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My friend Steve continued with the following:

Seeing – The Intolerable Risk

Intolerable thoughts lead to intolerable decisions, which lead to intolerable actions, which lead to intolerable risk.  From the vantage point of the kingdom of darkness:

• The intolerable thought is that God speaks to His Man who listens to Him.

• The intolerable decision is that God’s Man chooses to start “living by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” (Matthew 4:4)

• The intolerable action is that God’s Man does what Jesus says to do WITH Him. (John 15: 4, 5)

• The intolerable risk is that we discover who we are and what we have been designed to do from the beginning. We are members of the ruling Elohim Class. We have been created to rule God’s creation WITH Him in the fullness of His Nature and Character.

The intolerable risk to Satan and his kingdom is that we start ruling WITH Jesus in every aspect of life and business.

“As in heaven so also in the earth.” (Matthew 6:10)

When the truth and reality of the Elohim Class are hidden, the role and purpose of the Elohim are hidden. When the role and purpose of the Elohim are hidden, the role and purpose of God’s Man are hidden.

So, there is a strategic imperative within Satan’s kingdom to keep hidden from Man the truth of the Elohim Class and his membership in it. This is why Satan’s realm has relegated Man to the Animal Class. It wants to keep us buried in the illusion of depravity and irrelevance.

This is also why it has worked so hard to distort Man’s idea of God and who we are IN and WITH Him. And though these distortions are patently false, they are still awarded standing and openly promoted by Christian orthodoxy and the various Bible translations that support it. This all works together to advance the delusion that Man’s innate depravity renders him useless to God.  He is an irrelevant animal that by his nature is hostile to God and thus worthy of His wrath.

But once Jesus pulls back the veil to show us who we are IN Him – that we are members of the Elohim Class who have been created and designed to live and rule WITH Him – the game changes. And Satan knows it. The game changes because Satan and his realm know better than we do that:

• Theirs is an Angelic Class realm.

• They only possess ministering authority.

• They must minister to the needs and interests of the Elohim Class in the spiritual realm, including ours.

That’s why Satan had to receive permission to attack Job or to tempt Jesus in the wilderness or to sift Peter. Even Satan’s henchman, Pilot, had to first receive authority from Heaven before he could sentence Jesus to the Cross.

So, Satan is a Ministering Class Being. He cannot escape the reality that everything he and his realm does must minister to the end purposes and objectives of God’s Plan – even for those who are currently his slaves who have been relegated to sub-angelic status. (Hebrews 2:7)

Jesus’ genius is an amazing thing to watch. He has played a masterful game of multidimensional chess with Satan by using this depraved Man to put him in check. On the one hand, Satan needs Man’s Elohim authority to not only rule but to compete with Jesus’ all authority. On the other hand, to release Man’s Elohim authority in the measure needed to compete with Jesus, Satan must first disclose it to Man, who can then turn it against him without notice or warning. Either way, he puts himself in jeopardy and risks losing it all.

Your move, Satan.

The intolerable risk.

Seeing – The Two Kingdoms

“Are you not aware or do you not perceive, or do you not see with your physical eyes into the spiritual realm that the voice you submit to in obedience is the one to whom you present yourself as a slave? You are slaves to the voice you listen to and obey when acting under the authority of the one speaking. . .” (Romans 6:16a)

The Kingdom of God begins and ends with God speaking. Where and when Jesus speaks, His Kingdom is present along with every resource needed to engage successful warfare. Where He doesn’t speak, His Kingdom is absent, and so are His resources.

When Jesus took on the devil in the wilderness temptation, He set the framework for how the engagement between them was going to be played out right from the beginning:

“It has been committed to writing and inscribed that it is not fitting that the man shall live solely upon bread alone but upon each and every part of the totality of every spoken word that comes out from the mouth of God, and the effect and influence it has on the man.” (Matthew 4:4)

As it was with Jesus in the wilderness with the devil, so it is WITH Him now with Astarte and her forces. Jesus speaks, we listen and then do WITH Him. This is what unlocks the Kingdom of God in the earth along with its resources to successfully engage the conflict.

The same thing happens with Satan’s kingdom. When he speaks, his kingdom is present and functioning. The difference is that he cannot enter into the physical earth without the allegiance of a physical being. That’s why he needed the serpent in the Garden and why Astarte needs us today.

What activates Satan’s kingdom in the earth is when God’s Man speaks, decides, and acts independently from Jesus. The moment that happens, the kingdom of darkness is released into the earth through and under the ruling authority of Man.

The difference between God and Satan, however, is that God can initiate, accomplish and stop while Satan can only start and resist. This is a simple but profound distinction. So, Satan can devise and start a scheme, and he can resist what God has initiated, but he cannot finish what he has started or resist what Jesus has initiated without first securing control of Man’s authority to rule.

But Jesus isn’t bound by these limitations; He possesses all authority. So, when He asks us to do something WITH Him, it will happen.

“The heavens, and the physical earth that operates in time and space, will pass away, but My words will not pass away.” (Mark 13:31)

Since Jesus only speaks what His Father has first spoken to Him, His words never pass away. They are truth. There is nothing in them that will cause them to decay or disintegrate. He initiates, accomplishes, and stops but cannot be stopped. It is for this same reason that James tells us:

“Therefore, by extension, subdue and subject all things under the arrangement of God. Then, take your stand and establish your position against the slanderous one, the devil and false accuser who seeks to condemn and sever relationship, and he will flee taking flight seeking safety to escape from you.” (James 4:7)

This particular part reveals why we are highly focused on the children…

My friend Steve continued with the following:

Seeing – Why the Separation of God from Children

The extermination and exploitation of children have always been a prime component of everything Satan has done on the earth beginning with Cain.  He continued it by persuading parents in succeeding generations to sacrifice their children to grotesque false deities that lusted after the blood of innocent children. Even Israel got caught up in this hideous practice, which YHVH sternly warned them not to do:

“And you shall not give any of your offspring or posterity to transition or cross over to Molek, the chief deity of the Ammonites. And you shall not pierce, wound, or profane My Name, Honor, Authority or Character; for I am YHVH of the Elohim.” (Leviticus 18:21)

So, it’s not a new thing for parents to somehow be convinced that it’s a good idea to give their children over to the spiritual forces of darkness. In past ages, parents threw their children into the fire of heathen gods. Today, they are giving their children over to Astarte, and they don’t even know they are doing it.

When Astarte devised her scheme in the 1960s to separate God from children, it was to exploit the younger, more naïve generations to do her work. But, since God released the Seventh Angel to Sound in June of 1982, there has been a change of priorities in the kingdom of darkness.

Children have now become an essential resource to supply it with what it sorely lacks – sustainability. As adult humans provide Satan’s realm with the authority to rule, the children of humans provide him with time. Here’s why this has now

become such an important commodity to his kingdom:

When Satan made his move on the earthly dimension to establish his claim of co-sovereignty, he still had access to the spiritual dimension of eternal time. This eased the crippling effect that corruption would otherwise have on his schemes. When a scheme would eventually disintegrate and collapse, he would simply devise another to replace it.

When God released the Seventh Angel to Sound, it closed the previous Phase while ushering in the current Phase of God’s Plan – The Transfer. A tactical component of this Phase was the commissioning of Michael, the Archangel, to cleanse the heavens of the stain inflicted upon it by Satan. This restored the heavens to their original state paving the way for the same to be done on the earth.

Michael cast Satan and his cohorts out of the heavens and to the earth. This radically altered Satan’s position and capabilities by locking him out of eternal time and binding him in material time (“little time”). It also stripped him of spiritual resources. He and his realm were now limited to only using corruption-laden material resources to do their work. Though he sought to control the earth, the earth was now controlling him. He and his realm were now subjected to the same constraints that material time and decaying resources had imposed on Man.

His schemes that could be sustained for centuries before the Sounding were now collapsing under the weight of their own corruption in a generation.  To combat this, Satan looked to the only remaining resource that he had at his disposal – children. So, he set his sights on securing control of the children and youth of each succeeding generation to supply him with the capability he needed to sustain his schemes.

But, to get to the children, Satan had to first separate them from their parents. And to get the parents to agree to separate from their children – to offer them in the fire of Astarte’s schemes – he had to first separate them from God. This was a daunting challenge, but Satan had done it before with the antediluvian cultures of the past. And this time he had the advantage of Astarte’s Authority Inversion

Strategy (AI) already being in place, which gave him everything he needed

to obtain his permission.

To get to us in any capacity, the spirits of darkness must do the same thing every time – they must separate us from God. They do this by getting us to shift our attention away from the simplicity of what we’ve heard Him say to reason about what we think He means – without asking Him.

The objective of the shift is to get us to start listening to the voice that is speaking in the present (theirs) while debating about what the voice in the past meant (God’s). This does three subtle but strategically important things:

1. It puts God’s Voice in the past where we no longer live.

2. It puts the intruder’s voice in the present where we only live.

3. It gets us to rationalize what God has said (in the past) through a reasoning process that has now been reshaped by the voice we are listening to in the present.

As our rationale forms, the influencing spirit incrementally reshapes what we have heard and know about God into its own image. Soon, we begin to see God and what He has said (in the past) through the lens of the intruding spirit’s nature and character (image). The intruder’s voice then begins to replace God’s Voice, so that when it speaks, we think it is God. Its lies then become our truth. The reshaping is done. We begin to look like and act like the intruding spirit while believing we are worshipping and serving God. The kingdom of darkness has become our master and we have become its slaves – and we don’t even know it has happened.

This is how the spirits of darkness separate us from God and convince us to give our children to Astarte.

Of course, none of us would consciously listen to or follow a perverse spirit if we knew who it was. So, they disguise themselves by operating through someone or something we will accept.

In Eve’s case, she heard YHVH’s command to not eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. She was also aware of the serpent’s reputation of being the shrewdest and most sensible of all the creatures of the field that YHVH had made to serve her. So, when the serpent approached her, she was open to what he had to say. In fact, there is no indication that Eve was even remotely surprised by the serpent speaking to her. Quite the contrary, she gave every indication that it was normal for him to be speaking. But then the serpent asked, “Has God said?”

Once the question was asked, the game was afoot. It shifted her attention away from the clarity of what she had heard to reasoning about what YHVH had meant. This shifted her focus away from YVHV’s Voice to what the new voice was saying. Once the spirit knew that the shift had occurred, it used its voice to contradict what YHVH had said. It then started reshaping YVHV’s Nature and Character into its own image – a self-serving liar.

From an on-looker’s perspective, one might conclude that once the serpent contradicted what YHVH said that that would be the end of it. But for Eve, she was already sucked into what for her was a harmless conversation with a creature she trusted.

It never entered her mind that the serpent wasn’t there to serve her. But the sad reality was that it was only there to serve its own interests by baiting her into reasoning on her own apart from YHVH. If she would take the bait, it would put His Voice in the past where she no longer lived while leaving her alone with the only voice she was now listening to – the deceiver. So, what she thought was harmless wasn’t harmless at all. It was the first step to getting her to separate herself from YHVH’s present Voice. It wasn’t long before she started acting under the authority of the one who was now speaking to her in the present. She ate and, at that moment, she became Satan’s slave and agent.

As Satan did to Eve through someone she trusted – the sensible and wise serpent – so he does to us today through something we believe in – rights. When we take a step back to observe the broader landscape of how this whole process is played out, some irony begins to emerge. Satan and his cohorts think they are pulling a fast one on God and His Man when in reality YHVH is the One who set the entire thing up.

Think about it:

• Who created and built the Garden?

• Who created the Covering Cherub (Satan) with his attributes,

characteristics, and tendencies?

• Who created Man with his attributes, characteristics, and tendencies?

• Who created the serpent with his attributes, characteristics, and

tendencies?

• Who put the forbidden Tree in the middle of the Garden?

• Who set the conditions for eating the forbidden fruit?

• Who said, “In the day you eat – not if you eat – you will surely die?”

• Who allowed Satan into the Garden, to begin with?

• Who allowed the transaction between Satan and the serpent to not

only happen but to stand?

• Who allowed the serpent to approach Eve when she was alone? (“It is

not good for man to be alone.”)

• Who allowed Eve to then be used as Satan’s new agent to approach

Adam?

You get the idea.

YHVH was way ahead of the curve. He set the whole thing up as part of His creative process to create IN His Man His Likeness – Nature and Character – through the struggles and conflicts His Man would face in life WITH Him. So, when the time and conditions were right, YHVH lured the intruder into His Theater of Light (the Garden) to duke it out with His Man. As the two engaged in conflict, YHVH was there WITH His Man creating IN him His Father’s Nature and Character. And, as this was being formed IN His Man, His Man was learning how to rule WITH Him.

“But the spiritual one is not the beginning or first in time, place, order and importance, but the natural one of the soul and mind; only then the spiritual one.” (I Corinthians 15: 46)

Time and again, the powers of darkness fall into this same trap. They think they are successfully opposing God when in reality Jesus is using them to advance His Plan. And the centerpiece of His Plan is to create IN us His Likeness, so we can rule WITH Him in the fullness of His Nature and Character.

Jesus uses the spirits of darkness – who are angels – in His creative process because that is what they were created to do. They are Ministering Class Beings. So, it doesn’t matter if they perform their ministry in cooperation WITH Him or opposition to Him. Jesus, who is the highest-ranking member of the Order of Man and Lord Most High of the Elohim, uses the spirits of darkness according to the purpose for which they were created.

So, too, it is with Astarte and her declaration that God is to be separated from the instruction of children.

In Astarte’s mind, she devised her plan to set these children apart for her purposes. Thus, they were to be trained to do her bidding in her image and likeness. And this certainly appears to be happening among many young people today.

But Jesus is way ahead of her.

What Astarte cannot comprehend and refuses to acknowledge (because she has no wisdom) is that everything she plans and everything she does works in the service of God’s Plan. That’s what she was designed to do, so that is what she will accomplish. Her intent does not matter. The only thing that matters is the role and service she was created to perform and the results she was destined to contribute.

As it relates to children, a tactical component of God’s Plan has always been to set apart certain ones from every generation to perform His Work in their time. So, when Astarte devised her plan to separate children from God, she thought she was robbing Jesus of His posterity. But the reality was that she was contributing to God’s Plan by separating several generations of young people from the religious apparatus of the world called the church. The Christian Church has been telling us this for decades as it has lamented for over 50 years that it is losing “the younger generation.” But it is not losing them, they are being separated from them. The strategic reason is so they won’t be encumbered with the pollution that the church teaches about God, His Kingdom, and His Plan. Instead, when the time and conditions are right,

Jesus will call, and they will answer in massive numbers to the Voice of the One Who is calling them. At that moment, they will act under the authority of Jesus’ present Voice as He Transfers them from the kingdom that once enslaved them to the Kingdom that will liberate them. They will then take their place WITH Jesus to rule in the fullness of His Nature and Character. (Revelation 11:15)

“Indeed, we speak wisdom clearly and with skill within the realm of the mature who have gone through the necessary stages to reach the end goal. But wisdom and clarity not of this age or of the preeminent ruler of this age who commands authority over the people and who is being abolished and rendered inoperable.

“We speak God’s clear and skillful wisdom in a mystery to hide and conceal that which God predetermined and foreordained before the ages for praise, honor, and glory.

“A wisdom that not one of the preeminent rulers of this age has come to know, recognize or perceive by personal experience. For, if they had known, recognized or perceived it by personal experience, they would never have crucified the Lord of praise, honor, and glory.” (1 Corinthians 2: 6 – 8)

The children.

My friend Steve continued with the following:

Seeing – Why Authority Inversion (AI)

Inverting God’s Authority Structure maximizes Astarte’s ability to rule through the Ruling Class Elohim female. By making the female superior it neutralizes the superseding authority of the Ruling Class Elohim male.

Jezebel’s name means, “chaste, devoted.”

This describes the role and ministering authority that YHVH deposited into Astarte’s name when He created it. Like Satan, this spirit belongs to the Angelic Class. In its original state, Astarte’s role was to minister to the needs of the Elohim Class in the spiritual realm by inspiring and promoting chastity and devotion to the Father, His Son (YHVH, Lord Most High of the Elohim), and His Kingdom.

Roles and authority, like gifts and callings, are irrevocable. They are integral to the design of the creature. The Animal must serve. The Angel must minister. The Man must rule. Every Living Being must fulfill the design and purpose for which it was created.

So, too, with Astarte.

This spirit’s role and authority remain intact – to inspire and promote chastity and devotion to the Father, His Son, and to His Kingdom. This is the role and ministering authority that it was given, so this is the role and ministering authority it must fulfill. The only difference now is that it fulfills its purpose through its service to Satan. Everything it does and everything it uses works to accomplish its reason for being created, including its use of the female Elohim.

Astarte can only inspire and promote, and it can only produce devotion.  It has no authority to rule, nor does it possess the power to enforce. To enforce it must attach itself to beings that possess the authority to rule and the power to enforce – the Elohim Class.

In the spiritual picture we see Astarte, the Queen of Heaven, attaching itself to Baal, the king of the gods, who knows how to secure the ruling authority of Man. In the natural picture, we see Jezebel, the Sidonese princess, attaching herself to Ahab, the King of Israel. In the 1960s, we see Astarte attaching itself to the Ruling Class Elohim Female and the ruling institutions of Man – government, law, business, education, entertainment, family, and the courts. Each of these ruling entities played a vital role in implementing and establishing Astarte’s strategies and defenses. They also ensured their continued enforcement.  While identifying with and primarily using the female best aligned with Astarte’s attributes, it also created a dilemma.

Under God’s Authority Structure the Elohim Female is under the authority of the Elohim Male. So, to move through the Ruling Class Authority of the Elohim Female to exercise and enforce its rule, Astarte would have to first obtain permission from the Elohim Male. This was an untenable obstacle that would make her rule cumbersome at best and hamstrung at worst.

Astarte’s solution was to take what she had done through Ahab’s Jezebel to the next level.

With Jezebel, Astarte usurped Ahab’s authority to rule Israel. With its new approach, Astarte wouldn’t merely usurp authority; it would convince Man to agree to invert or flip God’s Authority Structure. This would remove any encumbrance to its rule while making the female authority superior to the male. To understand the significance of this maneuver, we have to first understand how authority works in God’s Kingdom.

Under YHVH’s system, authority exists to bless and protect. It utilizes Divine power to mobilize Divine resources to achieve the Divine purpose for granting authority – to bless and protect.

The Spirit of Truth discloses the judicially approved means of administering God’s Authority to the one authorized to bless and protect. This is what enables YHVH’s hierarchical structure to produce unity and freedom instead of dominance and servitude. It functions in the simplicity and purity of the Father’s Nature and Character, so it fully expresses His Truth and Likeness.

With God’s authority comes His power and resources to effectively administer that authority. It is delegated in proper measure to the various Classes, Orders, and Ranks within His Kingdom based on the requirements of the Role.

The higher the Class, Order, and Rank, the greater the responsibility is to bless and protect in the fullness of the Father’s Nature and Character.

Jesus, who has been given the Highest Name, also possesses the greatest measure of authority (all). He uses this authority to fully bless and protect both in heaven and the earth. A simple illustration of God’s Authority Structure through which He

delegates His authority might look something like this:

The Father Greater Than All (The God)

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Elohim Class Ruling Class

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Jesus YHVH, Lord Most High Elohim

Man Male & Female = Heaven + Earth

Elders Heavenly Rule

Watchers Heaven’s Administration of Earth

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Angelic Class Ministering Class

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Cherub } Angelic Seraphim } Orders Arché } Etc. }

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Animal Class Serving Class

God’s Authority Structure related to the Order of Man might look something

like this:

The Father Greater Than All (The God)

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Jesus YHVH, Lord Most High Elohim

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Man Elohim Male

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Woman Elohim Female

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Children Elohim Heirs

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First-Born Male Carry-on Family Elohim Rule

Under God’s Authority Structure, the Father has given all authority to Jesus.

Jesus then delegates a measure of that authority to the Elohim Male who is

responsible for blessing and protecting his wife and family. Jesus also delegates a measure of authority to the Elohim Woman (Wife and Mother) to bless her husband and bless and protect their Elohim Children. The First- Born Male Child is then in line to carry on the Elohim Authority for and on behalf of the family.

Satan’s Angelic Class spiritual authority structure is very different. It would look something like this:

Cherub Satan (“god of this world”)

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Arché Spirit: Ruling Order

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Exousia Spirit: Authority Distribution

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Kosmokratór Earth: Government Compliance

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Pneumatikos Earth: Human Implementation

Ponéria (Spirits of Wickedness)

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Akathartos Earth: Human Torment

Pneuma (Impure Spirits)

In Satan’s Angelic Class structure, the top 3 levels operate entirely in the spiritual realm. The bottom 3 levels work to directly influence human governments, institutions, and people in and through the world system.

When the natural order (earthly) beings are included, Satan’s structure looks

something like this:

Cherub Satan (“god of this world”)

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Arché Spirit: Ruling Order

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Exousia Spirit: Authority Distribution

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Kosmokratór Earth: Government Compliance

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Pneumatikos Earth: Human Implementation

Ponéria (Spirits of Wickedness)

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Akathartos Earth: Human Torment

Pneuma (Impure Spirits)

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Animal Class Serving Class

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Man Slaves (“lower than the angels”)

Under the period of Astarte’s rule, Satan’s authority structure would look something like this:

Satan “god of this world”

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Astarte Ruling Arché (“Jezebel”)

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Angelic Orders Kingdom of Darkness

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Animal Class Serving Class

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Man Slaves (“lower than the angels”)

Specific to God’s Man, Astarte’s inverted authority structure would look

something like this:

Satan “god of this world”

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Astarte Ruling Arché (“Jezebel”)

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Children Highest Ranking Slave

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Woman Highest Utilized Slave

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Father Lowest Ranking Slave

Under Astarte’s inverted authority structure (AI), the one vested in God’s

structure with the least authority (the child) is delegated the greatest authority. The one vested in God’s structure with the greatest authority (the father) is delegated the least authority.

This structure minimizes or entirely neutralizes the blessing and protecting authority that God has vested in His male Elohim Man (husband/father). The Wife is positioned outside the Husband’s authority. The Child is positioned outside the authority of both the father and mother. Since the child has little or no ability or experience to exercise authority independent of its parents, the Elohim Woman becomes the highest utilized authority in the structure.

This inversion maximizes Astarte’s access to the Elohim Female’s Ruling Class Authority while minimizing any obstructive interference that may arise from the Elohim Male. This, by the way, is why Satan had his serpent approach Eve first while she was outside of Adam’s authoritative covering instead of approaching him directly.

While very clever, what’s so mind-boggling about this maneuver is that God’s Man – both male and female – must first agree to it before it can work. And we do. And once we do, Astarte has the unencumbered freedom to inspire and promote allegiance and devotion to its philosophies and agenda among the now unprotected – women and children.

FYI: While meeting with a Chinese Protégé in Toronto during the mid-1990’s, I was made aware of the 19 caves in China where all their tangible wealth was stored. The overseers were called “the old men” reporting to “the old woman” . The locations of the caves are highly protected and one can only travel to and enter a cave by invitation.

By FATHER’S Divine Intent, I appeared in a dream of one of the old men who told his protégé of the dream and described the “white man” with a gift of value who would give him the gift. While in a 4 hour lunch, FATHER instructed me to give him a 1 oz. gold coin which I had carried in my wallet for two years, awaiting further instructions from FATHER.

Once I had given the coin to the protégé, I was confirmed as the man in the dream and had “legal right” to access the wealth in the future. This has yet to occur but FATHER does not forget such a transaction, neither do HIS angels.

We must never assume what appears to be a long delay will be forgotten in Heaven. The angels have access to our books and mandates (Psalm 139:16) and are ready to bring forth the resources to fund the Gospel. Let those angels be dispatched without hindrance!

1 Corinthians 10:26 for the earth and all its abundance belongs to the Lord.

It’s all about Love!

My friend Steve continued with the following:

Seeing – The Kingdom of Darkness

Everything in Satan’s kingdom is a mirror of the Kingdom of God, minus the Father’s Voice and Truth. What Satan has, then, is a shell – an organization, a replica, a mirage – of a kingdom without the substance of a kingdom. It has power, energy, and intelligence, but no life, vitality, or wisdom. So, it cannot produce Good – what is of and from the Father. It can only produce Evil – what is NOT of and from the Father.

The Apostle John describes this kingdom in Revelation 13, using symbolic

language that is vividly descriptive:

• The dragon (Satan) is standing on the seashore (the earth) as he watches his kingdom emerge.

• His kingdom is coming out of the sea (the mass of humanity).

• His kingdom has the nature of a wild beast.

• This beast is strangely organized and configured (10 horns of power with 10 royal crowns, but only 7 heads).

• This beast is extremely resilient (kill one of its heads and it can come back to life).

• The one who possesses wisdom can see this beast and the kingdom it represents through an arithmetic calculation based on the number of Man (6).

“So here, in this very place, is the wisdom for the one that has and holds the mind and intellect to reason and understand the meaning: Count, calculate and compute the total number of the wild and venomous beast, for indeed, it is the total number of Man, both male and female. So then, the total number of the same is six hundred and sixty-six.” (Revelation 13:18)

What Jesus is revealing to John (and to us) is that when the tally is taken, the sum (total productive output) of this kingdom is directly connected to the sum (total productive output) of Man, both male and female. What Man is willing to produce on behalf of this kingdom through his authority to rule (6), labor (6), and material resources (6) is the extent to which the beast can function and rule in the earth (666). Take Man out of the arithmetic equation and the beast has nothing (666-666=0). It cannot emerge “out of the sea” thus leaving the dragon standing alone on the “seashore.”

“And I stared upon and saw with inward spiritual perception a wild and venomous beast ascending out from the sea and to the earth. . .and on its heads were the Name, Authority, and Cause of the slanderer, the blasphemer that vilifies by switching right for wrong and wrong for right.” (Revelation 13:1)

This is what John saw and said could be understood by those who possess wisdom – the way God thinks. What he didn’t say, but that is also clearly understood by those who think the way God thinks, is if the beast of the kingdom of darkness can be counted, calculated, and computed through an arithmetic equation, so can the Kingdom of God. This occurs when Jesus (1) finds a Man (6) who will partner WITH Him to accomplish our Father’s Vision. Jesus’ authority to rule becomes Man’s authority to rule (1+6=7).

Jesus’ labor becomes Man’s labor (1+6=7). Jesus’ resources become Man’s resources (1+6=7). What then “ascends out from the sea and to the earth” is our Father’s Vision, Will, and Kingdom (777). The Lord’s Prayer. (Matt. 6:10)

Satan is keenly aware of the constant threat and risk of exposure that his dependence on Man exerts on his kingdom. That is why John saw him standing on the seashore alone. Even though he has the uncommon authority as an Angelic being to roam the earth, that doesn’t mean he has the authority to do what he wants on the earth. He must first gain permission either from YHVH or Man. (Job 1:6-12; Ezekiel 28:13, 14)

So, Satan must wait to see if there are any among the mass of humanity (the sea) who will allow his kingdom to ascend out from them, so his beast and angelic forces can operate in the earth through them.

To combat this, Satan incentivized his realm to overcome this vulnerability by offering the most valuable prize he had to offer – to sit at his right hand as his co-ruler. This seat is reserved for the one who delivers to him total control of the world and along with it, God’s Man, both male and female.

And Satan doesn’t care who delivers it to him. Thus, his final offer to Jesus in the wilderness temptation was to give Him all the kingdoms of the world to rule if He would bow down and worship him as a superior. While worshipping him was mandatory, giving Jesus total rule was conditioned, of course, on Him achieving the mission. (Matthew 4:8, 9)

Even though he is dependent on Man to rule, Satan is still an Angelic Class being who possesses an Angelic Class kingdom. He is a member of the highest Order in the Angelic Class – Cherubs. He is also the highest-ranking member of Cherubs. So, Satan is the highest-ranking Angel in the creation and the only Cherub in his realm. His ruling class is made up of angels from the Arché Order. This is the highest Angelic rank in his realm next to him.

Man, though higher in rank and authority in the Kingdom of God, is “lower than the angels” in Satan’s kingdom. They are the slaves of the realm, who have been relegated to the Animal Class.

There are 12 Archés in his kingdom. They mimic the role of the 24 Elders in God’s Kingdom. Satan has given each of his Archés a period of time to rule his kingdom. Their mission is to deliver to him total control of the world. If the Arché then in power does not achieve the mission within the allotted time, it must pass the throne to the Arché next in line. The new Arché then takes its place at the head of Satan’s kingdom using its power – the attributes and ministering authority that YHVH gave to it when He created it in the beginning – to govern the realm and to achieve the satanic mission.

This is what was happening in the spiritual realm at the beginning of the 1960s. A transfer of power was taking place in Satan’s kingdom. The Spirit of War’s rule was ending, and Jezebel’s rule was beginning. It’s important to note that Jezebel is the last of the 12 Archés to rule Satan’s kingdom. There are no more Archés after this spirit, so the survival of the realm is riding on the success of Jezebel’s plan and rule.

The strategies and defenses behind the events of the 1960s were, therefore, the brainchild of the angelic spirit known as Jezebel. Each strategy is critical to this spirit achieving the satanic mission while putting on full display what Jezebel’s rule looks like in real-time.

Seeing – Astarte: The Originating Chief Ruler

In the spiritual realm, the angelic spirit that we refer to as Jezebel is known as Astarte, the Queen of Heaven. This is the Chief Arché and architect of the events of the 1960s.

Astarte is recognized as the most ruthless and feared Arché in Satan’s kingdom, which is why Satan appointed it as the last to rule. Where it was once known for its chastity and devotion, it is now known as The Harlot.

This makes Astarte incapable of serving anyone or anything other than its own faithless self. This character trait makes Astarte impossible to trust even by its most ardent supporters, including Satan.

Astarte has long been a seeker of worship and was one of the key deities worshipped by the ancient Phoenicians. It was represented by sacred trees or

poles called Asherah. These were erected next to and around the altars of Baal. Thus, the Queen of Heaven has always seen itself as the one seated next to the King of Heaven – Baal (Satan).

Seeing – Why Women

Angelic Class beings don’t possess genders as humans do, so they don’t favor one human gender over the other. As it relates to the spirits of darkness, they despise both genders equally while considering each their slaves. To them, their human slaves have only one purpose: To supply what they need to accomplish the satanic mission.

When spirits of darkness select a human target to do their work, they do so based on an alignment of attributes and a calculation of the target’s likelihood of success. This is heavily weighted by the target’s devotion to the promised outcomes. In Astarte’s case, it has chosen to work primarily through women as the attributes of the female more closely align with its attributes than do men. By contrast, men fit and align more closely with the attributes of spirits such as the Spirit of War, Spirit of Religion, or Apollo.

The targeting and selection of human allies is an extremely complex process that is fraught with risk and volatility. While spirits of darkness consider humans to be their slaves, they also know that God’s Man, both male and female, is higher in Class, Order, Rank, and Authority than they are. This can make the relationship with their targets extremely fragile as the human can reverse his or her agreement at any point in time without warning or notice. By exercising their inherent authority to rule, the human, whether male or female, can void the circumventing contract that has made them a slave by returning to their partnership relationship WITH Jesus. This instantly restores them to their rightful place as a Ruling Class Elohim. It also reinstates YHVH’s rules of engagement between the two dimensions.

The Apostle Paul demonstrated this dynamic with the devastating effect it had on the spirit of divination (Apollo) in Macedonia. (Acts 16) What this means, then, for the kingdom of darkness is that the selection of a human target is serious business. It must be done with extreme care and strict attention to detail, lest its target turns on them, like Paul did, and destroys what they had so painstakingly built.

We can see Satan employing this care and attention to detail in the calculation and selection of his targets in the Garden:

• The meticulous selection of the Serving Class serpent to approach the superior Elohim Female, Eve.

• The meticulous selection of the junior member of the Elohim Man, Eve, to approach the senior member of the Elohim Man, Adam.

In each instance Satan selected a target that was best aligned with his attributes at the time, so he could achieve his objective. And, with each selection, the target insulated him from direct exposure to the superior authority of the Elohim Man, whether it was the serpent shielding him from Eve, or Eve shielding him from Adam.

As he calculated, selected, and shielded then, so he and his realm calculate, select and shield now.

We’ll go into more detail later about why Satan targeted Eve first instead of going directly to Adam. But for now, the point is that Astarte didn’t target women because it likes women. It chose to take on the female identity and to work through the female gender for strategic reasons. Their attributes are better suited to achieve its scheme than men.

Astarte implemented a version of this same strategy when it personified itself through the scriptural character Jezebel (its human namesake). Through this account, YHVH exposed many of this spirit’s core attributes, including its masculine temperament, confrontational disposition, violent ruling style, and disdain for YHVH’s reign and order. (1 Kings 16 – 2 Kings 9)

Selection

My friend Steve continued with the following:

Our enemy.

Seeing – Satan’s Way

When it comes to the natural order, the kingdom of darkness operates the same way in every situation without exception:

• In spiritual darkness

• Through Man’s labor and resources

• With Man’s authority, and

• Through the mechanism of transaction.

Take any one of these away and the powers of darkness are locked out of the physical earth that operates in time and space. That’s how fragile Satan’s control of Man and the material realm are. By contrast, it also shows how powerful Man, both male and female, really is.

As it relates to spiritual darkness, its mission and purpose are to keep hidden what would otherwise be easily seen if the lights were turned on. The kingdom of darkness facilitates this darkness by convincing Man that he is separated from the spiritual realm. This leaves Man blinded to half of God’s creation. This, in turn, provides the powers of darkness with a hiding place to devise their strategies, create their devices, and mobilize their schemes against God and His Man. So, spiritual darkness isn’t just important, it is essential to the effective operation of the kingdom of darkness. Take it away and Satan’s kingdom cannot function in the physical earth that operates in time and space.

Satan and his angelic forces are spiritual beings. They do not have the faculties to maneuver in the natural realm. So, they need Man, both male and female, to provide the labor to execute their strategies, and the resources to finance their schemes on the earth. And since they cannot compel Man to do either, Man must do it willingly. If Man refuses, Satan’s kingdom is locked out of the physical earth that operates in time and space having neither the labor nor the resources to carry out their intentions in the earth.

Satan does not have the authority to rule. He must obtain it from Man. And so, inherent within every scheme of darkness is the singular mandate to convince Man to voluntarily hand over his authority to the powers of darkness without knowing he’s doing it. If Man refuses, Satan’s kingdom is locked out of the physical earth that operates in time and space as it has no authority to rule anywhere in God’s creation.

Transaction is how the kingdom of darkness obtains from Man what it needs to rule – they offer; we accept. When Man accepts, it establishes the legal basis for the transfer of his authority, labor, and resources to the kingdom of darkness through which it rules the earth. If Man refuses to accept the offer, it locks the kingdom of darkness out of the physical earth that operates in time and space.

This is Satan’s way – darkness, Man’s authority, Man’s labor and resources, transaction. Without these four, his kingdom has neither a scheme nor the ability to rule on the earth. And so, to rule in the physical realm Satan must first gain Man’s permission to use his authority and all that he has against him and against the God whom he says he serves.

Once a scheme is devised and the permissions obtained, the scheme must be defended. Every scheme is therefore equipped with defenses to protect it from discovery and disruption. Each defense is designed to sustain some aspect of the scheme by repulsing, parrying, or misdirecting any attempt to probe or discover the scheme’s source, means, or purpose. However, sustainability, itself, is a function of rulership. So, the powers of darkness must secure Man’s permission and agreement to sustain the very schemes and defenses they have devised to exploit, enslave and destroy him.

Each defense is rooted in Satan’s nature. Facts or deceptive ideals are packaged as truth and then injected with spiritual, emotional, and intellectual energy to give them a sense of credibility. This supercharges the defense while hiding the lie that is resident within it. Though clever, the lies are easily discernable, which makes them vulnerable to discovery. So, Man’s authority must be marshaled to defend the defense before the defense can be effective. In every way the scheme and its defenses are dependent on Man’s support. Remove that support and they collapse leaving Satan and his realm locked out of the physical earth that operates in time and space.

This is Satan’s way with God’s Man, and his total dependence on him.

“Are you not aware or do you not perceive, or do you not see with your physical eyes into the spiritual realm that the voice you submit to in obedience is the one to whom you present yourself as a slave? You are slaves to the voice you listen to and obey when acting under the authority of the one speaking, whether of self-originating sin with the failure and loss it causes leading to physical or spiritual death, or to the voice you submit to in obedience that is deemed right, just and

judicially approved by God.” (Romans 6:16)

And so, Eve listened to the voice of Satan through his agent the Serpent. Then Adam listened to the voice of Satan through his newly acquired agent, Eve. And when each one listened, they then became slaves to the voice they listened to and obeyed, and under whose authority they acted. For each, the transaction was sealed. And like all transactions, the definitions of the terms that governed the contract between them were also sealed and then imposed on the parties to the transaction.

It wasn’t long before Adam and Eve discovered what Satan’s idea of being like God looked like. It meant being relegated to the Animal Class. It meant being made “lower than the angels” to serve his vision and interests as slaves instead of YHVH’s as partners.

And neither was it long before the defenses of fear and blame began to appear to ensure the sustainability of their new status as slaves. It was fear that would cause them to hide from the Face and Voice of their Creator. It was blame that would cause them to constantly and unforgivingly accuse and condemn each other and YHVH for the trouble they were in.

Thus, they took on the nature and character of the one whose voice they listened to and obeyed while doing his bidding and fulfilling his purposes as slaves…. all because they agreed to listen to his voice.

Jesus dealt with this same dynamic with those who said they believed Him:

“By extension then, Jesus was saying to the Jews who had believed and affirmed their confidence in Him, ‘If you abide and remain in My word you are truly and genuinely a disciple, learner, and follower of Me.’

‘And you will come to know, recognize and perceive through personal experience the truth and reality, and the truth and reality will set you free releasing you from bondage and removing the restrictions of sin and darkness.’

“And moving toward an advantageous goal, they answered Him, ‘We are the seed, offspring, and remnant of Abraham. And we have never been a slave to anyone, or turned over our prerogative to self-govern, or willingly assigned our ownership rights to another.’

“Jesus answered them, ‘Surely and most certainly I say to you, laying the argument to rest, all and everyone who makes or does the self-originating sin with the loss and failure it causes, that one is a slave to that self-originating sin with the loss and failure it causes.’

“’I speak that which I have seen and perceived with inward spiritual perception from the Father; and what you have heard and listened to from the father, you by extension therefore do.’

“They answered and said to Him, laying the argument to rest, ‘Our father is Abraham.’ Jesus, laying the argument to rest, said to them, ‘If you were the children of Abraham, you would do the works and carry out the purposes of Abraham.’

“‘But now in light of what has gone on before, you have sought by inquiry to reach the binding resolution to kill Me, a man who has spoken to you the reality of truth that I heard and listened to from the God. This Abraham did not do.’

“‘You are making and doing the works, and carrying out the purposes of your father.’ Therefore, they said to Him, laying the argument to rest, ‘We have not been born out of fornication. We have and hold to one Father, the God.’

“Jesus said to them, laying the argument to rest, ‘If the God was your Father, you would have loved and preferred Me, for I have indeed come out from within the God and have come to reach the destination of the end goal; for indeed neither have I come from or of Myself, but that One commissioned and sent Me on a defined mission.’

 “‘Why do you not perceive or understand or know by personal experience what I am saying? Because you are not able, nor do you have the power to hear or listen to My words.’

“‘You are of and have come out from within the father, the slanderous one, the devil, who falsely accuses and condemns to sever relationship. And the desires and passionate longings and lust of your father you are willing and ready to do. That one was a manslayer from the beginning, the chief and starting point ahead of all the rest. And in and with the truth and reality he has not stood, because there is no

truth and reality in or with him. In the time he speaks, the falsehood and lies he speaks are uniquely his own; for he is a liar who falsely represents, distorts and misleads, and is the father of the same.’” (John 8: 31 – 34; 38 – 44)

What’s fascinating about both of these stories is that neither Adam nor Eve nor those who said they believed Jesus, ever stopped to consider that they had been duped. So, rather than doing what they were created to do – to rule WITH the Father in the fullness of His Nature and Character – they instead energized and perpetuated the very scheme that diminished their stature and neutralized their role in God’s Kingdom.

As it was with them, so it continues to be with us today.

So, here’s a question: What if they or we just said to the powers of darkness, “No! We’re not playing anymore!”

What do you think would happen?

The story of Gideon answers the question:

“And the men of the fortified city said to Joash, ‘Bring out your son [Gideon] so he may die. For he has torn down and destroyed the altar of Baal, and he has cut down and cut off the Asherah, the wooden images of the Phoenician goddess, that were upon, above, over and beside it.’

“But Joash said to the whole and all of those who took their stand against him, ‘Would you strive and contend for Baal? If you would defend and deliver him, let that one who strives and contends for him die by morning. If he is an Elohim, let him strive and contend for himself because his altar has been torn down and destroyed.’” (Judges 6:30, 31)

And so, when those who were being incited by Baal to kill Gideon stopped, Baal was stopped. Countryman ceased killing countryman and Gideon went on to complete his mission WITH YHVH to rid Israel of Baal’s raiders. When we consider the events of the ‘60s and the impact they are having on our time, the game is the same. The only question is how we will decide to play – WITH Jesus or on our own in the dark.

Satan’s way.

My friend Steve continued with the following:

Seeing – Our Enemy

“Thus, the whole and all of the heavens and the sky, the physical earth and land, and the army organized for war and warfare were completed, finished and accomplished.” (Genesis 2:1)

It’s a fascinating thought to consider that YHVH incorporated into His creation Plan the formation of an army for war and warfare even before He rested on the seventh day. In other words, He didn’t rest until His army was organized and fully equipped to defend not only what He had just created but also the Plan He had devised to achieve His Father’s Vision.

So, from the very beginning, war and warfare were to play a vital role in achieving our Father’s Vision. This was reflected in Man’s assigned role in the earth when he was created. He was to rule, subdue and subjugate WITH YHVH within the earthly domain. This is significant because these verbs describe acts that are to be performed against foes and enemies not against friends and allies.

 “And the Elohim said, ‘Make and accomplish man and mankind in Our image and in Our likeness and similitude. And, let them reign and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the flying creatures of the heavens and the sky, and over the beasts, animals and cattle, and over the whole and all of the earth and land; and over the whole and all of every creeping and moving thing that creeps and moves lightly upon, over and above the earth and land.’

“So chose the Elohim to create and shape the image of His man, in the image of the Elohim He chose to create and shape His male and His female; so chose Him to create and shape them.

“And blessing them, the Elohim said to them, ‘Elohim, bear fruit and be fruitful; and multiply, increase and be great; and fill to the full the earth and land; and subdue, bring into bondage and reign; and have dominion, treading down and causing to crumble, the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the heavens and sky; and over the whole and all of the age of the living that creeps, moves lightly about or glides swiftly upon, above and over the earth and land.” (Genesis 1:26 – 28)

And so, dealing with conflicts, challenges, threats, and even war and warfare are all part of the Plan for God’s Man. These are the devices God uses to develop the Likeness of the Elohim IN His Man, so he will be fully equipped to rule WITH Him in the fullness of His Nature and Character.

We see this on display even after Adam and Eve did their deed with the Serpent and became “lower than the angels.” (Psalm 8:5; Hebrews 2:7) From YHVH’s standpoint, His Man’s station in life – whether as a slave or a free man – had no bearing on His mandate for His Man to rule:

“So YHVH said to Cain, ‘Why are you burning with anger, and why has your face fallen?’

“‘If you are successful in doing what is right, sound and beautiful, will you not be an exalted one in character and rank? And if you are not successful in doing what is right, sound, and beautiful, sin is at the opening stretched out on all four legs like a recumbent animal. Its longing is for you, but you must rule and have dominion over it.'” (Genesis 4:6, 7)

Notice that YHVH’s solution for Cain didn’t change from His original mandate to Adam and Eve just because he was now in a supposedly fallen state of sin and depravity.

So, whether in a state of bliss as in the Garden, or in a state of burning anger as with Cain, or under some other attack or circumstance where we feel outmatched and overwhelmed, whatever condition we may find ourselves in, the mandate is still the same – to rule WITH Jesus in the fullness of His Nature and Character.

While reigning is more of a macro word that relates to governing willing citizens within a realm, rulership is more specific. It emphasizes the astute use of authority, power, and resources to neutralize and disarm enemies – those things or influences that oppose, threaten, or are hostile to the venture or goal to be achieved. In this case, it is ruling over anything that opposes, misdirects, alters, or seeks to control our Father’s Vision for creating.

In Adam and Eve’s case, it was ruling over and subjugating WITH YHVH the serpent that had aligned itself with a foreign spiritual enemy – Satan. The mission then was to neutralize the threat launched against YHVH and His Man by cutting off the spiritual intruder’s access into the physical earth, which he attempted to gain through the Serving Class serpent.

In Cain’s case, it was ruling over sin – the impulse to act independently from YHVH. This sin was personified as an animal that was patiently waiting for an opening to use God’s Man as a weapon to exterminate righteousness – the act of deciding to live and do all things WITH YHVH. This was the threat posed by Cain’s brother. Abel. This influence had to be removed so sin could flourish on the earth. The mission then was for Cain to neutralize and disarm sin’s power within him by showing his superior character and rank WITH YHVH. This would cut off sin’s access through him into the earth, and the death and destruction it would inflict.

In Jesus’ time on the earth, it was to strip Satan of the spiritual authority that he unlawfully seized in the Garden. The mission there was to enter into the spiritual domain of darkness by way of the Cross to conquer, render inoperable and subjugate “the last enemy” death. This brought death back under the Reign of the Kingdom of God where it belonged.

In every instance, the objective was the same – for God’s Man to work WITH Him to rule over their mutual enemies in the fullness of His Nature and Character. What is interesting to note is the Apostle Paul’s description of death as being “the last enemy.” (1Corinthians 15:26)

If there is the last enemy, then surely there must be the first. “And it came to pass that the sum of the word and speech of YHVH was spoken to me (Ezekiel) saying,

“Son of ‘adam (man) lift up and carry a dirge, a song or hymn of grief, a lamentation against the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘Thus says YHVH Adonai: “You were the sum, the perfect measure, and proportion. You were sealed with the fullness of skill and wisdom, and complete in beauty.

“In Eden, the garden and enclosure of the Elohim, it came to pass that your covering was the whole and all of every precious, rare and splendid stone – the ruby, the topaz, and the diamond; the yellow jasper, the pale green onyx, and the polished jasper; the sapphire, the glistening emerald, and the flashing emerald. The jeweler’s sockets and tambourines of gold were fixed to stand firm. They were

established to prosper on the day chosen to form, fashion, and shape you.

“With the vast expanse of your outstretched wings, you were the cherub that covered, hedged, screened, and protected. And it came to pass that you were set on the sacred mountain of the Elohim. Amid the stones of fire, you walked, coming and going.

“You were sound and complete in the day chosen to form, fashion, and shape you. In your way, manner, and journey you were entire in integrity and truth until injustice and unrighteousness appeared, existing in and coming out from you.

“In the multitude and abundance of your trade, traffic, and merchandise, you became full of violence, cruelty, and unjust gain. You sinned severing and bisecting the center of you. You pierced and profaned the mountain of the Elohim. You wandered away O cherub who covers, hedges, screens and protects, to perish from the midst of the stones of fire.

“You exalted your inner mind, will, and heart because of your beauty. Your wisdom decayed, thoroughly ruining your brightness and splendor. You are thrown down and cast upon the earth and land to be set before the face of kings to be seen and observed by them.

“Through the abundance and greatness of your injustice and unrighteousness in your trade, traffic and merchandise, and the guilt and punishment due for your iniquity, you have pierced and profaned the sacred place. Therefore, in your coming in and going out amid the fire it will eat and devour you. It will set ashes upon, over, and above the earth and land in the whole and all of every eye that sees and observes.

“The whole and all of the people who know you will grow numb. They will be thoroughly stunned, astonished, stupefied, and appalled with alarm, terror, and destruction. It will come to pass that you shall become nothing; a non-entity as far as and even unto futurity, the vanishing point of time.” (Ezekiel 28:11 – 19)

What an amazing story that YHVH passes on to Ezekiel to pass on to us. It recounts the history of His highest-ranking Cherub and the ministry he was to perform as the “Covering Cherub.” This superbly crafted Angelic Class being was vested with the authority and power to protect YHVH’s Garden and His Man who occupied and ruled it. And so vast was this Cherub’s prominence and authority that he was “set on the sacred mountain of the Elohim, amid the stones of fire” to come and go as he pleased.

This Cherub was created to ensure that the provisions of heaven were seamlessly delivered to YHVH’s Man through the device of commerce (trade, traffic, and merchandise). This was to fully resource Man, so he could accomplish his mandate to rule the earth WITH YHVH in the fullness of His Nature and Character. Thus, this Cherub was equipped with all the capabilities and materials necessary to accomplish its most prized and honored ministry as a partner WITH YHVH in covering and protecting the Father’s Vision for His Man.

But then, “injustice and unrighteousness appeared, existing in and coming out” from him. His trade revealed what was in him just as it does with us. He had become “full of violence, cruelty and unjust gain” with injustice and unrighteousness saturating his every transaction.

This caused him to pierce and profane the sacred mountain of the Elohim –

God’s Kingdom. He was cast “from the midst of the stones of fire” to the earth where his wisdom, splendor, and brightness thoroughly decayed. This most honored of all Angelic Class beings was then repositioned from partner to opposer and given the name Adversary – Satan.

And so, the first enemy – our enemy – is a business guy. He took what YHVH had given him to bless and minister to His Man – commerce – and converted it into a weapon, which he then used to enslave Man through the mechanism of transaction.

“Amid the fire it will eat and devour you, setting ashes upon, over and above the earth and land in the whole and all of every eye that sees and observes.

“The whole and all of the people who know you will grow numb. They will be thoroughly stunned, astonished, stupefied, and appalled with alarm, terror, and destruction. It will come to pass that you shall become nothing; a non-entity as far as and even unto futurity, the vanishing point of time.”

Our enemy.

My friend Steve continued with the following:

The Game

Seeing

This is a vast subject, but for now, we’ll just highlight those points that are

relevant to our discussion about the spiritual side of the 1960s. To begin, let’s look at how Jesus taught the Apostle Paul about how to deal with the spiritual kingdom of darkness:

“In the remaining time, be empowered with the Lord’s power and ability, and with the strength and might of His dominion overcome immediate resistance with force.

“Sink into and be invested in the armor of God, the offensive and defensive garments that have every resource needed to wage warfare successfully. Show that you have the advantage; that you have the power and ability to stand against craft, deceit, and every method used in organized evildoing, and against the well-crafted trickery of the slanderous one, the backbiter and devil, who falsely accuses and

condemns to sever relationships.

“Because to us the wrestling, struggle, and conflict is not against flesh and blood, but against the originating chief rulers; against the authorities that have been delegated the power and freedom to act in a designated jurisdiction with force, competence, and mastery; against the world rulers of this darkness who influence the lives of people; against the malicious, pain-ridden evil and wicked spiritual ones in the heavenly places.” (Ephesians 6:10 – 12)

In these few sentences, the Apostle lays out for us what Jesus laid out for him:

1. Our conflict is NOT against people (flesh and blood). It is against the organization of spiritual powers that operate in spiritual darkness.

2. The moment we align ourselves WITH Jesus we will be met with “immediate resistance.”

3. The resistance comes from the strategy’s architect (originating chief rulers), jurisdictional authorities, world rulers, and wicked spirits in the heavenly realm. This is the organizational hierarchy of spiritual forces that are marshaled against us.

4. We are to “stand against every method used in organized evildoing.” Thus, the evil is planned and organized, which makes it strategic.

5. We are to “show that we have the advantage.”

The Apostle then passes on to us the mission that Jesus gave to him:

“In the remaining time, be empowered with the Lord’s power and ability, and with the strength and might of His dominion overcome immediate resistance with force.” (Ephesians 6:10)

There is no greater force in all of creation than the Voice of God. Through His Voice, He articulated His Vision, formulated His Plan, and built His devices. Through His Voice, He:

• Creates, rules, judges, empowers, raises armies, vanquishes foes, appoints kings, destroys kings.

• Separates the waters of the sea and river, calms the storm, sends manna and quail for food, provides water out of a rock, multiplies the fish and loaves.

• Cares for the widow, delivers the helpless, announces The Favorable Year of the Lord, heals the sick, raises the dead and welcomes the children to sit on His lap.

• Calls for the fish to collect the coin to pay the tax He didn’t owe.

• Answered the more than 300 who came with knives and clubs to take Him away, knocking them on their keisters with two little words, “I AM.”

Through His Voice man is to live every moment of every day WITH Him.

And, through His Voice Jesus prays, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”

So, the way we “overcome immediate resistance with force” is by listening

to and then becoming WITH Jesus His Voice. What Jesus speaks; we speak.

What Jesus commands; we command. What Jesus sees; we see. And what

Jesus does, we do WITH Him.

No more, no less.

The Apostle doesn’t stop there. He tells us that overcoming resistance is not all there is to the game. We must also “show that we have the advantage.”  We do this by showing that we have the ability and power to “stand against.” But one cannot stand against what one cannot see. So, declaring WITH Jesus that we can now see the spiritual powers through what they are doing in the physical realm is an inseparable part of showing that we have the advantage.

This terrifies the spiritual forces of darkness because it demonstrates in ways that they uniquely understand that they are no longer operating invisibly in darkness. Instead, they have fallen prey to Jesus’ trap that has lured them into His Theater of Light where they are fully exposed.

All of this is done WITH Jesus. Not one thing is done on our own or apart from Him. This is how God’s Man performs his role and rules the Father’s Creation WITH Jesus in the fulness of His nature and character.

This is the game. But, unless we are willing to let Jesus realign our conflict focus

from people to the kingdom of darkness, we cannot play. Otherwise, we will continue to see people as our enemy. Men will be the enemy of women, whites will be the enemy of blacks, the old will be the enemy of the young, the young will be the enemy of the old. Like bleeding chicks, we will continue to peck each other to death while the forces of darkness happily enslave and destroy us in secret.

How else does one explain:

• The religious leaders measuring Jesus against their sacred writings and yet they could not recognize who He was?

• Or Judas Iscariot living with and watching Jesus interact with people for nearly 3 years, and still, he betrays Him for 30 pieces of silver?

• Or the crowd that rejected Jesus and instead chose the thief and murderer despite the miraculous things that Jesus had done for them?

It can’t be explained. It can only be described – the insanity that overtakes us when we play by the rules of darkness.

“Do you not see in the physical realm each and every part of the totality of this in the spiritual realm, so you can take the needed action?”

Seeing – The Vision

“Where there is no sight, revelation or vision, the people are exposed, naked and cast off. But happy and blessed is he who keeps, protects, watches over and attends to instruction and direction.” (Proverbs 29:18)

How many of us have ever wondered if the Father has a Vision for why He created? After all, if we are subject to ruin without a vision, should we expect Him to be exempt from such a fate without one? Of course not.

The Father’s Vision, then, was the starting point and end goal of the creative endeavor. Everything the Kingdom of God has done, is doing, or will do is designed to accomplish His Vision. This is why YHVH created. This is the Scripture that Jesus fulfilled. (Matthew 26:54) This is what we have been created

and invited to build and finish WITH Him:

That His Man would rule His Creation WITH Him in the fullness of His

Nature and Character.

This is the Father’s Vision. And nothing about His Kingdom can be understood apart from His Vision. It informs all things, directs all things, instructs all things, and reveals all things. It provides sight and revelation. It frames purpose and gives meaning. It makes clear what is unclear. Every part of YHVH’s creation and the way He structured it to function was designed to achieve one goal – His Father’s Vision that His Man would rule His creation WITH Him in the fullness of His Nature and Character.

The fascinating thing about the Father’s Vision is that it makes no provision for isolated, independent decisions or actions. Everything in His Kingdom revolves around the idea of partnership. This idea is best captured in English through the word WITH. In its simplest form, this is a manner of living that begins and ends with the Father speaking, His Man listening, and then doing WITH Him what He has spoken.

This is what Jesus modeled on the earth. It also is how He executes His role now as the One to whom the Father has given all authority in heaven and earth to execute His Plan and to accomplish His Vision. Although we have full access to our Father as Sons, Jesus is the One through whom the Father now speaks regarding the rule, administration, work, and mission of His Kingdom. (Matthew 17; Hebrews 1)

As we listen to and work WITH Jesus, His Nature and Character (Truth) is formed in us. This is then transferred to everything we do WITH Him. The result of this partnership materializes our Father’s Vision in real-time. Truth becomes embedded in every transaction in both the heavens and in the earth, whether in ruling or in reigning WITH Him.

Jesus calls this, “Truth in the Transaction.”

“‘Not by the force or resources of strength, efficiency, wealth and armies; and not when the vigor of ability is firm. Lo! Behold, it is by My Breath, Wind, and Spirit,’ says YHVH of the armies organized for war and warfare.” (Zechariah 4:6)

Seeing – The Structure

Everything about the structure and operation of the creation is designed to accomplish our Father’s Vision. When YHVH created, He divided His Living Beings into 3 classes:

• The Elohim Class

• The Angelic Class

• The Animal Class

Each class has been designed to partner with the other classes to achieve our

Father’s Vision. Categories were added to provide organization and placement for each being within the Class: Order, Rank, Position, Role, Authority, and Domain (jurisdiction). Names were then given to each being within the Class to uniquely identify them as distinct from all others.

The composition of a being’s Class and Categories, in combination with their internal attributes, comprises their person. Each person in the Kingdom of God is distinct from all others. Thus, they are a one-of-a-kind creation that is uniquely equipped to execute the role they have been assigned to perform in the Kingdom. The totality of their person is then captured in their Name. This identifies who they are, the authority they possess, the purpose they fulfill, and the place they occupy in God’s Kingdom.

Seeing – The Conflict

The irreconcilable hostility that exists between YHVH and Satan, and therefore between Satan and God’s Man, is a direct result of how YHVH structured and organized His Classes of Living Beings. This is the source of the spiritual conflict between Heaven and Hell with Man as the object of Satan’s conquest, as well as the instrument of his own demise.

Here’s why:

The Elohim Class is the highest in God’s Kingdom. It is the Ruling Class.

The Living Beings in this class possess the Father’s capabilities (Image) and

attributes (Likeness). Each member in this class has been delegated a measure of authority to rule His creation WITH Him in His Nature and Character according to their Order, Rank, Position, Role, Authority, and Domain (jurisdiction).

Unlike what has been taught in the educational system of the world, Man is NOT a member of the Animal Class. He is a member of the Elohim Class. And the Order of Man (both male and female) is the highest Order within this Class.

The Angelic Class is the Ministering Class in God’s Kingdom. It is subordinate to the Elohim Class. The Living Beings in this class support the rule and execute the wishes of the Elohim Class in the spiritual realm.

The Animal Class is the Serving Class in God’s Kingdom. It is subordinate to both the Elohim and Angelic Classes. The Living Beings in this class serve the earth and the interests of the Elohim Class in the physical realm that operates in time and space.

This sets the stage for why Satan is the way he is. Two primary factors contribute to his temperament, which energizes what he does and why he does it.

Factor One: SATAN IS SUBORDINATE TO MAN IN CLASS, ORDER, RANK, AND AUTHORITY.

As a member of the Angelic Class, the very reason he exists is to support the rule and execute the wishes of the Elohim Class in the spiritual realm. This includes Man. So, it doesn’t matter how much he hates or opposes or tortures or kills or deceives or steals or attempts to control or destroy God’s Man; Satan is still a Ministering Class Being. Everything he does MUST minister to the needs of God’s Man to advance him toward our Father’s Vision.

This enrages Satan. In his mind, the mere fact that he was the Covering Cherub who had been vested with the authority to cover and protect YHVH’s creation, made him superior to Man. But instead of being superior, he was given charge to minister as a subordinate to the needs of God’s Man. This is what sparked his “enmity, hostility and hatred” toward Man that YHVH said would persist between “the seed of the woman and the seed of the Serpent” throughout the age. (Genesis 3:14, 15)

Factor Two: SATAN HAS NO AUTHORITY TO RULE.

Because he is of the Angelic Class, the only authority that Satan has is the authority to minister. This is the sole Domain (jurisdiction) in which his authority can operate. So, to rule he must first obtain the authority to rule from the Class that has the authority to rule – the Elohim Class. But YHVH isn’t going to give him that authority and neither are the other Orders within the Elohim Class – the Elders and Watchers. This leaves Man as the only remaining Order within the Elohim Class that possesses the authority to rule.

Enter Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden who were members of the Elohim Class. But since Satan had no authority to rule, he couldn’t simply show up in the Garden and declare that he was taking over, nor could he compel Adam or Eve to submit to his will. They had to do it willingly. So, Satan had to devise an elaborate scheme to get them to voluntarily hand over what they had in exchange for what he was offering.

The First Adam bit, the Last Adam didn’t.

Such was Satan’s way then and such is his way now.

Servias Ministries presented these girls with their very own flute and a clarinet. Their band teacher chose them because of their excellent character and he could easily see that they would continue playing throughout school which is an indication of their gifting. My wife and I prayed over those instruments that the anointing from Our Heavenly Father be on them and minister life when the girls played those instruments. The girls were very thankful and showed their gratitude to Servias. The band teacher helped them put the instruments together for the first time since there was some preparation required. We thank those who are able to financially support this ministry to assist the kids in need. It’s all about Love.

My friend Steve continued with the following:

The Spiritual

“But the spiritual one is not the beginning or first in time, place, order and importance, but the natural one of the soul and mind; only then the spiritual one.” (I Corinthians.15: 46)

Spiritual forces are comprised of spiritual beings that have been designed and equipped to only operate in the spiritual realm. Man, both male and female, has been designed and equipped to operate on the earth. The two dimensions have been designed and equipped to work together as partners to accomplish YHVH’s Plan and intentions in both the spiritual and natural worlds, with Man as the bridge between them.

Under this design, when Man requires spiritual resources to perform or achieve his work, spiritual beings (angels) are dispatched to deliver those spiritual resources. Since Man is responsible for ruling the earth WITH YHVH, Man has also been given authority to exercise dominion over it. So, Man, both male and female, holds the key to spiritual entry into the earth, which only he and YHVH can grant. This is the core rule of engagement that YHVH established between the two dimensions when He created the heavens and the earth.

While this rule of engagement still governs the relationship between the spiritual and natural realms, the kingdom of darkness has circumvented it to support its dominion and rule in the earth. Its spiritual forces still cannot insert themselves or their strategies into the earth on their own. They must first attract human allies who will accept and agree to implement their strategies on their behalf as willing slaves. Most humans would never agree to this knowingly. So, the spiritual strategies usually come to them as ideas, thoughts, or concepts that promise beneficial outcomes.

The circumvention is activated when the human voluntarily uses his or her authority to accept the strategy’s ideas, concepts, promises, or outcome. The

acceptance then gives permission for the circumvention to function in the physical earth under Man’s dominion authority. This allows the spiritual forces of darkness to replace the partnership relationship that YHVH established, with a contract relationship that the kingdom of darkness establishes. Under the terms of this contract, the accepting party (the human) agrees to be subservient to the offering party (the kingdom of darkness). One of the obligations under this contract is that the human agrees to grant the spiritual forces free use of their authority and resources. Another is that they will play by the rules of darkness. This encases the human in darkness thus blinding them to the reality that they have also agreed to act as the offering party’s slave.

Once and only after this transaction has been completed can the spiritual forces move forward with their plans on the earth. They will immediately utilize the agreeing human’s authority and resources to promote and advance the strategy’s ideas, concepts, promises, and outcome. The goal from there is to achieve critical mass by gaining acceptance from other humans through their newly acquired slaves. If achieved, the scheme will build momentum to eventually spread to and affect the rest of the earth. If not, it dies.

This is what the devil was trying to accomplish with Jesus through the wilderness temptations. With each exchange, the devil was attempting to manipulate Jesus into agreeing to accept either his challenge (to prove that He was the Son of God) or his offer (to rule the world).

If Jesus would have reacted to either the challenge or offer, it would have affirmed the devil’s legitimacy as an offering party. This would have constituted an offer/ acceptance transaction that would have subordinated Jesus to the devil. This is why Jesus refused to entertain either the challenge or offer. Rather, He deferred to His Father as the sole source of what He said and did: “But answering, (Jesus) said, laying the argument to rest, ‘It has been written and inscribed that it is not fitting that the man shall live solely upon bread alone but upon each and every part of the totality of every spoken word that comes out from the mouth of God and the effect and influence it has on the man. . .’

“Again, the devil, the slanderous one who falsely accuses and condemns to sever relationship, assumed the office by taking Him to an exceedingly high and lofty mountain. And he showed Him each and every part of the totality of the kingdoms, sovereignty and royal power of the ordered system and arrangement of the world and their glory and intrinsic value and worth.

“And laying the argument to rest, he said to Him, ‘Each and every part of the totality of this I will give to You if You fall down and prostrate Yourself in homage kissing the ground to revere and worship me as Your superior.’ “Then, at that time, Jesus said to him, laying the argument to rest, ‘Be led away, Satan, by the authority of the Lord God who owns and possesses absolute rights over you. For it is written that you shall prostrate yourself in homage kissing the ground to revere and worship Him alone.’

“Then, at that time, the devil, the slanderous one who falsely accuses and condemns to sever relationship, was released and sent away. And (Jesus) experienced, beholding with inward spiritual perception, the angels approaching and drawing near to serve and minister to His needs.” (Matthew 4:4, 8-11)

The 1960s was a prime example of this same dynamic being played out in the modern era. The kingdom of darkness formed unholy alliances with willing humans who littered the decade with ideas and actions that never would have been tolerated by previous generations. The acceptance of these ideas led to the formation of new beliefs that were then used to alter cultural attitudes and norms. This, in turn, energized and mobilized behaviors destructive to the nation while promising to benefit the nation. The human allies were then used to carry these destructive ideas, belief systems, altered cultural attitudes and norms to the rest of the world, and into the following decades to produce the world we now live in.

This is how the kingdom of darkness mobilized its scheme against Adam and Eve in the Garden. It is how it attempted to mobilize its scheme against Jesus. And this is how it mobilized its scheme against America and the world in the 1960s. In every instance, the spiritual forces of darkness constructed their schemes to gain greater control over God’s Man and the earth he was given authority to rule.

As this relates to the 1960s, it raises some fundamental questions:

• Why do women play such a key role in so many of the spiritual strategies of the 1960s?

• Why have so many of our women destroyed with their own hands what has always been most precious to them?

• Why have the most innocent and vulnerable among us been targeted for extermination, like what was done in the days of Moses and in the days of Jesus?

To answer these questions, and others like them, we must get to the why’s behind the events of the 1960s. But, to get to the why’s we must be willing to do something that most of us have thus far been unwilling to do – to get into the game, to be repositioned by Jesus from spectators to players, from the mindset of amateurs to Kingdom Pros.

This is where the reality of the war that YHVH spoke of in Genesis 2:1 is played out – in the spiritual realm. The problem, however, is that for most of us the spiritual arena is a mysterious place that we’d prefer to avoid. And so, we do.

This is exactly how the spirits of darkness want it. Our fear and unwillingness to venture into this unfamiliar place WITH Jesus provide them with their greatest cover. It makes them and their schemes invisible to us. So, we stroll through our lives not realizing that we’re heading headlong into our destruction without even knowing it.

The disciples were caught in this same delusion when they tried to convince Jesus about the splendor and superiority of the temple complex:

“And having come out from the temple, Jesus was going away. And His disciples came up to Him to show and demonstrate that the buildings of the entire temple complex were a suitable home for God. “And answering, He said to them, laying the argument to rest, ‘Do you not see in the physical realm each and every part of the totality of this in the spiritual realm, so you can take the needed action? Truly and most assuredly I say to you, laying the argument to rest, no stone here will be permitted to aptly fit on another stone but instead will be overthrown, demolished, and disintegrated.’

“And as He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, His disciples came to Him personally and privately, saying and laying the argument to rest, ‘Tell us, laying the argument to rest, when will this be? And what will the corroborating and authenticating sign be regarding the end purpose of Your Royal Coming when the age is completed with all the parts coming together into the whole?’

“And answering the question, Jesus said to them, laying the argument to rest, ‘Watch and be observant of what is seen in the physical realm to see what is happening in the spiritual realm, so you can take the needed action, lest a certain one – anyone – cause you to wander into error, getting off course and deviating from the correct path.’” (Matthew 24:1-4)

This is one of several instances recorded in the Gospels where the disciples were seeing one thing while Jesus was seeing something entirely different. Another was with the man born blind (John 9). Still, another was with Peter when he rebuked Jesus for daring to say that He was going to be killed but would then be raised on the third day (Matthew 16).

On each of these occasions, the disciples thought they were seeing correctly. However, they were only seeing half of what was there to be seen as Jesus so aptly pointed out. Though incomplete, the half they saw was so convincing that it caused them to draw incorrect conclusions that either completely neutralized them or positioned them against the very God whom they said they served.

Through their temple complex experience, Jesus tells them why: They were only looking at the physical dimension. They weren’t extending beyond the physical dimension to see the totality of what was happening behind it in the spiritual realm. This lack of perspective caused them to be totally out of sync WITH Jesus. So, while they were seeing one thing (the beauty and suitability of the temple complex), Jesus was seeing another (misdirection and destruction).

As it was with them, so it is with us.

When observing the events of the 1960s, it would probably be wise not to make the same mistake. While it may seem strange to think that we can see beyond the physical and into the spiritual, it is an attribute that we naturally possess as members of the Order of Man. YHVH built this capability in His Man when He created him, both male and female. But like all attributes they must be developed and refined through practice, which Jesus does as He teaches us how to properly use this skill WITH Him.