MARSHALLING THE FORCDES OF THE ANTICHRIST

MARSHALLING THE FORCES OF THE ANTICHRIST

                If Christians would only bother to look behind the scenes, they would be shaken to their knees. Here in the USA antichrist forces are finding their focus in a war against president Trump. It’s not because he is an exemplary Christian or any of that, but because God put him in place to temporarily bock the final formation of the global government of the antichrist.

                I say “temporary” because much depends upon the spiritual state of the church and whether or not Christians will come to understand the times we are in, or if they will simply get political for a while and then go back to sleep. Revival and reformation are required for the harvest.

                This war against Trump is an overt war against Jews and Christians and the coming government of Our Messiah Yeshua. As such the political part of it is only there to confuse us. Trump isn’t even the real issue if the truth is to be understood. The “War against Trump” is a global war for control of the world. The British Empire is involved in it. The EU is involved in it. The United Nations is involved in it. The News media in all of these places has become the propaganda arm of it.

                Friends, we are headed for a spiritual showdown unprecedented in human history, leading to a war unprecedented in human history. The antichrist system, though it has been present throughout the past 2000 years, is now taking its final prophetic form. The beast of Revelation 13 is rising and it will bring with it the darkest days ever recorded in human history.

                It will be during this darkest of all times that God’s remnant people will be called to take a stand and to demonstrate the power of God just as Elijah did in the days of Ahab and Jezebel.

                “Arise, shine, for your light has come! For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth and deep darkness the people; but the Lord will arise over you and His glory will be seen upon you. The Gentiles (nations) shall come to your light and kings to the brightness of your rising.” Isa. 60:1-3

                It is a subtle thing, the difference between true and false prophecy in the church. One kind of prophecy causes the church to sit back and think that we will ride this train to glory minus any trouble or persecution. True prophecy , on the other hand, is driving people to their knees to pray for and prepare for a great harvest that will come amidst the greatest darkness the world has ever seen.

                Here are the questions that I must ask myself:

1.       Is my church praying for and preparing for the coming harvest or are they in a holding pattern?

2.       Are my church’s energies being expended in gearing up for the final days or is it in maintenance mode, just trying to keep everyone happy?

3.       Is my church gearing up for battle, or is it wasting its God given energies coddling old saints, doing the same old routines, singing the same old songs, studying the same old lessons with the same little old group of 80 somethings?

                I am not against old people; I am getting up there in age myself, but listen: If the 70 and 80 somethings are not mature in the faith by now, they never will be and the harvest is not about keeping them in a steady boat. It is about lowering the net on the other side of the boat to bring in those 153 big fish.

In a recent visitation to the prophet Sadhu Selvarage, the Lord Jesus told him that He desires to plug the church into 220 volt power, but the church was still operating on 110. Then He followed up by saying that 220 volt power is speaking of Galatians 2:20.

        This call to the harvest is not about becoming clever and producing bigger and better programs. It is about death to the flesh so that Christ may be fully seen in us. It is all about the glory of the Lord rising upon us.

        Gross darkness is descending upon the earth. It is a kind of darkness far darker than the Dark Ages. It is related to the Dark Ages in its oppression and persecution and satanic control of the mind through despotic religion, but infinitely greater. This time around it is global in scope and with a whole lot of technology to enable a kind of control never dreamed of during the Dark Ages.

        A different picture of the rapture is emerging as we get closer to the time. We have always thought that the rapture would be a corporate thing where the entire church would be blinked out (Caught up) in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye and that is true, but it will be done on an individual basis. Harvest time is all about picking the fruit when it is ripe. The harvest will be a quick work in much the same way that food cooks faster in a pressure cooker. As God’s last day Remnant people, we must reach full maturity… that is to “attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.” Eph. 4:13

        This is why Jesus said: “But keep on the alert at all times, praying in order that you may have strength (Or be accounted worthy) to escape all of these things.” (Luke 21:36) In other words, when you are spiritually ripe or mature then God will take you into His barn. But if you have not been found worthy, or spiritually strong or mature, you will have to go through whatever it takes to bring you to maturity. God will not take green wheat into His barn because green or wet grain will cause the rest to rot or even to spontaneously combust and ruin the entire crop.

        In Amos 8:1, 2 God showed Amos a bowl of fruit and asked Amos what he saw and Amos replied, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to him: “The end has come for My people Israel. I will spare them no longer.” (So Israel went into a judgment of captivity.)

        What we have in the world today is a basket of summer fruit. Both those who are righteous and those who are evil are coming into maturity. Until now the wheat and the tares have grown together, but a great shaking is coming and now is, when everything that can be shaken will be shaken so that what remains will be the pure fruit of the Kingdom. Heb. 12

        Even the church has mostly done things man’s way, by church growth, by lowering the standards, making it easy to be a member, keeping people happy with the best entertainment, the most energetic preaching…  the most positive presentation of things that appeal to the flesh rather than to the spirit of man. But now, in the face of the final harvest God is going to cut to the chase. This final harvest is not about making members, it is about making disciples. It is not about the Gospel of salvation. It is about the Gospel of the Kingdom. It is no longer about making members, but preparing a people to reign with Christ in His kingdom. As such we need to be mature disciples, not coddled members.

        We need to embrace entirely new ways of thinking. The harvest is not just more of the same. There are millions of people in large tracts of land around this earth who have yet to ever once hear the name of Jesus. Our present methods are not keeping up and in fact we are falling behind. Islam is growing faster than we are. The globalist regime is engulfing even America and pulling us under for the count.

        In our recent move to Tennessee, we made a herculean effort to do what we thought the Lord was telling us to do. And yet, now that we are here, apart from wonderful visits with our children and grandchildren, we are struggling to find our overriding purpose. It’s like,” Okay, we are here Lord, now what? Did we really hear your voice or are we on a self-guided rabbit trail? Nothing seems to be going as we would like it to. Bonnie and I have learned to live by divine appointment and right now we can’t exactly feel it. We are indeed in a time of testing to see if our faith and confidence is in God alone, or if it is dependent upon circumstances and preconceived ideas.

        But as I study the prophetic landscape, I see an overriding purpose of God for us that doesn’t involve personal comfort or personal ideas. It is as though the Holy Spirit is force guiding us through obstacles we can’t see, to bring us to a purpose that we don’t yet know. He knows our desire to be in His harvest. He knows my conversations with Him in saying, ”Whatever it takes Lord, I want to be among your remnant people, being used to bring perspective and understanding to those whom You have put in my path. Hopefully we are making disciples Lord and not just philosophical thinkers.

        It is not easy to forge a new path out of complacency and tradition. Following Jesus often means breaking new trail. Think about His ministry here on earth. He certainly worked within the system in fulfilling all that had been foreshadowed by His Word… and yet He had a mission that was far greater than their institutions and traditions could comprehend. For this He had to work outside the system. Tradition could not contain the greater picture of His purpose and since they could not contain it, they put Him to death. And even though they couldn’t see it, even their putting Him to death was a part of the greater picture. It is amazing how God works.

        If we are to follow Jesus Christ then, we must prepare to be expendable. At some point our death may be more important than our life. This is why we need to learn to live the crucified life now. Our purposes are greater than ourselves. (And even as I say this the Holy Spirit is giving me a huge hug and a smile.) Maybe, just maybe I have landed on a transcendent truth.

        “Don’t try to figure it all out. Just remain in Galatians 2:20 and I will get you where you need to go.”

        Friends, the things I write I do not write as some sort of an authority figure, but as a child being taught by the Holy Spirit and then sharing my discoveries with others.  My desire is to be a conduit. It is all about growing and maturing and not about empirical evidence to buttress our traditions. We are forging into new territory and for this we need a new kind of faith… a new sense of purpose and destiny… a new use of our spiritual weapons… a new discipline in moving from membership to discipleship.

        We are God’s Remnant in the making and time is short. What we have taken a lifetime to learn we must now put into action. We are at the end of summer. The latter rains are about to fall to bring the crop to final maturity. The harvest is upon us and until the Lord takes us home, we are the reapers.

        We know too from scripture that though we may take part in the ripening of the fruit, much of the harvest will be supernatural in scope. Jesus told us so. In His parable of the wheat and the tares, Jesus said this: “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, and the field is the world; and as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; (That’s us) and the tares are the sons of the evil one; and the enemy who sowed them is the devil and the harvest is the end of the age; (That’s now) and the reapers are angels.” Mt. 13:37-39.

        Everything that will be done by us in the closing hours of earth’s history will be done, not by us, but by Christ living in us. Only that which is conceived in us by the Holy Spirit will stand the test of time. Everything else will be shaken out. Galatians 2:20 is indeed the source of our power and our purpose… and now we must move from being members to being disciples of our Lord.

        “For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” (Isa. 60: 1, 2,) is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the light of knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the surpassing greatness of the power may be of God and not from ourselves; we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken, struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifest in our body.” 2 Cor. 4:6-10.

        Satan is now overtly marshalling the forces of the antichrist. Evil is reaching its final maturity and so the church must now come to maturity as well. For some this maturity will be reached by living in Galatians 2:20, for others it will come about as a result of persecution. Either way, God will serve no wine before its time.