Lovesick
There is a promised splitting of the church between the lovesick Bride and the self-interested harlot church. The end time Harlot Babylon is a counterfeit to the end time lovesick Bride. The harlot religion will look very Christian, but will lack loyalty to one groom. She will love to talk about Jesus, but she will lack burning loyalty to the one who is coming to rule the nations with an iron rod. The false church will try to hold unity together with logic and coercion. She will sacrifice truth on the altar of "unity" and she will find herself united with others, but not with Jesus in the center. They will do the stuff in His name, but He will not know them. The aren't working towards His kingdom coming and the unpopular judgment that comes with His rule, they want their OWN kingdom to manifest.
Matthew 7:19-23 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them. “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
The true Bride will see that loving the judgments of Jesus, while unpopular with people who want their own kingdom to be protected, is what qualifies her to share in His kingdom...His inheritance.
Lovesickness...the burning desire for the source of life and love to come home ... will drive the end time Bride into LOVING the end time judgments:. That is what gives you Jesus and His inheritance. Jesus is the morning star:
Revelation 2:24-28 “Now to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will put on you no other burden. But hold fast what you have till I come. And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations— ‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’ — as I also have received from My Father; and I will give him the morning star.
The harlot, the apostate unity church will have loyalty only to her self interest. She will "reason" her way into a doctrine that sounds palatable to the people, but a doctrine that isn't one of Jesus coming to rule over all.
The harlot church will not honor lovesickness, rather she will war against it. The end time harlot honors man-based logic and power, because she fears the loss of power and influence. The pure and spotless Bride honors lovesickness, because she is mostly driven by not wanting to lose even one thread of experiencing His love. The harlot trades power for loyalty. The true Bride overflows freely from the infinite well of love. She gives because she was given to!
The harlot "invests" in people and expects a return on her investment. The Bride generously shares everything she can to make more lovesick for her worthy groom!
The true church of the Bride is held together by her very lovesickness in common with the other lovesick ones. The harlot holds her structure together with promises of power and the fear of loss from the top down. The power of fear of breaking from the structure is what holds the harlot together, and creates her powerbase. This is the pyramid of ancient Babylon and Egypt, and every other false religion that has the few at the top leading the masses below. The few at the top set the pace and tell those that support them what to do. It is a pyramid scheme that uses the promise of elevation and the fear of rejection to attempt to extend it's influence over more and more territory. The only thing that breaks down the structure of the harlot church is lovesickness.
Lovesick people can't be rewarded by the false church of power and personality. No person has what the lovesick worshiper of Jesus is actually seeking: Jesus' presence for real in secret. Therefore, the leaders...the watchmen...of the harlot structures fear the lovesick ones. The lovesick are dangerous to the false power structures. They simply can't be controlled, and their passion is contagious. They won't shut up because their heart is immersed in their beloved and they cause the others to get a vision that is outside the existing power structure:
Song of Solomon 5:6-8 I opened for my beloved, But my beloved had turned away and was gone. My heart leaped up when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. The watchmen who went about the city found me. They struck me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls Took my veil away from me. I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, That you tell him I am lovesick!
When the Shulamite pursues her beloved no matter what it costs her, the others who aren't important to the religious structure...the daughters...they get a glimpse of true love and the must know: what drives lovesickness?!
When the lovesick one starts revealing Jesus, it is quickly seen that the rewards of knowing Him can only be gotten one way...not from falling in line in the structure guarded by the watchmen, but rather by following the lamb wherever and however He goes! Lovesickness destroys religion by displaying the superior reward of lovesickness!
Song of Solomon 5:9-16 What is your beloved More than another beloved, O fairest among women? What is your beloved More than another beloved, That you so charge us? My beloved is white and ruddy, Chief among ten thousand. His head is like the finest gold; His locks are wavy, And black as a raven. His eyes are like doves By the rivers of waters, Washed with milk, And fitly set. His cheeks are like a bed of spices, Banks of scented herbs. His lips are lilies, Dripping liquid myrrh. His hands are rods of gold Set with beryl. His body is carved ivory Inlaid with sapphires. His legs are pillars of marble Set on bases of fine gold. His countenance is like Lebanon, Excellent as the cedars. His mouth is most sweet, Yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, And this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem!
In the end times, the pressure is going to create an entire generation of lovesick worshipers that will refuse anything less than knowing the ruler of creation. Seven divided and somewhat confused churches in Revelation 2 and 3 go in to the tribulation and out of the fire and pressure of tribulation a lovesick generation who have made themselves pure and spotless just to experience their infinitely glorious King a little more emerges. These are the lovesick ones who hear the call to the hour even right now:
Revelation 19:7-9 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.” And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Then he said to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’ ” And he said to me, “These are the true sayings of God.”
This generation will seriously disrupt the power structures of the earth, including the structures in the church. The lovesick can't be manipulated or controlled by fear of loss or by the promise of elevation. They understand that God is raising up voluntary lovers, not "investing" in people to enslave them to submit to a false power structure. Satan is very interested in shunning and coercing people to submit to religion to keep them from infecting the others with a true revelation of the beauty, majesty, and freedom that is in King Jesus who is coming to not just reign in love, but to dash to pieces every enemy of true love. The religion of importance and elevation will not survive Jesus' appearing!
Satan will attempt to clamp down on the lovesick the same way he always has: with promises of elevation and threats of loss...plan A is acceptance to pacify those who are getting revved up in love, and if that doesn't work to keep a person in line, the dreaded plan B of rejection will keep them from infecting the others. It has always worked this way.
Satan trades power for loyalty. It is how he got 1/3 of the angles to follow him into the most ridiculously foolish rebellion creation ever conceived. Satan traded power he didn't yet have...the power only created in the loyalty of the masses...for the very loyalty of the masses!
Without the loyalty of the underling angels, satan had no kingdom, BUT by promising the angels a more powerful ministry under him, he convinced them that submitting to him was a better idea than submitting to the uncreated God who made them all! Ugh, the foolishness that is in the fear of anyone other than God!
Ezekiel 28:12-18 “Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God : “You were the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The sardius, topaz, and diamond, Beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes Was prepared for you on the day you were created. “You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you. “By the abundance of your trading You became filled with violence within, And you sinned; Therefore I cast you as a profane thing Out of the mountain of God; And I destroyed you, O covering cherub, From the midst of the fiery stones. “Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor; I cast you to the ground, I laid you before kings, That they might gaze at you. “You defiled your sanctuaries By the multitude of your iniquities, By the iniquity of your trading; Therefore I brought fire from your midst; It devoured you, And I turned you to ashes upon the earth In the sight of all who saw you.
It was by trading the promise of power for loyalty that satan tried to gain his own kingdom, not realizing that the perfect kingdom was already made to be freely experienced by creation. Satan risked it all to try and get what God spent His own son to freely give us!
The church should know this lesson, But in a last ditch effort to try and prevent Jesus from returning, satan, through the agency of falsely motivated religious leaders, will once again use the promise of elevation, and if that doesn't work, the threat of loss, to keep the pyramid of power intact out of, and in, the church.
This is the scheme: Keep the masses worshiping...desiring to be near and benefit from...the leaders, and keep them from desiring the King of Kings...all in the name of Jesus! Ugh, the slipperyness of the deception that will be the power structure to hold captive the harlot church by leaders taking advantage of the natural desires of the unguarded heart with false promises of power, or, if that doesn't work, the fear of loss and rejection by the group:
II Timothy 3:1-7 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
The true power of our salvation is the freedom to be lovesick and have it rewarded with more and more of the object of our love! No one can give that to you, or keep that from you!
God has made himself available to anyone who wants to draw near through His son. "How close can I come God?" and the answer booms from heaven: "how close do you want to come?". It is appointed to all who have the desire to press past the boundaries of man-based religion and rush headlong into divine experience. That is the power of love. That is the power of the adoption we were made for...all sons and daughters of the most high God. The earth is crying out for us to realize there is no structure than can offer us, or withhold from us, the already paid-for adoption. THAT realization will create the true structure that all together submits to Jesus as king so He will return!
Romans 8:18-23 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.
Creation is longing for this reality to touch the last generation because this is the only generation Jesus is going to return to: the spotless and lovesick Bride. She will literally open heaven with her reach for who He is. The gates between heaven and earth will open and the King will come in as her lovesickness drives her to open the gates from our side! We aren't waiting for Jesus to come in, He, and all of creation with Him, is waiting for us to fling wide the gates of our hearts in lovesickness:
Psalms 24:1-10 The earth is the Lord ’s, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein. For He has founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the waters. Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord ? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, Nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive blessing from the Lord , And righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him, Who seek Your face. Selah Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah
This kind of reach...this kind of climbing the mountain of God... only happens one way: at the cost of the acceptance of the religious power structures:
Matthew 5:10-12 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Who killed the prophets? The watchmen...the gatekeepers ... of religion. If they couldn't keep Saul by elevating him through the ranks, then they would turn on him and arrest Paul with force and reject him from their ranks. This has always been the story.
Those touched with lovesickness couldn't care less. They count everything less than Jesus as rubbish...as loss. You can't promise enough to, or take enough away from, someone who has already decided to go after the one thing only God can give.
Lovesick people are unafraid, they can't be bought, and they can't be controlled. There is nothing you can offer a lovesick person to get them to back away from the object of their love:
Acts 5:27-42 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them,saying, “Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this Man’s blood on us!” But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree. Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.” When they heard this, they were furious and plotted to kill them. Then one in the council stood up, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law held in respect by all the people, and commanded them to put the apostles outside for a little while. And he said to them: “Men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what you intend to do regarding these men. For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody. A number of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was slain, and all who obeyed him were scattered and came to nothing. After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the census, and drew away many people after him. He also perished, and all who obeyed him were dispersed. And now I say to you, keep away from these men and let them alone; for if this plan or this work is of men, it will come to nothing; but if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it—lest you even be found to fight against God.” And they agreed with him, and when they had called for the apostles and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. So they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name. And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.
This is the way the true Church began, and this is the way it will survive the sifting and stand in the end. This is how the pure and spotless Bride will live and become pure and spotless once more.
She won't rebel against authority, but she will be minimized and pushed out of the power structures her unafraid love threatens. This same lovesickness will cause her to be sanctified...set apart...only to be gathered to the object of her love...Jesus in the center of crowd clamoring not to get to the center of man's opinion of God, but to Jesus Himself. As the lovesick generation draw more and more near to Jesus, they will find themselves united more and more in the company of the lovesick! This is true Biblical unity that makes the glorious Groom the center of love.
The lovesick ones won't stop saying what Jesus is saying, and they won't stop doing what Jesus is doing because they see their groom coming, and more than they want to climb on and clamor for the scraps of structure without Him, they long to finally live with Him.
II Timothy 4:6-8 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.
This is what Jesus prayed for: Lovesick unity by sanctification, being separated apart to Him, as He was to His Father:
John 17:13-23 But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth. “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
If you see my Beloved, tell Him I am lovesick.
Matthew 7:19-23 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them. “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
The true Bride will see that loving the judgments of Jesus, while unpopular with people who want their own kingdom to be protected, is what qualifies her to share in His kingdom...His inheritance.
Lovesickness...the burning desire for the source of life and love to come home ... will drive the end time Bride into LOVING the end time judgments:. That is what gives you Jesus and His inheritance. Jesus is the morning star:
Revelation 2:24-28 “Now to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will put on you no other burden. But hold fast what you have till I come. And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations— ‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’ — as I also have received from My Father; and I will give him the morning star.
The harlot, the apostate unity church will have loyalty only to her self interest. She will "reason" her way into a doctrine that sounds palatable to the people, but a doctrine that isn't one of Jesus coming to rule over all.
The harlot church will not honor lovesickness, rather she will war against it. The end time harlot honors man-based logic and power, because she fears the loss of power and influence. The pure and spotless Bride honors lovesickness, because she is mostly driven by not wanting to lose even one thread of experiencing His love. The harlot trades power for loyalty. The true Bride overflows freely from the infinite well of love. She gives because she was given to!
The harlot "invests" in people and expects a return on her investment. The Bride generously shares everything she can to make more lovesick for her worthy groom!
The true church of the Bride is held together by her very lovesickness in common with the other lovesick ones. The harlot holds her structure together with promises of power and the fear of loss from the top down. The power of fear of breaking from the structure is what holds the harlot together, and creates her powerbase. This is the pyramid of ancient Babylon and Egypt, and every other false religion that has the few at the top leading the masses below. The few at the top set the pace and tell those that support them what to do. It is a pyramid scheme that uses the promise of elevation and the fear of rejection to attempt to extend it's influence over more and more territory. The only thing that breaks down the structure of the harlot church is lovesickness.
Lovesick people can't be rewarded by the false church of power and personality. No person has what the lovesick worshiper of Jesus is actually seeking: Jesus' presence for real in secret. Therefore, the leaders...the watchmen...of the harlot structures fear the lovesick ones. The lovesick are dangerous to the false power structures. They simply can't be controlled, and their passion is contagious. They won't shut up because their heart is immersed in their beloved and they cause the others to get a vision that is outside the existing power structure:
Song of Solomon 5:6-8 I opened for my beloved, But my beloved had turned away and was gone. My heart leaped up when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. The watchmen who went about the city found me. They struck me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls Took my veil away from me. I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, That you tell him I am lovesick!
When the Shulamite pursues her beloved no matter what it costs her, the others who aren't important to the religious structure...the daughters...they get a glimpse of true love and the must know: what drives lovesickness?!
When the lovesick one starts revealing Jesus, it is quickly seen that the rewards of knowing Him can only be gotten one way...not from falling in line in the structure guarded by the watchmen, but rather by following the lamb wherever and however He goes! Lovesickness destroys religion by displaying the superior reward of lovesickness!
Song of Solomon 5:9-16 What is your beloved More than another beloved, O fairest among women? What is your beloved More than another beloved, That you so charge us? My beloved is white and ruddy, Chief among ten thousand. His head is like the finest gold; His locks are wavy, And black as a raven. His eyes are like doves By the rivers of waters, Washed with milk, And fitly set. His cheeks are like a bed of spices, Banks of scented herbs. His lips are lilies, Dripping liquid myrrh. His hands are rods of gold Set with beryl. His body is carved ivory Inlaid with sapphires. His legs are pillars of marble Set on bases of fine gold. His countenance is like Lebanon, Excellent as the cedars. His mouth is most sweet, Yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, And this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem!
In the end times, the pressure is going to create an entire generation of lovesick worshipers that will refuse anything less than knowing the ruler of creation. Seven divided and somewhat confused churches in Revelation 2 and 3 go in to the tribulation and out of the fire and pressure of tribulation a lovesick generation who have made themselves pure and spotless just to experience their infinitely glorious King a little more emerges. These are the lovesick ones who hear the call to the hour even right now:
Revelation 19:7-9 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.” And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Then he said to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’ ” And he said to me, “These are the true sayings of God.”
This generation will seriously disrupt the power structures of the earth, including the structures in the church. The lovesick can't be manipulated or controlled by fear of loss or by the promise of elevation. They understand that God is raising up voluntary lovers, not "investing" in people to enslave them to submit to a false power structure. Satan is very interested in shunning and coercing people to submit to religion to keep them from infecting the others with a true revelation of the beauty, majesty, and freedom that is in King Jesus who is coming to not just reign in love, but to dash to pieces every enemy of true love. The religion of importance and elevation will not survive Jesus' appearing!
Satan will attempt to clamp down on the lovesick the same way he always has: with promises of elevation and threats of loss...plan A is acceptance to pacify those who are getting revved up in love, and if that doesn't work to keep a person in line, the dreaded plan B of rejection will keep them from infecting the others. It has always worked this way.
Satan trades power for loyalty. It is how he got 1/3 of the angles to follow him into the most ridiculously foolish rebellion creation ever conceived. Satan traded power he didn't yet have...the power only created in the loyalty of the masses...for the very loyalty of the masses!
Without the loyalty of the underling angels, satan had no kingdom, BUT by promising the angels a more powerful ministry under him, he convinced them that submitting to him was a better idea than submitting to the uncreated God who made them all! Ugh, the foolishness that is in the fear of anyone other than God!
Ezekiel 28:12-18 “Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God : “You were the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The sardius, topaz, and diamond, Beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes Was prepared for you on the day you were created. “You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you. “By the abundance of your trading You became filled with violence within, And you sinned; Therefore I cast you as a profane thing Out of the mountain of God; And I destroyed you, O covering cherub, From the midst of the fiery stones. “Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor; I cast you to the ground, I laid you before kings, That they might gaze at you. “You defiled your sanctuaries By the multitude of your iniquities, By the iniquity of your trading; Therefore I brought fire from your midst; It devoured you, And I turned you to ashes upon the earth In the sight of all who saw you.
It was by trading the promise of power for loyalty that satan tried to gain his own kingdom, not realizing that the perfect kingdom was already made to be freely experienced by creation. Satan risked it all to try and get what God spent His own son to freely give us!
The church should know this lesson, But in a last ditch effort to try and prevent Jesus from returning, satan, through the agency of falsely motivated religious leaders, will once again use the promise of elevation, and if that doesn't work, the threat of loss, to keep the pyramid of power intact out of, and in, the church.
This is the scheme: Keep the masses worshiping...desiring to be near and benefit from...the leaders, and keep them from desiring the King of Kings...all in the name of Jesus! Ugh, the slipperyness of the deception that will be the power structure to hold captive the harlot church by leaders taking advantage of the natural desires of the unguarded heart with false promises of power, or, if that doesn't work, the fear of loss and rejection by the group:
II Timothy 3:1-7 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
The true power of our salvation is the freedom to be lovesick and have it rewarded with more and more of the object of our love! No one can give that to you, or keep that from you!
God has made himself available to anyone who wants to draw near through His son. "How close can I come God?" and the answer booms from heaven: "how close do you want to come?". It is appointed to all who have the desire to press past the boundaries of man-based religion and rush headlong into divine experience. That is the power of love. That is the power of the adoption we were made for...all sons and daughters of the most high God. The earth is crying out for us to realize there is no structure than can offer us, or withhold from us, the already paid-for adoption. THAT realization will create the true structure that all together submits to Jesus as king so He will return!
Romans 8:18-23 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.
Creation is longing for this reality to touch the last generation because this is the only generation Jesus is going to return to: the spotless and lovesick Bride. She will literally open heaven with her reach for who He is. The gates between heaven and earth will open and the King will come in as her lovesickness drives her to open the gates from our side! We aren't waiting for Jesus to come in, He, and all of creation with Him, is waiting for us to fling wide the gates of our hearts in lovesickness:
Psalms 24:1-10 The earth is the Lord ’s, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein. For He has founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the waters. Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord ? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, Nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive blessing from the Lord , And righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him, Who seek Your face. Selah Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah
This kind of reach...this kind of climbing the mountain of God... only happens one way: at the cost of the acceptance of the religious power structures:
Matthew 5:10-12 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Who killed the prophets? The watchmen...the gatekeepers ... of religion. If they couldn't keep Saul by elevating him through the ranks, then they would turn on him and arrest Paul with force and reject him from their ranks. This has always been the story.
Those touched with lovesickness couldn't care less. They count everything less than Jesus as rubbish...as loss. You can't promise enough to, or take enough away from, someone who has already decided to go after the one thing only God can give.
Lovesick people are unafraid, they can't be bought, and they can't be controlled. There is nothing you can offer a lovesick person to get them to back away from the object of their love:
Acts 5:27-42 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them,saying, “Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this Man’s blood on us!” But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree. Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.” When they heard this, they were furious and plotted to kill them. Then one in the council stood up, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law held in respect by all the people, and commanded them to put the apostles outside for a little while. And he said to them: “Men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what you intend to do regarding these men. For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody. A number of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was slain, and all who obeyed him were scattered and came to nothing. After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the census, and drew away many people after him. He also perished, and all who obeyed him were dispersed. And now I say to you, keep away from these men and let them alone; for if this plan or this work is of men, it will come to nothing; but if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it—lest you even be found to fight against God.” And they agreed with him, and when they had called for the apostles and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. So they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name. And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.
This is the way the true Church began, and this is the way it will survive the sifting and stand in the end. This is how the pure and spotless Bride will live and become pure and spotless once more.
She won't rebel against authority, but she will be minimized and pushed out of the power structures her unafraid love threatens. This same lovesickness will cause her to be sanctified...set apart...only to be gathered to the object of her love...Jesus in the center of crowd clamoring not to get to the center of man's opinion of God, but to Jesus Himself. As the lovesick generation draw more and more near to Jesus, they will find themselves united more and more in the company of the lovesick! This is true Biblical unity that makes the glorious Groom the center of love.
The lovesick ones won't stop saying what Jesus is saying, and they won't stop doing what Jesus is doing because they see their groom coming, and more than they want to climb on and clamor for the scraps of structure without Him, they long to finally live with Him.
II Timothy 4:6-8 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.
This is what Jesus prayed for: Lovesick unity by sanctification, being separated apart to Him, as He was to His Father:
John 17:13-23 But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth. “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
If you see my Beloved, tell Him I am lovesick.
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