I revisited my last post and found it even more apropos today than in June. Please read it if you have not.
Even in the last week, it has become very clear to me that we are in the middle of a cosmic war of good and evil. We, the body of Christ, have insight into the plan of God and the final outcome of the ages. God has given us His written word, His Spirit , His Prophets, Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Hope, and Faith so that we are not caught unaware of His strategic moves in this last chapter of the church age. The only way that we remain clueless is a misled desire to remain ignorant. Deception helps the fearful, ignorant, and non-committed along in their plight to avoid God’s call to see the truth and act accordingly.
The comfort that the American Church has lived in has made His Warriors weak and lazy. I saw a video from an Afghan Christian man in ministry that was so very saddened by the fall of his country to evil terrorists. His disappointment and fear of the future was easily seen and felt. However, facing probable persecution and death, he ended the message with these words, “We will not stop preaching the gospel of Christ. We will die for our faith in Him”. Such resolve first shamed me and then encouraged me that if called to die for my faith, like this man, I can do all things through Christ.
So we as the ecclesia are in the war whether we see it clearly or not. It has come to our own shores in a very stealthy and sophisticated way. The right and left, the blue and red, the colors of our skins, the amounts in our bank accounts, our geo-political and medical differences. We must see things now more strategic in our approach and thinking. God is the perfect military strategist.
Our fight is NOT against flesh and blood…Not against people. Our fight is against principalities, powers, mights, dominions, and evil spirits in wicked high places. Our fight is with spiritual beings, and misled ideology. We, who are also spiritual beings, must take the battle out of the natural realm of events that are changing minute by minute. We must take the battle to the realm of the spirit. In the power of Holy Spirit, we fight using our spiritual tools: prayer, prophesy, decree, declaration of God’s Word, walking in holiness, praise, worship, and faith to defeat our enemies All this we do from the other side of the Victory! The victory is ours already!
All military groups have a lingo, a code of language that is hidden from their enemies. God has this and we see it in the parables that Jesus told. Those parables were meant to be revealed to only those who had ears to hear. God is still speaking to His people who have ears to hear and eyes to see, and hearts prepared to understand. What does he use to give us insight into His end time strategies? He uses EVERYTHING.
We can see God in EVERYTHING if we have eyes to see. We can hear Him in Everything if we have ears to hear. Who opens our eyes and ears? He does, by His Spirit. The Spirit of Revelation and Understanding and the Spirit of Wisdom and Counsel. They have been sent to aid us in understanding this hidden code…this mystery. God wants to reveal secrets to us. Ask Him for the assistance of His 7 manifold Spirits of God.
I have found that God is revealing deeper and more mysterious things lately. Hard sayings and things that shake my paradigm. Things that I have to meditate on for a few weeks to be able to understand the meaning of what He says or is attempting to show me in scripture, visions, or dreams. I am asking more questions and rethinking things that I have thought for years. I have admitted that I was stuck in religion and the archaic understanding of past revelation or the revelation of others. Some things that I believed have been solidified while others have been challenged and realigned to His plumb line.
I suppose, that if we believe that God does not talk to His people in these days, we would not contemplate any of this. However, I believe God does talk to us and that He wants to talk more. I’ve asked Him to show me more of the strategic end time plan and I believe that the symbolic language of the Spirit is part of His communication so that His hearing people will grasp His meaning while the non-hearing crowd and the evil spirits cannot understand.
Military code language goes back pre-history It is presently extremely sophisticated. Smoke signals to encrypted computer codes…It is given to the Ecclesia (by Holy Spirit) to decode and interpret the mysteries that are now being revealed. Understanding brings Wisdom…or Wisdom brings understanding. Ask for the Spirit of Wisdom to bring understanding to the things that are difficult to comprehend. We need this powerful gift of God more than ever.