My Beloved Brother Steve continues:
Race
The historical meaning and use of the word race was to identify a group of people who were united by a common culture. But today, especially in the US, race has been redefined to mean (in practice) people of the same color.
This redefinition is both subtle and important to the kingdom of darkness. It is part of a sophisticated spiritual strategy of Disunity that has been devised by the powers of darkness to break up and dissolve what was previously united.
Unity within a race of people can pose a serious threat to the kingdom of darkness, especially when the nation professes to be under God, like Israel did and America does. So, the mission of Disunity is to reassert spiritual authority over a nation that by virtue of its unity has ventured outside the boundaries of control imposed by the kingdom of darkness.
The scheme, which creates division within the race of people who were once united, is played out through the apparatus of the political unit that is responsible for governing the affairs of the nation – the race of people who occupy and live in the land, which God has given to them. You can observe this Strategy being played out in the history of Israel. For 600 years the nation operated under and were united by the Reign of YHVH.
The time then came when the race of people demanded to be ruled by a human king like the other nations that surrounded them. YHVH granted their demands and installed their first king (Saul). This gave birth to the political unit of the Kingdom of Israel. (1 Samuel 8 – 10)
After 100 years, this kingdom then divided the nation of Israel into two kingdoms – the Northern Kingdom of Israel (Ephraim) and the Southern Kingdom of Judah. This divided kingdom lasted for 200 more years until Assyria conquered the Northern Kingdom and carried its people into captivity bringing an end to the Northern Kingdom.
100 years after the extinction of the Northern Kingdom, the Babylonian Empire conquered the Southern Kingdom of Judah and carried its people into Babylon as captives. After 70 years, YHVH restored the nation of Israel to their land. For the next 600 years the political unit of the Kingdom of Judah was under the suzerain authority of one empire after another until it finally fell to the Roman Empire in 70 AD.
We can see this same Disunity Strategy being played out today through the political unit called the United States. We call the tactic it’s using to divide the nation, identity politics. This tactic ruthlessly pits one group of people within the nation against another group of people based on the Strategy’s redefinition of race (skin color), which it then uses to form other class-related divisions within the nation, such as protected classes. This partitioning of the race of people sets up a cast system within the nation that is then used to incite antagonism between the classes.
As tensions rise among the various classes, each one begins to demand remedy from the political unit that exists to conduct the affairs of the nation on their behalf. Of course, the political unit obliges because to remedy the demands requires the nation to transfer to the political unit more authority over the country and thus over the nation – the race of people who live in and occupy the nonpolitical place (land) of America.
And so, the political unit that was used by the powers of darkness to cause the disunity is then looked to by the race of people to remedy the problem it created. This is how the kingdom of darkness uses the mechanism of transaction in the political arena to reassert its control and authority over a nation that was once united.
As it happened to Israel, so it is happening to America.
What’s fascinating about this scheme is what’s fascinating about every scheme perpetrated against God’s Man by the powers of darkness: We have to give them permission to use our authority against us so they can rule us through their scheme. And, we’ve given our permission by accepting their redefinition of race and then demanding the political unit solve the disunity it has created through it.
Although we have accepted this redefinition of race, it has little to do with the historical use of the term. This current notion, which conditions us to think almost entirely in terms of skin color, didn’t emerge until around the 1850s. Prior to that time, race wasn’t associated with skin color. Rather, skin color, like other dominant physical traits, was considered a natural adaptation to climate and geography to enable the people who lived in those environments to function more effectively in their surroundings.
So, skin color has played almost no role in what people have historically thought about race. Instead, race was a term used to identify a group of people who were united by a shared culture that was built on common customs, values, beliefs and language.
So, when we read the words nation or nations in one of the English versions of the Bible, we know it’s translating the Hebrew or Greek word that has an entirely different meaning than what nation means to us today. Those original words aren’t talking about countries or political units. They are describing a race of people who are united by a common culture, customs, values, beliefs and language who live in a particular place (land) NOT skin color.
And so, when Jesus warned us in May 1985 that:
“The days that lie ahead are crucial, for your destiny as a nation is before you.”
And then repeated it in the August 18, 2017 email to President Trump and others, Jesus wasn’t referring to the political unit of the United States. He was referring to the nation – the race of people – you and I without regard to skin color or other physical traits – who share a common culture, customs, beliefs and language and who live in and occupy the nonpolitical land called America.
It’s our Divine Destiny that is before us. And, the political unit that we installed to conduct the business of our country on our behalf is being hijacked by the powers of darkness to implement their Disunity Strategy against us.
But, it doesn’t matter what the political unit does or how the powers of darkness use it against us. Our Divine Destiny is inalterable. The only thing in play is our choice. And, our choice will be sovereign.
If we choose to continue to play by the rules of darkness, then the political unit will continue to exploit us and we will experience our destiny as slaves. If we choose to accept Jesus’ invitation to see as He sees, then we will experience our destiny as joint rulers WITH Him, including ruling the political unit that is there to serve us.
This is part of the Divine Destiny that is before us as a nation.
And we, as a race of people will fulfill that destiny either as slaves or as joint rulers WITH Jesus. This is why “there is a battle raging, in part, for the control of this country because its Divine Destiny is about to be fulfilled in God’s Plan.”
Inalterable.
The COVID-19 Pandemic is part of the battle. It’s being used by the kingdom of darkness to mobilize the race of people through fear and panic in an effort to regain and reclaim control of the nation.
The George Floyd debacle is also part of the battle. It, too, is being used by the kingdom of darkness to mobilize the race of people through hatred and discontent. The torch of racism – a word that has only existed since 1902 – has set city after city ablaze as nation is rising up against nation.
In both instances, the powers of darkness are masterfully executing their strategies with our full agreement and consent. The Pandemic Strategy is controlling our behavior as slaves as the kingdom of darkness reestablishes its Scarcity Strategy by regaining control of the US economy.
The Disunity Strategy is controlling our behavior as slaves by dividing our race of people through its redefinition of race and tactic of identity politics as the kingdom of darkness reasserts its authority over this once united nation.
We get glimpses of this as the kingdom of darkness proudly announces what it considers to be its achievements:
On June 13, 2020 – 19 days after the counterfeiter’s death at the hands of faux law enforcement – an Apple News headline read: Two Weeks in George Floyd’s America.
14 days later, on June 27th, the headline read: The Decline of the American World.
Choice.