Word about 2020 and the US election

 

Word November 2020

There is a lot both to say and there is a lot that can be said.

Simply God is going to tip the world upside down like He hasn’t done for centuries and if we think the pandemic has been a huge tipping point then it’s going to pale into comparison.  Note the pandemic wont have anything directly to do with this but primarily we need to understand these events we are experiencing are related in some ways even though they appear not because they are products of the hour in history we are in.  As they come along one by one they will compound the problems in the world and if we don’t see them for what they are and understand what is happening we will easily become disillusioned.

*** note apologies but as I publish this today as with many things I wirte I don't plan to publish anything just dawns on me I should - this is 3 days in the making and covered more than I originally planned and given the time sensitive issue of being about the US election need to get this published quickly so please ignore the spelling mistakes - what I wanted to say comes across.

How we ultimately understand what is going to happen will dictate if we become partakers or what God is doing or we reject it! And that will be our choice.

Here I am going to keep it short (for me that is), what I want you to realise is the subjects I’m dealing with a humungous.  What I actually feel I need to say can be split into four distinct themes and that is:

Firstly is the question of why the church exists in this hour (which I’m not going to be into partly because you don’t get that without the other three and I’ve covered that before)

Secondly a few of the key issues (which again won’t cover, although have covered media very briefly to keep this short(ish!)

Third is understanding the why’s of the what’s happening and in that God’s purposes.

Fourth the immediate future and I mean November which by the time you read this will be now (this is really why I’m writing this).

Four issues then, I’m not dwelling on the first two and I’m going through the rest backwards.

First however the bigger picture… and this would be an intro to the first two.

The church stands at a crossroads in it’s history and with the history of problems the world is currently in, whether we believe it or not we’ll soon see that the pandemic we are currently experiencing is just the base of the iceberg not the tip.  If I were to go through all the problems in the world I don’t think I’d ever finish that.  This is the beginning not the end of the crisis.

Most of the issues in the world like an iceburg are invisible below water.  The nature of them is then deceptive and we need to see them for what they are.

I’m going to talk about those some of those and when you realise the magnitude of the mess the world is in what you realise is can’t go on without those issues making things a whole lot worse – this is what we are seeing – that the world can’t go on like this and God won’t let it continue.  The upcoming US election is going to reveal that in a big way and such a way that the News Media is going to be constantly talking about this his for weeks if not months and not our of choice one of the issues that will arise is the total distrust of Media itself.

It’s not that those issues are far too many!

It’s not even that they are far too many but complex to explain

It’s that there are multiple complex issues and that the world systems have us in a grip of not only being ignorant but wanting to be ignorant of our ignorance.

To think we are like Neo in the Matrix is a bit extreme or at least it was!  The world systems are designed to pre-program us to be ignorant, the most corruptive way it does it by possing as an angel of enlightenment.  This is being brought to light now at this time in this election and in the person of Donald Trump.  For most of us and in fact I’d say this is more the case of Christians not less so what Donald Trump actually represent is going to be revealed and he will be revelead in a way that we can’t comprehend and can’t ignore that all we can do is gape at what we see and hear happening, if we don’t actually understand what is happening we will soon become disillusioned.

Ignorance is the first problem

Second we are being flooding the world with too much information.

Third social media in particular treats us like the product, but not the only one, and a product to male them profit – the more dis-information and fake news it makes us read the more money they make.  Our capacity to see things for what they are and to know right from wrong, good from evil is virtually zero.

All this will be revealed in the up-coming election.

One of the fake news rages of todays society is the corrupt capitalist system but the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Youtube have created a far more corrupt system than wall street or anyone else could ever imagine.

And that’s just the start, the real issue is if we as individuals actually bothered to check what is actually going on we’d find this out for ourselves,  that’s the issue - you don’t need to do anything than spend some time checking.  We are being weened and spoon fed lies that we just happily accept as truth thought they are force and this will be revealed in Trump.

Remember when you see and hear that it’s not about God revealing the greatness of Trump it’s about God revealing the truth of the powers that are currently at work in this world, God is using Trump as an illustration so we realise that if we can be so deceived by the world about this then what else are we a victim to?

And if it wasn’t for the ignorance it’s not like this would solve the crisis but there wouldn’t be such a crisis. The crisis is simply self perpetuated by ignorance.

Simply if you want to know the truth of this watch the social media bashing program on Netflix “The Social Dilemma” and before we particularly get into this and lets be frank what culture makes the war out to be the old generation (and particularly intolerant lefties) v’s millennial generation (who’ll solve all the problems of this world which clearly isn’t working at the moment in fact if you take note it’s the recklessness of the young that’s killing millions of the old with Coronavirus which is the irony of ironies).

The technology bashers this time are not just the experts but they’re the key people that invented this stuff!  When asked what their greatest fears were the answers are in the bracket of civil war and end of civilisation as we know it.

 

November

So it’s 31^st October as I start to write this the day before, November

On Tuesday Trump gets re-elected… now the whole Trump thing it’s about time we got Trump (again not enough space to go into that) there have been certain prophecies that have predicted many things and most of those have been fulfilled.  Now simply you either are a Christian or your not so that’s all just… well whatever (so prophecy goes out the window) and if your Christian you generally hate Trump anyway being a Christian doesn’t differentiate you from being like anyone else (ironic!) or your not into the prophecy thing.

However it’s something else when multiple people make a whole lot of specific prophecies and they start to come true!  You can’t ignore that!  Well you can but you shouldn’t – the one topic  that gets me as a Christian about all the Trump prophecies relates to abortion and the overthrowing of the demonic stronghold of Abortion.  If Trump does that then in Biblical eyes he will have solve one of the great problems in American that promotes evil in western culture… to be honest that’s good enough for me.

If we think about it seriously and all the issues you realise just how plastic some of the mud that gets thrown at Trump is and all the other plastic elements of today’s millennial culture.

On abortion;  in America, and I’m from the UK but in America as many babies have been aborted as today is near to the entire population of the UK – that’s incredible. To have the whole issues framed as it is (read Psalm 2 ) and you realise there are tens of millions of people who would be walking around today if they hadn’t been aborted in America alone – and America has been the proponent of this plague of death.

Secondly on abortion a huge percentage of those are black babies which displays the whole Black Lives Matter in another light when you know that. That’s the world systems and certainly if you look at the whole Black Lives Matter movement you can see areas where it’s parading as light but it’s not actually shinning on the darkness.  Why is that?  Why has abortion not been a central issue in the whole BLM? Because it doesnt suit the evil agenda of the world’s systems that likes to instead parade as being good and it doesn’t suit the people who are propagating it.

Why Trump is important?  If you don’t consider Why Trump you’re not going to get anything at all about Trump so you’re end up somewhere on the rainbow spectrum from despising to hating.  The struggle is we’ve had four years to work this out and we are no nearer getting the right answer.

Trump is about poles apart from the same world systems which are the problem – that’s why inidividual Americans vote for Him, in the context of politics todays’ that far more.  What you see is the world systems want to paint Trump as being part of the problem, in fact they are raging at him.  In that he has little political support yet he still remains – consider why that is so?

If you hate Trump then that’s the world system. If you prefer Hillary then again that’s accepting the world systems.

If you look at the politics in America it’s pretty much individually Trump against everyone – you wonder how it’s possible for a guy to still be standing – the answer to that is the very reasons why people hate him in the first place – the very reason why everyone is against him is he’s not just another politician that will sit by idoly playing the politics game and stays silent.  And he won’t just not stay silent but what he speaks on he speaks from the heart not just to make himself look.

All the while we hate what he says but don’t realise that actually whatever he says doesn’t matter in that he’s the only one playing with a straight bat and he’s the only one who will say what he thinks and he’s the only one that won’t manipulate the truth and express lies that he doesn’t believe in.  The real problem in that is not what you think – we’ll come into this latter but if you actually see what Trump says on a news broadcast and then you find the whole thing on YouTube there is a whole media agenda where they only repeat the worst bits but if you listen to the whole thing, you firstly realised where he is coming from.  You secondly realise that a lot of what he says makes a lot of sense and third you realise he’s always being open about what he thinks and no other politician comes anywhere near to being that transparent.

You also realise how clever he is because he often does that in a way to his advantage.

The thing is it warts and all but the human choice is really two choice between two human beings with their warts. You are really trading one set of human issues for another but that’s the case in any election.

In fact if you look at Trump carefully and you try to figure out his polar opposite and you actually read their book on the whole thing they blatantly point out they did so much analysing. First to find the right answers and then how to say them and that’s Hillary Clinton who above everything else so manipulated herself into the image of the perfect political candidate.

When I listen to what Hillary Clinton says she always sound like she saying what she thinks people want to hear.  The choice then is simple it’s between someone who’ll try and sound good for good sakes but won’t tell you what they really think and someone in that context who really just doesn’t care about that and says what he thinks.

That’s the political choices we all face in Western Culture -  America choose Trump! America will choose Trump again.  If we don’t understand why that’s the case then we are not grasping the bigger picture.  For all Trumps floors and lets take the womanising if it’s true.  I recently read a biography on Bill Clinton and you realise firstly that here is a man with a superior weakness if there’s ever one – which ironically leads him to lying and being impeached for it – and that’s women!

What you don’t realise is how much both Clintons glossed up over his womanising and at the expense of assassinating those women he had affairs with all so they both could get in the White House.  Know when you hear Hillary Clinton talk about womens rights you realise it doesn’t mean anything to her because she didn’t defend those womens rights at the expense of her own ambition he own selfish amibition is more important to her than what’s right.

For everything evil Trump has done, if you want to put it like that, there’s a balance to that story, yet in this context Hillary Clinton can talk about women’s rights and no-one questions that and no-one wants to promote Hillary Clinton’s crusade for women’s rights more than Hillary Clinton.  Yet it’s all false!

When you see the bigger picture well yes Trump may be a womaniser who knows at the end of the day?  But the bigger story also paints a different picture than the one that is being painted for us, which is in the context of Trump whose the bigger womaniser the one who is a womaniser or the one that portays to stand up for misogeny but is perfectly happy to do nothing when it suits their own amibition.  When you put into the context that the one with the ambition is a woman who naturally should stand up for women’s right the misogenist is clearly the latter.

Yet again this is the world systems parading truth for lives – you can only state that so many times when you realise that’s not just demonic power but that’s the weapon of the demonic that has a grip on our culture.

That then changes everything in that we should be watching that deception and calling out people who are basically using that demonic weapon because like all things if that’s the seed of the thing that it will only reproduce fruit according to it’s seed in the same way a orange tree doesn’t produce lemons.

It’s exactly the same problem with the Me Too movement – to really make a change we need to not be calling out the so called misogenist we need to be looking behind the curtain to the culture that pretends to call it out but is really hiding it and then we need to rip down the curtain.  So far that curtain has not been touched – and that is the real big issue that is being dealt with across so many aspects of western culture.  Instead with the worlds system instead of shining a light into the darkness it gets all the focus on one really guilty participant yet the curtain remains. With politics it’s Trump!

Firstly the Trump phenomenon is that Trump is nothing of a normal politician, secondly that’s why the entire political establishment detests him and in that you see the political establishment for what it is and that’s why they’ve done everything they can to get rid of him.  The only thing they didn’t do is trust in the nature of democracy in that the people get to choose – those who’ve attacked Trump politically the most are attacking the very nature of what makes democracy democratic in the first place and that’s another demonic stronghold being laid down.

Really what this whole thing is, is in fact so serious it goes beyond Trump as a man or person.  Everyone should be elected on the positions they stand for not the person so really we need to understand beyond politics what do politicians really actually stand on.

 The one thing you can say about Trump is you can never accuse him of trying to be a Yes man, he’s totally true to himself and to say that in this context (that is prophecy) doesn’t make him the perfect choice and certainly doesn’t make everything he does right but then again what politician can you say that about anyway?

But they’re not necessarily choosing Trump the man, they’re choosing what Trump represents and this is the key issue Trump doesn’t just represent Trump but in the way Trump represents anti-establishment in American politics if you could call that a party then it would be largely the party of one.

If you uncover the veil behind the principalities and the power in American politics what you find is not just Trump but what you find is the foundational spiritual principality is corrupt at it’s core and it’s target is Trump.  Whether Trump is corrupt or not is not the issue (though that’s still important) – which is the core which isn’t a person – in a Biblical context then we do not fight against flesh and blood… but yet to take Trump as the literal example and that’s exactly what people are fighting against.  If Trump is part of that corrupt system then he’s just one of many but if he’s one of the many why is that that the number one thing that everyone else in politics and not just politics want to do – fight him… as Jesus simply stated “so you’re saying the devil is casting out the devil – that doesn’t even make sense” when the Pharisses accused of being the devil.

If I think about what God is doing through Trump then really everything is so much bigger than one man.  If you destest an identifiable person that much you are not going to see beyond that and that is most people’s problem.

The thing is in the prophecies of Trump being elected he was prophecied to do certain things for  certain reasons – what he’d do has already largely come to pass.  There’s a whole bunch of other stuff and more important stuff but we won’t go there.  As I’ve stated the abortion issue is key.

Some news media on the morning Trump becomes president, the newsreader simply responded Whaaaaat?

Hillary Clinton wrote a book called “What Happened” as well.

This is not co-incidence we are being made to acknowledge the question and answer it.  The what was actually a prophecy too at this time if we don’t get what happened we are unlikely to ever answer that question successfully.

Now I’ve been known to prophecy the odd thing or to… the last serious thing I prophecied was simply that the year 2020 was going to bring about the most profound changes in the world but more importantly the church….

In that context the church has to get with the times and understand both what is happening and how the events of not just the previous year or two but years notably from 2010 and you could say 2000 has led us to where we are now.

Trump is an example of this and what is being revealed is to make us consider that more importantly.

That prophecy is why I am writing this…. What I’m writing is for two clear prophetic reasons.

One is we need to understand the time of crisis we are in and we are nowhere near yet the fullness of the age we are living in. In that we need to understand the glory in it too because we are in a global tipping point in history everything that’s being tipped upside down is done so for a good reason.  That doesn’t always bring good results but good results will come and to be clear on this is not really about just understand the glory we are heading to but the reality of that we are choosing to partake in that glory now or reject it.

The other side of the coin in that is the destiny of the church.

In both of  those things and I find I cannot separate that and we need to understand that and in that not be discourage because we see the darkness but actually to understand that if we do understand that then we see the further glory because what you see is that there is a war raging then you realise that…

One – things are going to get a whole lot worse in the world because there is a war going on.

Two – the tipping points for the church haven’t really begun yet but they begin in November and that is the change.

…and they begin with the re-election of Trump.

Now I have no personal prophecy to give you in that but I have inkling from what I have prophecied that it’s highly unlikely that Trump won’t be elected but also included in that are other famous prophecies of Trump being elected as a two time president which correspond with what I was told and what happened so I’m strongly inclined to believe that will happen simply just for that reason and no other.

Less so I have an inkling that this will be overwhelming based on the vote system, probably not actual votes (but who knows) but actually the real reality of Trump being elected is he won’t actually be re-elected as the Democrats will contend the validity of the election.

In this and lets not mistake what’s going on with the Democratic party is they’ve tried every reasonable and unreasonable,  good and evil method to get rid of Trump and failed this is their last one.

When Trump becomes a two time president and finally that is, the time is up for the spiritual powers that are at work. Jesus likened His second coming to the days of Noah when firstly the same spiritual powers were at work though operated in a different way.  Then comes a flood… so what we will see in that overthrowing will be a flood against the powers and principalities and we will see them toppled.

This won’t make people happy but that’s an indicator of the times we live in.

This, that is you wake up on Wednesday morning and the last desperate option they have left they will press the button on.  This will fail and will probably fail by the ultimate court in the land making that judgement call.

Now, and really we need to understand this or we might as well seriously not bother reading the rest.  If you understand the specific abortion related prophecies surrounding Trump you’ll understand that the very first law Trump actually signed as president was to reverse one the first laws O’Bama passed in his second term.  The law that O’Bama passed was on abortion giving  political power to spiritual demonic forces that operate in that realm – it was that American aid agencies couldn’t be funded unless they offered abortion as a practice in medical care.

Trump not only reversed that but changed the law so if they did they wouldn’t get any funding at all.  This means that millions of dollars of American aid to foreign health crises now won’t fund abortion instead of funding it.  This battle began four years ago but it’s ending soon!

Firstly what we are saying on this whole issue is Trump had precedent of standing against abortion.  The democratic party has predent for standing for abortion – that really paints the overall picture of the lines that have been drawn in the sand in this battle.  Unfortunately far too many Christians on the Trump issue have aligned themselves against God’s purposes and plans and have aligned themselves with the enemy.  The only reason this can happen is because they are as much deceived by the enemy as anyone else whose deceived.

Personally the why in all this I think is to reveal this to the church and reveal what is in the church to the world.  In most churches certainly in the UK you can’t hold a conversation on politics because of the bitterness and divide that causes – that’s the problem and we have to realise unless we can do that we hold no authority in anything – this is part of that un-veiling

The prophecies related are directly to do with the election of Judges to the top legal court.  Now Trump’s elected more than one which was the prophecy. If we go back to the second what we see is that there is an immense legal and political battle about that second appointment,  why?  Because in itself it begins the process where the actual dark principalities are being overcome so they fight back in the only way they know how – sowing lies, bitterness and division.  In that where those demonic forces are humanly manifesting themselves are being unveiled for everyone to see we just have to take note.  And what we see if we care to look is in the Democrat party.

They are also being unveiled where they have their hooks in the church.

Know and here’s the interesting thing, when you become aware you look out for certain things.  What I’ve picked up through listening to others is Trump himself is aware of this.  So much so that he deliberately swapped his draft picks if you want to see it that way so the recent choice was before the previous one but would be easier to adopt because he knew the battle would be fought over the first so it would be easier to get both picks in if they were elected in that order.

So hang on that completely changes the story, which is that:

The thing the world calls evil God has chosen purpose in

The thing the world is calling good is evil

But that also Trump is aware of being chosen by God and what God has called him to do and is doing it!

That is an example of the tipping that God is doing that already has taken place, at least somewhat.  Really in that we all need to be Trump like.

Why are the democrats that desperate?  Because the actual forces of darkness that are at work and the Democrats accuse Trump off will be revealed to be what they truly are… and that it’s not Trump whose the problem, they are!  The very same things they wrongly accused Trump of, they’ve done and they know they are guilty and this is going to be displayed for the whole world and God is going to make a public spectacle of Trump, because it makes a spectacle of what’s really been going on.

We’ll find once that has taken place if we been for example lambasting Trump with hate on social media that mud has already stuck but to us.  What we need to understand is we are living in an age where we need decide which side of the fence we are in for everything and that’s why God is allowing this to happen because we can no longer can sit on the fence just so we won’t be ridiculed we need to stand up for what we believe in no matter the price because the price off standing against God is going to be far, far worse.

This is going to rock the world like nothing we have seen.

Those spriritual powers and principalities in America at the beginning of November will begin to be thrown down.  This will lead to a shaking that will lead to the greatest awakening America has seen which will lead to a global revival.

What the church needs to focus on now is preparing for that revival.  You see everything that’s going on is not about one man.

 As the shaking begins they will echo around the world but despite the epoch changes in our civilisation today God has reserved the greatest shakings for the Church – make no mistake that in the short space we have left we can be who we are called to be.

This is the now.

Secondly I want to deal with the Pandemic

To echo the dramatic changes going on with the Pandemic are just the beginning of not just the shaking that is going to take place but the Pandemic in the first place.

I’m not going to get into this but probably the most dramatic realisation I’ve come to is pretty much the whole of the church is “heretical” and by its own definition of what heretical means and it’s heretical to not just in comparison to the original teaching of the early church but the entire Bible itself.

The pandemic is shinning a light on what’s going on in the church and the issue is largely the church represents enforcing of western culture that is the human display of the demonic forces that is the world western system in particular.

If we want to partake of the revival that’s coming, then no part of that demonic power can be in us and if that has to be true we can’t sit on that fence but we have to be against it.  The problem and the moment is we are largely for it.

That is something so hard to argue I’m not going to get into it – again if we are ignorant that’s something we’ll never understand anyway.  I’m so amazed as some of the ignorance that I’ve come across that I’ve come to the conclusion it’s not worth trying to shine a light on the whole subject and if I did I’m only repeating myself.

However the whole point of the shakings is God’s judgement now.  Currently what the church teaches about judgement is not possible – that’s one of the core reasons, of which there are many, then show that the church is “heretical”

Of all that’s going on if you forget everything that’s been said is at the end of the day God must have a place in every little detail of what is going on.  Or He is not a He but a normal he so where is He in the pandemic.

If we can’t answer that question then we can’t answer anything else today that we need to.  The problem is so few in the church even have begun to look at that question?  Unless we ask it we will never know the answer and we’ll never have any answers to the problems that surround us.

This is the step the church has been in for over six months now but is no nearer solving.  When the church solves this question the pandemic will largely begin to end – at least start ending.  The only people that have the answers to this pandemic are inside the church.  They are not politicians or health experts or even health workers.  They can be but only if they are part of the Church.

Until the church starts dealing firstly with itself and dealing with the issues around the world and begin to overthrow the powers and principilaties there will be no light.  This is what this pandemic is about.  That’s difficult to understand but not so:

Firstly in a broken world things brake

Is a seriously broken world things seriously brake.

The solution to that is the church

And that’s what God is using this pandemic for – to fix the church so it’s conforms to the means of reformation but firstly it must reform itself.

So far it’s been a choice.  It still is the option is narrowing.

So if we look at the actual root of the issue which is the church is not just in the world but off it.

So what do we mean?

Firstly in today’s demonic powered western culture we live lifestyles where we can no longer breath spiritually and if we can’t breath we can’t live and if we aren’t living we are dying.

That lack of space and time in our daily routines and lifestyles means we die, even if slowly, but the reality is we’ve been slowly dying for a long, long time.

Now we have more space and time than when we ever have due to restrictions in our lives

In that we get to question what life is about, find what really is important to us and then we get to live those questions and answers out.

The whole irony of this pandemic is that it’s brought about a fear of dying, fear or being disengaged and trapped and a fear of not being alive.  But the reality is this is exactly what western culture was doing to us and giving us before the pandemic.  The only difference is the pandemic is blatant and western culture deceived us into believing this is life when it only brings death.

One of the key issues in that is western culture is geared up to consume.  In that paradigm we are only consumers who rather than providing life bring us nearer to death.  Nothing really has changed in that spiritually.  We are all un-happy, depressed and rather sulky about the future because that’s the fruit of western culture.

What happens before a lockdown?  We all binge.

The church is no different – God is allowing us the time to reconnect with Him in a new way.  We either use this period positively for what we can – which is primarily this.  Or we just carry on living like everything is going back to normal.

The deception of what is actually going on in the world is the problem is not the pandemic it’s our definition of normal.

God is simply shutting down the pursuits of western culture so we can no longer do them.

This includes for the church meeting on a Sunday in the big large thing because it is part of the world’s system.

In this time before the pandemic will end – and that will be years not months we are being given the opportunity to re-assess our lives and live them according to Biblical standards not the worlds.

By the time the pandemic ends we have made a choice between simply God’s system or the devils system.

I am not saying we are not now meant to meet on Sunday what I am instead prophecying is that we can not meet like we have been doing,  the church biblically is meant to gather in certain ways that it is not doing, to have authority in the future we must change and adapt to what the bible says not what suits us and this time is a time to reflect on that and how we gather.  If we don’t actually do that and realise how the Bible speaks on gathering then by the time this all ends and there is no lockdown if we are not meeting differently then we are still meeting as part of the worlds system and it will be too late.

Lockdown and the inability to meet as church is deliberately manufactured like this by God Himself so we can only meet in small groups of 2-3 and 4-6.  We really can’t do much else and still be church – yet how many of us are actually doing this?  We’ve been given 6 months to realise this yet all we want to prepare for is going back to a world that no longer really can exist any more.

What I’m not saying is that church means we don’t meet in big groups – that’s ridiculous but what I’m saying is the core of church,  when church operates as church and when God manifests himself in the church he does it in the small thing and he does it through relationships not the big anointed man standing on the platform.

I’m personally just bored of that, even when it’s not particular bad it’s just plain boring but is so disengaging and dispowering!  Jesus didn’t do it that way?  Why do you think that is!

That method of church I simply refuse to participate in it any more.

We have to have an answer to the point that if we believe in a God who is a fraction of what we believe him to be.  The big, big problem with Coronavirus and the church today is we have so far totally ignored where God is in all of this.  As I’ve said both it and the world will get worse before some parts of the world begin to get better – there is no guarantee the whole world or even some of the biggest problems in the world will – I don’t know that!  What I do know is some will and the key big issues the world is facing will be solved at this time – that also doesn’t mean they are solved permanently.

What I think the one big problem is and it’s just my opinion is the problem in the church – this will be solved but only – read the parable of the ten virgins and ask yourself this question?  What it is about the 10 that means that 5 of the chosen were looked out of what God was doing and 5 were included yet they were all church (virgins)

Ignoring the question is the issues at the moment and I put that question like this!  Firstly what is the Spirit saying to the church in this hour?  And then in the context of all the big issues primarily what is the Spirit saying to the church in this hour about Coronavirus.

Until we answer that second question today we have can’t answer anything else and we can’t be solution to any of the smaller issues when we have no clue on the bigger issues but we want to spend our time wasting on stuff like making dire online meetings better and do anything other than answer the question.

Point one of this is what is the answer to that question?

For me some of that has transitioned from becoming obvious to crystal clear because we are trapped and pretty much forced to do church differently yet we don’t.

Now I want to dwell on some simple concepts.  So the two words / terms that have been used above all firstly “unpresidented” and the second is “normality” and that odious phrase “getting back to normality”.

The first point is really simple how can you live in a hour in human history where the primary thing that’s mentioned is the “unpresidented” nature of the hour and then talk to “going back to normal” this is a great example of human ignorance – those terms simply do not go in the same sentence or hour -  however you’d like to see it.  It’s either unpresidented and it’s not going back to normal or it’s going back to normal which is the opposite of what is unpresidented.

What does unpresidented mean? It simply means we have no experience of handling what is actually unpresidented so how is this supposed to simply go back to “normal”.

Even ignoring that and looking at the time issue of when everything will go back to normal (which won’t happen) when do we expect that.  Do we want to just sit around and hope for something to happen but have no idea when that will be.

Or do we want to say ok at times when we can only meet physically in twos and threes let’s do that, when it’s extended to say 6 lets do that.  In times bigger let do that online but lets not do the mega meeting thing – which doesn’t work online unless you have the resources of a mega church which at the end of the day you either are or you are not.

Do we want to actually build relationships.

What is the worse scenario of that?

Simply everything gets back to normal in 4 or so months and do we think that 4 months of meeting in single figures is a waste when we’ve been church and we actually get to do relationship.

No, in fact if that’s the scenario – I don’t think we are going to stop that and even if we do that four months will have birthed good fruit whereas at the moment where is the fruit?

What this points to is that unless we have actually done this we’ve wasted the last 6 months and unless we do it we’ve going to be wasting the next 6 which could easily turn into 6 years!

I don’t want to dwell on this but the reality is this:

So in the summer everything was getting back to normal – although the number of deaths, certainly in the uk, was much closer to normal than it had been here in the UK we lulled ourselves into a false sense of security because even a handful of people dying of a complex cold in the middle of summer was still unprecedented, not normal – and in some kind of extreme lookdown too.

There’s nothing normal at all about anything any more!

Coming into winter it’s clear those numbers are going to go up naturally and that’s within still in some form of lockdown and naturally we’ll swing for the next few years between periods of total lockdown to bring down the numbers and not so when the numbers mean half the population isn’t at risk of dying – again there’s nothing normal about it!

Clearly now then nothing is getting back to normal!

I actually prophecied this wouldn’t be short term because firstly I knew but secondly how can something that’s that unprecedented suddenly be solved, it’s ridiculous.  Politicians like to point fingers at governing politicains saying it’s your fault but in country that has some form of non-totalitarian government the numbers are bad yet politicains still want to point fingers and lay blame – clearly then no-one can solve this thing!

Let’s not discuss the medical consequences but briefly one it’s a serious problem if we don’t become immune when we have it which has proved to be true, one it’s a serious problem if it mutates that we still don’t know and it’s serious if we don’t find a vaccine which at the moment we don’t have

So what kind of normality can we get to until we know all those things are solved?

Given what most people thought back in March, saying now in 6 months time that things may go back to normal is just not… well normal. So for me in 6 months unless we solve all of those issues nothing is going back to normal, to me naturally we are talking 18 months at the very least not 6.  Talk of 6 then years is more likely

God’s message to the church is two-fold

…and this isn’t about Coronavirus just part of what will become a wider issue but

1 – This is the new normal

2 – God’s problem is what we call “normal”, he hates – which is the corrupt western system

3 – welcome to the new world

The second key message to the church is we won’t thrive unless we except all these,  it’s only by living in this but also more importantly being in step with the Spirit and what the Spirits saying in this hour that we exist!

This begins by banning the world ‘normal’ in the church and to begin to stop thinking like this – it’s the acute problem in the world that ironically we diagnose when we treat the world like a medical patient.  This is the crossing the rubicon movement and moment, until the church crosses we have nothing to offerer the world but instead are trapped inside that system.

One of the key reasons we can’t get passed this is because we don’t understand God’s judgements.

Judgement

Our biblical view of Judgement is very wonky.

Firstly we act like God’s Judgement is because he either wants to punish us or he even enjoys it.

 

1 – fullstop…. and a parent will know this… you can’t have love with justice because a lover always wants what’s best for those they love and that involves justice and both sides of it.

2 – God must be faithful to all that He is and Judgement is one of a million ways He does that

That second point is important.

Every truth in the universe that firstly creates, binds and then holds the whole thing together is built on who God is.

Every aspect of who God is goes into preserving that and gives the whole thing purpose.

Without that nothing holds to be true and chaos is the only thing that comes out of it.

For me to say I don’t like God’s judgement is then to say I prefer total chaos to what I don’t like.

The center of this whole process is the Heavenly realm and the highest of heavens.   In that instance the purpose is like court.

To look at this from a different perspective the purpose of God is not to pick the laws he wants to impose, because He can’t change who he is.   God then isn’t judging he’s binding and holding everything that’s true together with his Judgements – God’s judgment then sustains and gives life and primarily to that which is truth it never brings death. That dying we see it and we see it as evil is the death of things that bring death so it brings life – it’s not as black and white as human minds can conceive.  Everything that needs to die, becomes judged.  Judgement is eternal because truth is eternal but Judgement is delayed in most cases and certainly not administered at the perfect timing in human existence.  God works on a different clock to us.

It’s actually this delaying of judgement which allows evil and death to persist and that we experience negatively, God’s actual judgements far less so but we don’t consider that.   The outworking of delayed judgement is so that while some evil is sustained in the world, the judgement is delayed so that it’s not eternally defining to those who would be damned – it’s just doesn’t suit us because ultimately we are selfish.

The difference is whereas if I murdered you lets say I shouldn’t get away with that in a human court.  In God’s court if the way the universe is held together, based on the personality of God himself, is broken just once,  not only does the universe implode but God fails to be God.

Judgement in the big picture is a good thing, we again just don’t like it because we are selfish.

The way the Bible sees judgement in it’s Old Testament context within the covenant that within the rules of the covenant if God’s people follow the laws of the covenant they are protected with what is seen as a hedge of protection.  Think of it as a land.  So if we step out of the confines of that land (laws) we choose to remove ourselves from His protection.

That’s not changed – the only thing that’s changed is through Christ the hedge is different.  It however still exists it just changes the legal methods that God Judges but the Judgement is still dispensed in the same way and the Judgement doesn’t change.

We are then open to be attacked by the world under the laws the world exists in since the fall – but that is our choice not God’s because we are free to pursue evil as much as we are free to follow God – really the idea of freedom to choose what to follow which is a gift of God and what not to is woven with the idea of judgement.

If God were to reverse judgement then the very first thing he’d have to is take away our freedom and what’s worse eternal salvation forced with no free will to choose or freedom with eternal judgement.

What’s then happening around the world is a natural fulfilment of Psalm 2 which is not just that people choose to disobey God but they deliberately defy and mock Him. It’s when that changes that the Judgement changes because we being judged of a different crime and that crime is to be dispense of the nature of truth that holds the universe together and is God Himself.  This is why there is Eternal Judgement because in a world where love exists with justice and freedom exists alongside if there is no dispensing of justice than the very rules which bind existence together fail then nothing exists eternally (which by the way is what Satan has always been scheming for). If we live in a system where nothing exists surely there is a better system which is that, that which does exist eternally exists through it’s own free will to choose life over death and in any way.  It’s just the way through Jesus is the only solution to the conundrum.

If you were to ask the question do you have better way, then that ignores the point there is no other way!  It’s not that there is another solution but worse but there is no other possible solution. Still the answer would be no there is not a better way.

When we step out of that hedge of protection we not only walk away we open ourselves to the repercussions of what the world wants to throw at us which is Judgement – God doesn’t act in the role of judger because he wants to judge but as creator and as creator arbitrator.

What we see and are going to see in the coming years is this Judgement.