Risen

 

Deliverance trailblaze

|    There's a scene

in one of the Matrix movies -- my favorite one from their initial roll outs -- when Neo holds his hand up towards the slew of bullets coming his way ...  and something magnificent happens ...  Don't ask me about the Matrix movies in sum. I won't  watch the last one. I'm sure that within the current environment (cultural / political / etc. / etc.) where its premises were cooked up, the final installment is not worth the time.

The very reality of this dynamic speaks to what I will push forward . If for some reason you have no idea about what I'm referring to when I speak of the Matrix movies, the series is basically a narrative wherein the reality about 'realities' comes into question and the asking of this question is the process whereby a remnant of people begin to disconnect themselves from delusion. 

I remember when I first sat to watch this movie. It was during what today feels like a different time period .. when I would actually walk into a theater and sit down in a seat to watch a movie.  Although I was not new to sci-fi, there was nothing comparable to this narrative that I'd seen up to this point. The very purpose of sitting to watch a movie is to 'legally' transport for a frame of time to a place where what is 'real' does not have to define your mental boundaries -- what you allow yourself to believe and accept as real in the space you're living in. 

Reading is (the learning) where this used to take place for much of society.  A person could open a book and, though they were looking at characters that formed phonetic sounds that translate to shared meanings, the result could be a transport to wherever the resulting narrative brought your visual imaginations. Then, we collectively started to get our narratives from places where the visualization part was done for us. Tele-vision. 

Through all of the advancements since then, I was able to walk into a movie theater one day to watch a screen several times bigger than me unfold a narrative about looking at reality.  Most sci-fi movies I was aware of at that time took whatever license they pleased with the simple given that people are not coming to be entertained by 'reality'.  But, this one was different.  This one entered new territory, figuratively and literally. 

Up to that point, an audience well may never have collectively imagined towards / entertained themselves with the idea of a simple human being learning to stop a slew of bullets with a mental decision (having nothing to do with magic).  Neo in the movie was not some guy who received a genetically altered injection, or born with some superhuman heredity, or lived so far in the future that he was a part of an evolutionary advanced human race. He could biologically hook into a computer system.  But, this is disqualified from 'evolutionary' in advancement, for it has nothing to do with genius of expression from the original, DNA design. 

 Once disconnected from the Matrix, Neo's life was as finite as everyone else's.   It was the Matrix-aware thinking he was re-trained in that brought about the ability in the face of those bullets  -- performed then only in the Matrix.   Though, a 'sci-fi' movie, the 'science' unfolding in the bullets scene was a lot less related to fiction than the norm.  

At its base, it was a scene of a normal guy traveling his decision to learn to radically think in a space -- for himself. This science non-fiction dynamic packed into a movie was being introduced in a mass media setting, in a zone we culturally come to escape, invite someone else to stretch our imagination, or at best, push the edge on the vocab we've collectively resigned ourselves to.  In sum, the narration was unfolding in one of the central places we've learned mass thinking, in front of a screen.   

Watching it was like experiencing a movie step out of a screen... like watching a movie about a group of people sitting in a movie theater.  

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I am from a generation where the visuals fed to the masses have shaped reality at large.  I've literally watched it occur during the time I've been alive on this earth.  The information age has worked with how we as human beings are wired to form narratives that we as masses produce into our time space, as like at Babel (see Gen 11).  We're so busy processing what we've mass-produced (produced as a mass in agreement) in front of us that we've disassociated from our active part in it, like seeing a finished building you don't like and forgetting all the bricks you may have helped to lay on it.  

I sat watching the Matrix movie in a theater and suddenly a dimension was unfolding.  The idea of mass thinking was being multi-dimensionally defined on a screen in front of me, and being given a name -- the Matrix. Books somewhere hold definitions of the same effect.  But, the people who write those books are living in a matrix of their own.  Their 'realities' were not supposed to meet me so exactly on a  movie screen, and relayed better than any of their books could.   Yet, there in our own language, these definitions were being drawn out, along with a concept of the war at large required for thinking differently. 

I never would have imagined the necessity for a war so similar to what was portrayed in those movies would be reflected in the world I'd be living in, in the years ahead.  

You don't have to be a Christian in order to understand that people in mass are being fed. Because of the level of deception involved, you do have to know Christ -- in order to even understand it as a war. On the surface, there's no way words and images alone could produce the level of bondage convincing any parent to agree to a culture where youth could be castrated  on the premise of liberal gender identification.  Somehow, these are the discussions leaders have found it fit to consider with the tax dollars that are enabling their decision power and as representatives of society. 

This unfolding and others are presented to us in narration form, in media, where we've agreed and learned to frame our norm and realities against.  'If its on the screen, it must be what's 'going on' -- and, I must be included...'   In narration, agendas are rolled out. Culturally, we've learned, we then engage to respond.  But, no equally shocking rebuttal content will suddenly turn the tide in a discussion you never started, in a discussion you were intended to entertain instead of impact. 

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  A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion. 

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How are we having this discussion?  Or .. Why is my time being waisted with this discussion?  

 It's what Eve should've said to herself about the serpent ... 

Be aware, I am not referring to turning one's head away from what's going on around us.  I am referring to discerning what's defining what's 'going on', discerning what's prioritizing the topic on our collective minds.  

In that Matrix scene I referenced earlier, Neo holds up his hand and simply says, 'No' ...  No more ducking and dodging and back bending at all the bullets flying at him while fighting Mr. Smith.  Just, 'No'. 

'Nope' will do. 

Because of Jesus, I believe, 'nope' will do. 

In the Matrix movie, Neo changed the time space around him as soon as he changed his mind. The 'program' submitted when he ceased to agree with it. The bullets in front of him fell to the ground the moment he realized where he was agreeing  and then simply decided to disagree, in this thinking.  He began to write the Matrix scene he was standing in the moment he ceased to agree with the program written. 

It's one of the most profound representations I've ever seen on a screen. 

Dear reader, it's time for a science non-fiction discussion. 

|    In Genesis, 

God promises the serpent the terms of its destruction -- 

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I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel. Gen 3:15

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In Matthew and all the gospels, we see this very thing take place and accomplished in time. The virgin Mary's DNA and God's Holy Spirit bring God into our timeline to defeat everything the enemy had in mind for God's children. Mary's DNA made Jesus mortal, God's Holy Spirit made Him God. Mary's betrothal to Joseph brings her under the lineage of Abraham, and Jesus forth as the Lion of the tribe of Judah (see Matt 1). 

It is by this pattern, commenced in the life of Jesus, that we as mortal become born again, a new creation by the Spirit of God when we receive Jesus by faith as Savior and King. And, it is by this same pattern that we continue to see the enemy's final defeat roll out.  

                      It is a generational dance .

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In God's plan, each generation has a level up on Satan's final hour. Abba placed something there to be and bear witness of what He redeemed at the Cross.  If someone gave you the date of your final hour, you would not forget it.  Satan knows that each generation has been designed, armed specifically against him, and that one day this will look like the complete drying up of his timeline. 

This certainly is why Pharaoh ordered that Hebrew boys be cast into the Nile (see Exo 1) and why Herod murdered every male in Bethlehem who was two years of age and under (see Matt 2).  On the surface, it may have looked like moral and mortal tragedy, when in fact it was a spiritual warfare in the enemy's desperate attempt to extend his end date. 

If you cannot reconcile how this meets with all the movie narration I've introduced, please understand that the generation going forth lives in where these collide. What I will describe about this is a non-fiction reality.  

In Eden, Adam and Eve lived where the natural and the spirit existed together.  God, spirit, came to speak to them in the cool of the day (see Gen 3:8).  And they, formed from the ground, were natural (or flesh), covered by God's glory, His knowledge about them and interacted with Him.

When Adam and Eve fell, this perfection became inaccessible to them. A veil was placed between the natural and the spirit which Jesus tore when He breathed His last breath.

And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last.  And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.  And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!” Mark 15:37-39

 It meant many things, but most importantly, access restored for us to God outside of the Law of sin and death.

   For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.  For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. 

By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,  in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Rom 8:2-4 

It means that in every generation, we stand to grasp onto God in the way He dreamed for us in Eden. It means walking in the Spirit. 

In the Word, the Bible, we are given glimpses of what the fullness of this looks like.  Enoch and Elijah are taken up (see Gen 5; 2Kings 2). Both Elisha and Jesus raise people from the dead. John and Paul have experiences in Heaven's dimensions (see Revelations; 2Cor 12). And, when born again, a part of our triune self is living there through what LORD, Jesus accomplished in dying and raising up on the third day (Eph2:6).

This is true whether you've experienced it or not.  Experiencing it is the revelation that the Spirit is the real version of 'reality'. More exists there. It's so vast that the time space we normally call reality cannot fit what's there. 

The enemy has tried his darndest to keep up, to roll out and overwhelm our time space with the foolishness in his mind.  

The truth is that once we stop agreeing and Heaven really begins to roll in, Satan is done; he will not be able to change the subject again.

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 The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of The Lord as the waters cover the sea. Hab 2:14

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Understanding I am a spiritual being is not some mystic reality, but more real than 'reality' we process in the natural, I have experienced and grasped some of its rules. Like, how as natural beings we experience gravity and cause/effect relationships, there are spiritual realities.  The first rule is that King Jesus is ruler there, and always has been. 

The spirit is thee 'matrix' and this is its matrix reality. It's a large 'brain' no one can find its way out of or rise above. 

  How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!  How vast is the sum of them! Psa 139:17

This is the more-real-than-reality dynamic. Everything that we see in the natural came first from the spirit (John 1:3).

The other rule there is that we are stewards. David speaks to his soul again and again in the book of Psalms. My favorite is the verse in Psa 116.

  Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you. (v7)

This verse is such a profound testimony of God's work in David, that he would have this language before a day when God would come and live inside of man through Jesus Christ. The idea of stewarding is interchangeable with 'building' when it comes to the realm of the spirit.  We are all stewarding, or building, something in the spirit that will manifest in the natural in one way or another.  

This is inherent in the way God created us, in His image. 

Believer and non-believer alike have structures built that effect the reality we are living in, especially in spaces where we've come together and agreed. As a functioning society, we agree all the time. One of our most ancient agreements is language. 

There is a language that the adversary has focused on in this age  to bring entertaining to his imaginations.  It's a counter pursuit to the way in which God likes to speak to us,  through our image - in - nations.  

Inner image nations.  

Imaginations, like when He spoke to Abraham in His promise (Gen 15:5), asking him to look and number the stars in order to hear God's promise and conceive of it. 

In the garden of Eden, God placed limits on what Adam and Eve should conceive of. Eve partook of the fruit forbidden her by God by first conceiving of it apart from what God commanded. She formed the place of rebellion in her mind.  

  So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Gen 3:6

Eve agreed with the serpent in her mind and her action followed.  It's important to note that this process is described in Genesis as occurring alongside the use of her vision. Today, culture is so intertwined with hold on our vision faculty that we have terms to describe the widening divided eras.  One random blog I came across described the difference by applying the word 'analog'. 

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  Analog is an adjective that describes a device or system in which information is represented by continuously variable physical quantities. (webopedia.com, 1996)

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In other words -- not digital.  How do we primarily engage with digital in our social function norms? ... We look at it. 

We are spirit, building there what we are conceiving of  .  Our conceiving comes from one Kingdom or another.  We are looking at one Kingdom or another. 

And, as the divide in America manifests, we have been shocked with disgust at some of what's showing up ... instead of showing up on time to refuse the structures built and fortified which have allowed darkness in. We are dealing with what we've agreed on, whether actively or passively. The adversary, as in Eden, has taken up substantial territory in our building spaces as a  culture and a nation.  

If you ever start 'recoding the matrix' to match what Jesus is doing, even if you don't realize that this is what you're doing, you will understand what I'm talking about .  

Within recent years, I stepped into a territory by taking up a Kingdom pursuit.  During the intro phase of this pursuit, I had no idea that warfare would be a part of the venture.  Earlier here I spoke on walking in the spirit.  The LORD had begun to develop my vocabulary in this along side the pursuit .  I did not at first realize how key this would be in discerning exactly what was going on, facing warfare.

Following just meeting with others about the venture, I had a dream that a whole party of military dressed personnel were at my door, joining in force with one of those metal barrages used to break down a door.  I was in a tiny town in Iowa and the meeting I'd just had was simply a discussion by phone with people in totally separate states. This was before 'remote' was a word everyone has become comfortable with in consideration to work spaces. 

I'd bothered no one, and here I was having a dream about a confrontation so out-of-the-ordinary that I could not ignore the weight of such a scene. ... What in the world was going on ?  During this same season, veils were taken from my eyes in very shocking and traumatic ways.  Two different disney movies I watched, produced in that relative season, resulted in such a perverse onset of witchcraft attacks that I wrote to the Pastors I'd been following in warning.  

If I had been so disturbed by the viewing, I could not imagine the horror that a child would have to deal with.  Children have their eyes open as a default to see more of than only what is in the natural. This has increased with each generation.  And here,  I realized the movies I had just encountered were fashioned to exploit this very thing .   The use of the word 'encountered' is the most appropriate for describing what had occurred after viewing these movies.  I encountered a realm, not just a series of attacks.  I saw the place having meetings, organizing agendas, and writing timelines for our children to live in. It was the very realm I realized that I was coming up against in the Kingdom pursuit I was venturing .

I began in the warfare to understand that the film industry as a whole has taken up territory, in the spirit, on a very large scale. Even attempting to produce the opposite of what's been built there - as a Kingdom ambassador - put their alters on alert.   I tell you, in the small town where I lived that yet had one little movie theater, I could not face in the direction of the theater when laying my head to sleep.  It was an alter and I saw its filfth in the spirit if I was turned toward it. 

The kind of alter it is - one set into generational timeline.  In the warfare, I began to understand that there have been decades of 'training up' toward conceiving of the things we are being so shocked by as they manifest in the world around us.  If we are at all confused about the structures we have or haven't allowed, the kingdom of darkness is not.  The enemy sees his structures being built and fortified in the minds and hearts of those looking on, and has been working with this agreement to advance boldly over the recent years.

               This is about what we are looking at. 

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In one dream I had, The LORD advanced me in spiritual sozo where I saw disney princesses that I'd watched and adored growing up.  Each one was increasingly blacked out, in the order that they were lined up like a redaction. I could describe it today as layers of coding. And the dream was uncovering the fact that there has been generational agenda pursued by  the industry, layering as it were sleeper code to fortify enemy structures toward a maturity. And this maturity looks like the darkness we've been seeing in the current season, forcing us to now wake up.

In the dream, I walked up to the last character, completely redacted, and began to loose it from me.  It was the character Ariel, the little mermaid.  In my childhood, this was the one I liked the best . Though the childhood narratives we've popularly known and grown up with like the one I mention here seem simply that, they are producing a fruit and it is not for God's Kingdom.  What has advanced since those disney princess days is full blown witchcraft in the narratives produced for today's youth. 

Because of the disturbing encounters I'd had in that season, after watching the recent disney movie on my phone, I erased everything from the phone and threw it in the garbage. I did not want any soul to ever have to look again at that screen.  Before that season, I had no knowledge of anything ary with disney company .   I wrote the Pastor, and then doing research I found info revealing there had been knowledge of corrupt activity with the company for some length of time.  

I was shocked that a problem so threatening could be so obscured, so as to meet me at a point where the only reasonble response is to begin dismantle. Surely - I was convinced - should one parent know any proportion of what was going on, no child would ever step on the company grounds under its current organization again.  And, it was in comprehending the culture in which such obscurity could take place that I began to understand the issue to scale. 

We are stuck fighting bullets because we have agreed. 

The timelines and spaces that youth are called to take up for God's kingdom are being occupied by layers of narrative that are nothing short of disgusting, formed for them to collectively walk around in, told and perpetuated by what we are looking at.  The warfare I encountered was personal, the attacks tailored to anything - personal traumas - that would  serve any preset vocabulary  to perceive psychotic perversions. And, the intent behind those witchcraft attacks was to convince any viewer that what they were perceiving was of them from the onset. 

The agenda of the realm I saw in this disturbing  season I describe is for producing nothing less than a psychotic generation without the physical narcotic at hand. Mass agreement is the dosage.   There is victory in being empowered here to share this. Central to what I share here is that if I did not have Word seed, Truth planted in me as a child, I would not have survived  that season. This fact compounds the reality that I encountered such attacks from watching media intended mainly for youth.  My hope is to impress that training up in Word is not simply a good thing in this generation. It is Armor for a generation called to SEE. 

We will not effectively carry into future spaces what the youth are supposed to. 

Without the Truth training them up, they will not know the Way ahead.  And, the horrors of the enemy's imaginations await their outlook on the future should their path be left unpaved for the Way.

|  God has and Is 

the the Master rewrite code for His Joshua generation. 

​ Hear, O sons, a father's instruction,

and be attentive, that you may gain insight,

  for I give you good precepts;

do not forsake my teaching.

  When I was a son with my father,

tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,

  he taught me and said to me,

“Let your heart hold fast my words;

keep my commandments, and live.

  Get wisdom; get insight;

do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.

  Do not forsake her, and she will keep you;

love her, and she will guard you.

  The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom,

and whatever you get, get insight.

  Prize her highly, and she will exalt you;

she will honor you if you embrace her.

  She will place on your head a graceful garland;

she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.”

  Hear, my son, and accept my words,

that the years of your life may be many.

  I have taught you the way of wisdom;

I have led you in the paths of uprightness.

  When you walk, your step will not be hampered,

and if you run, you will not stumble.

Keep hold of instruction; do not let go;

guard her, for she is your life.

  Do not enter the path of the wicked,

and do not walk in the way of the evil.

  Avoid it; do not go on it;

turn away from it and pass on.

  For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;

they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.

  For they eat the bread of wickedness

and drink the wine of violence.

The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,

which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

  The way of the wicked is like deep darkness;

they do not know over what they stumble.

  

My son, be attentive to my words;

incline your ear to my sayings.

  Let them not escape from your sight;

keep them within your heart.

  For they are life to those who find them,

and healing to all their flesh.

  Keep your heart with all vigilance,

for from it flow the springs of life.

  Put away from you crooked speech,

and put devious talk far from you.

  Let your eyes look directly forward,

and your gaze be straight before you.

Ponder the path of your feet;

then all your ways will be sure.

  Do not swerve to the right or to the left;

turn your foot away from evil.

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In Joshua chapter one, God gave Joshua this rewrite code.  The LORD told Joshua what to set his gaze upon.  In it, He promised Joshua that no man would be able to stand before (overcome) Joshua all the days of his life (see Josh 1:5). 

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. Josh 1:8

Joshua in battle would then rewrite time space.  A man who'd never seen a light bulb or a telephone would tell the sun to stand still for a sec (see Josh 10:12). You know, just so that the sun would not go down before Israel was done with the battle.  Who does that?!  Better asked, who thinks that?!

An heir, seeing in the Code .

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           The precepts of the LORD are right,
            rejoicing the heart;
           the commandment of the LORD is pure,
           enlightening the eyes     Psa 19:8

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A Joshua generation is called to rewrite.

 The enemy has built up counterfeits, false structures -- false narratives -- that a generation is walking around in.  There are main outposts for them set on both American borders, where people come in droves to celebrate the narratives and prop up their advancements .  On either border are numerous other main outposts where narratives are constructed for mass audiences who entertain them so regularly in mass setting theaters that the project managers of those narratives invest million plus dollar budgets in anticipation of its audience.   Those locations in the natural and in the spirit are a generational distraction from where the Joshua generation is to venture, conceiving the Kingdom of God .

Conceiving for the Kingdom in this generation looks like walking around in the spirit and tearing down enemy structures before they ever have a chance to develop a natural brick or plank, seeing structures and tearing them down at that same instant with the Word of God going forth as a double edged sword. 

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|  There is a song 

by Mali Music, Ready Aim. The lyrics the artist sings is speaking of this very venture.  He's not speaking of something make-believe, but something he has seen. 

     Ready Aim

I'm on an airplane

And the destination of this flight is to the other side

Guess I have to go there

Guess I have to come here, yeah

I know where I'm from

But now I'm headed where I'm going right

But there are powers, in the air, you can't see them

And they have rockets and machine guns

And they're firing on my plane, but I say

Fire, fire!

Ready, aim, fire!

You can't shoot me down, no

F-f-f-fire! Fire!

Ready, aim, fire!

You can't stop me now, no

Tryna make it straight cause its sideways

Tryna take water to a dry place

Tryna take hope where it ain't none

Tryna take low to a high place

Wanna make the shooter put the gun down

So a mother gets to hold her son now

Wanna make the lame man run again

Make the blind man see the sun again

But all I hear is bang bang, gat, gat

I don't think the powers really want that

Breathing down my neck always on my back

Got the guns out, but I say

Fire! fire!

Ready, aim, fire!

You can't shoot me down, no

F-f-f-fire! Fire!

Ready, aim, fire!

You can't stop me now, no

I'm on a rocket ship

And the destination of this rocket is to outer space

Guess I have to go there, guess I have to come here, yeah

I'm from the Earth but I've been taken to another place

And there are powers, even there but you can't see them,

And they have lasers and beam guns

And they're firing on my brain, but I say

Fire! Fire!

Ready, aim, fire!

You cant shoot me down, no

Ready aim fire

I joyfully share the testimony found in these lyrics.  The WORD of God is the Highest structure there is. No thing can stand against it, just as Jesus spoke to Peter when renaming him. 

 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.  Matt 16:18

As a king, may you discover this deeply. May we discover what Jesus has given us to conceive of, from generation to generation. 

His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems, and He has a Name written that no one knows but Himself.  

He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the Name by which He is called is The Word of God.                                                                                                      Rev 19: 12-13