knowing the ways of God; a prophecy

I have given Man a kingdom to rule in and he has not done well in these last days. However, if evil does not come to stay, good will not rise up to confront it. There is a spiritual battle that is taking place now that the early Christians only read about in my revelation to John.

Men want Me to come with My power, putting evil down and correcting corruption. I want men to do that. All the power and authority man wants man would have if he were serious about ruling in the Kingdom of God.

In the Old Testament I required men to go to battle against their enemies. And yet, I brought the victory in their battles against evil. It was the same at the beginning of the New Testament. I conscripted men for evangelism, preaching, teaching, establishing churches, and being their prophets. I accompanied their confrontations against darkness with My light and power, showing signs and wonders, working miracles. In all these confrontations, both old and new testament followers learned My ways, and that I am the Captain of the Hosts Who brings victory over evil.

I will not accompany men’s systems nor build men’s kingdoms. But for those who serve Me in My Kingdom, I stand ready to bring the victory in their battles. The Kingdom suffers want because men have stopped believing they were meant to rule. Instead, they pray for Me to do something about all their problems. They look forward to times of change but are not part of making that change. Indeed, the leaders of the Church are wanting their systems to be honored and blessed by the very God Who is trying the change them.

Do I establish a man-pleasing system that locks the servants of God outside while only a few hand-picked men serve on the inside? Am I pleased with these few men who say to the prophets “I don’t need you”? I, Who am the Head of the body, have a body without all its members. Yet these few men want Me to bless their schools and churches with My power. The hand-picked approved men and women who speak on My behalf are not speaking for Me in entirety, for I cannot give them what is appointed to those servants whom they have excluded from My service. The ones who exclude others do so as if in service to Me, and yet they are forming a club for others like themselves to commend each other and approve each other for service to God. This is the “good-old-boy” club, and a corrupt system in which I cannot fulfill My Father’s will.

Has man not considered who is behind their good-old-boy system? This system comes offering security, getting men to yield their trust to one who serves himself and not God. As an angel of light (2 Cor 11:14), so comes the invitation to the pastors to join the system that will bring them success and keep their churches safe and secure from deceivers. The pastors do not recognize the intimidating nature of the few approved ones from the super churches who invite them to join their club. And so the trading begins; souls for security. Their congregation becomes members of a system that has no godly care for their souls, and no vision for their individual development. If these pastors knew they were trafficking in souls at the urging of satan (Rev 18:13), the angel of light, they would stop asking for My blessing. Indeed, it is because they seek the blessing of super churches that they have little from Me.

“Strategy” has become the new popular word for the Christian speakers of this time. Do they not realize that the enemy has out-strategized them? By rendering My body useless with so many non-functional members, how will She walk with Me towards victory at the end of this battle? Where are your individual wise men and prophets ? . . . for all I see are a few approved voices, and not the individual members of churches serving Me. Your schools churn out those who will serve, patterned after your approved way. They will not follow Me, but a few. If you had set an example for them of raising each man and woman into their place in the body, perhaps they would go and do the same. But you teach them to reject brethren that I send (see John 13:20). You have set a standard by which they judge My servants, and in not receiving them they cannot receive from Me. You have hardened the hearts of your students against the Lordship of the Holy Spirit by lifting up your ways and your standards above Me.

Shall I bless you for this? All you are doing is preparing your students to reject My voice when I speak, for My words will not fit into their understand, and you have not correctly taught them the ways, indeed, the Lordship of God.

If a man would boast of anything, let him boast that he knows and understands the Lord (Jer 9:24). Teach men to know Me and My ways and to understand Me, and then I will honor you. The knowledge of Me and My glory will cover the earth one day, just as the waters cover the sea (Hab 2:14). Then I will be glorified in My Kingdom. Amen.