As we leave the Christmas and New Year season behind us, in the main throes of the longest feeling month of the year. We already are made to sit upon the most rapid rollercoaster of life, with war with Yemen, war in Gaza, war from Lebanon, protests in London, farmers in meltdown in Germany, political uprisings against the globalists in Warsaw, Ecuador in the throes of war against drug cartels, Argentina in the grip of their own world debts. You could make more lists of the things that are happening, but this is just beginning of a year that promises to be full of surprises.
This is not to mention the extremes of apostasy that has gripped many Church groups, as I ascertain that Heresy precedes apostasy, and as Covid seems to have altered the psyche of the post covid society. It seems we are living everything so much in adrenaline and our fervent minds. Yet whilst we are distracted religious leaders are flirting with political powers. In fact when I cast my mind back to October 2020 I remember the thoughts concerning the many so called “prophetic voices” that sounded loud and clear that Donald J. Trump would win a second term, I saw by divine help, a problem so great, that our so called prophetic voices had transitioned to be no more than political commentators, deferring to a political system a mission that Jesus left the Church upon His Ascension. I knew then that a Biden presidency would sort out this American Church error, yet also not just exclusive to the American evangelical church arena, in its various forms. The false voices, who say they speak for God would be shown up.
Yet with politics trying to force massive changes upon us, like the occupation of Judea of the invading Roman forces, so we are being occupied not by a country, or an empire, but a world view. This world view seems to believe that the answer to poverty, crime and war is a unified earth beneath one government and an enforced utopia by those who have immense wealth and power who seek to control our lives via a economic, political utopia. Surely also the Roman empire had such similar ambitions to unite all the countries under Rome’s oversight.
Whilst political moves are made in plain sight, the dumbing down of spirituality via academics instead of spiritual leaders. They are making what was organic to be institutionalised until what is perceived to be religion and politics becomes one of the same, the perfect deception to be performed for centuries, and it was foreseen by the Catholic Church in the 1st Vatican council, in which was warned that secular forces were going to start to shape the mentality of the world, secularisation will dismount the spiritual need for its Creator, and look more and more through humanistic and atheistic eyes. For this the Church has in part become the one that “lives godliness but denies the power thereof”.
We have seen the political and religious system come together in strategic times. Matthew 2 tells us of the coming of Magi from the East who meet with religious leaders and the King to ask about the King, the Great King. There is a document translated by Julius Africanus that tells the other side of the story, an enlargement of what was said to Herod and chief priests. They tell of a systematic dismantling of the religious system and the political structure existent. This disquieted the religious leaders as well as King and courtiers. And this joining up motivated Herod to hunt down the baby King. The murder of babies was the outcome.
The second time we see the alliance of religious and political figures is the time that Jesus is brought to the Sanhedrin and is tried for blasphemy, note the discourse of Jesus, He combats this “kingdom” with the facts of a heavenly Kingdom. The result of this amalgamation is the death of the Saviour, Lord and King. The effects of this would have far reaching effects, the Temple is humiliated, and Pontius Pilate takes his own life. Then in 70AD the Temple is destroyed and never reconstructed until today.
We see again in Acts various attempts by the Sanhedrin to join with political power to take down the leaders of the Church, who is carrying out Jesus’ commission. Peter is imprisoned, by Herod Antipas, and James is killed. Peter is rescued as a result of a praying Church. Herod is struck down with worms and dies. Psalm 2 recites what happens when kings and governments resists the Lord, King of all the earth.
We come to Paul who is seized by the Sanhedrin on false accusations, for which Paul appeals to Caesar. He is taken to Rome, and we know within 2 years he is martyred for his faith.
When we come to John the Apostle, on Patmos, he has already been through an attempted execution that God did not allow to take his life. His sparing opens a spiritual door to the greatest vision of all time. In this vision we see the principle I am writing explicit, in the end times, where the Church is persecuted by the final political system. Martyrdom is the order of the day, the Church persecuted because they would not participate in the Mark of the Beast. This Mark is the mark of ownership physically, and spiritually. Here the religious false prophet, aligns with the Beast and the Antichrist to bring into being the end time satanic system.
In writing all this, I believe that we need to be more and more discerning than ever. We cannot trust in government, we cannot overly trust Church heirarchy, in the sense that we need to yes submit, but submit like the Bereans, searching out everything in the Scriptures to see whether it is true.
The best way to bring about this transformation it is deception via infiltration. Paul warns Timothy about this, and says that this deception will eventually cost your eternal state. We need to be praying for pastors, Bishops and other spiritual ministers.
There are worrying trends we need to watch out for, compromises made in Church leadership levels that compromise non negotiable principles, and when leadership deals with things on a political level. I wrote about the expediency of the declaration of Caiaphas which proved prophetic, many years ago, but it is pertinent today, whilst we treat the Bible like Jesus, sacrificing its rich exhortations for looking good to society, it brings a heavy price. Whilst the death of one man brought peace to many, it did not stop the destruction of Temple and its priests.
This message is a warning. May we heed it in the spirit of being sponsors of the installation of Jesus’ Kingdom, and not be expedient as a religious system.
Maranatha!
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