Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. Proverbs 4:23
In the Rated Ecclesia post a short while ago, I shared on the urgency for taking stance. The following post could jolt someone awake accordingly. It can also enlighten to a timeline.
When going through the things I share here, Daniel 7 comes to mind...
He shall speak words against the Most High,
and shall wear out the saints of the Most High,
and shall think to change the times and the law;
and they shall be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time. Dan 7:25
What is wearisome for a Saint?
Jesus said to His disciples in John 4:34 -
My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
Rest, or Grace, is what Jesus is describing. The work was bringing Israel to a knowledge of The Father, through belief on the Son. We see in the Gospels that it did require confrontation with a few demons. But, I just don't think this wearied Jesus. He explained His weariness clearly in an incident with the disciples --
And he answered them, O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me. Mark 9:19
There are many things we may be able to use greater context for in the Scriptures. But, Holy Spirit will meet us instead for the translation. On the surface, I would look at Jesus' comment in Mark 9 as a response to students who'd missed something they shouldn't have been missing. Yet, there isn't clear context for the depth of their shortcoming.
Was casting out demons something that the disciples should've been versed at by that time? Or, it could be how they handled their shortcoming that made Jesus express weariness. One thing we know for sure --- His students could've been doing something better.
Returning to the earlier question, what is wearisome for a Saint ? .. I believe the context for 'Saint' says is all.
The work, as Jesus described for His disciples, is to believe. And, if you're engaged in the work, related weariness as described in Daniel 7 is due to a wrestle in continuing to believe. Also described in the Daniel 7 passage, the reason for the wrestle -- those that speak against God.
This rebellion takes on many forms, especially in the season before us. It all looks the same in the end .. a wearisome display of the rebellious taking stance against God as if they had any chance whatsoever. The longer they are able to go on, the more foolish the pompous display grows.
Taking stance as a believer in Christ includes knowing foolish and harmless aren't together in the picture - the foolish are detrimentally so. God will see His Justice for those who are oppressed and broken because of those who refuse His heart. The verse that follows the description of the worn Saints in Daniel 7 will flow also -
26 But the court shall sit in judgment,
and his dominion shall be taken away,
to be consumed and destroyed to the end.
27 And the kingdom and the dominion
and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven
shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High;
His kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom,
and all dominions shall serve and obey Him.
Moving in agreement with (believing on) God, Who is Justice, I believe is an active stance - needed to be taken now. I believe this starts with having God's heart about what is going on around us. Yes, redemption for all those Christ died for. Even so, deliverance for those oppressed or broken while the pompous who inflict them are in the middle of discovering that they need Jesus as their Savior.
For I the LORD love justice;
I hate robbery and wrong;
I will faithfully give them their recompense,
and I will make
an everlasting covenant with them. Isa 61:8
The following review may jolt someone awake into knowing without a doubt, within knowing Who God is, His Justice must come.
He is Just.
Not a holiday movie, not for kids ... or adults .
Rev 17:
4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.
5 And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.
The child version of the lead character shows up as visible only to her and follows her around as a guiding voice to how to start 'living' again.
Need for the childhood representative concludes by end of the movie with the lead character finding her satisfactory version of prosperity and romance with the lawyer who wrote the manuscript.
The closing scene is of the lead character back at the table with her family members retracting her stance about santa's existence and in company with the lawyer and a child between them. The child is shown with the lawyer family's 'mark' on its forehead as the end credits roll.
From the obvious to the less obvious --
This movie is marketed as a holiday movie, and an unsuspecting family would sit and watch this movie with their children. Pompousness, through a disturbing series of background messaging, takes the form that occult practice does -- attempt of trying to make it ahead of God's power.
God's power - His WORD.
Revelation 19:10 describes that the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
In essence, God has the monopoly on past, present and future.
Declaring the end from the beginning
and from ancient times things not yet done,
saying, My counsel shall stand,
and I will accomplish all my purpose. Isa 46:10
Occult messaging is repetitive in mainstream media, a move to carve out a culture that rebels against God. Culture is a descriptive idea of the setting in which people are moving on one accord in agreement. God broke up the most destructive form of this at Babel in Genesis 11, dividing a people who would set themselves in agreement against God's will in a way that God said would be successful if they were allowed to remain in agreement.
Through repeat messaging like the one in the movie reviewed here, the culture - soil - around us is made ready for perversions and deviations away from God's Word and the manifestation of His Word in our everyday lives. Like a person who is inclined to one news outlet, the masses have been in training to have a mind in rebellion to God. Keeping with the note that foolishness does not mean harmless, I move to the next - possibly less considered point - to shed light on the fact.
The children in the movie reviewed are real children. Pompousness is satan's language, the enemy who would spare nothing in order to see the most destruction possible. Whether knowingly or unknowingly, the parents of the children in the movie agreed to allow innocence to be a part of the perversion presented in this movie. The trail has expanded from the movie reviewed here, made 20 years ago, to open witchcraft in much of what children would see marketed directly to them in mainstream media.
This is why I point out, to anyone who has God's heart for what is going on around us, it is not hard to get a steady foot on the truth that
Justice must come.
To many wondering how we could've gotten to where we are today, I draw out a clear point in answer. You cannot train up a whole generation to be in blatant rebellion against God and have a good future society before you. The youth are the future.
Better put, if a whole generation is lacking the soil for God's Truth, His Word, His vision for them does not take. If we would believe God will not send His Justice swiftly for His little ones, we are missing something deeply about Who God is. If you do understand the point I make here, you may be weary, but still believe --- on Who God is.
Guard your heart.
The movie narrative of the movie reviewed here is a look into what the enemy knows -- that
God knows better.
What we believe is what conditions our hearts. It is clear in Jesus' Words and parables in the gospels that He came to secure the condition of our hearts. It is here alone that He is able to take root.
Be still, and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth! Psa 46:10
In this, we have the guard for our hearts -- what to believe about God Almighty.
Isa 61 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me
because the LORD has anointed me
to bring good news to the poor;
he has sent me to bind up the broken hearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison
to those who are bound;
2 to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor,
and the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all who mourn
Psa 40 I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me
and heard my cry.
2 He drew me up from the pit
of destruction,
out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock,
making my steps secure.
3 He put a new song in my mouth,
a song of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear,
and put their trust in the LORD.
4 Blessed is the man who makes
the LORD his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie!
5 You have multiplied, O LORD
my God,
Your wondrous deeds and Your thoughts toward us;
none can compare with You!
I will proclaim and tell of them,
yet they are more than
can be told.
6 In sacrifice and offering You have
not delighted,
but You have given me an open ear.
Burnt offering and sin offering
You have not required.
7 Then I said, “Behold, I have come;
in the scroll of the book
it is written of me:
8 I delight to do your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
9 I have told the glad news of
deliverance
in the great congregation;
behold, I have not restrained
my lips,
as you know, O LORD.
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