What Are We Fighting, Who Are We Fighting?

Samantha Stolz and I generally walk the Temple Mount each day we can (Sun-Thurs).
We ask God what to (quietly and respectfully) ask him for each day. Yesterday, the Lord told us to ask for "blind eyes to be opened and prisoners set free."

We decided to walk a new way through the olive groves and onto the upper courtyard from the north. I caught a new view of something we've seen 30-40 times in the last few months.

There is always something new to see if I am willing to approach it in a new way.

One thing you might not know: of all the religious sites in Jerusalem, there are a couple we consistently feel the presence of the Lord at. This is one of them.

Despite all of the conflict, machine guns, and anger you can encounter here (and we have encountered them all), it is truly one of the most peaceful places I've ever walked.

The Lord is there. It doesn't belong to anyone else. He is simply waiting for the people on earth to agree that this is the place His Son will rule us from.

He really will.

God isn't looking for a fight with man. He sent Yeshua to avoid a fight with us. He is looking for those willing to bring their 3 square feet into His presence and give Him control of themselves... Not tell Him how He should control everyone else.

The fight we are supposed be engaged in is against the devil's attempts to get us into self-leadership.

The earth is ramping up for a fight. Many in the church are ramping up for a fight against the culture (right and left, both). This is a big mistake. A fight against the culture is a fight against man. We are supposed to come out of the culture with Yeshua.

Mankind is getting ready to fight (and be "made one" in the same spirit of impatience and lawlessness, or 'Babylon'), Yeshua is waiting for justice. Big difference.

As you read this passage, ask God, "is it lawful to be more forceful, impatient, and afraid than Yeshua?"

Isaiah 42:1-7 NKJV — “Behold! My Servant whom I uphold,
My Elect One in whom My soul delights!
I have put My Spirit upon Him;
He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles. He will not cry out, nor raise His voice,
Nor cause His voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed He will not break,
And smoking flax He will not quench;
He will bring forth justice for truth. He will not fail nor be discouraged,
Till He has established justice in the earth;
And the coastlands shall wait for His law.” Thus says God the LORD,
Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it,
Who gives breath to the people on it,
And spirit to those who walk on it: “I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness,
And will hold Your hand;
I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people,
As a light to the Gentiles, To open blind eyes,
To bring out prisoners from the prison,
Those who sit in darkness from the prison house.

He waits on that hill. He really does!

Because God is so powerful, He can afford to stand in the truth and wait for all those willing to come to the truth to come and stand with Him.

Many will fight what they think is wrong and find themselves fighting God Himself.

Matthew 13:27-30 NKJV — “So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ “He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ “But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. ‘Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

The reapers are the angels (Matthew 13:39), not the church. The individuals that make up the church are either becoming wheat or tares.

The tares fight each other. The wheat yield the fruit of the leadership of God, which is peaceable.

Titus 3:1-6 NKJV — Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men. For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,