Voting for real
Isaiah 9:6-7 For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
From that time forward...
Time is really important to God, and so is government. We need to understand the nature of God's government in order to agree with it. Agreeing with Jesus about His kingdom... His government... coming is not about voting. Voting in American elections is fine, I wouldn't miss a chance to vote, but it has very little to do with what Jesus is doing. Jesus doesn't want to infiltrate our government with more conservative or liberal leaders... he wants to crush it at the right time:
Daniel 2:44-45 And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold—the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.”
This is the time you live in. Many have a very low view of what God is wanting to do in this hour. God isn't about making our governmental systems a little more righteous. God is all about a hostile takeover of every government not completely loyal to HIM.
Many are unprepared for that statement. Even more simply have no idea what it means. This is a sad consequence of half-hearted Christianity. Many who sincerely love Jesus, don't wholeheartedly love Him to the point they would actually forgo career, entertainment, church, or family to find out why the world is melting down all around them. This is simply an indicator of a lack of love:
Luke 14:26-28 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it —
Jesus is orchestrating the final strokes of His plan to join back heaven and earth... it is His wedding plan. If you don't care enough about the wedding to find out what to expect, then you really don't care to be married. No one would approach their own earthly wedding so casually, despite the fact that 50 percent end in divorce, yet many approach the most permanent union possible very casually. This just reveals our value of the wedding. Jesus is orchestrating a hostile takeover of every nation on earth that doesn't care to be married... in a legal family relationship that makes them a son or daughter of God by law. The Bride is supposed to participate!
I am not talking about participating by fighting with guns and ammo. In fact, physical strength is useless in the fight we find ourselves in. If your plan is to, at some point, resist governments that are running out of control with your weapons, you will be very disappointed. Faith is what is required. Faith expressed in actions loyal to the Bible will result in the fulfillment of God's UNUSUAL plan to build worship centers as safe zones all over the earth in order to prepare the earth to receive Jesus.
Night and day worship is what David built His throne on. God is enthroned on the praises of His people... for real. That isn't just a cute phrase to get people into singing in worship gatherings... it is the constitution of the true government of all creation. You vote in Jesus' government with your heart expressed in your conversation to heaven in song.
This is what is beginning to take shape all around us. This is what it means to vote in the government higher than any other:
Psalms 149:1-9 Praise the Lord ! Sing to the Lord a new song, And His praise in the assembly of saints. Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. Let them praise His name with the dance; Let them sing praises to Him with the timbrel and harp. For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the humble with salvation. Let the saints be joyful in glory; Let them sing aloud on their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand, To execute vengeance on the nations, And punishments on the peoples; To bind their kings with chains, And their nobles with fetters of iron; To execute on them the written judgment— This honor have all His saints. Praise the Lord !
This is how the saints endure with patience and faith through the end time tribulation... THEY release it by reaching for heaven with their hearts in prayer and worship, and heaven moves by binding evil earthly governmental leaders. This is mostly what the Book of Revelation is describing. If you aren't getting a vision for this, then you are missing what every saint is supposed to be all about at the right time.
For 42 months... a very set amount of time... believers need to be prepared to resist the worst persecution earth has ever witnessed, not with guns and food, but with faith and patience that will be expressed in communities of people defending their turf with worship and prayer. What is your plan? If you think midterm elections will fix decades of removing God from our culture, you are delusional. Even worse, If you want to fight with a sword when it all melts down, a sword is what you will get.
Revelation 13:5-10 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If anyone has an ear, let him hear. He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
The end time trouble is all about the spiritual trouble at the root of every government of the earth. Faith and patience are what is required. Faith that actually does something.
You can't fight spiritual problems with man-based solutions. You need a supernatural solution. This is what Jesus is coming to do at the "right time":
Psalms 110:5-6 The Lord is at Your right hand; He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath. He shall judge among the nations, He shall fill the places with dead bodies, He shall execute the heads of many countries.
Do you see the timing? The day, the months... the plan? There is a very specific plan. The days.. the timing is all written out. You are supposed to know and understand this plan, not so you can help God, but so you can help you! Jesus is going to execute vengeance. The question is, is that YOUR plan... to invite him?
Luke 18:7-8 And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”
Right now, this is the problem: many are impatient and lack faith. They don't REALLY believe faith can overcome the trouble all around them, so they find ways to mentally escape a responsibility to face the trouble. This is a satanic plan to keep people from preparing and participating. Many who sincerely love Jesus tell themselves things like:
1. No one could know for sure (even though every writer of the new testament confidently claimed to know for sure what was coming).
2. Jesus would never expect His beloved Bride to endure tribulation (even though every writer of the new testament... some of Jesus' closest friends... were in tribulation continually, and even now, millions of Jesus' faithful servants are being subject to intense tribulation in the middle east... but somehow if you live in Cleveland or Miami...anywhere west of the Atlantic... you are not appointed to share in what every other faithful witness has been promised?)
3. No one knows the day or hour (even though Daniel was told the exact number of days from a certain point in human history)
Daniel 12:1, 4, 11-12 “At that time Michael shall stand up, The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people; And there shall be a time of trouble, Such as never was since there was a nation, Even to that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, Every one who is found written in the book. “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” “And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.
Jesus said that what Daniel saw EVERY Christian should know and understand. Look in your own Bible... every translation includes a parenthetical break that says "(you really need to understand this)":
Matthew 24:15-22 “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.
The reason you need to understand Daniel's info is because a response is required. If you live in Judea, you are supposed to run. If you live other places you are supposed to do other things. Do you know what you are supposed to do? Do you know what to watch for so you know when it is time? Do you even care?
Since the fall of man in the garden, the whole earth has waited for the time and space YOU occupy... you are taking up some very valuable real estate in the time and space of creation. what are you doing with it? Do you value it? Many say "these are the last days" and then do next to nothing to nail down and start agreeing with what that means. If you say "these are the last days" and then go back to making muffins and watching Charles in Charge reruns on Nick at Night like nothing is happening you are actually speaking judgment over yourself.
These are the last days.
You need to break free of only learning about the last days from Hollywood movies and self-serving preachers and get into the word yourself.
If you live on planet earth right now... and I am assuming you do... then you are facing the final test all of creation has been appointed to finally come to at the right time. This is the hardest test the earth has ever seen. You don't want to cram for this test... you really want to be prepared. Everything you need to know is written out in a very simple and detailed fashion. The Holy Spirit is in you just waiting to explain it to you if you will start the conversation, but you MUST start the conversation. Jesus will never make you care about your own wedding.
If you respond now, before it is too late, your worship and prayer will protect your city and those who mocked this idea will be at your feet... they will still have to worship Jesus, but it will not be fun:
Revelation 3:9-10 Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie—indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
If you mock this unusual plan, you will simply get a harder heart and a more sure tribulation:
Isaiah 28:21-22 For the Lord will rise up as at Mount Perazim, He will be angry as in the Valley of Gibeon— That He may do His work, His awesome work, And bring to pass His act, His unusual act. Now therefore, do not be mockers, Lest your bonds be made strong; For I have heard from the Lord God of hosts, A destruction determined even upon the whole earth.
From that time forward...
Time is really important to God, and so is government. We need to understand the nature of God's government in order to agree with it. Agreeing with Jesus about His kingdom... His government... coming is not about voting. Voting in American elections is fine, I wouldn't miss a chance to vote, but it has very little to do with what Jesus is doing. Jesus doesn't want to infiltrate our government with more conservative or liberal leaders... he wants to crush it at the right time:
Daniel 2:44-45 And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold—the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.”
This is the time you live in. Many have a very low view of what God is wanting to do in this hour. God isn't about making our governmental systems a little more righteous. God is all about a hostile takeover of every government not completely loyal to HIM.
Many are unprepared for that statement. Even more simply have no idea what it means. This is a sad consequence of half-hearted Christianity. Many who sincerely love Jesus, don't wholeheartedly love Him to the point they would actually forgo career, entertainment, church, or family to find out why the world is melting down all around them. This is simply an indicator of a lack of love:
Luke 14:26-28 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it —
Jesus is orchestrating the final strokes of His plan to join back heaven and earth... it is His wedding plan. If you don't care enough about the wedding to find out what to expect, then you really don't care to be married. No one would approach their own earthly wedding so casually, despite the fact that 50 percent end in divorce, yet many approach the most permanent union possible very casually. This just reveals our value of the wedding. Jesus is orchestrating a hostile takeover of every nation on earth that doesn't care to be married... in a legal family relationship that makes them a son or daughter of God by law. The Bride is supposed to participate!
I am not talking about participating by fighting with guns and ammo. In fact, physical strength is useless in the fight we find ourselves in. If your plan is to, at some point, resist governments that are running out of control with your weapons, you will be very disappointed. Faith is what is required. Faith expressed in actions loyal to the Bible will result in the fulfillment of God's UNUSUAL plan to build worship centers as safe zones all over the earth in order to prepare the earth to receive Jesus.
Night and day worship is what David built His throne on. God is enthroned on the praises of His people... for real. That isn't just a cute phrase to get people into singing in worship gatherings... it is the constitution of the true government of all creation. You vote in Jesus' government with your heart expressed in your conversation to heaven in song.
This is what is beginning to take shape all around us. This is what it means to vote in the government higher than any other:
Psalms 149:1-9 Praise the Lord ! Sing to the Lord a new song, And His praise in the assembly of saints. Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. Let them praise His name with the dance; Let them sing praises to Him with the timbrel and harp. For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the humble with salvation. Let the saints be joyful in glory; Let them sing aloud on their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand, To execute vengeance on the nations, And punishments on the peoples; To bind their kings with chains, And their nobles with fetters of iron; To execute on them the written judgment— This honor have all His saints. Praise the Lord !
This is how the saints endure with patience and faith through the end time tribulation... THEY release it by reaching for heaven with their hearts in prayer and worship, and heaven moves by binding evil earthly governmental leaders. This is mostly what the Book of Revelation is describing. If you aren't getting a vision for this, then you are missing what every saint is supposed to be all about at the right time.
For 42 months... a very set amount of time... believers need to be prepared to resist the worst persecution earth has ever witnessed, not with guns and food, but with faith and patience that will be expressed in communities of people defending their turf with worship and prayer. What is your plan? If you think midterm elections will fix decades of removing God from our culture, you are delusional. Even worse, If you want to fight with a sword when it all melts down, a sword is what you will get.
Revelation 13:5-10 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If anyone has an ear, let him hear. He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
The end time trouble is all about the spiritual trouble at the root of every government of the earth. Faith and patience are what is required. Faith that actually does something.
You can't fight spiritual problems with man-based solutions. You need a supernatural solution. This is what Jesus is coming to do at the "right time":
Psalms 110:5-6 The Lord is at Your right hand; He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath. He shall judge among the nations, He shall fill the places with dead bodies, He shall execute the heads of many countries.
Do you see the timing? The day, the months... the plan? There is a very specific plan. The days.. the timing is all written out. You are supposed to know and understand this plan, not so you can help God, but so you can help you! Jesus is going to execute vengeance. The question is, is that YOUR plan... to invite him?
Luke 18:7-8 And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”
Right now, this is the problem: many are impatient and lack faith. They don't REALLY believe faith can overcome the trouble all around them, so they find ways to mentally escape a responsibility to face the trouble. This is a satanic plan to keep people from preparing and participating. Many who sincerely love Jesus tell themselves things like:
1. No one could know for sure (even though every writer of the new testament confidently claimed to know for sure what was coming).
2. Jesus would never expect His beloved Bride to endure tribulation (even though every writer of the new testament... some of Jesus' closest friends... were in tribulation continually, and even now, millions of Jesus' faithful servants are being subject to intense tribulation in the middle east... but somehow if you live in Cleveland or Miami...anywhere west of the Atlantic... you are not appointed to share in what every other faithful witness has been promised?)
3. No one knows the day or hour (even though Daniel was told the exact number of days from a certain point in human history)
Daniel 12:1, 4, 11-12 “At that time Michael shall stand up, The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people; And there shall be a time of trouble, Such as never was since there was a nation, Even to that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, Every one who is found written in the book. “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” “And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.
Jesus said that what Daniel saw EVERY Christian should know and understand. Look in your own Bible... every translation includes a parenthetical break that says "(you really need to understand this)":
Matthew 24:15-22 “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.
The reason you need to understand Daniel's info is because a response is required. If you live in Judea, you are supposed to run. If you live other places you are supposed to do other things. Do you know what you are supposed to do? Do you know what to watch for so you know when it is time? Do you even care?
Since the fall of man in the garden, the whole earth has waited for the time and space YOU occupy... you are taking up some very valuable real estate in the time and space of creation. what are you doing with it? Do you value it? Many say "these are the last days" and then do next to nothing to nail down and start agreeing with what that means. If you say "these are the last days" and then go back to making muffins and watching Charles in Charge reruns on Nick at Night like nothing is happening you are actually speaking judgment over yourself.
These are the last days.
You need to break free of only learning about the last days from Hollywood movies and self-serving preachers and get into the word yourself.
If you live on planet earth right now... and I am assuming you do... then you are facing the final test all of creation has been appointed to finally come to at the right time. This is the hardest test the earth has ever seen. You don't want to cram for this test... you really want to be prepared. Everything you need to know is written out in a very simple and detailed fashion. The Holy Spirit is in you just waiting to explain it to you if you will start the conversation, but you MUST start the conversation. Jesus will never make you care about your own wedding.
If you respond now, before it is too late, your worship and prayer will protect your city and those who mocked this idea will be at your feet... they will still have to worship Jesus, but it will not be fun:
Revelation 3:9-10 Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie—indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
If you mock this unusual plan, you will simply get a harder heart and a more sure tribulation:
Isaiah 28:21-22 For the Lord will rise up as at Mount Perazim, He will be angry as in the Valley of Gibeon— That He may do His work, His awesome work, And bring to pass His act, His unusual act. Now therefore, do not be mockers, Lest your bonds be made strong; For I have heard from the Lord God of hosts, A destruction determined even upon the whole earth.
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