The Kingdom of God!

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Chapter 21

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We are living in a set time that the Lord has ordained and the enemy is pulling out all the tricks he has to stop this next great move of the Lord on the earth. The age we have entered is the set time of the Lord for His Ecclesia (Church) to raise up and put Satan in his place and infiltrate all the seven mountains of this earth and establish His Kingdom rule! The mountains I am talking about is religion, family, education, government, media, the arts (music, movies, tv), businesses (banking, money)! Whoever controls these seven mountains, controls how we live! Mountains in the bible usually are referring to kingdoms or nations! The Lord said in Isaiah 2:2-4, (NIV)

 

"In the last days the mountain of the LORD's temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. Many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths." The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore."

 

In the past, we the Church, have been taught to stay out of politics! We have been told that politics and religion should be kept separate! Actually, I agree with that, however, The Kingdom of God should be involved in all of these mountains that control our lives. We have let the kingdom of darkness infiltrate our education systems and control the filth that is being taught in our school such as, sex, homosexuality, lesbianism, same sex marriage, abortion, disregard for our flag, our statues and displays of the history of our great nation, disregard for our constitution and we have allowed professors teach socialism in our colleges!

 

All the while we have been living the good life and doing what pleasures us with cars, houses, vacations and sports! Living the good life and keeping up with the Joneses! We watch the corrupt media fill our minds with lies and we accept them as truth and repeat them without searching out the truth. This is how the media controls us! We don't want to know what is going on in Washington DC because we are too interested in what we are doing to care! We just don't take the time to be interested in what is going on in these mountains that are controlling us!

 

Religion also controls the way we think. Religion will give us a mindset that even when we study the bible, we are controlled by what we have been taught as the truth! This is used by many preachers to control their people in order to keep them coming to their church. They know that if they teach their people the deeper things of God, they will lose many of them and maybe have to shut their church down and be in disgrace since they are a failure! As a result, many preachers teach only what they know their people are comfortable with and promise them that someday Jesus will come and take us out of here and let the world go to hell and when He comes for us, we will be changed and be like Him! Paul said in Heb. 5:11-14, (NIV)

 

"We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil."

 

We have been taught in the past to segregate ourselves from other denominations because we might be led astray, however, if you are a seeker of truth, the truth will set you free from religious bondage, if you are brave enough to leave it and be led by the Holy Spirit, He will free you to allow others the time to have the truth revealed to them in the Lord's timing! The deeper things of the Lord can only be revealed to you by the Holy Spirit! So many Christians allow themselves to be set in their understanding and they become blinded to the truth and no longer try to understand anything that is contrary to what they believe. They search the scriptures to prove what they believe is true! Jesus said in Mark 4:9,

 

"He that hath ears to hear, let him hear."

 

If you have been born of God, you have an ear to hear if you continue to seek the Kingdom of God and truth and are willing to adjust your life according to the revealed word of the Lord! Jesus also said in Mark 4:18-19,

 

"And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful."

 

Sad to say that a lot of Christians fit into this category! It is one thing to have the word of the Lord revealed to you and an entirely different thing to walk in what He has revealed to you!

 

The reason the world is in such a mess is because the Church has not infiltrated these mountains of the arts, movies, tv programing, the media, politics, education, and the business world and taught them Kingdom principles!

 

We need Christians in Hollywood who are not only actors but producers, screen writers, camera men, stage hands, etc.! We can change the Hollywood's atmosphere and set up Kingdom principals. We need more movie channels like Hallmark. I am old enough to remember the movie, "Gone with the Wind" where the only curse word in it was Clark Gabel saying, "Frankly, I don't really give a damn! I can remember Doris Day's movies in the 50's. I can remember when the late-night shows were basically clean without so many sexual overtones! But the church just set back and allowed the movies and tv programs to gradually insert sexual overtones and cursing and lewdness! The sitcoms are full of sexual overtones! There is no more, "Leave it to Bever" type programs.

 

In the next decade, the American church will experience a clashing of swords between the religious spirit and the Holy Spirit and this will ignite a vigorous debate about the role of the church in politics. The subject will shift when it is seen that the issue really is the churches role in law, media, economics, education, justice and government. Are we called to make disciples in nations or of nations? Jesus said in Matt. 28:18-20, (NIV)

 

"All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely, I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

 

The theology over the actual existence of Sheep and Goat nations will be hotly debated! America still has an unfinished assignment in the earth. God is doing a new thing and that thing involves the discipling of nations not just the evangelizing of masses. The Last Days is going to be a battle of voices and kingdoms contending for the destiny of nations. According to Jesus, nations will become aligned for or against Him. They will be either sheep or goat nations. Jesus said in Mathew 25:31-32,

 

"When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, He will sit on His glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats."

 

What is a Sheep Nation? At its very root a Sheep Nation is simply defined by the way it treats the people connected to Jesus. When speaking of Sheep nations Jesus said: "As you have done to the least of these you have done to Me." A Sheep nation is a nation that is not hostile to the people of God: Christian and Jew. They do not persecute the followers of Jesus. Goat nations and goat systems are animated by an anti-Christ spirit, a disposition to resist, harass and silence the move and people of God.

 

God has given us a window of mercy. If we were sufficiently united, we could see a national 'reset' for America come about very quickly. The questions being asked are: "Should we see Donald Trump as a temporary reprieve? A momentary stay of execution allowing a brief season of reviving?" Those who think this way quote Ezra 9:8:

 

"And now for a little space grace has been showed from the LORD our God..."

 

God has begun an amazing shift in America, but the people remain confused and bitterly divided. In spite of all Trump has done, and endured, evangelicals are still uncomfortable with his tweets. Why are they uncomfortable? Because Trump doesn't fit their idea of what a King, "Woops!" a President should look like!

 

They are afraid that if they teach their people the truth about what is happening in the mountain of politics, they will lose most of them so they stay out of anything that is controversial! We have been fed the false idea that we don't talk about politics! What is going to happen to these mega churches when the Holy Spirit is poured out? They are going to dwindle down to nothing because their people will leave them in droves to attend the churches where the Holy Spirit is moving with signs and wonders following! Their people are starving for the move of God! The miracles that Jesus did were noised throughout Judea and the crowds flocked to see this man of God!

 

What is going to save our nation? Thank the Lord for the remnant that is coming together both Jews and Gentiles and have locked hands, despite their different ways of worshiping our Father, and are fighting the spiritual battle that will result in Satan being put in his place! Paul said in Rom. 16:20,

 

"The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly."

 

The remnant, all over the world, numbering in the millions, is fasting and praying for our nation and declaring that the Lord's will be done in our nation and all the earth! We, the 72 million conservatives that voted for Trump, have come to the Red Sea! Time, in our way of thinking, is getting short and Pharaoh, those who are clay in the hands of Satan, is coming with the intention of destroying what we stand for and those who are weak in their faith are murmuring and talking defeat! However, Moses, the remnant, is standing up and saying, "Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord!"

 

The Lord is not deaf that He cannot hear the cries of all His children all over the world to be delivered! He has heard our cries and you shall see a move of the Lord that will shock the whole world! Don't stop walking by faith but continue to declare the word of the Lord and you shall behold Him!

 

Paul said in 1 Cor. 2:5,

 

"My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God's power."

 

And in 1 Cor. 16:13-14, (NIV)

 

"Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. Do everything in love."

 

The Lord told Joshua in Jos. 1:9,

 

"Have not I commanded you? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be dismayed: for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."

 

It's one thing to say, "I believe the Lord! I have faith in what the Lord is saying!" "The Lord is in control!" However, it is entirely another thing to tell people what you believe and to live and declare what you believe to others. It seems to be so hard for many Christians to declare the word of God about current affairs when they know that the ones they are talking to are in agreement with the fake media! And we go along with the false teaching that you don't mix politics and religion!

 

It's time we understood the connection between Trump and the church. It isn't his orthodoxy that makes him important to us. If it is not his ideology that makes him valuable, what is it the wrecking ball brings? It is one word, (if you are willing to accept it) - COURAGE! His BACKBONE. His willingness to voice his OPINION. The church is choking on fear. Trump, in a strange way, is the antidote. He doesn't talk with political correctness! Political correctness will be so arranged that what they say can be interpreted in several different ways, so you really don't know for sure what they really mean! 

 

Political correctness was strangling the life out of the nation's evangelicals like a giant python until Trump came along. Donald Trump entered the conversation and like a bowling ball - he collided with the kingpins of many of our nation's evangelicals and the tension lifted and refocused on him. In the place of carefully word crafted eggshell communication from the evangelicals, he is not afraid to speak the truth!

 

He is, if nothing else, an out of the box thinker. He has just the right combination of brass, intelligence, and prophetic intuition to be a leader who, like Churchill, will prove to be an asset for what is ahead. He is a 'common grace' candidate. The term 'common grace' is a theological term originating with the Reformers. This is the word that describes the grace of God working through secular individuals and institutions. It is the grace that keeps fallen man from universal anarchy and self-destruction.

 

Donald Trump is the 45th President of the United States. Isaiah 45 talks about a king named Cyrus and he would not appear on the scene for another 100 years. Cyrus was a secular ruler. He was not a believer. He was 'anointed' to do certain things "for Jacob my servant's sake." Isaiah 45:1-2, says,

 

"Thus sayeth the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, "I will go before thee and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass"

 

Cyrus was called to be a wrecking ball for the sake of God's purposes. Would God dare choose an outsider? A non-Jew - a heathen to lead His people? Consider this: "I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me" (Isaiah 45:4). In fact, the Lord says this twice!

 

So many times, in our thinking we fall into the rut of legalism and try to put the Lord in a box by saying he can't do certain things! So, he sends us a Trump to jar us back into reality! He raises up someone who doesn't know Him to be a wrecking ball to our way of thinking! This is the moment for Evangelicals to get clear and unify as a movement to shape the future. True, we are divided and many are disillusioned. But this is the time to come together and have a conversation about what we must do to build a wall, spiritually around America; for our children's sake if nothing else.

 

Trump has been a wrecking ball to our thinking so we can see what has been binding us all these years from knowing the will of the Lord on so many things! You should never pray and ask the Lord for things and end your prayer with, "Lord if it be thy Will!" Get into the word and find out what His will is and even then, if you are not sure what it is, ask Him what His will on that matter is and if you have an ear to hear the voice of the Lord, He will usually take you to a verse of scripture that will explain His will!!!

 

I encourage you to learn to discern the Spirit of the Lord's voice! Jesus said in John 10:3-5,

 

"To, him (Jesus) the porter opens and the sheep hear his voice: and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.  And when he puts forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers!"

 

We are spirit and our spirit is joined with the Spirit of the Lord! Paul said in 1 Cor. 6:17,

 

"He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit." 

 

Paul also said in 1 Cor. 2:12

"Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God." 

 

As I was writing these scriptures the Lord showed me something that will help you to discern His voice! Do you ever talk out loud to yourself? I know some people that think out loud all the time! Lol But the answer is no, because your thoughts are within you because your spirit and your mind talk to one another! If the Holy Spirit is one with your spirit, He doesn't have to talk out loud for you to hear what He has to say! Think about that! He can talk to you audibly but most of the time your spirit will become aware of what He is saying!

 

I know that all of you have been trying to figure out some problem and all of a sudden you know what to do and you say to yourself, "I'm glad I thought about that!" Instead of saying, "Thank you Lord for giving me that answer!" Faith comes by hearing the word of God!

 

Don't just lay this chapter aside after you have read it and never look at it again, rather, meditate on what the Spirit of the Lord reveals to you and put it into action in your life.