of the world to come”. 

And these are just the first two sections of Enoch’s work. 

I denounce Simon parkes and his work and sever any connection

I cannot in good conscience promote or align with any work of Simon Parkes.  Mr. Parkes claims he was conceived by a nine foot alien with eight fingers.  Mr. Parkes claims he is abducted four times a year to have sex with an alien (named “Cat Queen”), and that he and this alien have produced an offspring named Zarka.

I denounce the works of Simon Parkes and regret and retract any former promotion of him or his works that I made out of ignorance of his origin. 

His claims can be seen here, here and here.  (and undoubtedly several other places across the internet)  His official website can be perused here

I have no interest in proving or disproving Mr. Parkes’ claims.  But I will explain why I cannot endorse such a person and why I think it’s dangerous for especially a Christian (but really anyone) to align with Mr. Parkes.

There are really only two options with Mr. Parkes’s claims:  they are either true or false.  If they are false, he is delusional and his mental state of mind cannot be trusted. 

If they are true (or partially true), he is aligned with the demonic realm.  All extradimensional life forms that present themselves to humanity are spiritual beings.  There are two kingdoms in the spirit realm:  light and dark/good and evil.  Those who present as “aliens” are of satan’s realm.  The angelic is of God’s realm, and they rarely present themselves to humanity.  When they do, it is normally to assist or to bring a message.  The word of God is explicit in our behavior toward the angelic realm.  I don’t have time to delve into that right now.

If Mr. Parkes’ is the product of a human/demonic union, he is Nephilim.  Nephilim cannot inherit the kingdom of God.  Therefore, they are not working for the good of humanity or God’s Kingdom.  Every partnership or cooperation with such a person is to the detriment of humanity.  Read the (original) book of Enoch (the one from Ethiopia) if you have questions about this.

Mr. Parkes’ “sources” may or may not be human.  He has claimed to speak with the original Q for ninety minutes in a phone call.  I doubt that, (and if it be true, we are all in trouble).  People who work in the dimensions of the (fallen) angelic realm, use the tools of that realm.  They can astral project, they can shape shift, they can use any number of those tools and others, to put themselves or their “consciousness” into another location.  They can hear conversations and see scenes in that realm, separate from their body, and have a record of such. 

The demonic realm is never for the good of humanity, as its ultimate purpose is to usurp the kingdom of God and His works.  So even if that realm is pretending to be benevolent, it is a deception.    

One must question Mr. Parkes’ motives at his recent (in the last year) effort at aligning with the Q movement and the American patriot movement, while Mr. Parkes is not American at all.  What could he possibly gain by building an audience and following here in America for those intending to restore the Republic to its original intent? 

I have no doubt that Mr. Parkes may have (some) correct intel.  I understand the ability of those who operate in that realm to obtain information.  So if he would be using his abilities in that domain to gain an audience and trust, but his origin is of the demonic realm, what is his motive?  This should trouble every Christian for sure, and even every human.  His alliances are not with the kingdom of light and good, no matter what he says.  Remember, he has already exposed himself as either a fraud or a Nephilim. 

Aligning oneself with the kingdom of darkness opens oneself up to much deception, and ultimately much damage.  I encourage every true Believer of Christ and in the Kingdom of God, to seek the wisdom of the true God in this matter.  Once an opening has been given (in thought, in agreement, etc.), the demonic has access to your own soul and mind.  This is why I have publicly denounced him and his works.  I cannot allow any opening or any sort of agreement with the demonic realm.

Feel free to contact me if you have questions.  God bless you, and God bless America.  God protect us from infiltrators of every dimension, in the powerful name of Yeshua.

Some thoughts on the spiritual aspect of that dream

I’m going to touch on three (and a half) aspects of this topic…

Dreams

Scripture is consistent that God speaks to His people in dreams.  For instance, Numbers 12:6 [NASU]:

“Hear now My words:  If there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, shall make Myself known to him in a vision.  I shall speak with him in a dream.”

The first dream was recorded in Genesis 20:3, when Abimelech was warned in a dream about Sarah being Abraham’s wife.    Joseph had a series of dreams that came to pass.  Two people in prison with Joseph had dreams, both came to pass, but interestingly, one was favorable and the other was not.  (One man was restored and the other was killed.)

Pharaoh had two dreams of warning of severe famine coming to the land that also passed.  His dreams were warnings that saved many people’s lives and also transferred wealth and reset people group’s boundaries.

In Judges 7, Gideon overheard someone telling about a dream and another man interpreting it, and he was encouraged and emboldened.  [It wasn’t even his own dream OR interpretation!]

When God removed His favor from Saul’s life, he was no longer able to hear from Him in dreams as well as other methods of God’s communication:  1 Samuel 28:6 [NASU], “When Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim or by prophets.”   Dreams are clearly a method of communication from God.

But there are also false dreams…

Jeremiah 23 recounts that the false prophets of Jeremiah’s day were telling false dreams and misleading the people, telling them via false dreams that calamity would not come when indeed God was saying it would!  For a minute let’s look at what God says in Jeremiah 23 because He has brought this to me numerous times in my life:

Jeremiah 23:16-20 [NASU]

Thus says the Lord of hosts,” Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you.  They are leading you into futility; They speak a vision of their own imagination, Not from the mouth of the Lord.  They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The Lord has said, “You will have peace”‘; And as for everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, they say, ‘Calamity will not come upon you.’   But who has stood in the council of the Lord, that he should see and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and listened?  Behold, the storm of the Lord has gone forth in wrath, Even a whirling tempest; It will swirl down on the head of the wicked.  The anger of the Lord will not turn back until He has performed and carried out the purposes of His heart; In the last days you will clearly understand it.”

Here we have a period of time God has been telling the people through Jeremiah (for eight years before the first deportation and nineteen years cumulative until the second deportation) that judgment was coming.  That’s a long time to prophesy “doom and gloom” with no fulfillment.  Surely he was mocked as a false prophet?  Surely he was doubted?  In the meantime, others in the church (if you will) were saying quite the opposite.  (“Calamity will not come upon you.”  And “you will have peace.”)

The phrase God continually speaks to me in here is:  But who has stood in the council of the Lord, that he should see and hear His word?  See that’s the key.  All kinds of voices are saying all kinds of things, but seating myself in the “council of the Lord” will cause me to see and hear His word.  Keep that in mind as we move on.

[Another side note I want to make about Jeremiah 23 is that phrase there in verse 20:  The anger of the Lord will not turn back until He has performed and carried out the purposes of His heart; In the last days you will clearly understand it.  That’s the “acharit-hayamim” I’ve written so much about.  The last days, the days of the Holy Spirit after Christ’s resurrection and ascension.  Now.  Why do you suppose the Judeans would not clearly understand until “the last days”?  — That’s another topic for another day; I just wanted to pause and make mention of it.]

Another time we hear about false dreams is in Zechariah 10:2  [NASU].  Again, the false dreams are “comforting in vain” which causes the people to wander without proper leadership.

For the teraphim speak iniquity,

And the diviners see lying visions

And tell false dreams;

They comfort in vain.

Therefore the people wander like sheep,

They are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.

It’s interesting to me that the false dreams we’re told about in Scripture are ones that mislead the people that it is a time of peace or rescue when it is not at all.

We’re going to segue into my half point here, which is, dreams can and do cause fear.

In Daniel 2:3 we read that King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream and that his “spirit [was] anxious to understand the dream.”  Then again in Daniel 4:5 King Nebuchadnezzar had another dream and he says, “I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.”

When Daniel was shown the same dream that the King had, and also the interpretation, we learn that “Then Daniel … was astonished (troubled, appalled) for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him.”  From these accounts we learn that dreams can cause fear, turmoil, and other unpleasant reactions.  Because they do does not make them false or mean someone is “walking in fear”.  Our job when this happens is to what?  Stand in the council of the Lord to hear and understand His word.

The last time we find the mention of dreams in the Old Testament is in Joel 2:28-32, who is speaking of a future day that we later learn takes place after Christ’s ascension, and was initiated on the Day of Pentecost, fulfilling another Feast of the Lord:

It will come about after this

That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind;

And your sons and daughters will prophesy,

Your old men will dream dreams,

Your young men will see visions.

Even on the male and female servants

I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

I will display wonders in the sky and on the earth,

Blood, fire and columns of smoke.

The sun will be turned into darkness

And the moon into blood

Before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.

And it will come about that whoever calls on the name of the Lord

Will be delivered;

For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem

There will be those who escape,

As the Lord has said,

Even among the survivors whom the Lord calls.

So a future day to Joel’s people, (the people of Judah and Jerusalem), he tells us will entail prophecy, dreams and visions.  Before that day, however, God still spoke and warned through dreams.  The wise men were warned in a dream to not return to Herod in Matthew 2:12.  Joseph was warned in a dream to flee to Egypt because Herod was going to search for the Christ child. (Matthew 2:13)

Then Joseph was instructed in a dream while he was in Egypt to return to Israel.  After he did, he was warned in another dream to find refuge in the region of Galilee.  (Matthew 2:19-23)

In Matthew 27:19 we learn that Pilate’s wife “suffered greatly in a dream” because of Christ, and warned Pilate to have nothing to do with Christ’s trial.  We know that Pilate did not heed his wife completely and was swayed by the mob.  Why the dream of warning if it was not going to change the outcome?

 Scripturally we can see that God instructs, reveals, and warns through dreams.  God is the same yesterday, today and forever, so there’s no reason to think He is not still communicating through dreams.

“Brace yourself, brace yourself”

These are the parts of Pastor Coverstone’s dreams that spoke the loudest to me.  That phrase, “brace yourself”, is uttered twice in Scripture, both times in Job (38:3, 40:7).  Depending on your translation, it also translates as “gird up your loins as a man”.  This is a fascinating phrase, one that was spoken from God’s own lips, so we’d do well to pay special heed to it.

I’m going to quote from Barnes’ Notes because he says it so well:

“To gird up the loins, is a phrase which has allusion to the mode of dress in ancient times. The loose flowing robe which was commonly worn, was fastened with a girdle when men ran, or labored, or engaged in conflict…  The idea here is, ‘Make thyself as strong and vigorous as possible; be prepared to put forth the highest effort.’  God was about to put him to a task which would require all his ability…”

Now when we take that phrase in the context of upending national events, we’re given specific instructions.  To understand how to apply this, look at the first dream.  The first dream occurred in December 2019 – well before any knowledge of covid existed, well before a racial injustice incited riots.  How could one project what would occur across our nation in the next six months?  So Pastor Coverstone did what I would have done:  he waited and watched.  Then it unfolded and he had understanding he did not have previously.

This is the single most reason I am heeding Pastor Coverstone’s dreams.  The first dream has happened and we have the interpretation from hindsight.  Hindsight shows us the dates were specific to events, and the images were specific to events.  Hindsight tells us these events were orchestrated by our nation’s enemies (the Deep State).  We can look at the state of our nation from this vantage now, and apply understanding where we lacked it before. 

An otherwise unspectacular virus was identified and labeled a threat to humanity.  The narrative was commandeered and hysteria took over the medical, political and social arenas.  Truth was the first casualty of this war, and now America is tottering on the edge of a 1984 backdrop.  Unprecedented violations of our civil rights have occurred, our nation has had unprecedented lockdowns and literal behavior mandates (six foot rule and masks, etc.).  No, nothing about our current scenario is “normal”.

Two months later, in what seemed a bizarrely staged police arrest that ended in murder, erupted practically overnight in what could only be manufactured riots, as we watched our cities and businesses burn, and people get assaulted and even killed.  An unprecedented call for dismantling police forces and an equally unprecedented commandeering of city blocks (autonomous zones) occurred as well.  No, nothing about this scenario was normal either. 

These things were depicted in the dreams and played out in real life.  The instruction of the Lord was to “brace yourself”.  Move from a casual position to a position of readiness.  What would it have looked like if believers and patriots alike were braced, and were in a state of readiness when such events occurred?  Would the outcome have looked different?

Now apply that to the second dream.  Should the images of the second dream also be true, what then is our response to be?  Fear?  Shall we stock up some supplies and hunker down barricaded?  Or maybe despair?  Shall we fret and wring our hands with unrestrained emotion, unable to act or move?  I don’t think those are our instructions.  We’re to get ourselves in a state of readiness.  We’re to make ourselves as strong and vigorous as possible and put forth our highest efforts. 

What if fourth quarter rolls into overtime?

I wrote an article over three years ago on some things I thought the Spirit was showing me that keep coming to mind this week.  Basically it was about Super Bowl LI between the Patriots and the Falcons.  I speculated that if the game was a sign, what could it be signaling?  Here’s an excerpt:

Pay attention to the words that were used to describe this game and one recurring word I heard was “historical”.  Remember that it was the game that broke a number of records:  first team to overcome a deficit larger than ten points, first game to go into overtime, first coach to win five Super Bowls, first quarterback to win five Super Bowls.

And then I looked at some small details, like this:

  • Twelve is the number of divine government. (Brady’s #)
  • Patriots represent the citizens of a nation that uphold and pledge allegiance to the nation’s identity.  (think Constitution, original founding, spirit of intent, etc.)
  • Two is the number of division or separation*. (Ryan’s #)                                                              *(It also means witness or testimony.)
  • A falcon is a hawk that is trained to sport, and “falcon” is given to the female alone. The male hawk trained to sport is considered smaller, weaker, and less courageous and is called a tircelet or tarsel.  (from the 1828 first edition Webster dictionary)  So a falcon is a stalker or predator of female origin.

Again, this isn’t a “word from God” and I’m not saying God has told me this.  I am saying I have learned to watch and see how things unfold as God orders them.  Is it coincidental that the Patriots played the Falcons at a time our nation is divided (#2)?  Is it a coincidence that a falcon is a female hawk trained to sport and operating as a stalker or predator at the same time Hillary lost an election to a man who wants to give the people the power back (another Constitutional principle)?

Could we simplify it to say our nation is engaged in a battle between patriots in support of the Constitution and upholding the Constitutional Law of the land which preserves freedom, and predators seeking to destroy our freedoms, finances, and security?  That it is God’s government in battle against a divisive spirit?  (#12 vs. #2)

If God could possibly be speaking through any of this, what might we be able to learn?  If we base it loosely and look at it generally speaking, maybe we could observe that God has given the upper hand to the true Patriots for this season, and that the adversity is a predator (consider 1 Peter 5:8).  The first part of the battle had a stalemate, but the second quarter brought the predator ahead significantly (21-3).  The third quarter saw a modest attempt by the Patriots to regain ground while the predator gained some as well 28-9, while the last quarter saw a surge in Patriot ground gained, leveling the battle ground (28-28), and catapulting further battle in overtime.  The Patriots gained the victory in a historical relentless drive and historical conclusion.

Translation:  We should be encouraged.  We, the People, the patriots of the Constitution and the nation it serves, should be relentless and never give up in our advancement of righteousness in our nation.  The battle will look like we’re losing for awhile, but if we are relentless, we will come back.  Then the battle will be extended for a brief time and if we remain relentless and focused, we will get the victory.

The reason this keeps coming to mind is because in Coverstone’s  second dream the calendar was rocked in November, and DC was burning.  I feel like this is the game finale:  election day.  But the (Super Bowl) game went into overtime – historical overtime.  What would be overtime in a presidential term?  That time between Election Day and Inauguration Day?

Then this came to mind from brilliant decoder NeonRevolt:

Some people have been looking at Coverstone’s dreams like an Armageddon.  I’m not convinced that’s what they are.  I think they’re just revelation of the enemy’s plans and God is telling His people to prepare ourselves to counter the works of darkness.  Brace yourselves, get ready; it’s going to get dicey in some areas.  Get a game plan together and ready yourself for war, or work, or whatever God shows you.

Now, from the very first Q post we were told to “expect massive riots”, “organized riots are being planned”, and this one from last month:

So we know that our intelligence departments have been and are aware of the riot plans.  If Election Day November 3 rolls around and President Trump is re-elected, I expect massive riots almost immediately.  If so, by Coverstone’s dream and Q’s forewarning, the White Hats are aware.  I would expect they would have countermeasures.  (Remember he did not see any sign of President Trump in D.C.  I think he took that as a negative, but I take it as a positive:  the White Hats are one step ahead.)  But if Neon’s assessment is accurate, D.C. may very well burn as the Black Hats attempt to overthrow our government. 

Anyone who has been following Q nominally will understand that they have been insistent that the American people will have to be shown the works of darkness in order to be led to the truth.  Burning D.C. would indeed reveal the black hearts of these people.  (though some people will sadly never see)  If the Super Bowl LI was a sign of President Trump’s first term as President, then the historic overtime would be symbolic of the national state of suspension after the election.  Just a theory, but it’s plausible if the interpretations and signs are being read correctly.

But back to my original premise, we should indeed stand in the council of the Lord that we should see and hear His word.  Then we will know what to do to be in His will.

A Day of reckoning

An unassuming Kentucky pastor has been thrust into the limelight because of some dreams he shared that have gone viral.  You can hear him tell about his dreams here.  You can read a transcript of his dreams here.  I’ve spent a week seeking God about this, and here’s what I have to say about that, and my projections for America in the near future.

Pastor Coverstone had a dream in December 2019 that pretty much played out a few months later as he saw it in his dream [covid, riots, civil unrest, etc.].  Then he had a second dream mid-June that he was told was “part two”.  Here’s part two:

I saw a calendar… the calendar was [on a wall when], a white figure appeared.  … I heard the voice say, “part two, part two”.

I saw June, go, I saw July. I saw August, and then I saw September, and I saw the finger underneath the word September and it like emphasized it and tapped it three times.

Then I saw October come up, and then I saw November and this is when it got real to me in the dream… the intensity for me [was extreme]…  (when I woke up my heart rate was about 180).

 …The minute the finger underlined November three times instead of tapping it, I saw a fist ball up and it hit the calendar.

And literally, the calendar exploded into the wall, the numbers seemed that they were 3D and they were falling everywhere.

There was a cloud of chaos that started in there. The next thing I saw was I saw armed protesters. I saw fighting in the streets, I saw people pummeling one another.  I saw businesses shuttered and shut up.

I saw schools closed. I saw school rooms with cobwebs hanging in them and like things like papers falling off the wall and posters…  like no one had been in them for months.

I saw banks.  Bank buildings with the roof being taken off.  It looked almost like an alien abduction because money was flying through the roof into some type of like a vacuum cleaner.  It sounds kind of strange, but I was watching wealth, just being taken. I saw politicians in back rooms, making deals with people. Patting people on the back and laughing and smiling and smirking.

I saw monuments.  I saw Washington DC, burning. I saw Washington DC blazing. I saw fires, everywhere. I saw people being rounded up. I saw Chinese and Russian soldiers on the ground.  The Russian soldiers would tell the Chinese soldiers to go “pick up these people”…” secure this quadrant”….” secure this area”…  I saw blue helmets of the UN.  I saw military things taking place. I also saw no sign of President Trump. I saw no sign of leadership in Washington DC.

The vultures that I had seen were like gargoyles.  They were 10 feet off the ground…. 10 to 15 feet off the ground.  They were just attacking people mercilessly. I saw people hiding in their homes and garages. I saw churches, being burned, I saw homes, being burned.

I saw absolute chaos.  The fist punch on the November of 2020 is what got my attention. Then I heard the words again. “Brace yourself, Brace yourself. Brace yourself.”

Now if we’re a believer, born of the Spirit of God, we have the Spirit of God within us.  We need to make every effort to align with the Spirit of God to see what He’s saying.  Some things that will inhibit us from hearing from Him are fear, preconceived ideologies, and beliefs that enforce cognitive dissonance.  When we receive data that challenges our status quo of how we think things should be, we have to make a concerted effort to reject normalcy bias.  Normalcy bias is when our sense of what is normal is disrupted with things out of our comfort zone, so we reject those things to keep in our comfort zone.

I’m not saying the things in Pastor Coverstone dreams are going to come true, but I’m not saying they aren’t.  I’ve sought the Lord and feel it’s just wisdom to heed the words.  If nothing comes of them, I am no worse off.  If the words come true and I don’t heed them in advance, I will be unprepared and I will indeed be worse off.

Here’s what I think the Spirit of God has been showing me as I have sought Him regarding this…

Reject a spirit of fear

While the images of the dream are frightening, we should not be frightened.  Knowing pending danger is ahead, we can take precautions and prepare.  That’s the advantage of a warning versus a surprise.  (I’d guess a large percentage of America was caught by surprise at the June violent riots.)

If God has shown us the danger, He will show us the solution.  We must seek Him for our preparation, and for His counsel on how we are to proceed.  Make a concerted effort to not make provisions out of fear.  Make deliberate steps of preparation as He leads you.  Fear will sabotage progress and cripple clear thinking.

Speaking of God showing a solution, some things He’ll show us in advance, and some things will be as they happen.  If we have it all figured out before it happens, we have no need for faith.  Faith is taking the unseen hand of God and walking presently as He leads where we cannot see.

This was a revelation of the enemy’s plans

Pastor Coverstone’s first dream depicted the “virus outbreak” of March, and the riots of June.  Both of those things were works of darkness.  Both of those things were manufactured by the Deep State and its actors.  They were designed to destroy economies and dismantle the U.S. Constitution. 

Look at this second dream the same way.  Instead of letting fear drive your reactions, sit back and analyze critically.  If this is what the enemy of our nation (which is also the enemy of our souls) has planned, we have a jump start on circumventing as much as possible.  If you’re not on offense, you’re on defense.  Offense is better.  Shift your thinking and get on offense.

This has everything to do with the November elections.  The timing in the dreams indicates this.  The dates are valuable clues.  The Deep State’s resources are getting smaller and the threat against their exposure has gotten greater.  Justice is breathing down their necks and they are unhinged.  They are desperate to regain control of the nation and the narrative, and implement their agenda for global dominion.

How it could play out

This reveals to me a few things.  There’s going to be something that will upset the national climate in September.  It could be a false flag – another shooting, some sort of racial divide, etc.  It could be a new wave of covid or even a “new” virus. 

Allegedly the Starlink satellites are supposed to be launched in September, pummeling earth with 5G waves from the upper atmosphere.  The implications of that alone have neither been tested on the natural world, nor potential serious health risks honestly disclosed.  Easily the human body could be affected in dramatic and harmful ways.  They would never admit technology is making humanity sick, so they would have to discover, create, or blame a new virus as the culprit of the waves of illness it may cause.

I’m speculating that the summer is going to be rife with exposure of Deep State crimes.  The Trump administration has been trying to clean up our judicial system for over three years so an honest trial for crimes could occur.  The recent upset at SDNY came just before the arrest of Epstein’s madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.  Maxwell is allegedly ready to spill her secrets.  If she isn’t killed first, she could be the catalyst for a number of high profile arrests.

With these exposures, the Deep State is going to pull out the stops to hide exposure and change the narrative.  I expect a number of things are going to be manufactured for this.  However, I’m speculating the damage of the exposure to their deeds will happen and people will be waking up.  September will bring something nationally critical, in an effort to thwart the elections.

My projection is that President Trump will be re-elected, along with a number of new and fresh patriotic faces intent on restoring the rule of law, justice, the voice of the American people, and ultimately the Republic.  My guess is this will completely unhinge the Deep State.  They will bring everything out of their arsenal and attempt to burn down the country to regain control.  I don’t think we’ve seen the extent of their wickedness even yet.

As I pondered how foreign troops get on American soil, I felt it could be through Deep State mafia actors like de Blasio, Cuomo, Newsome, and other Governors and ilk that are beholden to their masters.  They may very well call the U.N. to intervene in their created crisis and paid riots and hand the keys of their cities and states over to the U.N.  China and Russia’s involvement is less clear to me, unless they are contracted by the U.N.  Is that possible?  And whether it will be actual Chinese and Russian military or mercenaries from those countries is another question. 

Regardless, a plan like this doesn’t happen overnight.  This has been in the works for a long time.  The Deep State is hoping they can regain the reigns of the control at the election, but they have a very serious, very severe backup plan if they don’t.  They have no problem burning the whole thing to the ground and rebuilding from the ashes.  This is why I think President Trump is going to win and they are going to implement their severe plans.  They simply cannot afford more damage to their plans and this will be the last straw for them.  Their days are numbered and they will not go down in surrender.

Plan of action

As I prayed, I felt the Lord indicate we must use the summer to get prepared.  The fall projects to be a nightmare.  If the visions of the dream are true indicators, school will not reconvene, the financial institutions are going to collapse, and it will not be business as usual.  The dollar is going to hit hyperinflation and our battle weary law enforcements are going to be compromised. 

As much as I’d like to believe the military are aligned with the Republic, I think the last round of riots indicates they are compromised as well.  There are people calling the shots that have ordered our troops to stand down in the face of great evils against both American laws and Americans. 

Catherine Austin-Fitts pointed out that out of 37 cities that hold Federal Treasury locations (12 banks, 24 branches, 1 headquarter), 33 of them had violent protests.  She argued that very precious little happens in America by surprise.  American’s (unconstitutional) surveillance system via NSA, CIA, FBI, etc. leaves little to be surprised about.  If we need protected from enemies within and we don’t get that protection, someone doesn’t want it to happen and has prevented it.

Yes, our military and our law enforcements are compromised.

Fitts said, “Once you understand Covid-19 is part of a currency war, everything else makes sense.”  They need our economy to fail, and it has been propped up and positioned for that failure for years now.  When that happens, life in America will be dramatically altered. 

Summer 2020

Seek the Lord and His wisdom.  Protection from God comes from position in God.  Get sin and compromise out of your life, and learn how to abide in Him.  Learn and understand the Blood covering. Obedience to God is like insurance.  I can rest assured if I am in obedience to God that what comes my way is under His control.  [Ultimately everything is under God’s control, but He withholds His covering in areas that are willfully in disobedience.]

Use the summer to prepare.  Seek God about what to do with your finances and assets in the event of a financial collapse and hyperinflation.  Seek God for basic necessities preparation (food, water, seeds/gardening, etc.).  Seek like-minded individuals to co-op with — someone who has skills in gardening, someone who has space for storage, someone who has vital knowledge, medical and dental supplies and needs, someone who understands natural healing, etc. and co-op together.  Pool your resources and learn how to be a community.

Consider the widows, the single moms, people with health needs or handicaps, families with babies and young children, the elderly.  Think of ways to minister to their needs, as mobility is more difficult. 

Build a personal relationship with your sheriff.  I can’t emphasize this enough.  In the event that our government and our military are compromised, the sheriff can deputize armed citizens for law enforcement and/or protection.  This is what the 2nd Amendment is all about.  If you sheriff doesn’t understand this, help him/her!  Give them the resources to educate themselves.  Help them think in terms of territory protection in the case of invasion (foreign or domestic). 

Do some target shooting this summer.  Get as comfortable with your arms as possible.  If you’re not a shooter, help someone else who is or wants to be.  Buy ammo or guns for others.  If you have land, find places people can target shoot.  In a word:  prepare.

Find communication methods for emergency situations.  If the internet goes down, if the cell towers are disabled, if an EMP hits, what is the contingency plan?  How are you going to enact emergency plans for food, water, shelter and/or protection?  Think like that – without being fearful. 

Put yourself in a position to hear from God, and trust His leading even in the face of doubt.  Memorize Psalm 91 and passages God gives you so you can call on His Word when you need it.  Pray for the best; prepare for the worst.  It’ll probably be somewhere in between.

For now, check out these two resources:

I’ll cover in another article the spiritual aspects of what I’m seeing.  I’m out of space for now. 

My Observations on the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl LVI Win

I woke up Saturday morning with a song in my head.  The song was ridiculous – a song I neither care for nor sing.  Also, it was seasonal, and it wasn’t the season for this song.  It was so clear and I was so annoyed that I put on a favorite playlist to get it out of my head.

Then Sunday morning I heard the song again, in my head. 

Now God and I have this thing – maybe some of you have it too – but He gives me songs sometimes to get a message to me.  I used to think it was random, but then I learned how to listen for His voice.  Don’t get me wrong, I get random songs too.  But as the years have passed along, there are telltales when it’s just random versus when it’s God.

Sometimes I don’t even know the words.  Sometimes I don’t know the artist.  Sometimes I haven’t heard the song in months or years and there’s no good reason for it to be in my head.  And sometimes, it’s just obvious what He’s saying.

Sunday morning when I was cleaning my kitchen and the song popped back into my head, His Spirit asked, “What does red mean to you, Michelle?”  The song was Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, and I hate that song.  But as soon as God asked that question I knew the answer:  CHIEFS!!  That’s what red means to me on Super Bowl weekend in 2020!

Was God telling me the Chiefs were going to win the Super Bowl?  Don’t laugh (too hard).  He’s told me who is going to the Super Bowl numerous times since 2009, when I learned He uses national events as signs and symbols.  He’s also told me who’s going to win the Super Bowl a few times.

But this time is different.  The Kansas City Chiefs are MY team.  I didn’t just start following them when it became popular.  I’ve followed them faithfully for decades now, through wins and losses.  I am no fair weather fan.  I love football, and the Chiefs are my team.  I was going to quit watching them when the anthem protests started.  There are so many ways the NFL has been compromised since I first started following them, and that was about the final straw for me.

I prayed about it, talked with my husband about it, and pondered it.  I didn’t watch pre-season in 2018 and was just about convinced I wasn’t going to watch NFL anymore, but there was this twinge.  I love football.  So my husband and I decided we didn’t need to be punished for their political garbage.  We decided we’d watch them as long as it was free and we weren’t spending a dime on anything that the NFL would benefit from.  Seemed like a fair compromise to us….

But anyway, these last two seasons have been harder for me to get a beat on the symbolism because I’m a diehard Chiefs’ fan and they’ve been winning these last two seasons.  I didn’t know if my favoritism would bias my perception; I assume it does. So I’ve stayed pretty silent and just watched, and waited, and listened.

BUT…. over the last few days I feel like the Spirit has given me insight that is not a product of my bias.  And then Sunday morning the song!  And RED.  In fact, I had just posted on social media this last week this meme:

So YES, red means Chiefs to me!  And there is no way, no rhyme, and no reason Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer should be in my head.  I hate the song, haven’t heard it, don’t sing it, and don’t own it.  Unless….  God put it there. 

So as I pondered this, this phrase of the song came to me:  “You’ll go down in history.”  And I realized He was indeed telling me the Chiefs were going to win the Super Bowl. 

I had already been doing a lot of pondering and praying about what this Super Bowl would symbolize.  For example, in 2016 the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers went to the Super Bowl. 

Bronco comes from the Spanish word for “rough, or gruff”.  Broncos represent horses, but specifically untrained horses with unpredictable behavior.  They are known for their bucking and kicking, which is instinctive as a defense against predators.  Also, horses are used in war and frequently represent conquest.

Panthers are predators.  They are nocturnal, and move with stealth in the night.  They move in the shadows and deliver deadly attacks. 

In 2016, Donald J. Trump was elected President.  It shouldn’t take too much to recognize bronco like qualities in his personality.  He is unpredictable, even rough, or gruff.  He is untrained in politics.  He came to “drain the swamp”, and that included waging war against the Deep State.  The Deep State players are predators, who do their deadly deeds in darkness. 

The Broncos defeated the Panthers 24-10.  Incidentally, in Biblical language, twenty-four is the number for new government, or heavenly government, while ten can represent an entire round of anything (e.g. plagues, commandments, nations, etc.). 

But back to this Super Bowl.  When I knew it was going to be the Chiefs and 49ers, I began praying that God would show me what it may represent.  The Chiefs represent middle America. They’re in the heartland.   [Contrary to popular belief, they weren’t named for Indians.  They were named after the mayor of Kansas City whose nickname was Chief.]  And the Kansas City fan base and home is called “Chiefs Kingdom.”  The 49ers represent gold diggers, prospectors, those who are looking to make bank and change their fortunes. 

Kansas City would be playing against a high dollar, high profile San Francisco team. The west coast vs. the heartland. The gold diggers vs. middle America.

And according to the message God was giving me, the Chiefs were going to win.

What I learned from Super Bowl LVI

God is in the details.  Sometimes we think God has no interest in what seem like trivial matters.  Does God really care about an insignificant (in the scope of eternal matters) recreation or entertainment? Short answer:  yes and no. 

I don’t have space for the long answer right here, but here are some things either He showed me or I found anomalies. 

For the Chiefs to make it to the Super Bowl, they had to win their divisional title, the AFC Championship.  To do that, they had to beat the Houston Texans and then the Tennessee Titans.  Each of those games was historical in its own right.  To beat Houston, they had to overcome a 24-0 deficit, which if I understand correctly, had never been done in a playoff game.  They also scored a franchise record 51 points.

Then they went against the Titans, who had just beat the Patriots to get to the AFC Championship game.  They had to overcome a 17-7 deficit to win, which they did and won 35-24.

In the Super Bowl, they overcame a 20-10 deficit for a NFL record:  the only team in NFL history to have three double-digit comebacks in post season.  They beat the 49ers 31-20.

I need you to understand the Chiefs won the Super Bowl title by overcoming deficits.  Three playoff games, including THE playoff game, the Chiefs came FROM BEHIND to win.

I do believe there are lessons to be learned in nearly any and every experience.  But this, I’m suggesting, is bigger than a learning opportunity.  I do believe it represents something of more magnitude.  But I’ll get to that in a minute.  For now, some more anomalies…

I am an amateur student of numbers, because God speaks to me in numbers in a variety of ways.  So I study them, what they mean to God, how to understand them.  My favorite source is E.W. Bullinger, who published an exhaustive work on the usages of numbers in Scripture and their inferred meanings in 1921.  The book is called “Number in Scripture – Its Supernatural Design and Spiritual Significance”. 

[My second favorite source is Ed. F. Vallowe’s “Biblical Mathematics – Keys to Scripture Numerics”.]

So here are some number anomalies from the Chiefs’ post season wins.

Chiefs vs. Texans 51-31  [20 point differential]

Chiefs vs. Titans 35-24  [11 point differential]

Chiefs vs. 49ers 31-20  [11 point differential]

Then we have another anomaly.  The Super Bowl was played on the palindrome 02-02-2020, and it was Andy Reid’s 222nd game, and they won by 11.  [111×2=222]

First playoff win was a twenty point differential.  According to Bullinger, twenty is symbolic of expectancy.  The next two wins were with eleven point differentials, and the number eleven is symbolic of judgment and disorder.  The Chiefs won with a score of 31, and Bullinger explains thirty-one in Hebrew expression is “l), El, the name of God, and its signification as a number or factor would be Deity.”

As a nation, we have a group of people whose voices have been ignored and ridiculed for a long time.  I think that people group is casually represented in the Chiefs. 

The heartland of America, the Midwest, is replete with hard-working, tax-paying, God-fearing, ethically moral persons who believe they’re responsible for their own lives, their own welfare, their own families, and relish the liberty to be responsible for such.  They value the sanctity of life and seek to both protect it and preserve it.  They are representative of the pilgrims, the thirteen colonies, the people who came over and wanted to build lives for themselves in peace and security, and to be able to worship God as their faith convicts them. 

As a nation, we have a group of people whose voices have been screaming peculiarities and accusations so loudly, no other voices are getting attention.  I think that people group is casually represented in the 49ers.

The west coast of America is being overrun by people whose god is gold, currency, material wealth.  They protest for their perversions and entitlements, and rail against liberties that don’t give to their whims.  They do not value the sanctity of life unless it directly benefits them.  They represent the elite voices of our society, those that think themselves above the fray and of more value than the “common man”. 

Recall that the Chiefs overcame deficits.  The odds were not in their favor.  What kind of deficit has the common man been facing in America?  Who has pitted itself against the common man?  Remember that it’s called “Chiefs Kingdom”.  What could that represent?  As a believer, what do you think of when you hear Kingdom? 

I think the Chiefs’ victory point deficits represent an expectancy of the end of disorder by the gold diggers, the elite of our society, the elevated and favored ones.  The winning score represents this victory will come by the Deity of the common man:  God.  The Chiefs won their first Super Bowl in fifty years.  Fifty is the number of jubilee, or deliverance from bondage.  Could it be that the common man’s jubilee is about to commence? 

Reid’s 222nd game on 2.2.20 is fascinating.  Two is the number for division or witness.  (among other things)  222 is 111×2, and their last two games were won by 11 point deficits.  It seems to signify victory over disorder and chaos.

When I watched the game, the commentators seemed pretty favorable toward San Francisco.  Before the game even started, the commentators said the 49ers’ coach was concerned if the officiating was going to be called on the Chiefs’ defense, because they said they seem to get away with holding.  I thought that was interesting in the light of current politics.  How about we play the game before we whine about not getting calls?

The 49ers’ coach, Kyle Shanahan, is a generational coach.  His dad is a well-known and successful NFL coach as well.  This nepotism is rampant in politics.  Andy Reid and the Chiefs are perceived outside of the usual favored NFL teams.

After halftime, when the score was an even 10-10, the interview with Andy Reid had him focused on the strengths and weaknesses of the game and adjustments to be made.  The interview with Shanahan had him focused on a perceived wrong pass interference call.  Shanahan felt that there was not pass interference on a call that was made against the 49ers, when even the rules expert agreed with the call.  I thought that was reminiscent of current politics as well.  Remind you of any particular politicians that are consistently whining and complaining about perceived officiating calls?

Overall I thought there were uncanny parallels from the current circumstances of polity in America, and the circumstances that led up and concluded in this NFL season.

Maybe the takeaway was simply the similarities that were analogous.  Or maybe there is something to the inferences that can be drawn.  Maybe looking at some of the interesting anomalies are predictive for matters in the spiritual realm as well, or maybe not.  Maybe some will think I’m reading too much into something irrelevant and meaningless. 

Regardless, all that aside, I think my favorite aspect of this is how God reveals things to His people who have ears to hear and eyes to see.  Why would He do that?  In Jeremiah 33:2-3 [NASU] we read, 

Thus says the Lord who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to establish it, the Lord is His name, “Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.”

There is a beauty in walking in friendship with God.  He speaks to us.  He shows us things…. if we seek Him, if we wait on Him, if we want to know what’s on His heart.  That’s what friendship is.  When I get together with my few intimate friends, I tell them things I am doing, things I am planning, things in my heart.  They don’t necessarily want or need to know those things, but it builds relationship and trust and understanding. 

The implications and inferences I can draw about the Super Bowl aren’t the main point (for me).  They’re interesting.  I’ve had about ten years of trial and error at understanding what’s on the mind of God in some national events, and about three decades of learning how He speaks to me.  I’m pretty confident now when I think He has revealed His heart and part of His plans to me. 

(I was the one at the Super Bowl party when the Chiefs were losing that was not concerned.  I already knew they were going to win.)

Why didn’t God just tell me who was going to win the Super Bowl?  Why did He give me a song?  He could have told me.  He’s told me things before, even the Super Bowl.  Again, intimacy.  God is personal.  He tailors His language to our personality.  He spoke in a way to me that He knew I’d have a gradual dawning of the revelation, and that is so fun for me.   He knew I’d get a kick out of looking at the details and seeing if He was saying something in them.  He’s told me before who was going to win, but this time it was MY team, so He did it a little different.  He gets pleasure from our joy.

Is the Super Bowl important in the scope of things.  Nah.  Not really.  But Psalm 138:8 tells me God will perfect (accomplish) that which concerns me.  He knew I cared, so He cared.  Think of how you like to tell people special news that will thrill them.  That’s what God did.

Does God need a Super Bowl to foreshadow His future plans?  Nope.  But He does it anyway.  There are so many misconceptions about God.  I’m sure I have several of my own.  But if we’re patient and if we’re looking and if we want to know and understand our Maker, He will break them all.  He does want us to know and understand Him.  Walking in friendship with God is the highest prize of life. 

[I don’t have enough space or time here to answer the inevitable questions about the ongoing controversy of the NFL, the halftime shows, the human trafficking that occurs at that time, and all the other ways darkness uses the NFL, but I’m aware of them.  Today my focus was on what I see God doing.  I’m happy to address the other if you want to send me an email.]