The Lord’s Agape love works in harmony with the gift of discernment to change people’s lives for the good. But if discernment isn’t used in tandem with God’s love it can become critical and negative instead of insightful and positive.
Look at Paul the Apostle who one minute is writing to his beloved church to ‘kick the man out of the congregation’ who was sinning with his stepmother, and the next letter writing, ‘have some mercy, he’s repented, let him back in’. (1 Corinthians 5)
Discernment is a powerful gift and Paul used it well because he was in the presence of the Lord day and night.
The Anointing to use the Gifts Comes Through Time Spent With God In Prayer
We live distracted lives. When we are not walking as closely to the Lord as Paul, we can often get ‘in our flesh’ as it’s called. Our minds shift from spiritual to worldly things, lower elements of life, mundane daily routines and our mind frame shifts from spiritual to carnal.
We can get spiritually lazy when we don’t make time to pray and meditate on God’s word. This is when the gift of discernment can be misguided and become critical and harmful rather than a force for good.
Prayer makes God’s spiritual gifts work optimally for the building up of the Body of Christ.
Listen to Correction, It Will Lead to Positive Good for All
No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
Hebrews 12.11
There is a balance that is crucial to master or the Lord will not be able to trust us with more responsibility in the Kingdom of God. What’s worse, we can end up doing harm to the body of Christ instead of good.
And I’m thankful when there is anyone kind enough or brave enough to call me out on my ugliness and lack of self-awareness should I find myself operating in the gift of discernment without the love of God. I see this as God working through others to realign the body of Christ, to which we all belong, and this can only be a good thing for all the body, once corrected.
So that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
1 Corinthians 12:25-27
Should the Gift of Discernment Be Used In Any Other Capacity Than Spiritual?
This is a good question. I think it can be used in all areas of life but it shouldn’t be used as a defense mechanism or as a means to win an argument. It remains a spiritual gift. If we use it outside of its God-given power, it can become a force that tears down instead of a force that gives insight and direction.
It is a powerful gift given by the Holy Spirit that breaks the chains and destroys the yokes of the enemy off of people’s lives.
So make sure the anointing is strong (keep up our prayer life) and that God is behind it. Otherwise it can become a destructive force without God’s love infusing it. Don’t be the stream that runs both fresh water and salty water, as it can spoil the entire flow.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Just a quick but heartfelt post to those of us who are seeing increasingly more clearly into the closing of an era and the darkness that’s looming on the horizon. We must rightly discern the spirit of Transhumanism.
As we close this dispensation, expect to see more mixing of the spiritual and religious language of the biblical text into worldly principalities and demonic agendas. Discernment is crucial as many will fall prey to this principality working its way through God’s creation.
The Great Lie will Deceive Many
AI will be be the melding point of transhumanism. It’s already set in motion, the lines bluring between male and female biologically. How can it not be just as easy to blur the lines between artificial human and biological human? Even now, are we not calling ourselves ‘genderless’ and using mere language to define what is reality? This is the foundation of a much greater, more powerful Lie to come.
See how the world so easily accepts this and how biblical truths accurately discern this lie. The Word of God is of supreme importance. Satan is working to dilute the Word’s potency by integrating all manner of other language into it immediately rendering it a false copy of the truth. Artificial language. Artificial existence.
It deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast…
Revelation 13.14
Listen to the words: predestined, (don’t need to be) humble, walls of Jericho, heavenly…
Discernment between the language, the expression of the language (through darkness or by shining light) and the visual is of utmost importance.
Ask God for discernment. Listen to those who have been given the gift of discernment. Weigh their insight against the word of God, like the Bereans. Don’t be misled by a world who worships their own, Jesus made this clear to us. If they hated Him, they will hate us. If they loved Him, they will love us.
We must learn to let go of acceptance. The Apostle Paul was left be everyone. All but Timothy and a handful of others remained true. The Good News is, Jesus has overcome the world so let us take heart. We have already won the war, we only need endure to the end. Remain faithful and persevere saints. The only way to do this is to pray and stay in His word.
Let me concede this: two thousand years ago the Apostle Paul said the end was near. So when I feel in my spirit that we are approaching the end of this dispensation, I check myself thinking perhaps it’s trivial, this uptick in urgency to make some plan for unraveling the future.
I think I’m still half in shock from the nervous (breakdown?) tension instilled all throughout 2020-22 until just recently when all voices are being heard instead of only the propaganda channels the government was allowing.
Listening to the Spirit of God
That being said, we must do as the Lord leads because only He knows for sure when and how the future will unfold for us and the generations to follow. Revelation warns us it won’t be pleasant once the Tribulation starts.
The warning signs that the Tribulation is drawing near can be found in the Trumpets in the preceding chapters of Revelation. And the descriptions of each Trumpet’s events are clearly what is happening in the earth now.
The Four Hosrseman were released centuries ago.
The Urgency in My Spirit
I have two urgent thoughts and feelings that I feel called to do. Share as much as I can about the word of God, scattering those teachings on platforms known and unknown, and prepare, as best as I know how, for my own livelihood. Now this is probably the more trivial part, leftover anxiousness from the plandemic, but I think I shall pay attention at least in part.
Take a listen and I’ll share my thoughts below.
We all have heard the sentiment given by the elites, Klaus Schwab to be specific: “You will own nothing and be happy.”
The video states that one way they will take our homes is by requiring upgrades to be made to bring homes into ‘net zero’ compliance forcing homeowners to shoulder the financial responsibility.
What’s worse, people who own a home, mortgaged or fully paid, will likely have to borrow from the equity in their home to make the upgrades, going further into debt. The minute they default the banks will swoop in and voila, you own nothing at all. Except a big pile of debt.
If you cannot manage to live in a house like the one below, then dying would be preferable according to the elite like Kamala Harris crying ‘there are too many people on the earth’.
This will take wisdom to sort out even for those who can afford the upgrades or who also own investment property. If the current tenants can’t afford the cost of increased rent after upgrades are made and they are evicted, who’s left to afford the rent? Then owners of property are left with empty houses. Not good.
How Much Dependence Will Lead to Abuse of Rights?
It got me thinking about my house. This and the fact we’ve had several storms which knocked out our electric three times this year for longer than two days. I had zero ways to cook, keep warm or keep cool.
All the electric runs above ground in my neighborhood. I don’t have a fireplace in my house. I do have a decent sized yard to plant a garden. But I’ve decided it might be best to move into a house that better suits my needs. Especially since the Invisible Tyrannical Hand keeps messing its fingers about in our personal pies.
This is the same hand, by the way, that will have free reign once the Tribulation starts. Thank God we will not be here for that fellow brothers and sisters. Though I do have some empathy for unbelievers, I have zero empathy for the culprits and leaders who will join up with the antichrist when he manifests in true form.
God help the people of the earth.
What Type of Property to Buy
So, back from Revelation and to my house in 2023…
You would need a water source and filters (good luck with that), a fireplace (or fire pit but it will get cold outside), and land to plant a garden. A pool would be convenient to stay cool if everything is shut off in the heat of Summer. I’ve seen property like this for sale that isn’t outrageously priced. For me, the fireplace is the only non-negotiable at this point. I’d need semi-country. I don’t think I could handle fighting off Sasquatch in the deep woods of Appalachia…
How Much Should It Matter?
Anyway, just some thoughts I’ve been having for the past couple of YEARS. God, perhaps I can shed this entire train of thought and just roll with the punches. Aren’t there better things to be doing for other people? Jesus didn’t have a home. Won’t they just fine me for using my fireplace anyway?
No more burning wood!The planet is dyingand it’s your fault for breathing!
**billionaire Invisible Hand flies off to another continent to play environmental disaster Evangelist, bicycle in-tow**
Do we have to be prepared for everything? Pluses and minuses on either side I suppose.
Having some manner of eco friendly energy might be a good idea. The less reliance on Big Brother the better.
Or I could resign myself to whatever comes next and buy a condo in the city….with a bike…
Or become a nomad…with a horse…
Or buy a boat and live on the sea, they’d perhaps never find a spec in the Pacific Ocean.
Then I’d probably never find myself out there either. That would be a terrible death just floating at sea. I mean, if Robert Redford can’t do it, I sure as hell won’t try.
Hope everyone is enjoying their life and not having all these strange thoughts of a crazy future, haha.
No wonder King Solomon said that ‘in much wisdom is much grief’. Maybe I should strive to know a bit less. Though I sure don’t feel smart enough as is.
I know, I owe you a post about atheists…I’ll get to it eventually.
It alludes to God bringing an end to Capitalism among many other events that have already come to pass. I lack confidence in myself even though I have faith in God and His word. It’s difficult to put myself out there in any capacity. Following God isn’t always easy.
Here’s a portion from the prophecy. Dagon represents Capitalism.
And the Lord says,
“Ready yourselves, for I will break Dagon. The Philistines will be punished for taking what they thought was a dead god into their camp, thereby leading My people into captivity and thus defeating them. Along with Dagon, Eli also will fall and break his neck for all the evil he has done in My name when I had nothing to do with it. Depart from me for I have not known you – for Eli will be broken and the Ark returned to My people.
Even The World Is Sensing The Change
Now in 2023 here is a prominent intellectual, Eric Weinsein stating that now is the time we stop trying to wrestle with Capitalism and Communism and instead develop an entirely new economic system.
I’m telling you dear people, those of you who believe in God, cling to Him alone! Let the world do as it must – we will be grieved at the evil taking place but God will be the pillar to keep us steady and strong. Not Intellectualism, not Economics, not one political party or another….God alone. He will keep dismay at bay.
Weinstein asks, What is the next Economic System?
God Is Bringing A New Wave Of The Spirit
“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” Isaiah 43:19 NIV
There is another move of God that is upon us right now. I’ll post about this next. The current Protestant ministers will reject this new wave of God’s Spirit – it always happens this way, the old always rejects the new. Jesus is the greatest example of this kind of paradigm shift.
The main core of this movement, believe it or not, is not being birthed out of the Church as we know it.
It’s being birthed out of intellectual atheism where many intellectuals are following their curiosity about God and in seeking truth, it’s brought them out of the dark and into God’s presence. I’ll share more in the next post.
God cannot and will not be put into a box made by mankind. Get ready, as Eric says here, in a secular sense, God is saying in a spiritual sense: Everything you know is about to break loose because I’m doing something altogether new!
I was thinking this morning about this blog, small and obscure, and I wondered, could there people at some future point in time who might need to know what I know, after I’m gone. And then I realized this blog will cease to exist because there’ll be no one to pay the annual fee.
Preserving Our Work as Christians
I often record things; my thoughts, the sound of nature, the environment when I hike or go to the pool. I like ambience, it helps me focus and write without the visual distraction.
This got me thinking that maybe I should verbally read and record all my, haha 50?, blog posts. And to back them up somewhere. There are free versions of blog and recording platforms that will remain after I’m no longer here and I wouldn’t have to worry about them going dark if the fees aren’t paid.
But the other thing is censorship. Anything can be taken down at any time. Not to mention shadow bans which are much more sneaky…slowly traffic drifts away.
I wondered, what benefit would there be to create a site that I didn’t try to promote and allow it to lay dormant and hidden? Let it remain a secret?
Then I started thinking about something else, that I keep thinking about.
Censorship and Destruction of Truthful Knowledge
We know that when any anti-Christian power prevails, things get burned, censored and destroyed. (The devil comes not but to steal, kill and destroy.) The devil is constantly trying to destroy all the road signs that his doom is eminent. That leaves very few ways for the word of God to be passed on to those who are left once the Church is raptured. It would have to be the word, or the seed of God’s word, preserving biblical knowledge from the heart, from one person word of mouth to the other. Not in all cases, there will be bibles and notes saved and hidden no doubt.
But for many, there immediate family will be taken and they will be left. These are the ones who will rationalize, finally, that indeed the biblical text was a prophecy and correct. But they are left with no knowledge or very little to move forward into chaos.
Hopefully, the world won’t be so treacherous immediately following the rapture because the Church will still be in the earth and God will not destroy a place until the righteous are taken out. Bibles won’t have been burned and blogs and videos censored. It will give those who are to be saved, ‘even though only as one escaping through the flames’, a chance to gather knowledge of Christ and the prophecies. There will hopefully be time to seek out information if only a small window of time, before the internet is locked down to all things biblical and Christian.
Persecution Will Arise and Get Fierce: The Darkness is Growing
But I don’t know that this will be the case. Much persecution could take place before the Church is removed, and it must be removed before the tribulation period can begin. This means the printing and selling of bibles could become illegal. And don’t try it, or your social credit score will be tanked and your cbdc chip will be locked.
No food for you rebellious troublemakers! With all your love and morality doctrines…
The forces of Darkness and Light are becoming so evidently distinct that even mainstream, once lukewarm Christians are taking notice. The Light is becoming concentrated and brighter, the Narrow Way is making Himself evident to all.
And here’s an interesting thing I’m noticing, even intellectuals are taking notice. It’s almost as if the next move of God will be coming from outside of the Church. There’s no telling what God is up to. The Jews would never have thought God would extend His message outside of their parameters, but He did. Through the Gentiles no less, of all ruthless people, those wild olive branches:)
And yet, here we are. “I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.” John 10.16
Small Footprints Can Still Make a Path
So I’d encourage you, if you also are Christian and you enjoy sharing His word online, think of a few different avenues to use in order to preserve the knowledge and wisdom God has given you. There will be many in the coming years/decades who may find themselves left in the cold and needing what you’ve shared in order to survive.
And you may think, as I do, that’s crazy there are plenty of resources out there. No one is listening now so why bother? But things don’t always work out rationally. And it’s not beyond my imagination that most of the popular well known avenues of biblical resources will be the first to be shut down.
All I know is this: if you’ve also been thinking about this, or what I’ve said resonates with you, it might be a good idea to follow the Spirit’s leading and preserve your work. God knows all, He already sees how all this will play out in the final days. Trust Him and act on faith – the worst that can happen is that you spent time spreading the knowledge of God to a few more platforms across the internet. That’s a positive any which way you look at it.
Because man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Getting to work writing short stories these past few months and submitting to publishers which also includes managing rejections. I look over the acceptance percentages on Submissions Grinder to calm my rejection anxiety which, to be honest, I’ve grown rather accustomed to as a creative person.
From the Top…
I always start with the hardest SF/F magazines to get into first. My thinking is this, if the magazines that are easiest to get into reject the piece, then I’m done playing, game over. So to prolong the fun and the agony of rejection, I start at the top. That way I get a multitude of highs followed by dejecting lows all the way down. At least my story lives and dies a little longer before completely rolling over.
As writers, looking at a 1%-5% acceptance rate, we know the odds are stacked against us. But, it’s a passion and I enjoy the challenge. It’s not a complete waste of time because I’m happy working at it, I enjoy writing and the fun of submitting, and I’m learning a great deal.
If you can hold on to that attitude or something similarly positive, you’ll accomplish much.
Just recently, I saw where a writer submitted 50 times to Clarkesworld and finally was accepted.
And…you have to tier your rejections in this business. Some rejections are better than others, ha. If you’ve received personalized rejections then that’s the best rejection you can hope for. But even if you get the coveted words try us again in the future, then you know you’re on the right track.
I have received a few try us again/hope to read something new from you soon rejections, which means I’m getting close. But no cookie. Hey, in this business, you’re allowed to count the eggs that at least touch your basket as they fall…
Managing Rejections
Some of the rejection emails I’ve received showed ‘managing editor’ or ‘editor’, but there are different interpretations for this; some say it’s still a basic form rejection regardless of who is listed as the email sender. I’m not so sure of that. They say personalized is when the editor mentions something specific about the piece you’ve submitted.
Others say a personalized rejection is any email from the editor(s) that has a personal ‘submit again’ or ‘looking forward to reading more of your work soon’.
I like the following interpretation:
Treasure your personal rejections. Even if they’re just a sentence long. Personal rejections mean someone’s read your work, deemed it worth commenting on, and taken the time to let you know what they think. A personal rejection is a GEM in a pile of rejection-rocks. In most cases, you’re likely to get some useful feedback with a personal rejection – maybe the editor liked your writing but wasn’t so sure about the story, or maybe they didn’t want this particular submission but request that you send them something else. Or maybe they want to offer you some personalised critique to help you improve your writing.
The Stats So Far: I’m Counting the Act of Submitting as Progress:)
I’ve submitted 4 stories to 12 markets. They were Science Fiction, Creative Non-fiction and Literary fiction magazines.
If I use the above interpretation, I’ve had 5 personal rejections and the remaining 7 were form rejections coming from ‘teams’ or first readers. The stats on ‘personal rejections given’ by various magazines are between 3.9% and 14.93%. The magazines to which I’ve submitted range from Smokelong to Black Static to Clarkesworld.
I am particularly pleased that these 5 rejections came from the editor or managing editor and requested to see more of my work. It gives me some hope and motivation:) I’ve also received a few middle tier rejections that came from ‘the team’ or something similar but they included “We look forward to reading further submissions from you.”
If you’ve received emails like this, you’re on the right track:)
So there seems to be a tiered progress for submissions:
a blanket form rejection with no invitation to see more work
a middle tier that ‘requests to see more work’ but doesn’t make it to the editor’s desk
a personalized rejection from the managing editor or the editor-in-chief that extends an invitation to submit more work
and then one other upper tier variation from the editor that includes a personal comment about the work, how to improve it or what they like about it
It’s the Jacob’s Ladder to Acceptance Heaven I guess, lol!
Summertime
It’s a new week! I have been dreaming of a vacation on the beach, it’s been awhile….and it’s been a terribly long year. So I may have to travel south for a bit this summer. But for now, gonna keep working~
Have a wonderful weekend everyone, many blessings <3
In this Youtube video filmed in 1973, Computer Predicts The End Of Civilisation , there is a discussion ensuing between a group of men from The Club of Rome consisting of seventy men, (one being the president of the World Bank, Dr. Alexander King), about interdependence between nations globally and how the power of sovereignty is less than what we presumed it to be even decades ago. The title is strange, the computer making the predictions is called World One. Interesting play on words. But the greatest information is gleaned not from the 1973 behemoth spitting out archaic line graphs, but from the small circle of men discussing the future of the world order.
The discussion is both fascinating and alarming. They are speaking of the very existence of the European Union before it was ever realized. And I believe they are speaking to the greater formation and materialization of the New World Order.
Listen to the language used in the film: ‘population control’, ‘closed world system’ and convincing leaders of nations to comply, a ‘whittling away of sovereignty’, ‘interdependence which has seeds of the draining away of sovereignty within it.” Unbelievably bold language pertaining to stripping nations of their powers, not protecting them. This perhaps is what the lust for power looks like in a calm conversation amongst comrades….
Looking Into Prophecy
There is a section in Revelation where we are informed of a first beast that suffers a mortal wound but lives, and then a second beast which rises as an administrator of power. The second beast was executing serious power over the people; ‘causing’ is the word used in scripture. So it was able to exert force and to bring people to death:
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
(Revelation 13.11-15)
The chilling verse in this narrative – as if any part is less chilling! – is the 15th verse: And it was allowed to give breath to the image.
What in the name of all that’s holy is this thing capable of, if in fact it has the ability to ‘give breath’ to an image? Maybe this could be said in this way, ‘bringing a great Lie to life.’ An image, or lie mind you, that the beast is ‘causing’ all the people of the earth to worship? I can’t even dwell on this for too long. When we reach this point, the preservation of life and our salvation will indeed be dire upon the earth.
We Must Discern the Truth Behind the Image
This One World Government is the direction the world is going, indeed has been going for centuries. Leaders, intellectual think tanks comprised of men and women like these (the WEF is a perfect example), who hold the kind of power average people like me could never understand, are making decision and moving nations like Chess pieces over the vast seas of earth.
You may think you know exactly what these players are trying to ‘checkmate’: climate change, pollution, over-fished seas, gluttonous consumption, economic headwinds . All things which need to be handled if we are going to prolong life on this earth, or so the narrative goes dear people.
However, what they are really doing is far more sinister: they are trying to checkmate God.
The Tower of Babel: Is It Not The One World Government?
And how exactly do human beings checkmate God? They replace Him of course and make Him of no consequence. They have to blind the masses and deceive the earth in order to pull off this feat. But I’m reminded of this verse: And it deceived all the people living on earth by means of the miracles which it was allowed to perform in the presence of the first beast.
They build a Tower of Babel, and they are doing so right now under our noses. And like always, we never learn from our mistakes, do we? And so we build, upwards, higher and more grotesque as it rises in its arrogance against the sky, the face of God, defying God to touch it or dismantle the blasphemous abomination devouring everything including parts of itself if need be.
But the wrath of God will touch it. And the wicked will scatter with utter chaos ensuing. Another verse that heralds the difficulty of the times is this one: Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.
God help us. If we are still in the earth during these treacherous times, the saints must rest in knowing they have been sealed by the Spirit of God. We were not saved into the Kingdom of God for calamity. Calamity is the bread of the wicked. This we can be sure of.
The Work of the Wicked Continues
These men have passed on. The film being made in 1973. But their ideals and hold on power have carried forward through the generations and will ultimately culminate one day in the realization of that ever elusive One World Government. Ah, the Tower that will govern the whole earth. Except the earth doesn’t belong to mankind.
Humans can be so pridefully stupid.
The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters. Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place?
(Psalm 24.1-3)
No one will. No one will ascend and no one will stand.
A Strange Twist of Fate; The Irony of Their Logic
“Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” (Genesis 11.4)
Notice the irony of their thought process. The very thing they were afraid of, the thing which inspired and motivated them to build the tower: “…otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth…” is the very fate they walked into. Did you catch that?
The very thing we are doing now, in the earth, in the natural, is trying to save earth from being destroyed and we are doing it by building a Tower of Babel of the modern century. Does it not follow that this Tower also will be judged and destroyed? They say, ‘the world isn’t ending’, but in actuality, the very force they do not believe exists and that they are fighting against will overtake them. That Force is the God who owns the earth and all its fulness. A Force anyone in the right mind, who heeds history, would never defy out of arrogance and pride.
They can’t discern their own folly, thinking they are building for their own sakes, to save their own names, to save their own lives, when in actuality their destruction is already on the way. “Doomsayers” the builders cry, condemning the prophets of God.
Their Deeds Reaped Their Calamity
But these builders of the tower, though I pray some at least might come to understand, have no clue what is happening to them and the world as they understand it is only a false narrative. The narrative, the false meaning of life, is in the building of the Tower; you see, the work itself calls judgement into itself, (that they may not be scattered and yet their deeds caused them to be scattered) having already been ‘weighed in the balance and found wanting’.
“So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel –because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.”
How could so many be deceived together? A disastrous working out of their own destruction and they weren’t aware of it in the slightest.
Getting Serious About Prophecy For The Time Grows Short
These matters are not trivial. Not in the slightest. The seeds of destruction are being sown and erected into a ‘god of man’. There is no ‘alarmist’ sentiment. It is prophecy being birthed in the earth. And in this God cannot be mocked, “whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.”
I had a vision of something like the building of the Tower of Babel, I’m not sure what it was exactly – I’ll have to look it up and read it again – and perhaps I’ll share it here. I definitely have more to say on this subject. There are just too many people who can’t see it. I’m not sure how some things, not all, seem so clear to me. With the Spirit of God, all things can become known.
Hope everyone’s week is going well. Please feel free to leave your impressions of this in the comment section if you feel so inclined. Looking into these things is quite interesting to me.
I have the uncanny notion that first a plan of action, a New World Order, will be established that addresses all the problems and issues that are happening in the world today: cultural, environmental, financial, etc. I think a positive and good world government will come to power, but not long after, wickedness will prevail and pervert it and establish the end time’s prophecy of the One World Government with the antichrist at the center. There is a jostling for power that is shaking everything right now.
I’m thinking through many different scenarios, as this topic is being talked about over a wide range of speakers and influencers lately. Some tackle it as a whole, others in pieces. I’m going to tie together what I see because I find it interesting.
Should we be alarmed? Perhaps we should be at least jolted awake, but if nothing else, we shouldn’t be blind and we shouldn’t be caught unaware. I feel an urgency. The Spirit is waving a warning that the time of the fulfillment of the prophecy is soon. I’m not the only one who is sensing this.
They call us alarmists I suppose, but consider this: we’re sitting in a room of lights, all equally functioning to light the room. I say, ‘the lights are getting ready to go out’, and no one believes me, because all is seemingly working properly. Then one, two, five, twelve lights begin flashing irregularly, everything is chaotic and I along with others say again, ‘the lights are getting ready to go out,’ and still, even with all these signs, all these warnings that are manifesting in the room, they call us alarmists and don’t take heed.
Spheres of Influence
Let’s lay out the components of the One World Government (OWG) that are already instituted, functioning and integrated within the world today; these are aspects of the seven mountains or spheres of influence: religion, family, education, government, business, media, arts and entertainment.
Who Are The World Players?
These pillars will be reworked and then instituted among the populations of the earth. Each will be defined as something different than the fundamental scriptural and moral meanings they currently hold – because the devil always subverts and perverts the word or logos of God. The educational system will be used to do this, for instance, to twist what the family unit really constitutes, or to call into question what a female is, and ultimately to call into question: a robot is a human is a robot is a human is a…., you get the picture. If you don’t, time to wake up. Religion will be watered down and without any power, save intellectual, carnal and consumerist power. The spiritual aspect of worship will be driven out and rationality and false peace will take its place. “A form of godliness, but lacking the power thereof…”
The players on the scene today:
The World Health Organization (WHO)
The World Bank
World Trade Organization (WTO)
World Economic Forum (WEF)
The One World Church (I kid you not, worship of multiple deities (Interfaith) within the same church service. One-World Church Expected this Year
The Spheres Not Yet Manifest and Centralized
These are the present manifestations of the foundation of the New World Order which will be fashioned into the One World Government that is being built to execute rule over all nations. We don’t yet have a central world educational entity that I’m aware of, the spirit is manifesting now globally in much of the antichrist chaos we see playing out in prestigious educational venues, but not yet centralized. That’s coming and will be gravely distorted – no education at all really, just indoctrination.
Arts and Entertainment may not need to be centralized but perhaps one day only A.I. art will be legal because self expression will be illegal. Don’t know, that may be too extreme but art demands freedom of expression which would be too close to freedom of speech, or else it is propaganda art, which is possible too. However at this point, any Panem will work to distract the masses from what’s really going on – we’re working to build your doom; bread and circuses for the peasants to feast upon!Be merry, drink and eat and have your play, be satiated! We’re coming for you soon enough.
Media will centralize but for now, it plays the part of the mouthpiece of the dragon…oh the dragon…perhaps we’ll get to him another time…
The Social Credit Score and Digital Money
Though the most evil, money will contain within it the ability to rule over the people through digitally tying the buyer/individual to a social credit score. This could also be the ‘mark’ in some fashion as no buying or selling can be done without the mark (Rev 13.17). So, if you don’t have the proper social credit score, your chip or digital currency cannot be used to buy food, electricity, clothes, anything. And fiat money at this point will be illegal. And unfortunately, I don’t think gold will save us; they’ll confiscate that too, cunningly at first, I might add. It’s happened once, it will happen again: Executive Order 6102
It is the Universal Monetary Unit, or UMU. The power of this unit seems sweeping in its authority over all other currency. The other thing of note is she alludes to some ‘incident’ that will push this to a universal usage by all nations. God help us what this could be; but I’ve no doubt something along the lines of the 2008 Banking Collapse. And to be honest, fiat money has been pushed so far that to link it back to gold would be very difficult – it would fracture as much or more than bitcoin. And it’s a manual process, how do you make a $1 coin out of gold? It would be too tiny to see.
Some Closing Thoughts
Now this is just something for us to think about and be aware of. I’ll share another post which is rather chilling with a film from 1973, the men appear as prophets but they aren’t – they are the players behind the scene strumming the strings of the OWG instrument. So just consider what I’ve said, stay informed, I would say. Let’s focus on the good dear people. I think we should know what could be coming so we aren’t dismayed when it happens to us. Pray, pray, pray. Preparedness can be beneficial in handling difficult situations. And if it doesn’t happen? Well that’s great! We can bring all the good plans we’ve been focusing on in the meantime to fruition:)
Follow this reasoning, ‘get behind me Satan because your mind is not set on the things of God.” What’s the issue of the Cross here?….Jesus brought up the Cross and Peter rebuked Him because it upset their plans, and then Jesus goes right towards the mind, He goes right to the way of thinking. He says ‘your mind is set on the things of man and not the things of God”….Humanity without Christ as the center is demonic in nature.
Bill Johnson
Some Thoughts on Desire and Ways to Handle It
I spent around two hours this morning writing my thoughts on a YouTube video about desire and the problems associated with it as Christians. Instead of it falling into obscurity, I thought I’d flesh it out here in case it may help someone. Only Jesus understands the ferocious battles of desire we have slain and been slain by; the tears we cry and the wrestling we endure to gain victory over the carnal mind.
You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.
Psalm 56.8
Desire Isn’t Always A Bad Thing
Desire can be annoying when we can’t have what we want, but it also can be a signal that something necessary is missing in our life; like what some people experience when they crave ashes because they are lacking some mineral in their body. We aren’t careful enough with desire, to slow down and really listen to it.
The Israelites experienced God’s punishment in the desert for complaining about not having anything but manna to eat, no meat, no vegetables. God sent them quail and with it, a plague.
But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it could be consumed, the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague.
Numbers 11.33
Personally, I believe that it wasn’t Israel’s desire for meat that was punished. It was the complaining which was born out of ruminating or lusting after the thing which then led to punishment. When craving is what the heart is founded upon, it leads to error. Sometimes we are spoiled, complaining brats in need of correction. Other times we really aren’t understanding what the word means when He says, “I come so that you may have life, and that more abundantly.”
I wonder why the Israelites didn’t just ask God for meat? Maybe they were still too young in their experiences with God – the spiritual teenage years are so maddening.
One Key To Handling Desire Is Putting God First
I’ve been practicing putting God and the kingdom of God first, then all else will be added to my life at the appropriate time. This is proper order and balance. If you have a desire for something, pray for it and leave it at God’s feet. Easier said than done but one can avoid entering into discontentment, then craving, then sin.
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Matthew 6.33
I’ve learned in all my years to approach abundance as ‘lacking nothing’, or lacking no good thing. Anything over and above I do my best to manage it responsibly and be extravagantly generous with it. This evens out my own temperament and proclivity to be an asshole.
It’s a matter of the heart because many situations having to do with gratefulness are relative. My cousin is a successful psychotherapist in NY, he founded the Walk and Talk therapy in Central Park back in the nineties. Some of his clients are top 1%. Their problems have to do with managing anger because ‘Fred’ docked his yacht in their prime spot…the bastard. And this is an issue for this particular individual in his demographic. But how many times have I been annoyed (as if I deserved a thing) that I didn’t get to eat at the restaurant I wanted because there were no reservations left or they forgot to write my name in?
And somewhere there’s a woman who gets only one cup of porridge a day to survive on and no clean water to drink.
Experiencing Desire Can Help Us Be More Grateful
Desire is all about the intent of the heart. Having the desire is not the issue; it informs us perhaps of what we are lacking and need. However, cultivating a life of desire leads to greed and this can destroy our relationships, including and most importantly our relationship with God.
After experiencing several situations in my life, one including serving two years of missions work on a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean, I understand what Paul says to some small degree:
“I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.” Philippians 4.12
I can say once I got back to the States, ten years on, I’m always grateful for easy access to any kind of food (or a/c, or water) I could possibly crave. We only crave what we cannot have or are unwilling to pay the price to obtain (and this is a difficult situation when the price to be paid for that which we desire is a cost too great to bear). Otherwise, we’d just figure a way to have it. And it’s in the familiarity, the ‘taking for granted’ that we lose respect and gratefulness for what we have.
Here’s another post I wrote on sexual desire within relationships; it’s best experienced within the union of marriage, otherwise, it could burn our entire lives down:
A Seal Upon Your Heart
And what about when it’s the people around us who are changing but we aren’t keeping up? The motives and intentions of the heart can be deceiving. We want the best for loved ones but then we find ourselves ungrateful (or complaining) that we don’t experience the same.
Learn To Pray For The Things You Desire, It Will Bring Balance
And then sometimes, we have to let go in order to gain…balance, you know? And Paul’s sentiment is good for anytime in our lives, it really is about balance and contentment in any and all circumstances we find ourselves in and trusting God to fulfill the desires of our heart in due time.
“Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37.4
Our desires aren’t all bad – sometimes God will put that desire in us so that we might pray and bring it to fruition. Maybe like a spinoff of Cain and Abel: the desire is produced but instead of offering it to God so that He may bless it and it become a blessing to us, we run with it and keep it for ourselves in which case it becomes putrid and makes us sick. Other times we aren’t ready for what we desire and we’d only lose it because the proper foundation to sustain that thing hasn’t been solidified. Especially if we haven’t learned how to keep God in the top place. To be caught off guard complaining and highly satiated – we’ll end up sick. Gratefulness is a soothing medication.
God Is A Rewarder Of Those Who Diligently Seek Him; Remember All That He Has Done
And let us never forget! Call into remembrance all that He has given when we didn’t deserve it; and that God is a great rewarder for faithfulness on our part. Job received double for all his difficulties at the end of the day. Joshua and Caleb were the only two who saw the Promised Land due to remaining faithful when all others were faithless. He’s so generous in fact that He causes us to reap pressed down, shaken together and running over. I do not apologize for these blessing of abundance on my life, because I understand the cost to me and to Christ! And this cultivates a heart of thankfulness and gratefulness.
At year’s end 2021, I was doing a good job keeping my unfocused, creative self in a good routine, being productive writing, painting and capturing a few good creative opportunities. I had a good support system of family and friends, so although Covid restrictions – and later complete tyranny – was a formidable headwind both physically and emotionally, I was holding the balance of work-life flow nicely. I’ve not been as comfortable and at peace with my life as I was throughout 2021. It was amazing.
Things were going so well, I was content and warm snuggled up at my writing desk without a care in the world, day after day throughout 2021. Only be creative and work hard at it, the rest will fall into place, I told myself. My communion with the Lord in prayer dwindled. Meanwhile, the world outside was blowing up a multitude of storms in opposition to everything I considered myself to be and the values I hold dear. I saw it raging outside my window, gathering in strength and area of effect, but decided to ignore it.
I kept thinking, this covid mess will pass soon enough, just keep your head down and work.
But by this time, it was already too late.
I Should Have Known Better
Daily I take time to listen to the word of God. I break bread with a select group of ministers. This has always been an anchor for me – indeed for all of us who are the Body of Christ. But we can’t neglect prayer and reading God’s word, and I grew increasingly relaxed about both. The flesh can get stubbornly rebellious when it comes to prayer putting forth every kind of excuse not to yield to the flow of the Spirit.
It is the presence of God which brings us power, peace and strength. True, we can find these three things in our close relationships but there is no substitute for His power, His peace and His strength in our lives. Time spent with God in His word and in prayer is a matter of life and death to those of us born into the kingdom of God. We can’t expect to live a victorious life without spending time with the One who conquered it all. We’re not of this worldly kingdom, but of the kingdom of God.
“When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left Him until an opportune time.” Luke 4.13
Christians are the devil’s top priority when it comes to attacks. God will never forsake us, but the less prepared we are, the more it hurts when those fiery darts are aimed and shot into our lives by the wicked one. The more in God’s presence, the more anointed, the more in communion with the Holy Spirit we are, the less we are affected by all the wiles of the devil.
“Put on the panoply of God, that ye may be able to stand against the artifices of the devil.” Ephesians 6.11
A Perfect Storm
We’ve all experienced loss. I’ve experienced three different types of loss in the past eight years. The first was a vision I based my entire potential ministry plans upon. I learned my lesson and it is this: never follow your own vision in hopes that God will bless it. You will struggle the whole way and eventually lose it. Stick with God’s vision for your life – it far exceeds anything we can dream up on our own. Even though His vision starts out small, it’s the right choice no matter how big the other opportunities may be. Choose God first, the rest will fall into place and you’ll forego buying the bill of goods the wicked one peddles.
The other losses were of people, one of those being my Dad. I was already struggling with what seemed to be a quiet but abiding sadness which I couldn’t shake as the summer of 2022 approached. I had organized all my research for the book and written the first rough draft. So many things were going right I couldn’t figure out how I was so down.
Upon reflection, it was a combination of all those storms of life and disruption of routine, strange government overreach that left me feeling unprotected, frenzied online mob persecution over masks and vaccinations, all the unrest in the world during this time, and finally the loss of my father in the summer of 2022. This perfect cradle of storms were too much for me to continue forward having no garments of prayer wrapped around me to protect me. The devil sought an opportunity, found it and came in like a flood.
I sank. Into nothingness.
My Own Personal Island of Fogs
Suddenly on top of all the strange sadness came every responsibility that my father was undertaking; it all fell to me. It was in good working order, he was smart, and all was streamlined and uncomplicated. But it was all new to me, suddenly new people to deal with, new circumstances to manage, and all with the awareness of the absence of him no longer in my life.
In addition to an already stressful situation, there are always those few who tilt toward malevolence; nosey, cruel, vindictive and manipulative. I was thrown into a pit of vipers and unknowns without a stitch of spiritual armor to cover me. And filled with grief from all the loss.
The clock struck and my writing was defenestrated for an indeterminant amount of time. Everything I did seemed to include a wave of subtle sadness during this period, including the gathering up of my pages of notes and scribbles and drafts of the book I was writing. All the documents from my dad’s passing, all the mail, all the papers and items were slowly taking over my work desk area.
Paralyzed in the Swamp
I remember stacking the chapters of beloved characters and worlds that had brought me such joy together in a pile and placing them in the back room on the self. The sadness of putting the book aside wrapped around me like a wet blanket. Some things are just a part of who you are and without them you are incomplete. In addition, I had no schedule and nothing to do, and no motivation to do it anyway. The only thing that spurred me awake was the drudgery of legal paperwork and sorting my late father’s affairs.
I felt like Artax in the Swamp of Sadness, and again like the boy Atreyu trying to pull myself up out of it…yeah, maybe that.
This is not where you want to find yourself.
Seriously Think Through Whatever You’ve Done Wrong and Change It
The good news now is, all the intruding documents and responsibilities and unknowns are being sorted, wrapped up and dealt with — the situation finally reached that Critical Mass I previously spoke of and can only deflate. The False Narrative my own government was using against me has been shown in the light along with all its fowl rotting guts being investigated and put to shame. (I’m exceedingly angry still.) And it won’t be long before the defenestrated writing project is back in its proper place: occupying my thoughts and the tips of my typing fingers. Taking one step at a time. The clouds are clearing. God is faithful.
He brought people with strong voices into my life during this season, were it not for these leaders, family and friends during the darkest hour I’ve yet to experience in my life as an American, I’d have surely gone under and not been able to recover myself. Thank God for bold men and women on the frontlines standing for truth and not backing down.
Feeling the Warmth of the Sun After the Storms
After brunch with some friends the other day, I picked up two science fiction novels at our local bookstore. They were an unexpected find. I also wasn’t expecting the excitement I felt about them – in that moment I knew I was returning to myself again, leaving the Island of Fogs behind.
The only thing more stupid than stupid is the same perpetual stupid. Thank God that He is always there to reach out His hand when we start sinking to impart wisdom and knowledge leading to a better path of action. Maybe next time I can be the hand that reaches out to help instead of being the one in need of it.
This time around, God comes first. This mistake will be corrected gladly. All other things will be added to our lives: books, connections, people, opportunities – without any doubt they will be added if God is placed first at the top of all, for the word declares it.
Put Him first, there really is no better way. The storms are already gathering in strength along the horizon. The time is short.
Pray while the sun is shining and while the rain is falling! Pray always.
