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The Scars of Unbelief

I may have a peculiar faith.  I actually believe the words of God.  I believe He is who He says He is, has done what He’s says He has done, and will do what He says He will do.  Faith usually comes easy for me, and I probably actually have the gift of faith. 

Over my three decades of walking with God, I developed a personal belief system in Him and in my life in that I believe God takes care of me personally.  I believe God is sovereign.  (There’s a lot in that, but that will suffice for now.)  I have experienced unusual favor in my life, and what I consider supernatural protection.  Abundant testimonies of protection and provision apply here, and they have led me to the conviction that I am kept by God.  Nothing (good or bad) comes to me without His permission.

In late February this year, I had two dreams the same night with what I deemed a warning.  The first found me in a convertible with my best friend with the top down, and parked on a road that had an upper ridge above it.  On the ridge above me was a mountain lion.  The second found me in a restaurant with my best friend, and I had left without my coat.  Several blocks after leaving I realized I had left my coat hanging on the back of my chair.

Both of these dreams were alarming to me because I knew what they meant.  They meant I was uncovered – outside of my protection bubble.  A convertible with the top down (uncovered), with a mountain lion looking down on me is a vulnerable situation.  Coat represents covering, and I had left it.  I began praying to ask God how I was vulnerable, how I was unprotected and uncovered.  The first response I got was that I have been lazy pleading the Blood of Christ over myself, my home and my family daily.  But I had a nagging there was more…

Then on March 21, while on a walk with my small dog, I was attacked from behind by a dog that jumped its fence.  The attack was severe enough that I had punctures and lacerations on three different parts of my body, some that required stitches.  (But they don’t stitch dog bites because of infection.)  Had I not been able to get my pepper spray out of my pocket after the fourth bite, I don’t know how I would have fared.  The dog was aggressive and intentional.

The next month was a process of healing.  I was in physical pain for about a week after, dressing bandages and having trouble sleeping.  I fought anxiety, (I am never anxious), and depression (again, I am never depressed).  Physically I was tired all the time and had trouble sleeping.  The day of the attack, in that same hour in fact, I thought, “The natural parallels the spiritual.  What is going on?”

Sidebar:  I have learned that the natural world frequently parallels the spiritual world.  When something manifests in the natural is usually an indication something has happened in the spiritual realm.  If there is something out of the ordinary, I have learned to ask God what it means.  It would be a full other month before I was to understand what this attack meant.

Being a truth seeker, I have had to retrain myself to not reject information just because I don’t believe it.  I have had to train myself to keep open the possibility that I may be wrong, misinformed or I may misunderstand.  It is a precarious position to be in when everything you have held strong convictions on is called into question.  Integrity tells me truth is more important than perceived homeostasis.  Perceptions lie – even if unintentionally.  Because of my desire to walk in integrity while pursuing truth, I have trained myself to not initially reject OR accept anything, regardless of my personal convictions, beliefs and experiences.

Over the past six months, and being in the public sphere through social media and the internet, I’ve been exposed to numerous “truthers” – people sincerely searching for truth.  There is a group of these people who sometimes claim to be Christians, who sometimes claim Christ as the Messiah, but who have strange doctrine.  They call themselves Pleiadians, Light Workers, etc.  They speak of other dimensions, other beings, frequencies and vibrations.  These are all things I know to be true.   So I have not discounted them.

Quantum physics has revealed at least twelve dimensions.  The spiritual dimension is another dimension – probably one of the twelve.  Humans interact in four:  height, width, depth and time.  There are other beings, usually unseen by humans.  In the spiritual realm we know them as angels, demons, cherub, “heavenly creatures”, etc.  Some have been identified as “aliens”, and there is a startling amount of evidence of such beings.  Both light and sound can be used for healing (and torture).  Vibrations or frequencies are especially significant in the quantum physics world, and there is a direct correlation to health and frequencies.  (Which is another reason 5G towers are a bad idea.  Look at the impact on human health.  It’s also the reason blue tooth in the ear causes brain tumors.)

These people like to speak like they are the enlightened ones and everyone else is in the dark.  They do have specific truths, yet their application is suspect.  They speak of a “Galactic Federation”, and they interchange words for Christ, acknowledging His existence (most of them, anyway), but calling him an “Ascended Master”.  They promote the Bible as man-made religion and do not deny (a) God – but there are other denials more subtle. 

While I would agree the general public is clueless about most of these topics, if you’ve pursued truth for a length of time, these truths will indeed surface.  Multiple national governments have hidden their alliance with “aliens” and their “classified” work with UFOs. DUMBS (Deep Underground Military Bases) exist for the works of this very topic, and the works there are clandestine. 

But as time progressed and their voices grew louder with their claims of truth, seeds of doubt were gradually laid that I didn’t recognize as doubt.  I didn’t realize I had tabled points of my convictions, in a suspended state of waiting for more evidence one way or another.  I had left the door open for the possibility of error or misunderstanding on my part.  But I didn’t realize I had left the door unguarded.

Nor did I recognize the seeds of doubt had sprouted into plants of unbelief.  I thought I was solid.  I thought I was square.  I barely recognized my prayer life had quietly subsided as I was waiting for God to act one way or another, to dispel or confirm.  I retorted to the (oh wise one, as social media stroked the ego of this mouthpiece) person who called Christ an “ascended master”, that if Christ was truly just an “ascended master” there was no need for Him to die on the Cross. 

When I had suffered the attack and began seeking God for what parallel it represented in the spiritual, I looked at the symbols.  Walking represents forward movement, advancement and progress.  That was stopped.  Dogs (if they are not your personal pet) symbolize unbelievers, religious hypocrites, and the apostate (to name a few).  The right side of my body was damaged from the attack, and right symbolizes the place of your authority and power.  The parts of my body that I still bear the scars from symbolized these things:  1) my strength, authority and/or responsibility, 2) my mind and truth, and 3) intimacy and relationship.

The Lord showed me my advancement and progression had been abruptly stopped because of attacks from unbelievers, religious hypocrites and apostates – which had significantly (and temporarily) damaged my place of authority and power.  [Which explained to me how my usual favor and protection was compromised, and reiterated the dream of warning a month prior.]  The damage was to my strength and authority (in the spirit realm especially); it assailed my mind and TRUTH; and affected my intimacy and relationship with God.

Because I failed to guard the door I left open to filter truths, seeds of doubt grew into unbelief that I didn’t initially recognize.  This place of vulnerability caused damage in my faith and my intimacy with God, weakened my spirit and authority in the spirit, and affected my place of truth in my mind.  It was way more damaging than I realized.

It wasn’t until I was speaking with a lovely young woman, and our conversation led me to tell her about some very specific places God has intervened in my life for my protection and well-being, that I realized the unbelief I had been harboring.   Today my body is healed, with significant scars on the places of damage.  I call them my scars of unbelief, and they serve as reminders to guard the door to truths.

I am once again able to settle into a place of strength and authority, with full confidence my protection is secure.  I have rejected the unbelief that masqueraded in the promise of “deeper truths” than the God of Creation, the God of the Bible, and Christ as Messiah. 

What these light workers and “Pleiadians” fail to recognize, is God is a personal god.  He is personally involved in His children’s lives.  Alliance with aliens is simply alliance with demons.  Looking to your “light workers” for your guidance will ultimately lead to your demise. 

God’s Word was given for our instruction and protection.  Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 11:3-5*,

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.  For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully.

[*And yes, this is from the New American Standard Updated version.  Please don’t write to tell me I should only read and quote from the KJV.  I address that here.]

No, this “ascended master” Jesus is “another Jesus”.  This is not the gospel.  This is perversion.

Scripture is also clear about aligning with “light workers”:

Col 2:18-19 [NASU]

Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.

Angels, aka “light workers” are here to carry out the will of God.  Worship, adoration, exaltation of an angel as one’s guidance is clearly a perversion of their role, and causes disjointedness.  Christ is the Head, and from the Head we’re to get our guidance.

In fact, this “man-made Bible” that instructs us in this “man-made” religion is very clear on the order of angels:

Hebrews 2:5 [NASU]

 For He did not subject to angels the world to come, concerning which we are speaking.

If you go on to read the context of that thought, you will see the earth is in subjection to man.  (and quotes Psalm 8) 

Pleiadians and “Light Workers” like to talk about how these light guides are here to save the earth.  (and they reference some great “Galactic Federation”)  They are ignorant that Christ came to save humanity; and humanity is responsible for the earth.  Humans – through Christ – is the order for change on this earth. 

This people group likes to talk about the earth ascending.  This is a bizarre teaching.  They explain that humanity’s consciousness is ascending, and thus the earth.  This “ascension”, they claim, is to a superior earth.  Because a lot of these people sincerely believe they are Christians, I thought maybe they just replaced or exchanged terminology but the concepts were the same?  No.  There is a deception in this as well.

I understand the need or desire to separate your terminology from the old church terminology.   The church and its traditions and false teachings have left a bad taste in a significant population of western society.  There’s a need to break away from some of that.  But this isn’t that.  This is a perversion of truths that causes deception.

I’m all for truth.  I have established my life on the pursuit of truth.  I’ve been disheartened, disillusioned, infuriated and a host of other difficult and uncomfortable emotions as I’ve learned certain truths.  The Bible will most likely never cease to be a source of misunderstanding, misapplications, misappropriations and division until time runs out.  However, when you know God personally, have a relationship with Him, and adhere to His Sovereignty, the higher and deeper truths are personified in your life. 

Precisely because I’ve had the miraculous, the unexplainable and supernatural occur in my life through a relationship with my Creator and my Savior, I am able to say Christ indeed is the way, the truth and the life.  Doubts and unbelief have no ground (other than what I give them) in the light of a life that is abandoned to God and has seen and tasted His Presence working in that life. 

And while there is truth in other beings in other dimensions, “light workers”, sound and light vibrations and frequencies altering matter – there is no truth separate from the Source.

*Shout out to my “mom”, Marilyn, who reminded me to seek what the spiritual implications were when I was attacked, and to Sensei Jade, a reader in Idaho, who was a voice of reason, reassurance and direction in this time.  God bless you both mightily!

Do you think it’s important the people know?

I’m sharing this dream I had seven years ago, because the Lord said there were some people who needed it. It was a rather surreal and supernatural dream, in which it seemed so real like it was really happening at the time. There are some pretty profound implications in it, but I’ll let you find them for yourself. [I wanted to remove the personal dialogues and parts of the dream, but God told me to leave them in because they apply to others as well.] I pray you encounter God as He leads you here and in your life.

Sunday, March 18, 2012 DREAM

I was in a house, around a large oval dining table, set for about sixteen people maybe.  The house was of dark, rich woods (cherry, mahogany, walnut…) and dark, bold colors.  There were no visible electronics in the house, though I knew them (the homeowners) to have a computer. 

It began with women coming in (via the front door) and assembling around the dining table.  We stood behind our chairs.  After it seemed all of the women had entered, the head of the table (also the owner of the house, I knew to be “Deborah”) – spoke to a woman near the end of the table (and closest to the front door) and instructed her to shut the front door so we would not be “interrupted”.  As the door was shut, it felt like a “sealing” had been done on our meeting.

Deborah then spoke and said something to the effect of she had been speaking with (my husband) shortly before the meeting and they were in agreement that some things needed to be handled that were important.  She had us sit down.  She then turned to me and began speaking to me.  She told me (in essence) that what I do and am doing matters.  She said it changes lives.  She gave examples and illustrations.  I was surprised by her sharing and uncomfortable.  I was the youngest woman there by 10-15 years.  They were clearly many years older than I and more experienced.  I wish I could recall what she said, but it was kind of a praise of who I am and what I do, stating intensely at one point that it changes many lives.  I was humbled and uncomfortable.

She then instructed us to open our gift bags.  We had each been given these eclectic cloth gift bags, none alike, but all similar.  I dumped mine out and it held unique jewels and precious stones of varying shapes, colors and sizes.  There were other things in the bags but I can’t remember them. 

The meeting seemed to commence.  It was a solemn atmosphere – serious and somber.  Every word spoken was dripping with wisdom and purpose.  There were no mindless, needless words spoken.  No one interrupted anyone. 

At one point another woman spoke.  She seemed to address Deborah.  It seemed she was commending her.  But again – it was not flattery – every word spoken had purpose and meaning.  At one point this woman commented about getting Deborah a shower curtain.  (She had been commending her about how tirelessly she worked and made mention of the fruit of her children.)  At the mention of giving her a shower curtain, Deborah quickly spoke.  She asked, “Do you know what I have to do to get a shower curtain?  I can’t just go to the store and buy one.”  (Deborah never spoke in a patronizing or condescending way, nor with any hint of arrogance or superiority.)

I was then able to understand that Deborah and her husband diligently sought out the roots of all things – and if an origin or root was not pure or good, they did not allow it in their lives.

I had noticed there were no electronics in their house.  No phones, no TVs, no stereos, no computer.  Yet I also knew they had a computer because I knew Deborah and I communicated through it.

After this I went into the living room.  I went up the stairs at the end of the room – I assume to go where Deborah’s husband and (my husband) were.  Only the stairs stopped – with no way to get to the actual second floor, which was kind of like a loft in a U-shape on the opposite side of the room from the stairs.  I stood at the top of these stairs and looked over at the loft where the man sat; I just couldn’t get over there.  The man and I talked for a bit; then I went back downstairs. 

One of the other women came up and started talking with me.  She asked me if I remember her prophesying over me many years ago.  I did not.  She said some of the things that were said and I started to vaguely remember – then either she or I said, “It was at Deb’s (a literal friend of mine) house!”

Then I was standing in the living room and the man came downstairs to talk to me.  If others were still there, I was unaware of them.  He began to speak to me and whatever he said was full of profound knowledge and understanding, dripping with wisdom.  As he spoke, I came to understand that these people were people who did nothing carelessly.  Everything in their lives had a purpose and a use – even if just for pleasure – but was selected carefully and with circumspect.  I knew that the stairs that led to the second floor but ended without connecting to it, had some sort of secret release that ejected a catwalk to the loft.  The man explained how they had learned to remove any and everything from their lives that kept, prevented or distracted them from purpose – ultimately God’s purposes.  Then he asked me, “Do you have anything like that in your life?”

I stood there listening to him, grieved by my own failures.  I started crying when he asked that and said, “I’m tired of the computer, and the phones, and the TV….”  I may have said more but I can’t recall.

He then began to speak to me about purpose – and also my purpose.  He spoke about world and current events, the judgments of God, the deceptions of this world, etc.  I listened intently, trying to absorb all the wisdom and knowledge.  Then he began asking me questions….

In this house, this atmosphere, there were no empty or useless words spoken.  It was like it was impossible to speak frivolously or carelessly.  A lie or half-truth could not be uttered, nor could one even stumble around with words, fumbling to find the “right” words.  So when he asked me questions, I was either simply responding with the necessary words – or silent.  And in this period of questions, he began to ask me some that were like, “Why do you do ….?”  Or “Why do you think….?”  I remember at one point berating myself at a question of why I do something, and thinking, “Why do I do that??  You would think I would have thought that out better before now!”  I don’t remember if I answered those questions or remained silent.

Then the man asked me, “Do you think it’s important the people know?”  I remember pausing and then being sure of my answer.  I replied, “Yes!  I do think it’s important they know!”  The man almost half-smiled, then responded, “You’re right.  It IS important the people know.”  He went on to explain that, more with part of the why (it’s important), and also said something about an earthquake.

I remember what felt like the last thing the man spoke to me.  He said, “Remember this, (and he called me by name), your rejection from the world and man is your advancement in the kingdom of God.”

The last thing I remember was sitting in the living room facing the wall and open doorway that opened into the dining room.  On the wall on both ends of the doorway were two amazing unique pictures of vivid color.  At immediate glance, the texture appeared as sequins or maybe similar to a cut glass mosaic.  The man asked someone to turn the lights down low and as they were dimming, the colors and the pictures themselves seemed to glow bright, almost coming alive.

I did not want to wake up from this “dream”.  The man in the dream seemed small, with short, curly hair, dark brown and gray, with a full beard and moustache.  Deborah had dark brown hair, curly (medium curls) with a long, slender face.  The environment was serious.

I tried to stay asleep because I didn’t want to “leave” this place, but I felt I was being drawn to wake up.  I could hear the birds singing and the chickens clucking.  Afterwards, these two scriptures were given to me and I knew they were pertaining to the dream:

Ezekiel 22:2, “Son of man, are you ready to judge?  Are you ready to judge the blood-stained city?  Confront her with all her loathsome practices!”

Mark 11:17, “And He taught them and said, ‘Does not Scripture say:  My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples?  But you have turned it into a bandit of thieves.’”

Today’s (March 18) Oswald Chambers entry is the perfect accompaniment:

2 Cor 7:1  “Perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”

“Having therefore these promises…”  I claim the fulfillment of God’s promises, and rightly, but that is only the human side; the Divine side is that through the promises I recognize God’s claim on me.  For instance, am I realizing that my body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, or have I a habit of body that plainly will not bear the light of God on it?  By sanctification the Son of God is formed in me, then I have to transform my natural life into a spiritual life by obedience to Him.  God educates us down to the scruple.  When He begins to check, do not confer with flesh and blood, cleanse yourself at once.  Keep yourself cleansed in your daily walk.

I have to cleanse myself from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit until both are in accord with the nature of God.  Is the mind of my spirit in perfect agreement with the life of the Son of God in me, or am I insubordinate in intellect?  Am I forming the mind of Christ, who never spoke from His right to Himself, but maintained an inner watchfulness whereby He continually submitted His spirit to His Father?  I have the responsibility of keeping my spirit in agreement with His spirit, and by degrees Jesus lifts me up to where He lived – in perfect consecration to His Father’s will, paying no attention to any other thing.  Am I perfecting this type of holiness in the fear of God?  Is God getting His way with me and are other people beginning to see God in my life more and more?

Be serious with God and leave the rest gaily alone. Put God first literally.

The perils of living Isaiah 5 in America … may just be the writing on the wall

 Six woes are listed in Isaiah 5:8-23 for the condition of the people of the nation of Judah in his day. At the conclusion of those woes is the expressed judgment of God: destruction. But even this declaration is not enough, see verse 25:

                  For all this His anger is not spent, but His hand is still stretched out.

He continues this decree of judgment and declares God will bring foreign people against Judah for the definite purpose of destroying them. History proves these judgments were accurate and carried out by Assyria.

Of importance is the reason for these judgments, six clearly spelled out woes (Isaiah 5:8-23).

A woe is a sorrowful cry expressing grief, calamity and affliction. I am suggesting American society is mirroring such woes presently, and the implications may be different than you think.

West Hollywood clambered over itself to award porn star Stormy Daniels the key to its city. The gushing faces of the men who encircled her revealed their glee at what they ignorantly promoted as honor. We really need to stop and think about this before we move on. An American city honored a porn star with a key to its city.

Isaiah 5:20 in the New American version:

                  Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;

                  Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;

                  Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

A woman who makes a hefty salary for selling sex (also known as a prostitute), has been awarded a societal award symbolizing access and authority over a city. … And they have called this event good.

The upper social echelons have applauded this. The heads of authority for the city have orchestrated this. Honor has been bestowed to a disgraceful and shameful occupational leader. People who are honored with keys to cities are supposed to be examples, role models, people we look up to and emulate. Are porn stars the new role models?

The history of Israel is for our education. It’s a playbook of sorts of the status of a nation under the rule of the law of God. We’re supposed to learn from it. What we should understand from the beginning is Israel was formed as a witness to the world. Israel’s witness was one of submission and obedience to God in a world that rebelled against God. God put Israel under the law to make a distinction between a people who followed God’s law(s) and a people who did not. Israel was a witness to the non-believing world.

We must understand this.

God established this in the days of Moses when He declared to the children of Israel in Exodus 19:5-6 they would be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation, set apart from the other nations. God called them His “peculiar treasure”. This is reiterated in Deuteronomy 14:2, 26:18 and Psalm 135:4. In Exodus 9:4, God made the first distinction between Israel and the world (i.e. Egypt – the world power at the time). This distinction continued intermittently throughout Israel’s history.

When Israel ceased to follow God’s laws and be the witness to the world of a people who follow God’s law, Israel simply ceased to exist as a nation. [The people of Israel were scattered and the nation ceased to exist.] What we should understand is God is very concerned about the world. In fact, He is so concerned for the lostness of the world that He established a witness to the world of how to find Him, how to walk with Him, how to be known by Him. From Abraham to Christ, Israel was this witness. After the dispersion of Israel and Judah, they became witnesses as a people being disciplined by God, no longer in favor with Him or representative of Him.

Enter Christ. Christ came to God’s peculiar treasure, His Kingdom of priests, His holy nation, and brought the opportunity for their renewed position with God. Only this time, it wasn’t going to be as a separate nation. Some responded; some didn’t.

When Moses laid down the law, one of the laws of God laid out was that the “evidence of two witnesses” was necessary to establish the verity of wickedness. Two or three witnesses must be able to validate a crime of evil before the punishment is allowed, in God’s eyes. (See Deuteronomy 17:6)

Christ expanded this in Matthew 18:16 when He declared that every word must be confirmed by the mouth of two or three witnesses. (in the context of sin or wickedness being accused) Paul attested to this again in 2 Corinthians 13:1.

This is reiterated in 1 Timothy 5:19 when Paul admonishes the church to not accept any accusations against an elder unless it is on the basis of two or three witnesses.

In Isaiah 8:2, God calls out two witnesses for Himself: Uriah and Zechariah. These witnesses would substantiate the coming judgment of Assyria.

In Isaiah 43 God demands the nations to produce their witnesses of ancient truths, and then declares that the children of Israel are His witnesses of His character.

The importance of witnesses unto critical matters cannot be overstated. God not only requires witnesses, but also provides witnesses in matters He wants firmly established (see Deut 30:19). It is a matter of law.

If you’ll keep in mind Israel was God’s witness to the world pre-Christ, please see who God calls the same today:

Acts 1:8 NASU

                  “…but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”

Titus 2:13-14 NASU

                  “…Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.”

1 Peter 2:9-10 NASU

                  “…But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own  possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.”

God told Israel they were to Him a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. God told the followers of Christ the same thing.

Let’s bring this full circle.

John tells us in Revelation 1:6 that we who follow Christ are this: “…and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father…”

The new song that was sung to Christ on the Throne in Revelation 5:10 says: “You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth.”

The reason the woes of Isaiah 5 could be quite pivotal today is because God doesn’t deal with nations quite the same way He dealt with ancient Israel. Because the grace of Christ has enabled every follower of Christ to be His Kingdom and priests to God, His discipline for His children is individual, not necessarily national. (Don’t misunderstand me. God still deals with nations, but His treasured possession is now in the followers of Christ, so He deals with His possession differently than He did ancient Israel.)

The reason this is so important is because His children are His witnesses. Wherever they are. And evil is its own witness, but it has to be brought out in the open. By God’s own law, matters of wickedness (crime) must be established by witnesses.

Let me put it another way.   Christ taught a parable about the wheat and the tares (recorded in Matthew 13). The wheat represents the righteous and the tares the wicked. The master gave the directive to allow them to grow together until the harvest, where they would be separated then. This is telling in that wheat and tares look alike or similar enough that it is difficult to discern until their maturation. When they fully mature their differences are evident. It is the maturity of righteousness that exposes the maturity of wickedness, but they are growing simultaneously. When both are fully evident, the harvest is at hand. The two are then separated and handled accordingly.

We have a nation, even a worldwide society, where wickedness no longer hides. It is being brought forth unashamedly, and in many cases as though it is “good”. The fruits of evil are mature. It’s not that pedophilia, sexual sins, government corruption and injustice haven’t existed on the earth before now. It’s that their works were still young and in large part hidden in past generations. Because we’re seeing an increase in prolific unrighteousness and wickedness is an indicator of the season we’re in. Revelation 14:14-20 tells of the harvest of the earth. An angel called aloud, “Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.”

When the tares (evil) and wheat (righteous) are fully mature, they are ripe. Their identity is no longer in question. When God’s children have been God’s witness to a world in opposition to God, the law can be implemented. Justice can occur. The harvest is at hand.

We can learn from the lessons recorded for national Israel. Six woes brought the final dismantling of Judah, (the last dispersion of the national witness). Look at them carefully, but when you do, look at this list with the wicked of the world in mind:

  • Materialism and covetousness Isaiah 5:8-10

Increasing material goods, avarice. This is the insatiable desire of gain, greed at its worse. (Think Rothschild, British royalty, Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, Soros, Bilderberg, politicians, oil industry, incessant wars, the billionaires of the world…)

  • Debauchery on steroids Isaiah 5:11-17

Excessive parties, drinking, music, entertainment, disregard for God, irreverent to God’s works. (Basically the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Here are the Eppstein Island retreats, the Lolita Express, Bohemian Grove, etc. These people party hard and immorally, accessorizing their activities with the entertainment stars. Entertainment is their god, indulgence in lust is their god. However they can satisfy the cravings of the flesh is their objective. They eat whatever they want, drink whatever they want, have sex with whoever or whatever they want. They have utterly no regard for God or the things of God.)

  • Ever increasing sin, promoting sin deceitfully, mocking God. Isaiah 5:18-19

I particularly like the Message’s version* of the third woe: Doom [woe] to you who use lies to sell evil, who haul sin to market by the truckload… Doesn’t this just reek of the media? The entertainment industry? The educational system’s indoctrination?   (Consider how they promote their pet sins as natural and normal. They formulate programs and creeds to further their social progress. They attack any stands against them and declare the opposition is the error. They parade rebellion of authority to any standards of righteousness as though it’s a service to society and their duty to disregard, disrespect and disobey righteous authority. They are caught in lies but not held accountable. They mock the judgment of God. They mock those who adhere to God’s standards.)

  • Perverting and confounding righteousness. Isaiah 5:20

Calling what is evil good, and what is good evil. Perverting, twisting, contorting, and making righteousness an affront, mocking or criminalizing common sense and wisdom, elevating debased individuals (like porn stars) and putting down, criminalizing or abusing righteous individuals (like Christians or Christian-based principles). Praising darkness (sexual sins, debauchery), trying to shut down light (truth tellers and seekers).

  • Pride, haughtiness, self-conceit.                   Isaiah 5:21

Unwilling to be instructed. Inflated false opinion of own knowledge. These people think their “knowledge” is superior. It is often occult knowledge, satanic, Kabbalah, Talmud, etc. but also indoctrination and alternative teachings. (Think spirit cooking, Marina Abramovich, Madonnna/Beyonce/JayZ/Katy Perry new age and occult symbolisms in performances at the upper levels, but can also be professors, journalists, politicians, authors, entertainers, etc.) Godless theories, science, “higher learning”, etc. Completely unable and unwilling to be taught otherwise, to have their own beliefs challenged, to consider they could be deceived or in error. They believe they are “enlightened” and the common man is not.

  • Champions at heavy drinking (repeated). Injustice in the court systems and public government. Unjust magistrates who can be bought and who deny justice to the righteous. Isaiah 5:22-25

These are the corrupt police, the lawyers and judges, the court systems, the politicians, the parole officers, even the teachers and principals who are paid off to pervert justice. Who have their own ideals and stomp those with different ideals. They let the guilty go free and condemn the innocent. These are the child workers in the foster care system, the nonprofit organizers who steal and pervert the law, (think the Clinton Foundation, Haiti, the dead witnesses). The list goes on and on…

 

So when we take into account the Two Witnesses of Revelation 11, things should start to make more sense. The very best interpretation I’ve heard is the two witnesses are the Christian Church and the Jewish Church. (The real Torah keepers – not the pretend Jews.)

Without getting into theological debate, just understand that the Two Witnesses of Revelation are said to be the two olive trees and two lampstands that stand before the Lord in verse four. Israel (blood seed of Abraham) is depicted as the Olive Tree in Jeremiah 11 and Romans 11. The Church is depicted as an olive tree grafted in Romans 11. Lampstands (or candlesticks) are already deciphered as churches in Revelation 1:20.

The two witnesses are the two bodies of believers, sent to the world as a witness unto God. Remember Matthew 24:14? “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”

The Gospel is simply the “good news”, and the good news of the kingdom is the witness to the nations. By God’s law, the wicked must have a witness unto their deeds. God ordained two witnesses which encompass the body of believers on the earth: true Christians and true Jews. These two witnesses have been growing alongside the tares until maturity. At their maturity, they will be known, identifiable. Then they will be harvested. Which is why Paul writes in Philippians 2:15, “… so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world…” Lights are individual. (i.e. Believers) Lampstands are containers for light. (i.e. Church) Believers are in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation (i.e. age) – in the midst of tares – and stand out as witnesses to that generation, but not fully recognizable until maturity (which happens over the age/generation).

I’m going to reiterate this for emphasis.

We’re witnessing the maturing of wickedness. The examples are abundant. When you see things like a porn star being honored with authority and recognition, the wheat and tares are being separated. They are almost mature, which means the harvest is at hand.

For two thousand years believers have been the lights in a crooked and perverse generation. The Christian and Jewish Church have been the vehicle for witness unto the nations. Up until now, the deeds of wickedness have remained mostly cloaked. A porn star may have been given public service honor in the past, but her identity and occupation would have been hidden or disguised. Child rapists, traffickers and murderers have existed in the past two thousand years, but today they are boldly depicting their actions in movies, music, at parties, in symbolism, and yes, in emails. Look at the woes of Isaiah 5 again. See if the elements of them can’t be found in the wicked of today.

The righteous and wicked deeds are maturing before us. For centuries the Church has built hospitals and orphanages and food banks and hospices and schools. The Church has bound the wounds of society, proclaimed the Gospel of Christ, and built the Kingdom right alongside the kingdom of darkness. The wheat and the tares have been growing alongside each other, but now the tares are becoming recognizable. The more stark the contrast between the wicked and the righteous, the closer we are to the harvest. May righteousness shine bright.

 

 

 

 

*(from THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language © 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson. All rights reserved.)

National disasters and their relation to Israel…

There’s a biblically based theory that America’s dealings with Israel have direct consequences to America.  Various passages of Scripture are cited, like Obadiah 1:15 that reads, “For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen:  as thou has done [to Israel], it shall be done unto thee; thy reward shall return upon thine own head.”

It’s the premise that Israel is the apple of God’s eye and whoever touches Israel must deal with God.  (See Zechariah 2:8)  It’s the promise to Abraham of his seed (offspring):  “And I will bless them that bless you, and curse those who curse you.” (Genesis 12:3)

Jerusalem in particular seems to be a flash point.  God said through Zechariah, “In that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people:  all that burden themselves with it shall be cut to pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.” (Zech. 12:3)

It’s unfortunate that the world pays little attention to the Word of God.  Nations and people could save themselves much pain and suffering if they only heeded His Word, corporately and individually.  The Bible is the world’s best-selling book of all time, and the most circulated and translated book of all time.  There are an estimated six billion copies of the Bible in circulation in the world today.  There are nations that people sacrifice everything to get a copy, and imprudent nations that have Bibles readily available yet do nothing with them.

That being said, within its pages are God’s plan and purposes for the nation of Israel.  Israel was God’s idea.  He took one man, Abraham, and blessed him for his faithfulness and belief in God.  From this one man he produced nations of people.  Israel is the namesake nation for Abraham, named after Israel’s grandson Jacob, who the Lord renamed “Israel”.  Jacob’s twelve sons made up the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel.  The actual history of Israel is fascinating, but too long to attempt even an overview of here.  Suffice to say, when the nation of Israel was dispersed (because of God’s judgment for their unfaithfulness to God), these nations spread out over the scope of the earth and became other nations with other names.  The modern day nation of Israel is actually Judah, from the people from the tribe of Judah, commonly referred to as “Jews”.  That means there are eleven other tribes scattered across the earth that have actually become their own nations.  (Yes, America is one of them.)

The land of Israel, however, is under a perpetual covenant with God.  Its boundaries were given to it when God authorized its formation.  Its boundaries are actually much larger than its modern-day boundaries.  That peoples existed on the land before the nation of Israel was founded is obvious, and that other peoples existed and dwelled on the land after Israel’s dispersion is also obvious.  However, if one would heed the Word of God, one would learn that God has specific boundaries for the nation of Israel and those boundaries matter to Him.  Point in case is the re-formation of Israel after thousands of years of exile.  All of the matters of the land of Israel and the people of Israel were prophesied in the Bible centuries before they came to pass, and they came to pass as it was written.  Therefore the peoples that claim the land God authorized and covenanted to Abraham’s offspring, have no authority for being there and are quite literally trespassing.  Now they can be there at invitation, but they have no authority to claim the land as their own.

Whoever fights against these things is quite literally fighting against God.

In Sunday School, May 22, 2011, I said to the group, “Watch the news.  Some sort of disaster should be hitting America soon.”  About seven hours later the Joplin tornado hit and 116 people were killed, making it the deadliest tornado in American history.  How did I know something was going to happen?  Because on Friday, May 20, 2011, Obama called on Israel to divide its land and put their borders back to their 1967 borders.  When we interfere with Israel’s land, we face judgment on ours.  It was not me being super-spiritual, it was just me observing the patterns and predicting the next one based on past ones.

Another example?  In 2005, at America’s prompting and political pressure, Israel removed ten thousand Jews from twenty-five settlements in Gaza.  It’s not what they wanted to do, but because of the pressure from America to do so to be “politically correct”, they acquiesced.  The evacuation and removal of these Jewish settlements took seven days and were completed on August 22, 2005.  On September 21 twenty-one Gaza settlements were handed over to the Palestinians, making it the largest evacuation in modern history of Jews in their own land.  When the Palestinians took the settlements over, they looted and burned it all to the ground, starting with the churches.

On August 23, when the last of the Jews were removed from their land, a tropical storm over the Bahamas was upgraded to a level one hurricane called Katrina.  By August 29, Katrina was a level five hurricane with a diameter of 375 miles.  The damage from this storm was unprecedented in America’s hurricane history.  It destroyed entire neighborhoods, leveled 120,000 buildings and 70% of the city’s structures.  Similarities between the Israeli evacuations of their settlements and New Orleans’ evacuation of its citizens are startling.

Coincidence?  Maybe one time is a coincidence.  Maybe even two.  But when you look at the history of disasters to America within days of devastating interference in Israel’s land and protection, the coincidences become obvious patterns.  The Word of God is true and man is the liar.  Many of these “coincidences” are documented in John P. McTernan’s book As America has Done to Israel.  It’s worth the read.  The evidence is damning.  The movie “The Perfect Storm” was another true example of disaster hitting America after its meddling in Israel’s affairs.  Read chapter nine of McTernan’s book to see historic example after example of America’s interference and the consequential disasters that follow.  [pages 147-207]

Not convinced?  Really research Japan’s stance against Israel’s developments, and their support of Palestinian developments and the devastating consequence for their nation that came from a historic earthquake/tsunami in the spring of 2011.  An excellent research of it can be found at https://janmeador.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/japans-earthquake-tsunami-the-hand-of-god/.

Natural disasters are not normally manipulated or caused by human hands.  They’re still the way the Creator of the earth can demonstrate His thoughts, if you will.  It’s not to say that every disaster that hits our soil is because of affairs with Israel, but when it becomes devastating in the areas of lives lost, damages to civilizations, and dollars in damages, it’s a good idea to see where maybe we have displeased or angered God.  It’s a great idea to actually read His Word to see if we’re conducting our lives in manners that bring His blessings or curses.

….the nation whose god is Jehovah.

Blessed is the nation whose god is Jehovah… is how Psalm 33:12 literally reads.

Principles and natural laws…things by definition that depict a way something works, a basic assumption, a standard, a sort of if you do this, then this will happen. If there be a blessing, reason and natural law expect the opposite to be a curse.

So I suppose prophecy on things of natural law and principles of specific matters is mundane, even redundant – certainly not extraordinary, perhaps not even prophetic.
Then explaining that America’s national debt has increased 3.1 trillion dollars while its unfunded liabilities have increased an enormous 127 trillion dollars since 2008 can lead to natural deductions from common sense principles. I don’t need to say I’m “prophesying” economic duress in the United States of America to anyone who can balance a budget and do basic math. Natural law, common sense and reason will tell us that.

The “growth to debt ratio” is almost negative. Context? 1950s-60s the USA had $2.41 growth for every $1 of debt. Today? $.03 [that’s 3 cents growth per dollar debt]
Context? The Misery Index [the figure you get when you add the unemployment rate with the inflation rate] is 32.9% today. During the Great Depression it was 27%.

The diabolical Federal Reserve is insolvent. While it carries $56.2B in reserves, it has a whopping $4.3 in unstable liabilities. Pre-2008 the Federal Reserve leverage was 22-1 [liability to reserve]. Today it is 77-1. [The only insolvent world banking institution is the International Monetary Fund with a leverage of 3-1.]

While there are books upon books, websites upon websites, speakers upon speakers who have been proclaiming America’s economy is at critical mass and IS going to implode, collapse, what-will-you, the federal government denies this is the case. And these are experts in their field of economy who are predicting impending catastrophic collapse the likes of another Great Depression and worse!

They all say it’s not a matter of if, but when. If a large, large and growing number of experts are predicting or forecasting economic catastrophe ahead, why are we precariously balanced at the edge without falling over? Simply: it’s being propped up.

Economy and finances are not my forte. So I can only understand in simplest layman’s terms. From nominal study of credit default swaps, REPOS, T-Bill rates, and other explanations of manipulations of the market in its varying forms, our economy is set to collapse.

Bailouts and stimulus are aspirins for a migraine. The Fed bailout of 2008 was a band aid. There are plenty of resources to teach on this matter, and this is not the purpose of this post. The purpose of this post is to muse about economic forecasts or prophecies for America, and my question is, do we really need a prophecy when the principles or natural laws of economy are already in front of us?

Sure I’ve had some dreams, e.g. Saltines on sale at the grocery store for $12, a block long line to buy a package of hotdogs for $17, a sale item at $5 marked up to $150… Pharaoh had some dreams too, something about skinny and fat cows, and some stalks of wheat… Dreams can be prophetic. Doesn’t mean they are, but they can be.

But what do you do when you have dreams that are saying what the principles of economy already say?

I’m just wondering, this is after all, a prophetic musing post…

What does it mean when principles, natural laws, some prophetic maybes are saying the same thing? What does it mean when opposites can be inferred by common laws? Say, the opposite of up is down; the opposite of in is out; the opposite of blessing is curse.

And if the nation is blessed [think first half of Deuteronomy 28] whose god is Jehovah, is the opposite true? Is the nation cursed [think last half of Deuteronomy 28] whose god is not Jehovah?

If America’s books are not balanced and if America’s principles of spending money indicate economic collapse, and if there are experts that can explain this is so, and if there may even be a hint of prophetic warning to the same, and if America’s god is NOT Jehovah and so does not sit under the blessing, do we have enough data to draw conclusions?