Since the fall of man (you know, that ‘garden incident?) the quest for INDEPENDENT dominion over the earth has been the baseline sin of humanity. Our lust to be THE ONE in charge of us and all around us lay at the root of all social ills both then and as we know them today. Individual humans crave ‘righteousness’ based on our own parameters of what is ‘right’ for us (me) regardless of what God has told us.
In my relationship with God, I have come to erect some boundaries concerning my perspective of what is right. My boundary leaves no room for anyone or anything seeking to control what I think, feel, believe, agree and/or disagree on, whether it be a concept of truth or practice. I have committed to one single person to invade that private place and that is the Spirit of the Living Christ. It is my purpose, my mission and my passion to tune into Him, hear Him, see Him and conduct myself in accord with what I see and what I hear. It is my purpose to speak what I hear and to move toward conducting my actions and activities by what I see Him doing in me and around me. I want to be found there doing that and saying all He permits me to say. And the one person I trust the least to direct me to ‘truth’ is me independent of God and His Word. I don’t care if you think I’m failing in my personal goals, beliefs and conduct. He has instructed me to let Him assess all that and gives me the opportunity to agree with Him (confess to Him) as to what HE sees. THEN, He tells me (I John 1:9, 10) He will be both faithful to forgive me and justified to forgive me AND my confession gives Him my permission to ‘cleanse me’ from my unbelieving beliefs and behavior. Wokeism is an intrusion into that place I simply will not knowingly allow. Wokeism is a new name for the same old passion of man to provide an independent system of moral values leaving God out or re-constructing God into a compliant idol. My response to the current nonsense is the same as the response of Moses to similar ‘virtues’ of his day. I hate to be a name dropper, but I choose to stand with Moses and all his tribe before and after him. Here are some elements in Egyptian society similar to the same issues we see around us today:
- Racism: The Egyptians were in the process, over time, to view the Israelites as a threat to their systems, their economy, and their power structures. The result was that they practiced a form of dealing with these threats by condemning a race of people who were the objects of their insecurities. Division and hatred between races is essential to ‘wokeism’.
- Child sacrifice: The Egyptians became so calloused in their insecurity that their Pharaoh commanded all Israelites born male to be killed. It was the same form of infanticide foundational to our woke culture. First was the legalization of abortion initially founded by a racist/eugenicist seeking to limit births of black babies. After abortion was legalized, there were restrictions to the first trimester. Later it was ‘legalized’ to be practiced into the third trimester. The next step was to end the life of an unwanted baby even during the process of birth – which they called ‘partial birth abortion’. With great glee and celebration, it became legal in the state of New York to end the life of a newborn by neglect. NOW, the Maryland legislature has had introduced legislation granting ending a baby’s life up to and including 28 days after birth. I don’t know what they call that, but I call it another encroachment leading directly to their goal of infanticide. What is the next step? Many believe they will adopt Pharaoh’s plan to eliminate (kill) any child up to and including 2 years of age. And, by the way, satan moved Herod to do the same thing to babies 2 and under in Bethlehem. Couldn’t happen again? We need some of Moses’ tribe today to see it doesn’t;
- Sexual perversion: We need to understand something. There is no mileage gained by labeling the gay community, pedophilia, transgenderism and the beastiality crowd with the label of ‘sex pervert’ and not understand how God sees the issue. First and foremost, it is necessary to look at the genuine so that we truly understand the alternate (the counterfeit).
God’s plan for sexual intimacy was limited to one man and one woman committed to each other for life. It is that simple. According to that plan Abraham perverted the original plan. Also, David, the great king of Israel and MOST of the kings after him perverted the original plan. Without trying to exhaust all the ‘sex perverts’ of scripture I simply will dare to say MOST of us have been guilty of perverting God’s boundaries respecting sexual intimacy. All that said, what is the great difference between ‘promiscuity’ and ‘adultery’ and pre-marital sex between a man and a woman who are NOT committed to each other for life and the practice of same gender intimacy? That is an interesting thing to ponder, and I must say that God’s way of dealing with pre or extra marital sex differed greatly from how He dealt with homosexuality, lesbianism and/or beastiality. Further, He doesn’t explain Himself – at least so far as I have found. But in the New Testament we find this scripture which, from my perspective, is greatly mis-interpreted and homosexuality is singled out erroneously. Here it is: “ I Corinthians 6: 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous and the wrongdoers will not inherit orhave any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled): neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality, 10 Nor cheats (swindlers and thieves), nor greedy graspers, nor drunkards, nor foulmouthed revilers and slanderers, nor extortioners and robbers will inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God.” You’ll notice ‘homosexuality’ is only one of fourteen listed disqualifiers for inheriting or having a share in the kingdom of God. The point here is we don’t really understand God’s view of perversion nor His reality that is ‘the kingdom of God’. Perhaps this is why Christians are so vulnerable to ‘wokeism’ without realizing it as an enemy to Christ – thus, seeing wokeism as promoted by the spirit of anti-Christ which is in the earth. I am reminded that Jesus made a curious claim about Himself that, in reality, is difficult to understand. He said, as quoted in the gospel of John, Chapter 14, verse 6 (in context, vss. 5-7) “5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.” The context of His expose of His role here was the approach that is available to us to ‘The Father’ and Jesus made it abundantly clear for all to see that HE – JESUS – was the exclusive reconciling entry into the presence of God, the Father. Before any of us write this off as just a claim to a religious superiority of Christianity over ‘competing’ religions we should be reminded of our limited discussion of ‘original sin’. Namely, Adam was persuaded by satan that knowledge independent of God was desirable – maybe even essential. Granted, that ‘knowledge’ with which Adam was tempted is said to be confined to ‘the knowledge of good and evil, blessing and calamity’. Yet, what we have to recognize is that ALL knowledge about EVERYTHING Adam acquired was through his relationship with his creator – Almighty God. I could, and maybe will in another article, dive off into the fact everything that was made was made by ‘The Word’ which ‘became flesh and dwelt among us’ and see how all this concerns and involves this Jesus claiming to be THE Way, Truth, Life and exclusive access to ‘the Father’. Without writing a multi-chapter book on what is already written as ‘The Book’ I’ll just say that Jesus claim did not limit its’ parameters to ‘religion’ but was expansive enough to mark Him as THE BASELINE for any and all truth. Here is how I apply it in my own life: ANYTHING purported to be ‘truth’ that is inconsistent with His Word is considered by me to be UNntrue – a lie. Now you have my measuring stick with which I proclaim, declare and personally decree that the idea there exists multiple genders is utter nonsense. The same holds true with sexual preferences being alternatives to those prescribed by God. I also apply the same principals to the matter of ‘follow the science’ or that old, awful declaration pointed out by Ronald Reagan: “Hello. I’m from the government and I’m here to help you”. I am not going to try to convince you that big government, big media, big organized, unionized education and big business have finally formed a consensus in the form of wokeism to provide for people of the whole world to form thoughts both individually and collectively independent of God and God’s Word to us. I will only suggest if you do not already have the sense something is wrong in today’s world and their suppression of truth, I am firmly convinced it will become all too clear in the very near future. But for now, they are lying to us about: 1) Racism; 2) Global Warming; 3) Mask and Vaxx mandates; 4) Election integrity (their term is ‘voter rights suppression’; 5) Population control: A) Abortion (worldwide); B) ‘Man made’ global warming making it necessary to take control of industry, jobs, personal preferences such as our individual carbon footprint and a myriad of other ‘issues’; C) Gender Equality – clearly in violation of God’s boundaries set for sexual intimacy and clearly appealing to the sensual desires of man; and D) War. All of our specific and individual concerns and issues are being systematically hijacked by some form of controlled agenda and has been brewing and growing for decades hiding in our educational system. We are at the point gender issues are being introduced to our children at the earliest level of education – KINDERGARTEN! Our current administration has gone so far as to attempt to criminalize parents who express concerns over what their children are being taught from kindergarten through graduate studies at our universities. Many of us see these things, point them out and some of us even suggest it is not incompetence that had caused the near demise of our American economy, but it is intentional (a nice word to use in place of ‘treasonous’). But I can take you directly to the very head and mastermind of this ‘conspiracy’ (not a theory). We are being robbed, some put to death while the ultimate aim is our destruction as Christ followers. Now, in case you’re not already ahead of me here, you are wondering who I shall name as this thief, this killer, this destructive individual. For all those of you familiar with the statement made by Jesus as quoted in the gospel of John, chapter 10, verse 10, you will recognize the implication that this is the agenda of satan. What you may not understand that this ‘thief’ is ineffective unless and until he has a cooperative inside man – an insider known in scripture as ‘the flesh’, ‘the old nature’ and ‘the carnal man’. Without putting a guilt trip on you I am implying that – well, just let me say this from a personal perspective: “Each and every time the thief has operated his agenda in my life, I discover I was deceived into becoming the accomplice to the crimes of the thief perpetrated against me. Let’s find our runway on which we may land this plane and get to our destination – i.e., ‘the point’: I am convinced (you look at everything for yourself, I’m not going to try to convince you of what I’ve been convinced about) satan is operating on a world scale to set up his global one-world government in opposition to everything God, specifically an ‘Anti-Christ’ global government. You may say that this is inevitable and while we don’t like it, we can do nothing about it. That type of thinking reminds me of the wisdom I heard from someone who said “If you’re going through hell don’t stop – don’t tarry. Hit the gas and keep going.” And, in reality, this inevitability is something we are powerless to control. But, ya know what? Even when God does not seem to be in control – even when the actions and activities of the world seem to be going in the opposite direction of what it would be under His ‘control’ there remains this solid truth: “GOD IS IN CHARGE”. This poor, stupid fool of a devil really thinks he can usher in this one-world government and his leader, the Anti-Christ, upon his manipulations, deceptions, cunning trickery but the truth remains GOD is in control of timing. It is our privilege, it is our responsibility and it is our one job to be moved ONLY by what is said by Jesus (the Word made flesh and dwelling among us). Take a look at the collection of scripture verses from John 6 and John 8: John 6:63 “ It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” And John 6:28 & 29 “ Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” John 8:51 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.” It is as though God is looking us straight in the eye and with all the seriousness that He can muster He declares to each of us “Child – YOU GOT ONE JOB!” Now, here is something I’m seeing – I believe it is from God and I’m sharing it with you for your consideration. In tuning our ear to His voice, we are instructed, energized and enabled to RESIST all communications from sources OTHER than God and we persist in our steadfastness to Him and HIS agenda – which is: the Spirit of TRUTH will CONVICT (convince) MEN regarding SIN, regarding RIGHTEOUSNESS and regarding JUDGMENT. When you ponder this do so by depending on the Holy Spirit of God to reveal to you what HE has to say and what HE declares truth. I’m going to give you what I’ve observed, what I’ve prayed over and what I believe to be a Word from Him:
- It is the purpose of satan to stop the present agenda of God as regards
- AWAKENING (seeing what is actually happening in our world and also seeing our own identity and destiny in this ‘hour’);
- REVIVAL (as His Church renews her TOTAL commitment to His Holy Spirit (look again at John 6:63) as we begin to walk in His kingdom through our obedience to His commands); and
- HARVEST the likes of which the world has never before experienced.
- The tool we see in Revelation being used to usher in this period of the Anti-Christ is the powerful manipulation of world economics wherein the global population is forced into compliance with a system designed to put us directly dependent on government for the ability to buy and sell – even bread and milk. No compliance? No avocado toast and hot chocolate for you bud.
Just as the Anti-Christ is to be ushered in to bring about the great tribulation period, even so this harvest of global proportion will occur. If the revealing of the Anti-Christ is inevitable equally so this great harvest. The two systems – that of the kingdom of God on the one side and the kingdom of this world system under the influence of satan on the other – growing in power together will bring the highest level of conflict man has ever seen. And everything we see today is moving us to a great economical reset to a global economy – a global monetary system and the nations AND the citizens of the nations will be forced into that system. Already there is movement to where banks are beginning to look at funding corporations – even individuals – based on not only their credit score but their environmental score. In other words, it will come to the place that capital funding will depend as much on how ‘woke’ a corporation is as to how credit worthy and financially stable they are. They even propose using similar scoring systems for such things as getting insurance, auto loans, mortgages and even preferred checking accounts. It is THIS engine driving critical race theory and transgenderism into our educational system and all backed and funded by globalists and their puppets in education unions and government beaurocracies. While the agenda of satan is clear and is currently visible to all whose eyes are open to Jesus the agenda of the King of all kings and the Lord of all lords is as active and more effective than all the devices of our enemy, satan. So, how are we to move and do the works of our Father during all this turmoil? We first must find ourselves. If you or I or any of us is born again we are spiritually alive and spiritually furnished. This is a matter of the spirit world, (realm) and we are in it. But before you and I can act with any strength, before we can act with any authority, we must locate our spirit. We find it here: Ephesians 2:2-10 “2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” To begin with, we are not where we were before Christ engaged our spirit by His Spirit and we invited Him in and made Him welcome. By that very invitation to Him He now resides in us, but it is equally important we know we live IN HIM. Our spirit is both in us and in Him and our spirit is where our body is and where JESUS IS at the same time. The very fact that Jesus finished His work here gives us a rest from going back to do that same work. Our work is to abide in Him, and He is seated at the right hand of His (our) Father. WE ARE THERE WITH HIM. In that reality and in that posture, we see the activities on earth from HIS perspective. In that posture we are not looking up begging for His help. We are looking down (His perspective) exercising effective and righteous dominion authority as the kings and priests He has created as our NEW NATURE. As kings we exercise rule – we act in authority. Our commission (Matthew 28:18-20) is somewhat like a deputy. We operate under the authority of a designated ruler to bear rule on His behalf and according to HIS agenda – not our own. As Priests we minister to God through interceding on behalf of man (mankind) in accord with His great love, mercy, forgiveness and grace. As Priests we minister to man (mankind) on behalf of God encouraging reconciliation and relationship with Him. That is the function and the heart of a Priest. Taking all that together we find ourselves here:
- IN HIM – seated in a place of authority and commissioned by Him to BE Him here;
- In reality, our identity HERE is that HE is here to express Himself in us and, therefore, we are in a place of influence and responsibility which, taken together, puts us in our TERRITORY.
WHEN we find ourselves in these two places a marvelous thing occurs in us, around us and through us. His KINGDOM COMES, His WILL IS DONE in our territory AS IT IS DONE IN HEAVEN. Now, don’t get all defensive here and try to come out from under what He puts on us. His will is being done in and around my ‘territory’ as He has freedom to express Himself in and through me. I don’t do the work – I submit to the work He wants to do. I don’t produce conformity to His will in others around me – I commit the results to Him. If you and I understand this very reality that means if our ‘mission’ fails, then HE failed. If our mission succeeds, then HE succeeds. I know what you’re thinking – that if there is any failure it is MY failure. I got in the way and acted ‘in the flesh’ and not ‘in the Spirit’. But if His Word to us is true it is HE Who is the author and the finisher of my faith. And if I fail in my part in the mission, He has failed to express Himself in and through me. You see, I am totally incapable of perfecting me. That is HIS role, His responsibility. Remember that discourse found in John 6:28 & 29: WE GOT ONE JOB. And Jesus told us in John 8:51 if we ‘keep His saying’ we WILL NOT see nor experience ‘death’. When you and I find ourselves our only role thereafter is to tune in, listen and live in harmony with His Word we hear. Jesus said it so brilliantly simple when He declared that He ONLY did what He observed His Father doing. AND, He only SAID (spoke, taught, encouraged and commanded) what He HEARD the Father say. Again – WE GOT ONE JOB. Listen and DO WHAT WE HEAR. At that point we can respond to all this silliness satan is perpetrating on mankind and take authority over it. We can sit in the seat of authority and enjoy a good laugh with God: “He Who sits in the heavens laughs” at the senseless raging of men and nations. Woke is a joke. Go woke, go broke. Humanism, secularism, wokeism all have one common denominator. They ALL are dead because there is NO LIFE OF GOD in any of it. Eventually death and hell will be cast into the lake of fire. We are of those awake to the reality that we have abandoned corruption and have been furnished incorruption we can wear like a fine tailored suit of clothes. That part of us that is dead we leave in ‘the tomb’ where Jesus left it. Our current walk is in the NEWNESS of LIFE. We walk when The Way, The Truth, The Life walks in us. We have sought and found the Kingdom of God and Jesus, His righteousness and all with which we need to be furnished is attracted to us. We need not be attracted to our furnishings. While we are looking at the subject the current flag being flown throughout education from kindergarten through graduate school, flown high and with proud virtue signaling in the board rooms of very rich and powerful corporations is the LGBTQ (homosexual) community. We even see a strong sense of defending pedophilea. At this point beastiality does not seem to be getting any promotion but, remember, the ‘enemy’ is not finished with his (satan’s) indoctrination processes. He will get around to it. But we are seeing an international surge in governments, financial institutions as well as global corporations demanding the acceptance and agreement with sexual practices running counter to the parameters of sexual conduct for humans – and animals. Worldwide media outlets have their tentacles (almost said testicles) out mining expression of ANY individual, group, corporation or otherwise ‘discriminating’ by any form of disagreement. Already there is ample episodes of governments of various sorts and nationalities calling certain quotations from scripture ‘hate speech’. Of course, that is a thinly veiled method of shutting down our free speech. If any group can get enough people (doesn’t take much for the tail to wag the dog) to be loud enough their ‘hate speech’ angle gets some traction. That is where the deadly deception of our primary media outlets becomes agents of propaganda. Their conduct does not border on treason – it boldly crosses the line and labels it THEIR right to free speech while the label they spin toward any viable opposition as ‘hate speech’. Why are so many major corporations, financial institutions, beaurocrats and technocrats pushing hard for this agenda? I’ll give you two reasons and will freely admit the conclusions made are full of my personal opinion: 1) This Marxist agenda is necessary to weaken the Church which is an enemy to the godlessness and occultism of Marxist ideologies; and 2) for the same reason it is necessary for them to weaken the structures of the traditional family. Breaking down the family values by undermining the authority of parents to instill parental values in their children WITHOUT interference is absolutely necessary for these leftists/globalists/socialists/occultists to indoctrinate an entire upcoming generation of local and national – even international leaders. Well, that is a dismal picture wouldn’t you agree? May I tell you, if you have not heard it already, the picture I’ve painted is taken one step further by ‘the enemy’. It is his agenda to deceive us into thinking this is the direction the world is heading – it is the path we are on – even using scripture to show us its’ inevitability and with the strong implication we should simply stop resisting and let God take care of it somewhere down the road when it all comes collapsing down around them. Here is the extreme fallacy and danger of that attitude. FIRST, it is not a biblically applied course of action or belief. SECOND, it focuses our attention ONLY on the inroads ‘the enemy’ has made against God’s stated objectives and purpose. THIRD, it is driven by emotion – mainly the emotion of fear. While we are here let’s take a look at this ‘fear factor’ and break it down. God has not given us a SPIRIT OF FEAR! But God HAS given us emotions and among those is the very useful emotion of fear. Our nation has enjoyed international respect and has garnered many allies against tyrannies of various sorts because our nation has been STRONG. Those who would perpetrate international injustice FEAR the consequences of drawing us in to defend our allies. This is the strength of NATO, to have at the disposal of international justice a FORCE TO BE FEARED. That is one positive use of the emotion of fear. We often look at that as ‘respect’. It is worth noting the responsibilities of parents, educators, military and first responder organizations all employ a ‘fear based’ respect in their training and chain of command. Any school age person engaged in sports activities are brought into contact with this concept immediately. Another valuable use of the emotion of fear is simply knowing not to put our hand in the flame, knowing to stay out of a busy street, knowing we should avoid vicious animals, poisonous snakes and spiders and on and on. We really need to fear getting behind the wheel of a car when we have had too much to drink or are under medication that slows down our response time. USING the emotion of fear is the key – when we FEEL fearful, what do we do with it? Let us start with what the military teaches soldiers to do with fear: USE IT TO BE CAUTIOUS and to heighten your awareness of what may potentially harm you and/or stop you from fulfilling your assignment/mission. Thus, fear becomes a diagnostic tool. We applaud soldiers, first responders, ordinary people who do extraordinary things in spite of the dangers associated with their actions. But we must see that there is absolutely NO courage absent the presence and the awareness of danger – fear. When people perform bravely in the absence of fear they have acted bravely by accident, naively or they have no fear and are, therefore, a danger to themselves and others around them. Those people need help. What, then, do we do with the fact that if something is not done our society is, as they say, “going to hell in a handbasket”? Let me give you some principles I use and see if you might find my methods useful for yourself. If not a help, again as ‘they’ say “It ain’t no skin off of my nose”. Here is my list of ways I approach frightening social or personal circumstances:
- Anything, anytime or anywhere some circumstance arises to make me fearful I immediately interpret that as an area or arena where I need to come up with a genuine response of faith in God and watch what He will do with it. My default reaction is to talk to Him (pray) about it.
I have had many adverse circumstances loom up in my life (and emotions) and immediately – or sometimes very soon – I respond with the thought, attitude and spoken response of how interesting it is going to be to see how God solves this one. Family life, business life, my health and that of my family never gets me in despair.
- I GOT ONE JOB! One of my life verses is that discourse quoted early in the article found in John 6:28 & 29. I cannot find a true path by ‘hearing’ circumstances as reported to my hearing from any source other than hearing Him. And NEVER have I heard God tell me through Jesus (the Word) that it is my responsibility to fix the ills and circumstances around me. Jesus healed ‘all who came to Him’ yet He did not take to Himself the responsibility for the healings and the miracles. Instead, He freely, openly and purposefully admitted and declared He ONLY did what He saw ‘the Father’ doing and He ONLY said what He heard ‘the Father’ saying. Jesus knew his boundaries (territory) but He occupied every cubic inch of it. I GOT ONE JOB!!!
- To the extent I have responsibility I have authority. I have NO responsibility to perform in a role that is not given me by God or directly shown to be my role in His Word:
Case in point, I have children. I have responsibilities that are clearly stated in His Word as to my provision, protection, education and development of my children. I have various levels of influence – maybe even authoritative positions in business, in organizations, and recognized in and by society. I have influences with friends, associates and others who observe how I conduct myself in whatever role they may watch. In most cases I have responsibilities TO various people and am responsible FOR various people. And here is a rule: If it isn’t my responsibility I have no real authority. ULTIMATELY, I have NO responsibility where I am not responsible TO GOD and I have NO responsibility for which God is not ultimately responsible for the results. It is my ‘job’ to hear Him, heed Him and trust Him for results.
- Any time I see more of the enemy’s actions, activities and territorial advancement than I see of God’s actions and activities to advance against the enemy’s territory I am being deceived and I must utilize His Word for a reality check. ‘The world’ is a system heavily influenced by satan. As we all have seen, satan tries to stay in the background where he can but he is not good at it, and he is easy to spot SO LONG as we stay balanced by hearing God.
Hearing: “Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God.” “Without faith it is impossible to please God.” Maybe pleasing God was not the priority you awoke with this morning but if any person is a discerning person, it should be. But the great question is if faith comes by hearing how do we stay tuned in to hear Him? We simply need to filter everything we hear by looking for God, God’s character, God’s purposes and plans being fulfilled and promoted and settling the issue that anything that does not prove to be God in what we are hearing is NOT God. What we are left with is what He is saying to us – His Word(s) to us globally, nationally and on down to individually. Bill Johnson, a pastor in Redding, CA, made this statement that shook my paradigm about His ‘Word’: Bill said “Faith comes by hearing – (short pause) – NOT from having heard.” His point was simple. What we hear God say right now will be something He builds on, adds to, amplifies and to whatever extent necessary He alters by what He says next. My priority right now is to process, submit to and surrender to what I just heard and comply with action, if necessary. His case in point was when God told Abraham to take his child of promise, Isaac, to a certain location and offer Isaac as a sacrifice there. NOW, Abraham acted (albeit reluctantly) on what he heard, and scripture gives us a clear indication Abraham believed God would raise Isaac from the ashes and they would continue as father and son to fulfill all God promised they would. Well on his way to being obedient to God Abraham was ready to bring down the knife to sacrifice Isaac (noteworthy that Isaac is displayed to us as compliant – no struggle) and upon seeing Abraham’s expression of total obedience God spoke yet again: DO NOT go any further was the word Abraham got. There was a fitting sacrifice caught in a thicket and became the substitute for Isaac – and they DID come down from the mountain to resume their father/son relationship and fulfilled their God appointed destinies. This simply means I need to trust that God will show me (tell me) what I need to see and/or hear for this moment and that He will expand His revelation to me each step of the way until the fulness of the revelation is manifest in victory in my life. Currently I am believing God for miraculous healings that have yet to be manifest. They have yet to respond to my authoritative commands. But may I remind you, WE AIN’T DEAD and HE AIN’T DONE! I’ll keep on declaring, decreeing, commanding with authority advocating His Word as truth until it is fully manifest. As for this thing called ‘wokeism’ and other satanic ideologies (idols) coming out of the woodwork I simply and confidently declare God has Fathered all creation, Jesus is His only begotten Son and through whom we have our access to Him (The Father). We take our place as His children and submit and surrender ourselves to our role and position as His child. On this side of Jesus death, burial, resurrection and ascension it is His plan and purpose to enter our spirit with His Spirit to create a NEW CREATURE with a NEW NATURE solidifying our various roles as Father and as Child of the Father. We are given His ‘likeness’ just like we favor, physically, our natural parents. Our NEW MAN has the same characteristics of God. Because we have that OLD DEAD NATURE, we are as of yet not perfect but the day will come when the corrupt Old Dead Guy will be completely taken over by the NEW MAN in whom is the LIFE of God. Wokeism is, therefore, a thinly disguised version of the father of all lies, satan. As he always is, God will expose it and him for what it and he is. God will display Jesus – THE WAY, THE TRUTH and THE LIFE in such a way that anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear will discern the liar and his lying manifestations. Now, here is the bare-knuckle truth: EVEN IF I am beheaded for my faith in God I WIN and the devil loses. EVEN WHEN the culture is completely in the hands of the anti-Christ the clear winner will be God and satan the ultimate and eternal loser. I DON’T NEED TO ESCAPE TO WIN. But anti-Christ cannot, and will not, have ability to rise to worldwide prominence and dominance so long as the Body of Christ (His Church) remains on earth to resist and withstand him. UNTIL THEN WE GOT ONE JOB!!!