Taking a stand against the evil that is covering our country has had its cost, because I speak against the corruption taking place in this country. Some believe that the church should be separated from the government. I believe the government should stay out of the church. Some think my place is in the pulpit and not speaking against the evil of the government. If that were true, a large portion of the Bible would not have been written.
Contrary to their thinking, my place is to expose the evil and darkness that has covered this nation.
Eph 5:6-11
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things, the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore, do not become partners with them; 8 for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of Light is found in all that is good and right and true), 10 and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
Right now, there is tremendous confusion among Christians. This was done explicitly via the CIA. CIA director William Casey said that the CIA would know that they were successful when everything everyone believed was a lie. This was facilitated through the almost complete control of both the alternative and mainstream media. The white Christians who love America have explicitly been targeted because they are the USA's spiritual backbone. They have to be crushed to bring in the one world order. That's why the primary psychological operations are targeting white Christians. The alternative news is so full of disinformation that it creates so much confusion that it makes the people almost schizophrenic.
I have heard for years how the criminal actions of people would get them locked -up. They are still free. I have listened to how President Trump will stay in office—not going to happen.
This is being done to divide and conquer. A double-minded man is unstable in all that he does—one foot in the world, the other sort of in the Kingdom of God. We are in, or we are out.
The churches were closed by COVID to prevent Christians from having any stability and financially destroy what was left of the church. The Barna Research Group reports 20% of the church will permanently close in the next 18 months. Even though Churches are reopening, the attendance level and contribution have fallen way off.
I have said this before, and I will repeat it, I will never close again. They may close us down, lock the doors, and put me in jail, but I will not bow to the government again! It may be sooner than I expect that I will need to make a stand. If you dare to stand with me, fine; if not, I will understand.
The majority of pastors have allowed themselves to be compromised by not speaking out from the pulpit about the evil taking place in our country. From a reality standpoint, most of them have become nothing but pawns in this new world order. They refuse to discuss actual, current events from the pulpit. The Shepards have abandoned the congregations. They have been left to wander in the fields. They have fallen into ravines. They are lost. Wolves have eaten them. They are confused with no leadership. This is what the LORD says,
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
The majority of these pastors have given in to Zionist Christian teachings and secular tv programming. Many of these pastors have incorporated false-teaching from the Talmud into their services, including the Kabbalah. They have lost their relationship with the real Jesus Christ. Therefore, they cannot provide the necessary stability that their flocks need. Every wind of doctrine tosses them about.
Many are so desperate for social acceptance that they have turned worship into secular entertainment centers. They have failed to provide proper Christian leadership to their flock.
These churches, with their secular compromised leadership, are a stench in the nostrils of the Almighty. As Christians, we must seek stability, which can only come from a relationship with The Great I Am through a personal relationship with His Son and our Savior, Jesus Christ. Hear what the LORD says again about these false shepherds. This can be said of the American shepherds.
Jer.34
The word of the Lord came to me. He said, 2 "Son of man,[a] speak against the shepherds of America for me. Speak to them for me. Tell them that this is what the Lord God says: 'You shepherds of America have only been feeding yourselves. It will be awful for you! Why don't you shepherds feed the flock? 3 You eat the fat sheep and use their wool to make clothes for yourselves. You kill the fat sheep, but you don't feed the flock. 4 You have not made the weak strong. You have not cared for the sick sheep. You have not put bandages on the sheep that were hurt. Some of the sheep wandered away, and you did not go get them and bring them back. You did not go to look for the lost sheep. No, you were cruel and severe—that's the way you tried to lead the sheep!
5 "' And now the sheep are scattered because there was no shepherd. They became food for every wild animal, so they were scattered. 6 My flock wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My flock was scattered over all the face of the earth. There was no one to search or to look for them.'"
7 So, you shepherds, listen to the word of the Lord. 8 The Lord God says, "I swear that wild animals will catch my sheep, and my people will become food for all those animals because they did not have any real shepherds. My shepherds did not look out for my flock. They did not feed my flock. No, they only killed the sheep and fed themselves!"
9 So, you shepherds, listen to the word of the Lord! 10 The Lord God says, "I am against the shepherds. I will demand my sheep from them. I will fire them. They will not be my shepherds anymore. Then the shepherds will not be able to feed themselves, and I will save my flock from their mouths. Then my sheep will not be food for them."
11 The Lord God says, "I myself will be their Shepherd. I will search for my sheep and take care of them. 12 If a shepherd is with his sheep when they begin to wander away, he will go searching for them. In the same way, I will search for my sheep. I will save them and bring them back from all the places where they were scattered on that dark and cloudy day. I will feed them on America's mountains, by the streams, and in all the places where people live. 14 I will lead them to grassy fields. They will go to the place high in the mountains of America and lie down on the good ground and eat the grass. They will eat in rich grassland in the mountains of America. 15 Yes, I will feed my flock, and I will lead them to a place of rest." This is what the Lord God said.
16 "I will search for the lost sheep. I will bring back the sheep that were scattered and put bandages on the sheep that were hurt. I will make the weak sheep strong, but I will destroy the fat and powerful shepherds. I will feed them the punishment they deserve."
30 Then they will know that I am the Lord their God. The family of America will see that I am with them and that they are my people." This is what the Lord God said!
31 "You are my sheep, the sheep of my grassland. You are only human beings, and I am your God." This is what the Lord God said.
As Christians, we are supposed to be fighting the world of demonic principalities and their New world order. There has been a full attack against all things Christian for thousands of years. Due to Zionist TV implementation in recent years, this onslaught has become very powerful in the past 70 years. Secularized wolves have entered our homes via media and thus, have secularized the majority of Christ's body. They have promoted inter-faith marriage, homosexuality, incest, rape, child abuse, abortion, and everything that separates Christians from the world. They have destroyed the true meaning of both Ressurection Day and Christmas. In the meantime, the majority of pulpits have remained silent. These pastors were too scared to tell the truth due to their compromised lifestyles. They are fearful of losing their salary and retirement.
The only hope we have is to return to The Most High God's proper worship through Jesus. We must separate ourselves from these secular teachings. As the Bible says, we must come ye out from them and do not accept their heretical beliefs and compromise. If we are to associate with the world, it should only be to bring them to Christ. Not to allow the world with its steeped in sin acceptance of all things evil to come into us and cause us to be compromised.
Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
The believer must recognize that they are in a battle. Not knowing the spiritual conflict around the believer is why there are so many defeated Christians. This is the basic fact that allows one to prepare for battle and face an enemy that can only be seen with spiritual eyes. Ignorance is a Christian's greatest weakness. Keep Christians ignorant, and they will be no threat to Satan. One of the other most important things to know is that the two kingdoms conflict. This is the source of all spiritual battles that we face. There is the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of Light. These are the kingdoms of Satan and the LORD, respectively. In his letter to Rome's church, Paul admonishes the saints to put on Light's armor.
Christians are in a war against the kingdom of darkness, and our weapons are spiritual.
The follower of the LORD has been admonished to, Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
To lean not unto our own understanding seems simple enough, but this is a journey that is a life-long struggle and requires us to truth the LORD every day. Jesus commanded us to seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. Here we have been admonished to "seek," which implies a continuous effort and a never-ending learning process--it is a life-long study. The Word of God gives us the means to develop the art of spiritual self-defense. The Christian is in a daily battle fighting the enemy of the soul. The only protection against defeat is in knowing the Word of God. It would not be reasonable for someone to say they are not interested in understanding how to live a victorious life in Christ Jesus. Being faced with an enemy experienced in spiritual conflict, the challenge for us today is to master the Word of the LORD.
The moment a person accepts Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and receives God's Holy Spirit, that person is instantly translated from the kingdom of darkness of this world into the kingdom of God's Light by God's Holy Spirit of truth. The Apostle Paul describes this process as the "mystery" revealed, which is "Christ in you," the hope of glory.
Col 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Col 1:27 to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
The believer is saved from the power and bondage of sin, the carnal nature, the devil, and supernaturally empowered with the Holy Spirit. The power of darkness is anything that blinds a person to the reality of sin. It is the power of darkness that blinds a person to their need for salvation and from receiving God's gift of the Holy Spirit. By the Holy Spirit's conviction, God draws the sinner towards Him by the Light that lightest everyone who comes into the world, leading to salvation in Christ by the cross. The people of the world reject the truth of Christ and are under the control or deception of the God of this world, which is the devil. Scripture states,
1 John 5:19 "We know that we are of God and the whole world lieth in the evil one."
2Co 4:4 in whom the god [the devil] of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the Light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them.
"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." (Matt. 6:33)
"These were nobler than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so." (Acts 17:11)
Without trying to over-analyze, the command "seek" it directly implies an endeavor to find the knowledge that must be sought out by work and discipline. In other words, it's a process, a path, a journey, a continual quest.
This seems simple enough. But that's the whole trick. The keyword here is "seek." It should be indisputable that this skill is not to be approached lightly. But when do you know you understand the righteousness of God? I don't think we ever indeed do, which is why the "seek" part implies a continuous effort and never-ending process. We must maintain an open-ended approach to a life-long study of the righteousness of God. We should never become conceited in thinking that we have learned all the skill which is to be learned already, we are deceived if we think we understand all there is to know.
The subject "Art" here focuses on self-development in a systematic methodology of God's Word teachings. There is no questioning the depth of wisdom and sophistication of fighting knowledge contained within the scriptures. We need to explore.
It is a matter of being and death, a road either to victory or defeat. Therefore, it is a subject of study which cannot be neglected.
It's long been an axiom of military science and martial arts that wisdom begins with an honest evaluation of strength and weakness. There is nothing to gain by self-deception and self-delusion when it comes to gauging our capabilities and vulnerabilities.
Our success is based on five conditions:
Personal salvation - "Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things become new." (2 Corinthians 517)
Yielding to the Will of God, "Do not yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God, as one alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God." (Romans 6:13)
Filled with the Spirit, - "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." (Romans 8:9)
Studying to be approved, "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. (2 Timothy 2:15)
Applying the Word of God, "Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee." (1 Timothy 4:16)
The believer that applies and acts upon this knowledge will successfully defeat the enemy of the soul. The believer that ignores this will suffer defeat. In writing to Timothy, Paul advised him to take heed to his own life and the scriptures' doctrine or teachings; he learned how to apply spiritual warfare principles. By working to prepare ourselves to fight the good fight of faith, we can execute spiritual warfare principles.
The enemy of our soul is Satan. Satan is the god of this world system and is called "evil" in 1 John 5:19. Jesus faced the same enemy as we faced when he was led into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. We read,
Luke 4:5 - 8: And he [the devil] led him [Jesus] up, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto him, To thee will I give all this authority, and the glory of them: for it hath been delivered unto me; and to whomsoever, I will I give it. If thou, therefore, wilt worship before me, it shall all be thine. And Jesus answered and said unto him, It is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
This position of Satan's power and world domination was acquired when both Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of good and evil knowledge, being tempted by the devil in the Garden of Eden. The lure of the temptation of Adam and Eve was to be like God. Satan hates God and His creation and seeks to win humanity over for its destruction. All dominion over the earth was initially given to Adam and Eve. Still, because of their sin, all of humanity and nature itself fell under the destruction and power of the devil.
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: Rom. 5:12
The enemy of the soul first appeared to man in the Garden of Eden when he deceived Eve into disobeying the LORD. God had given a command not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil." But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it, you will certainly die." Gen 2:17 Eve, being deceived, disobeyed the LORD. "When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it." Gen 3:6
The result of just one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people. By yielding to the enemy of the soul, one man's disobedience, everyone now born into the world is born a sinner. So by the sin of Adam, death was passed upon all mankind. All of us came into this world with a desire to gratify the cravings of our carnal nature. James writes, "Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin when it is full-grown, gives birth to death." This is how the enemy of our soul wages war against us through the need to gratify the cravings of our carnal nature.
He lost the battle to dethrone God and was cast back to his domain-Earth. He now attacks God by making war on humanity. With this understanding of events, we can see that our battles in this spiritual warfare come from principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, and the spiritual host of wickedness in high places. We are in a life and death struggle against evil. The enemy of the soul is the god of this world—Satan.
From the moment Adam disobeyed the LORD's commandment, all of God's creation, the plants, the animals, sea life, and of course, humanity itself began to suffer and die. This account is found in the first three chapters of the book of Genesis. Adam and Eve's sins brought the curse of sin to all the earth, in which we have our redemption only in Christ. It is only Christ, the Son of God, Who suffered the penalty of this curse to set us free and bring us back to God; therefore, Christ is the only way we can be saved.
The power of God is released, as we utilize every piece of the armor of God against evil spirits, who are labeled by Paul as principalities, powers, rulers of darkness and spiritual wickedness on high. We are asked to prepare ourselves as soldiers in spiritual warfare because as a forbearer of God's truth and power, Christians and God's work targets the devil for destruction. The intense hate of the devil and his devil spirits against God's creation is unimaginable but real. He is cruel and merciless; however, he cannot defeat God. Therefore, he uses trickery and deception to defeat believers or draw them into vulnerable positions. Some of these positions are fear, doubt, confusion, condemnation, temptation through pressure or pleasure, spiritual blindness, pride, affliction, or persecution, intended to frustrate the purposes of God through His people. He is cunning and attempts to oppress us in our weakest areas (through our thought life or other people and circumstances), in which the "unaware" are led into chains of depression and other forms of bondage.
We have been commanded to "Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." The armor consists of having our, ". . . feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: We are to, "Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; which is also referred to as the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. This is the armor that will quench the fiery darts of the wicked-"Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked."
"The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us, therefore, cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light."
When we are equipped with the armor of God, the power God protects us against evil spirits, the principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, and spiritual wickedness on high. We are asked to prepare ourselves as soldiers in spiritual warfare because as a witness of God's truth and power, Christians and God's work targets the devil for destruction. The weapons of the devil are fear, doubt, confusion, condemnation, temptation through pressure or pleasure, spiritual blindness, pride, affliction or persecution, intended to frustrate the purposes of God through His people. He is cunning and attempts to oppress us in our weakest areas (through our thought life or other people and circumstances), in which the "unaware" are led into chains of depression and other forms of bondage.
If we fail to use the protection that God has given us, we will find that we are no more than Satan's amusement. The conflict will vary; however, if we rely on our strength, we will fall into an endless defeat pattern, victimized by the same snares or traps. Often, hostile situations may reoccur because the spiritual forces behind a condition are left undetected. By relying on our human wisdom and strength, we are left without a solution to our problems. We must attempt to identify the area of the enemy's infiltration. We need to keep in mind that we are never told to remove God's armor; it is a Christian way of life.
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