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.