Not of This World

We are strangers, we are aliens We are not of this world

  This world, I am sure you know is a mess. Not that this has ever been a shock to most  people, but the evidence for it grows with each passing day. Nations are more concerned about secondary issues than primary issues that support life and liberty. What was once formerly rumors about evil leaders has become established facts for much of the world to see. 

  Mass human depopulation programs are getting exposed, and the few who still choose to believe otherwise grow smaller each day. People still protest, trying to make a change like in Europe where this photo is from. Farmers all over Europe are doing what they can while leaders could care less. The reality is, if farmers burn Paris down it would only serve the purposes of the Satanic leadership.

  Corporations are now more powerful than nations, and nations have become their puppets, their police force. If you want to know who the real leaders are, stop looking at Kings and Presidents, follow the money and you will find the real kings of the Earth.

  Now it is a well-known fact if you research history that almost every generation of Christians for the last two thousand years believed that they were the end times generation. In that fact, this generation is very much in common with them. What they did not have is such an abundance of evidence to back up such a claim. The evidence is numerous, and ever flowing.

  Many people at this point at least believe we are in the End Times, and out of that, a fair population now believes the Tribulation has started. If you consider the fact that according to scripture Christ’s true flock knows and follows His voice. Then it would be accurate to assume the majority of us can hear that something has changed, something is coming.

  Currently, I fully believe there are a lot of fake voices in the Body of Christ intending to mislead the Body. These would be the real false prophets, as opposed to well-meaning everyday believers who just mess up the message. Right now the fake voices are trying to push us with prophecy toward human, political solutions. Their general message is to push, protest, and pray harder and we can take them down. The lesser-known prophetic voices are saying, “Make yourself ready, the King is coming.”

  Do you see the point of focus? One is the hope that you can push through this with hopefully, God’s blessing. The other focus is very biblical, and closely echoes the parable of the Ten Virgins. Trim your lamps and make yourself ready. Now that does not mean we all get to sit on a mountaintop to wait while singing. No, the Lord has a lot for His people to do, and he is giving out assignments now. 

A Different Perspective

  Many years ago I was looking at some artwork of Akiane Kramarik. At the time she was a very young girl and was largely reported to have had powerful spiritual experiences that she turned into artwork. I was looking at her website and each poem she had written that goes with the painting. To be completely honest, I did not get it. I mean I could comprehend the painting and the poem but not how they connected.

  So I just walked away, saying something to the effect that this is something you're going to need to explain to me Lord cause I just don’t get it. Then some time later the Lord gave me two dreams.

  It is actually very difficult to explain these dreams, I’ve tried with various people and some people get some of it and others get none of it. What I have learned is that such experiences shared with people who have no point of reference are generally clueless. Now I don’t mean to say this to sound superior, but to state a fact. How can you describe the taste and feel of a strawberry or visit another culture and tell them of it if the person has no point of reference?

  “Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony. If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?” John 3:11-12 Let’s face it, people today are still struggling with Jesus's stories and parables, and they use earthly things. Heavenly things have no earthly cross connection, no points of reference for our fallen minds to understand. After my experiences, I realize human words totally fail, they fall flat trying to describe heavenly things. But still, I do try sometimes.

  Not of this World

  It was the old Christian rock group Petra who did a song by this title. This song was based on the scriptures John 17:16, 1 Chronicles 29:15, and Hebrews 11:13. The main Corus was; “ We are strangers, we are aliens, we are not of this world.” So I am going to make an attempt to try and communicate a bit of things to come. No, I am not talking about what is coming next in this world, but is… well just a breath away in the next we are all waiting for.

  One of the interesting things I noticed is a total lack of self-centered thinking. Because we are all subject to the sin of the fall, we all have the poison from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil within us. Because of this, we are all to one degree or another self-centered, it is just our nature, it is at our very core. In my experience, that thinking never existed, what I found was I was naturally drawn to the concern of others. It was profound to have something like that gone, something that is so ever-present within you vanish.

  In our world, we struggle with communication. How many broken relationships exist? How many of them were the result of lies or miscommunication? I stood in a group where even colors speak, literally everything in Heaven speaks because it is alive. Because of this, everyone knew everything about me, and I knew everything about them. Now add this to what I just said about the lack of self-centeredness. There was no shame, no need to hide like Adam and Eve did. You wanted to be a part of their lives and you wanted them to be the same with you. Complete community and you knew this community excited the Father’s heart.

  Do you remember in the Book of Genesis, Joseph’s coat of many colors? I now wonder if his father Jacob had been given a spiritual experience. I saw people’s robes, and tunics. They reflected (not a good word, but it’s the best I can use) the very nature and attitude of the person. They would change, or rotate through colors depending on what the person was thinking or doing. It was like the cloth was alive and wanted to show off or dance with what the person was doing. It was like an honor to be the clothing of a saint.

  There was no limit on your vision, you could see the goodness of the Lord on the Earth and Heaven in the same moment. No, I don’t know how to describe this better so that you can understand the concept of seeing both at the same time. What I have said so far is a small sampling, there are aspects to this that I have no words for, and if I try I am sure it would cause a mess. Some things are just… wordless.

  There are echoes or shadows of heaven scattered all over this world. When the Lord spoke so many agricultural parables, he was tying in faint shadows of larger, heavenly realities to common things. Our King is coming, and we are about to experience more. This world, so full of pain and grief, it is just a distraction from something so large that all this sin is just a speck.

  So set your minds on things above, and not below. 

  We are pilgrims in a strange land. We are so far from our homeland. With each passing day it seems so clear. This world will never want us here. We're not welcome in this world of wrong. We are foreigners who don't belong.
  We are strangers, we are aliens, We are not of this world. We are envoys, we must tarry. With this message we must carry. There's so much to do before we leave. With so many more who may believe. Our mission here can never fail. And the gates of hell will not prevail.

  Jesus told us men would hate us. But we must be of good cheer. He has overcome this world of darkness. Soon we will depart from here” ~ Petra, Not of this World 1983

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