Surviving The Jungle

I do tend to believe that familial demonic ongoing intergenerational interactions are a thing.

It is intense and spooky.

BUT for God! They destroy....

I am ever thankful and humbled to see little blasts of light and slivers of sight . . . of God and angels protecting against the ongoing embedded onslaught, in this fallen world. . . .

Like I wrote a few posts ago . . . if you could see just how much you are protected and loved by God against the LEGIONS of enemies that are working non-stop to destroy, you would be amazed!

And a full, big bulk of it . . . happens moment to moment, day to day, . . night to night. . . . . 

The attacks come in mostly subtle ways.  Most are missed.  It is ongoing, however, and indeed sometimes they are blunt and brutal.

Within, without. . . .  The subtle attacks are the worst.  Pied Piper stuff... led to caves, or to the river, or to some weird horrible end. . . . .

Very subtle. . .  Constant.

The evil one has eyes-on and lieutenants and riff-raff constantly assigned to thwart and subdue and torment the children of God.  

They don't have much time left, so they are getting to the point of the end of Noah's days. . . .

Desperate, they are, the wicked.

They will come in the side door, the front door, the back door--any window.... BUT PRAISE GOD!

HE protects ALL THE WAY!

We are behind enemy lines.  It is amazing and wonderful we persevere. It is all thanks to The Lord!

But yeah, it's non-stop.  It is like a pouring, torrential rain . . . sitting there huddled amidst the predators and insects, in the middle of an amazon-type jungle. . . .  YET YOU SURVIVE!  Because HE TOOK IT ALL ON!  OUR HOPE, OUR FAITH, is in Jesus Who became the curse, the sin of all FOR ALL.

He paid the price in full.

ALL OF THE SIN OF ALL  . . . HE TOOK ON AND SUFFERED FOR OUR SAKE!  BECAUSE OF HIS LOVE!  

For the mortal . . . it is mysterious! .. It is awe-ful.  IT IS WHAT IT IS!  HE IS WHO HE IS--THE GREAT AND ONLY I AM THAT I AM!4

The Crux Of It All, Finished!

 

Gettin' Weird Out There. Persevere!

 Yeah.  Things are gettin' weird.  (Lol, as if they haven't been for quite a while!)  

BUT, I'll say, a new, accelerating trajectory of weirdness is underway.  And by that, I basically mean, that the A. I. and the bots and the infiltrators and spies and monitors and disruptors, provocateur's etc., etc., are permeating to near full capacity. . .  

As I've written long before, there will come a time (we are pretty much now almost buried into it) where it will be near impossible to discern or know the truth of what's "going on" in the world, other than having the Holy Spirit to guide and instruct.

The whole system is in near total lock down.  Yes, there is a semblance of "free speech", "free thought", but it really is just a faint semblance.  Most everyone is gone; their minds are controlled, programmed, goaded, corralled--and with such professional scientific precision, that most have no idea or question or concern regarding whether what they are thinking, feeling, is true, from within OR is being installed, wholesale manipulated.

It really is like a sort of zombie apocalypse. . . .  

With just a few living survivors. . . .

Kind of like the original "The Omega Man" movie. . . .

BUT . . . YOUR SOUL IS AT STAKE!  SO . . . if you can yet Hear and See and discern Truth amidst the designed and intentional noise and chaos, praise God!  

I yet observe and suspect . . . that "they" will not allow any type of "return" to "traditionalism".  "They" are entrenched, ubiquitous and simply now orchestrating "their" final scene . . . where it LOOKS like the good guys might win, but HA HA! Turns out, it was all a ruse.

Well, that is "THEIR" script . . . which is in full force.  BUT, thank GOD . . . HE IS THE AUTHOR of the ultimate ending to the real, holy script!

So, stay strong in faith, even when it seems that all is going against you and the wicked prosper--seemingly "winning"; and where the pangs from "their" abuse and subterfuge and torments are often even visceral along with the psychological, emotional and spiritual.

HE took it ALL on and defeated it.  The game is already over.

We've just got to persevere in our witness and belief and thankfulness and faith, by His Grace, to cross the finish line.

THEN Heaven.  THEN even crowns of added glory and reward as such.

Praise be God, Creator, LORD of all! 

Believing In "god" vs. BELIEVING GOD

Many "believe in god".  If you stumble on some college campus, or just out and about, or at some family get together and casually ask, "Do you believe in god?"  Many will say a general, "yes."   

A lot of people "believe in god", ie., in a "higher power" AND/OR, if they're a bit more fancy, a particular premier avatar, "force", "higher power". . . .

Many have ideas and thoughts and experiences of "god".  Well, and then, there are those who are determined to not believe in any god. . . . 

The Holy Spirit--the actual real and 1/3rd Person of the only one trinitarian God--indwelt . . . says, "it's one thing to 'believe in god', but YOU OUGHT BELIEVE GOD!"

And while He is indeed found within the experiences of life, and feelings, and signs etc., (for He is so ubiquitous and involved and caring about every single imaginable detail of existence and being, that everyone has a sense of Him and has no excuse. Rom. 1:20) . . . HE GAVE US HIS WORD!  

THAT is what/Who we check it all against; against all of the fake-out ideas, cultish manipulations, creepy church pastors, new age knuckleheads, Satanists parading et al.

Many are called (by some sort of "god" or another) and will believe in "god".

The difference is--as one is enlightened by The Spirit Of Truth, The Holy Spirit, God--to rightly divide The Word . . . BELIEVING GOD vs. believing in "god", is where --to put it in laymen's terms--"the rubber meets The Road."

"Believing in (a) god" vs. BELIVING GOD is a concept and divine proposition that is eternally worthy of thought, prayer, mediation and discernment.

There Are Always A Few Mighty Lights

Something to know. . . . And, yes, I dare say it.  I have seen it before and there is absolute scripture to back it up; so it's not just an "experience".  And it is not boasting or hubris or presumption.  

There is always a "remnant".  In Noah's time EIGHT out of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, were spared.  Many are called, few are chosen.  Same with Sodom & Gomorrah . . . God was willing to spare if even TEN (righteous) might be found!  Again, we're talking a very, very small fraction of Believers amidst a large population were there.  And even at that, it ended up just being a few, less than ten. . . .

Hence, when you feel as if the whole world and forces and principalities, seen and unseen hordes are against you . . . know that it is because it is so rare--YOU are so rare, that all such enemies shall be arrayed and targeting and against you. 

 

Imagine a broad, wide valley--a large city full of tens, hundreds of thousands of souls being there.  All going about their business, busy, living, bustling, surviving. . . . Now turn off ALL the lights.  

NOW, imagine that, amidst that big, full populace . . . the lights of those who are His--who are actual blessed, chosen children of God TURN ON. . . .

You would see a vast black, dark swath . . . and here and there, maybe five?  Maybe ten . . . flickers of light show here and there throughout that whole municipal array.  THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS dead and dark, no light.  But in one corner over here there is a light, and in one place over there, and maybe on the east or west edge a light is on, and a few more lights sprinkled about the middle.  The rest is spiritual wasteland, no life, no light REGARDLESS of the hustle and bustle.

THAT is an image of how rare and few a remnant is in any given population.

HENCE why, the villains--the wicked, the demons, the living dead . . . are sent to find and attack and try to extinguish such lights.  

If one could see just how protected and sustained and blessed and guarded, guided God's people are compared to the enemies arrayed against, one would fall on face, in tears, grateful, thankful, in awe all the day long!  Angels are assigned to such, as needed!

BUT, we are in the world, and so cannot bear at this time to see or know this for much time at all.  For we must carry on in the world, being ambassadors, useful during this mortal run.  Oh yes! We shall indeed have plenty of time to further express and know our divinely stunned gratefulness and thanks.

In the meantime, according to His Word, we can know that "strait is the way, and narrow is the gate and few there be that find it" (those who He has loved and "chosen before the foundation of the world.")

It is no mystery that the vast armies of darkness are sent to harass and oppress and are tasked to destroy and snuff the flames of Holy Spirit infused light and life individuals wherever they may be.  Like (demonic) moths to the flame, they surround.

But for the grace and will and mercy of God, the remnant, the chosen--those who love and serve The Lord, would be easily and swiftly quashed, considering the panoply of onslaught and worldly mire asaaulting.

And, of course, not because WE are so great or deserving or worthy or mighty; BUT BECAUSE HE IS!!!!!

   

Some Words That Came Today

 God . . . never ceases to blow my mind (sorry for the rough phrasing).  

From my experience and continued study . . . there is an historic "progressive revelation" and there is a personal "progressive revelation".  NOT in the way that the cults speak of and use to bemuse and confuse and seek worldly gain.  BUT as it (progressive revelation) appears and is rendered in The Book, in His Word., and happens, whether quick as a whip or through a lifetime for an individual; so long as it conforms to His Word, it is well and how He apparently relates and teaches and fathers'.

He lays things out as He will.  In HIS own time.  The Holy Spirit guides and reveals The Way.  And we thank God, since Pentecost especially, His Spirit abides within.

So, today . . . this is what I Heard:

"The Adamic heart looks at the living dead, and it feels a subtle snidely striking sense of superiority, schadenfreude.  HA! Look at those lost wayward fools who have not been benefitted by the knowledge I have.

"The living born again heart, washed in the blood of Jesus looks at the miserable wretches and weeps, and longs and, if granted wants to shatter the shackles, share and teach The Good News, The Gospel.  Believe!  The Adamic impulse is always there (in this mortal run) BUT the Holy Spirit is also there, and that is the One the disciple, believer finds him/her self cleaving to, by newborn nature. 

"It's not how much we can or do to love Him.  You come towards grasping The Gospel in realizing--being shown--how much HE LOVES YOU!  YOU can do nothing of any (divine) report.  Realizing, believing it is all His Perfect Work is where it's at.

"How can you be saved if you don't know that you're lost? 

"You're not a sinner because you sin; you sin because you are a sinner.

"Mount Sinai ... Moses/Paul ... law vs. grace. They both went there and heard from The Lord.  One revealed the law; one revealed grace.  

"How do you know you're a lost sinner? Because of the law.  It convicts. . . . 

"Hence the need for the Savior, Who nailed ALL infractions to The Cross with His blood.  He took it ALL on, paid-in-full!

"Many believe in God.  The crux is, do you believe God!? 

"Well, which God?  What did He say?  Did He Say (through scripture) all that He wanted, intended, meant to Say, such that, by Hearing, you Hear His Word, His Revelation?"

 

Poem Of The Day

Imagination

Attention

Love

Will 

Emotion

Being

Holiness

Apprehending, approaching qualities that redound to

being created in

the Image Of God.

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That is my poem for the day.

Pauline Doctrine

 There's the Old Testament.  And the New Testament and then there is Paul.  All of it works together, inspired by The Holy Spirit, God.

Those who reject Paul, reject The Lord.

I recall one Sherry Shriner, years ago, maligning Paul.  That was one of her big issues.  How did that work out for her?  

Judaizers and demons and the devil hate Paul just as they hate Jesus.  Up through and to the time of Acts, the Gospel was meant specifically for the House of Israel.  Had they accepted The Messiah, THEN it would go out to the "whole world", to "the Greeks/Gentiles".

BUT, they rejected Christ.  And so, Jesus taught Paul in his three years in the desert the doctrines of grace, faith . . . belief!  NOT works, so that none can boast.  And He sent him (Paul) into the world to preach the good news to all.